Quick Shot

Fire a quick shot in an evasive retreat. Gain swiftness. This can be used while retreating. — In-game description

Quick Shot

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Weapon

Short bow

Movement

Retreat

Game link

API

12517

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Quick Shot

Fire a quick shot in an evasive retreat. Gain swiftness. This can be used while retreating.

 Damage: 183 (0.5)^?

 Swiftness (9s): +33% Movement Speed

 Evade: 0.5½ seconds

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Marksmanship

• Farsighted — Ranger weapon skills deal increased strike damage. Damage is further increased for foes above the range threshold.

Skirmishing

• Primal Reflexes — When you successfully evade an attack, gain vigor.
• Quick Draw — When swapping weapons, gain quickness. The next ranger weapon skill you use will recharge faster.
• Light on your Feet — Damage and condition duration are increased after dodging or using a ranger skill that evades. Short bow skills pierce and gain recharge reduction, and their attacks from behind or while flanking or against defiant foes are improved.

Nature Magic

• Bountiful Hunter — You deal increased strike damage for each boon affecting you. Your pet deals increased strike damage for each boon affecting it.
• Fortifying Bond — When you gain a boon, it is shared with your pet.

Galeshot

• Feel the Rush — Movement skills grant you swiftness and endurance.
• Bird of Prey — Strike damage is increased when you have swiftness or superspeed. Swiftness is more effective.

Notes

Bug:

Sometimes this skill will halt all forward movement, forcing the player to tap any other directional key to resume forward movement.

• The leap's maximum range is roughly 240 units.
• You can use this skill even when facing away from your target.
• This skill makes you jump backwards at a 180° angle (directly away) from your target.
• You can upkeep permanent swiftness.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 8 seconds to 12 seconds.
October 18, 2016	Rangers will now gain swiftness regardless of whether they've hit their target. The recharge time of this skill has been reduced to 8 seconds.
April 19, 2016	The swiftness duration of this skill has been increased from 3 seconds to 9 seconds. The damage has been increased by 20%. This effect is now only able to be triggered once per shot (it previously would trigger multiple times if the Light on Your Feet trait was in use).
November 17, 2015	This skill will now always move you directly away from your target.
July 01, 2014	Fixed an issue that caused the character to briefly move back toward the target when firing at an enemy behind the ranger.
June 25, 2013	Decreased the range to 900. Increased the damage by 14%.
December 14, 2012	Increased the velocity of arrows fired from Short Bow and Longbow skills by 30%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Quick Shot has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.