Quickness
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Quickness is a boon that increases attack and action speeds by 50%.“Skills and actions are faster.
— In-game description
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Related skills[edit]
Weapon skills that grant quickness[edit]
Utility skills that grant quickness[edit]
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Potent Haste - Overwhelming Celerity
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Frenzy -
Phase Traversal -
Quickening Zephyr -
Haste -
Elixir U -
Mantra of Concentration - Signet of Inspiration (randomly)
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Well of Action
Elite skills that grant quickness[edit]
Skills with special conditions that grant quickness[edit]
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Contemplation of Purity (when removing slow) -
Lightning Leap (with Conjure Lightning Hammer) - Elixir C (when removing slow)
- Toss Elixir C (tool belt skill for Elixir C, when removing slow)
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Well of Power (when removing slow) - Consume Plasma (Thief Steal skill)
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Dragon's Breath (with Dragon Banner)
Skills/traits/actions that ignore quickness[edit]
- Finish or Resurrect on downed enemies/allies.
- Renewed Focus
- Shelter
- Unrelenting Assault
- Warding Rift
- Surge of the Mists
- Phase Smash
- Crystal Hibernation
- Soothing Bastion
- Riposting Shadows
- Phase Traversal
- Impossible Odds
- Unyielding Anguish
Related traits[edit]
Traits that grant quickness[edit]
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Liberator's Vow — Grant allies quickness when you use your heal skill. -
Swift Scholar — Equipping or stowing a Virtue grants you quickness. -
Stalwart Speed — When you grant aegis or stability, grant quickness.
This can affect multiple targets simultaneously. -
Heightened Focus — Gain Quickness when you strike a foe that is below the health threshold. -
Fatal Frenzy — Gain boons when activating berserk mode. -
Sun and Moon Style — Gain bonuses for each dagger you equip:
Main hand—Interrupts grant quickness. (Only occurs once per interval.)
Off Hand—Heal for a percent of your outgoing critical damage. -
Brutality — Gain quickness when you swap weapons. While you have quickness, your strikes remove stability.
This removal effect can only occur once per interval on each target. -
Instinctive Reaction — Gain quickness when your health drops below the threshold. You and your pet gain healing power based on power. -
Zephyr's Speed — Cast Lesser Quickening Zephyr when you swap pets. -
Strider's Defense — When you evade an attack while wielding a sword, gain Quickness. Sword skills recharge faster. -
Live Fast — Using a Beast ability grants you offensive boons. -
Fresh Reinforcement — Entering beastmode grants you the boons affecting your pet. -
Burst of Agility — Use Lesser Haste when attacking a foe from behind or from the side. -
Be Quick or Be Killed — Gain quickness when marking a foe. Your power and precision are increased while under this effect. -
Kinetic Battery — Gain Kinetic Charges when you use a tool belt skill. At maximum charges gain a burst of speed. -
Applied Force — Gain quickness when you gain might above the threshold. -
Furious Interruption — Gain quickness when you interrupt a foe. -
Seize the Moment — Gain quickness for each clone you shatter.
Traits that improve quickness[edit]
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Imbued Haste — Gain increased attributes while affected by quickness. -
Quickfire — Granting quickness to an ally also grants Ashes of the Just
This can affect multiple targets simultaneously. - Be Quick or Be Killed — Gain quickness when marking a foe. Your power and precision are increased while under this effect.
Related equipment[edit]
Upgrade components that apply quickness[edit]
Runes[edit]
- Superior Rune of Orr (You gain quickness for 5 seconds when you fall below 20% health. Cooldown 90s)
- Major Rune of Balthazar (You gain quickness for 5 seconds when you fall below 20% health. Cooldown 90s)
- Superior Rune of Balthazar (You gain quickness for 5 seconds when you fall below 20% health. Cooldown 90s)
- Superior Rune of the Chronomancer (You gain quickness for 2 seconds when you cast a well)
Sigils[edit]
- Superior Sigil of Agility (1s quickness on weapon swap, cooldown 9 seconds)
- Superior Sigil of Rage (50% chance on a critical hit for 3 seconds, cooldown 30 seconds)
- Superior Sigil of Celerity (Gain a charge when you kill a foe, five if you kill an enemy player. At 25 charges, gain quickness for 5 seconds. (You lose all stacks on down.))
Upgrade components that affect quickness[edit]
Runes[edit]
- Superior Rune of the Firebrand (Increases duration by 20%. When boon duration modifiers are taken into account, the total quickness duration increase for a full set of 6 Superior Runes of the Firebrand is 35%.)
Related Consumables[edit]
- Cup of Light-Roasted Coffee - Nourishment(20 m): Gain 5 seconds of quickness on dismount. (Cooldown: 20 seconds)
Notes[edit]
- Skills already in mid-cast are affected when quickness is initially applied.
- Skills that are not finished casting when quickness wears off will slow to their normal speed.
- Quickness won't affect your resurrect or finish speed.
- Skills with a movement component, such as Savage Leap, or that block, evade, or make you invulnerable for a duration, like Crystal Hibernation or Renewed Focus, are not affected by quickness.
- Most skills that block or evade that have an attack component, such as Blurred Frenzy or Shock Shield, are affected by quickness, though there are exceptions, such as Unrelenting Assault.
- Quickness will increase the speed of channeled skills, including non-combat actions such as gathering from resource nodes, opening chests, building siege weapons, or communing with places of power.
- Quickness will only increase the attack speed of regular attacks from devourer, spider, smokescale, bristleback or wyvern pets. On any other pet, quickness does not increase regular attack speed.
Version history[edit]
| Patch | Changes |
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| October 18, 2016 |
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| April 19, 2016 |
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| January 26, 2016 |
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| June 23, 2015 | Specialization update:
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| March 26, 2013 |
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| October 07, 2012 |
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| August 28, 2012 | Game release:
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Trivia[edit]
- Prior to the 26th March 2013 update, quickness would boost attack and action speed by 100% instead of the current 50%. To compensate for the reduction in effectiveness, some skills had their duration increased slightly.
