Quickness
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— In-game description
Quickness is a boon that increases attack and action speeds by 50%.
Contents
- 1 Related skills
- 1.1 Weapon skills that grant quickness
- 1.2 Bundle skills that grant quickness
- 1.3 Healing skills that grant quickness
- 1.4 Utility skills that grant quickness
- 1.5 Elite skills that grant quickness
- 1.6 Profession mechanic skills that grant quickness
- 1.7 Pet skills that grant quickness
- 1.8 Skills that convert slow into quickness
- 1.9 Common skills that grant quickness
- 1.10 Skills, traits and actions that ignore quickness
- 2 Related traits
- 3 Related equipment
- 4 Related consumables
- 5 Notes
- 6 Version history
- 7 Trivia
Related skills[edit]
Weapon skills that grant quickness
Bundle skills that grant quickness
Healing skills that grant quickness
Utility skills that grant quickness
Overwhelming Celerity — Final Charge
Potent Haste — Mantra
Phase Traversal — Legendary Assassin Stance
Frenzy — Stance
Elixir U — Elixir
Quickening Zephyr — Survival
Haste — Trick
Arcane Thievery — Manipulation
Mantra of Concentration — Mantra
Signet of Inspiration — Signet
Well of Action — Well
Elite skills that grant quickness
Profession mechanic skills that grant quickness
Detonate Elixir U — Elixir, Tool belt
Consume Plasma — Stolen skill
Detonate Plasma — Stolen skill
Drink Ambrosia — Stolen skill
Time in a Bottle — Stolen skill
Steal Time — Stolen skill
Pet skills that grant quickness
Skills that convert slow into quickness
- Primary article: Boon#Skills that convert conditions into boons
Common skills that grant quickness
- Consume Bloodstone Fragment — Unstable Bloodstone Fragment
- Consume Plasma — Plasma
- Dragon's Breath — Dragon Banner
- Energize Crystal — Shiny Wyvern Crystal
- Health Tonic
- Hylek Elixir — Hylek Turret
- Inertial Acceleration — Inertial Accelerator
- Might Missile 2.0 — Rocket Jump\Parachute 2.0
- Might Missile — Rocket Jump\Parachute
- Night Terror
- Night Terror
- Night Terror
- Smash Shard — Branded Shard (bundle)
Skills, traits and 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
Call to Anguish
Related traits[edit]
Traits that grant quickness
Liberator's Vow (Firebrand) — Grant allies quickness when you use your heal skill.
Swift Scholar (Firebrand) — Equipping or stowing a Virtue grants you quickness.
Stalwart Speed (Firebrand) — When you grant aegis or stability, grant quickness. This can affect multiple targets simultaneously.
Brutality (Devastation) — 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.
Heightened Focus (Discipline) — Gain quickness when you strike a foe that is below the health threshold.
Burst of Aggression (Berserker) — Gain a burst of speed when entering berserk mode.
Sun and Moon Style (Spellbreaker) — 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.
Purity of Purpose (Alchemy) — When you would cleanse a condition from an ally, convert it into a boon instead.
Kinetic Battery (Tools) — Gain Kinetic Charges when you use a tool belt skill. At maximum,[sic] charges gain a burst of speed.
Applied Force (Scrapper) — Gain quickness when you gain might at or above the threshold. Quickness grants bonus power.
Lead the Wind (Marksmanship) — Your longbow and harpoon-gun skills pierce and recharge faster. Striking foes beyond the range threshold grants boons.
Strider's Defense (Skirmishing) — Evading an attack grants quickness. Sword skills gain reduced recharge.
Instinctive Reaction (Nature Magic) — Gain quickness when struck while below the threshold. You and your pet gain healing power based on power.
Fortifying Bond (Nature Magic) — When you gain a boon, it is shared with your pet.
Fresh Reinforcement (Soulbeast) — Entering beastmode grants you the boons affecting your pet.
Live Fast (Soulbeast) — Using a Beast ability grants you offensive boons.
Be Quick or Be Killed (Deadeye) — Gain quickness when marking a foe. Your power and precision are increased while under this effect.
Furious Interruption (Domination) — Gain quickness when you interrupt a foe.
Phantasmal Haste (Illusions) — Phantasms spawn with quickness. Gain quickness when you create a phantasm.
Seize the Moment (Chronomancer) — Gain quickness for each clone you shatter. Nearby allies also gain quickness.
Dread (Spite) — Inflicting fear on a foe gives you boons. Shroud skill 3 partially recharges when you defeat foes.
Reaper's Onslaught (Reaper) — Gain ferocity and quickness while in Reaper's Shroud. Hitting with Life Reap reduces the recharge time of shroud skills. Recharge reduction can only occur once per use of Life Reap.
Feed from Corruption (Scourge) — When you remove or corrupt a boon from an enemy, gain that boon.
Trait skills that grant quickness
Call of the Assassin (Song of the Mists) — Strike enemies around you, inflicting vulnerability and gaining quickness. Gain additional quickness for each foe you hit.
Lesser Quickening Zephyr (Zephyr's Speed (ranger)) — Survival. You and your pet gain quickness and superspeed.
Lesser Haste (Burst of Agility) — Trick. Gain quickness, fury, and swiftness.
Sand Shards (Dune Cloak) — Strike nearby foes, removing a boon from them. Gain a copy of any boon removed.
Traits that improve quickness
Imbued Haste (Firebrand) — Gain increased attributes while affected by quickness.
Quickfire (Firebrand) — Granting quickness to an ally also grants Ashes of the Just. This can affect multiple targets simultaneously.
Brutality (Devastation) — 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.
Essence of Speed (Soulbeast) — Gaining quickness increases the duration of other boons affecting you.
Be Quick or Be Killed (Deadeye) — Gain quickness when marking a foe. Your power and precision are increased while under this effect.
Traits that convert slow into quickness[edit]
- Primary article: Conditions#Traits that convert conditions into boons
Related equipment[edit]
Upgrade components that apply quickness[edit]
Runes[edit]
- Superior Rune of the Chronomancer (Gain quickness for 2 seconds when you cast a well)
- Superior Rune of the Cavalier - Using an Engage ability grants quickness and bonus damage for 5 seconds (Cooldown: 20s.)
Sigils[edit]
- Superior Sigil of Agility (Gain quickness for 1 second on weapon swap, cooldown 9 seconds)
- Superior Sigil of Rage (Gain quickness for 3 seconds on critical hit, cooldown 20 seconds)
- Superior Sigil of Celerity (Gain quickness for 5 seconds on disabling a foe, cooldown 20 seconds)
Upgrade components that affect quickness[edit]
Runes[edit]
- Superior Rune of the Firebrand (Increases duration; total of 40% for a full set of 6 Superior Runes of the Firebrand.)
Related consumables[edit]
- Cup of Light-Roasted Coffee - Food (30 m): Gain 5 seconds of quickness on dismount (Cooldown: 20 seconds), +70 Precision, +10% Karma, +1% All Experience Gained
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.
- Increasing the casting speed by 50% means an actual reduction of casting times of just 33%.
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.