Quickness

Skills and actions are faster. — In-game description

Quickness

Effect type

Boon

Stacking

Duration

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Skills and actions are faster.

— In-game description

Quickness is a boon that increases attack and action speeds by 50%.

Related skills

Weapon skills that grant quickness

•   Dual Strike — Axe
•   Radiant Arc — Sword
•   Instinctive Engage — Dagger
•   Tides of Time — Shield

Bundle skills that grant quickness

•   Lightning Leap — Lightning Hammer

Healing skills that grant quickness

•   "We Heal As One!" — Command

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

•   "Feel My Wrath!" — Shout
•   Time Warp — Glamour

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

•   Feeding Frenzy — Juvenile Shark

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

• 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

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

Primary article: Conditions#Traits that convert conditions into boons

Related equipment

Upgrade components that apply quickness

Runes

• 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

• 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

Runes

• Superior Rune of the Firebrand (Increases duration; total of 40% for a full set of 6 Superior Runes of the Firebrand.)

Related consumables

•   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

• 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

Patch	Changes
October 18, 2016	The duration-based boons Protection, Quickness, Regeneration, Resistance, Retaliation, and Vigor will now only stack up to 5 times instead of 9.
April 19, 2016	The formula for animation-speed increases and decreases has been modified. Quickness is normalized to behave the same as before. Casting a skill with quickness and slow will now result in a 1.166x longer activation time, increased from 1.0x.
January 26, 2016	"Finish Them" Finishers: The stomping effect will no longer be time-scaled through effects like quickness and slow. Reviving: Reviving characters will no longer be affected by time-scaled effects like quickness and slow. Quickness and slow will no longer affect most defensive abilities. Abilities that are offensive and defensive simultaneously (such as Blurred Frenzy or Pistol Whip) will still be affected by time scaling for the time being.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This effect is now a boon. Boon to Condition Conversion: Quickness converts to slow for 3 seconds. Condition to Boon Conversion: Slow converts to quickness for 3 seconds.
March 26, 2013	Reduced quickness from 100% attack speed to 50%.
October 07, 2012	Fixed a bug that was causing quickness to get stuck on players and enemies indefinitely.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Quickness has been added to the game.

Trivia

• 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.

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