Alacrity

Skills recharge faster. — In-game description

Alacrity

Effect type

Boon

Stacking

Duration

Max. duration

30 seconds

Game link

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Skills recharge faster.

— In-game description

Alacrity is a boon that increases the rate at which skills recharge by 25%, therefore making skills recharge in 80% of the original time. Like most boons, Alacrity has a maximum duration of 30 seconds.

The recharge time reduction from Alacrity affects skills produced by traits, like  Method of Madness, but not internal cooldowns of traits themselves, like  Auspicious Anguish. Additionally, Alacrity affects most bundle skills, but not siege weapons in the World versus World game mode.

Chilled condition, which makes skills recharge slower, is the negative counterpart to Alacrity.

Mechanics

For every second under the effect of alacrity, skills recharge 1.25 seconds. If the alacrity expires before the skill is recharged, the actual recharge time is:

actual recharge time = original recharge time - 0.25 * alacrity duration

If the cooldown of the skill expires before the alacrity does, the actual recharge time is:

actual recharge time = original recharge time / 1.25

For example, a skill with a 10 second cooldown will recharge in 8 seconds, as long as you're under the effect of alacrity for the whole time.

While having the trait  Improved Alacrity equipped, alacrity gives 50% skill recharge rate (recharge is around 66.67% of the original time). So for every second under the effect of alacrity, skills recharge 1.5 seconds. Therefore if the alacrity expires before the skill is recharged, the actual recharge time is:

actual recharge time = original recharge time - 0.5 * alacrity duration

If the cooldown of the skill expires before the alacrity does, the actual recharge time is:

actual recharge time = original recharge time / 1.5

For example, a skill with a 10 second cooldown will recharge in about 6.67 seconds, as long as you're under the effect of alacrity for the whole time.

Related skills

See also: Boon#Related skills

Healing skills that grant alacrity

•   "We Heal As One!" — Command

Utility skills that grant alacrity

•   Signet of Inspiration — Signet

Elite skills that grant alacrity

•   Elixir of Ambition — Elixir

Profession mechanic skills that grant alacrity

•   Orders from Above — Citadel Order
•   Crisis Zone — Mech Command, Tool belt
•   Consume Plasma — Stolen skill
•   Time in a Bottle — Stolen skill

Skills that convert chilled into alacrity

Primary article: Boon#Skills that convert conditions into boons

Common skills that grant alacrity

•   Consume Plasma — Plasma
•   Inspire
•   Process Acceleration — Processing Unit
•   Rooster's Call

Related traits

See also: Boon#Related traits

Traits that grant alacrity

• Phoenix Protocol (Willbender) — Gain alacrity and regeneration when resolve's effect triggers, but you no longer heal. Resolve has a modified duration. Gain alacrity when you use Flowing Resolve.
• Daring Dragon (Bladesworn) — Dragon Slash has a lower maximum charge level and consumes more flow per charge, but its damage per charge is increased. Grant alacrity to nearby allies when you use Dragon Slash.
• Purity of Purpose (Alchemy) — When you would cleanse a condition from an ally, convert it into a boon instead. This can affect multiple targets simuntaneously.
• Mech Frame: Channeling Conduits (Mechanist) — Unlocks the Mech Command skill Crisis Zone. When you or your mech apply barrier, also grant a boon to the affected target. Your mech gains a greater percentage of your concentration and healing power stats.
• Fortifying Bond (Nature Magic) — When you gain a boon, it is shared with your pet.
• Grace of the Land (Druid) — Grant boons to allies within the radius of your Celestial Avatar skills.
• Fresh Reinforcement (Soulbeast) — Entering beastmode grants you the boons affecting your pet.
• Shadestep (Specter) — The beneficial effects of your Shadow Shroud skills now affect allies in an area around your tethered ally. Grant additional boons to yourself and affected allies when you use a shadow shroud skill.
• Lucid Singularity (Tempest) — Apply boons to nearby allies while channeling and when successfully completing a channel.
• Flow of Time (Chronomancer) — Gain alacrity for each clone you shatter.
• Stretched Time (Chronomancer) — Flow of Time now affects nearby allies. Grant alacrity to nearby allies when you summon a phantasm.
• Mirage Mantle (Mirage) —  Ambush[sic] skills are improved.
• Desert Empowerment (Scourge) — Manifest Sand Shade grants a barrier to allies near it. When you apply barrier, grant boons to the affected target. This effect only occurs with barrier from scourge skills and traits.

Traits that improve alacrity

• Improved Alacrity (Chronomancer) — Alacrity applied to you is stronger but has a reduced duration. Gain increased critical-strike damage when you have alacrity.

Traits that convert chilled into alacrity

Primary article: Boon#Traits that convert conditions into boons

Related equipment

Relics that grant alacrity

• Relic of Rivers — Gain alacrity and regeneration at the end of your dodge roll.

Version history

For a detailed effect history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 26, 2021	Positive percentage-based enhancements now display with a "+." For example, swiftness now displays "+33% Movement Speed" instead of "33% Movement Speed."
October 05, 2021	Fixed a bug causing duration-stacking boons to be affected by a hidden stack limit of 9, which in some cases could come into effect before stacking to that boon's expected duration cap. This resulted in some boons having a lower total duration than expected. This hidden stack limit has been removed for duration-stacking boons that also have a maximum duration—alacrity, fury, protection, quickness, resistance, resolution, swiftness, and vigor.
May 11, 2021	Duration-stacking boons and conditions now behave consistently. They directly stack durations added from all sources, do not have hidden stack limits, and generally have shorter maximum durations. (30 seconds)
October 01, 2019	Updated the visual effects of this effect to be less profession specific.
February 06, 2018	Alacrity is now a boon. The recharge-speed bonus has been reduced from 33% to 25%. Alacrity now converts to 3 seconds of chill.
January 26, 2016	The effects of this buff have been reduced from 66% recharge reduction to 33% recharge reduction.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Alacrity has been added to the game.

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