Gyroscopic Acceleration

Well abilities have an increased area of effect and grant superspeed to nearby allies on their first pulse. Your function gyro also grants superspeed to allies when cast. — In-game description

Gyroscopic Acceleration

Specialization

Scrapper (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Gyroscopic Acceleration

Well abilities have an increased area of effect and grant superspeed to nearby allies on their first pulse. Your function gyro also grants superspeed to allies when cast.

 Superspeed (5s): Movement speed is greatly increased. Maximum duration: 10s

 Superspeed (10.5½s): Movement speed is greatly increased. Maximum duration: 10s

 Superspeed (2s): Movement speed is greatly increased. Maximum duration: 10s

 Number of Allied Targets: 5

 Radius: 360

— In-game description

Related skills

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   Medic Gyro — Well

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Blast Gyro — Well
•   Bulwark Gyro — Well
•   Purge Gyro — Well
•   Shredder Gyro — Well

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Sneak Gyro — Well

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Function Gyro — Tool belt

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Scrapper

• Rapid Regeneration — Regenerate health while affected by swiftness or superspeed.
• Object in Motion — Deal increased strike damage while you have stability, swiftness, or superspeed. This damage increase compounds for each boon you have.

Notes

• The Function Gyro does not get the increase to area of effect as it is not a well.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 18, 2023	Reduced superspeed duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only.
October 04, 2022	Superspeed is now applied on the first pulse of wells instead of the final pulse.
March 29, 2022	Reduced superspeed duration from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds in WvW only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced superspeed duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds.
July 16, 2019	Gyroscopic Acceleration has been added to the game.