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Improved Alacrity

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Improved Alacrity

Specialization
Chronomancer icon small.png Chronomancer (trait list)
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Training cost
10 Hero points
Game link
API
API
Improved Alacrity

Alacrity applied to you is stronger but has a reduced duration. Gain increased critical-strike damage when you have alacrity.

Radius.png Recharge Speed: 50%
Radius.png Recharge Speed: 35%
Ferocity attribute.png Critical Damage Increase: 10%
Duration.png Duration Decreased: 33%

— In-game description

Mechanics[edit]

The reduction in duration doesn't affect Alacrity gained via Persistence of Memory Persistence of Memory.
Instead of increasing the Critical Damage attribute like the tooltip implies, this acts as a 10% multiplicative strike damage modifier only applied to critical hits.
  • This applies -33% Boon duration of Alacrity to yourself. If you have 133% Boon duration, Alacrity will be applied to you as 100% duration.[1]
  • The increased critical-strike damage only affects the chronomancer, and not their illusions.
  • The increase of recharge speed by 50% means an increase to 150%, which translates to a reduction of the recharge time of skills to 66.67% of their original recharge time.
    • In WvW the increase of recharge speed by 35% means an increase to 135%, which translates to a reduction of the recharge time of skills to 74.07% of their original recharge time.

Version history[edit]

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch Changes
January 30, 2024
  • Reduced the alacrity recharge speed from 50% to 35% in WvW only.
August 02, 2022
  • In addition to its previous effects, this trait now also increases your critical strike damage by 10% when you have alacrity. This is a multiplier to total damage dealt, not additive with critical strike damage from ferocity.
February 06, 2018
  • This trait now causes alacrity applied to you to improve skill-recharge speed by 50%, but it reduces the duration of incoming alacrity from all sources by 33%.
  • Alacrity applied to others is unaffected.
October 23, 2015 Heart of Thorns release:
  • Improved Alacrity has been added to the game.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Post by Ianboost, Reddit.com