Quickness
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“Skills and actions are faster.
— In-game description
Quickness is a boon that speeds up the activation time of skills and actions by 50%.
Mechanics[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.
- Many skills with a movement component, such as Savage Leap, or skills that block, evade, or make a character 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, feline, 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%.
Related skills[edit]
- See also: Boon#Related skills
Weapon skills that grant quickness
- Dual Strike — Axe
- Charge — Warhorn
- Radiant Arc — Sword
- Radiant Arc — Sword
- Instinctive Engage — Dagger
- Malicious Hook Strike — Staff
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
- Scavenger Burst — Legendary Alliance Stance, Luxon
- Frenzy — Stance
- Elixir U — Elixir
- Quickening Zephyr — Survival
- Nature's Binding — Cantrip
- Unnatural Traversal — Cantrip
- Haste — Trick
- Arcane Thievery — Manipulation
- Signet of Inspiration — Signet
- Elixir of Anguish — Elixir
Elite skills that grant quickness
- "Feel My Wrath!" — Shout
- Time Warp — Glamour
- "Chilled to the Bone!" — Shout
- Elixir of Ambition — Elixir
Profession mechanic skills that grant quickness
- Detonate Elixir U — Elixir, Tool belt, Elixir U
- Consume 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
- Electromagical Pulse 2.0
- Energize Crystal — Shiny Wyvern Crystal
- Health Tonic
- Hylek Elixir — Hylek Turret
- Inertial Acceleration — Inertial Accelerator
- Inspire
- Might Missile 2.0 — Rocket Jump\Parachute 2.0
- Might Missile — Rocket Jump\Parachute
- Night Terror
- Night Terror
- Night Terror
- Rending Right Claw
- Smash Shard — Branded Shard (bundle)
Skills, traits and actions that ignore quickness[edit]
Weapon skills that ignore quickness
- Unrelenting Assault — Sword
- Phase Smash — Hammer
- Surge of the Mists — Staff
- Warding Rift — Staff
- Crystal Hibernation — Shield
- Gormandize — Sword
- Hungering Maelstrom — Sword
Healing skills that ignore quickness
Utility skills that ignore quickness
- Impossible Odds — Legendary Assassin Stance
- Phase Traversal — Legendary Assassin Stance
- Riposting Shadows — Legendary Assassin Stance
- Call to Anguish — Legendary Demon Stance
- Nomad's Advance — Legendary Alliance Stance, Luxon
Elite skills that ignore quickness
Related traits[edit]
- See also: Boon#Related traits
Traits that grant quickness
- Liberator's Vow (Firebrand) — Grant allies quickness when you use your heal skill.
- Swift Scholar (Firebrand) — Equipping a Virtue grants you quickness. Every third Tome skill grants you pages. Stacks reset when exiting a tome. Quickness can only be gained once per interval
- 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.
- Elevated Compassion (Herald) — Heal allies when you grant them boons. Grant boons to allies when your upkeep cost is equal to or higher than the threshold. An ally can only be affected by this skill once per interval.
- Aggressive Onslaught (Strength) — Gain quickness when you disable an enemy. While you have quickness, your movement speed is increased. This stacks with other movement speed increases.
- Martial Cadence (Tactics) — Soldier's Focus grants boons to affected allies and removes conditions from them. Refresh Soldier's Focus when you swap weapons.
- Heightened Focus (Discipline) — Gain quickness and recharge your Burst skills when you strike a foe that is below the health threshold. Gain increased outgoing healing when you strike with a Burst skill, based on adrenaline spent.
- Burst of Aggression (Berserker) — Gain a burst of speed when entering berserk mode.
- Heat the Soul (Berserker) — Grant boons to nearby allies when you use a Burst skill.
- 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.
- Kinetic Battery (Tools) — Gain Kinetic Charges when you use a tool belt skill. At maximum, charges gain a burst of speed.
- Kinetic Accelerators (Scrapper) — Grant boons to nearby allies when you successfully combo a field with a blast or leap finisher. Your function gyro is now a blast finisher.
- Mech Core: Jade Dynamo (Mechanist) — Unlocks the Mech Command skill Jade Mortar. Mech Command skills grant you quickness when used and have a reduced cooldown.
- Lead the Wind (Marksmanship) — Your longbow and harpoon-gun skills pierce and recharge faster. Point-Blank Shot grants boons.
- 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.
- Enhancing Impact (Untamed) — Disabling a foe grants you boons based on your current state. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
- Let Loose (Untamed) — Unleashed Ambush skills grant boons to nearby allies. Refresh Unleashed Power when you swap weapons.
- Be Quick or Be Killed (Deadeye) — Gain quickness when marking a foe. Your power and precision are increased while under this effect.
- Spectacular Sphere (Catalyst) — Your jade sphere is larger and grants quickness and an additional boon based on your current attunement to nearby allies when activated.
- 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) — You and nearby allies gain quickness for each clone you shatter. Grant quickness to nearby allies when you summon a phantasm.
- Mirage Mantle (Mirage) — Ambush[sic] skills are improved.
- Duelist's Reversal (Virtuoso) — Blocking or dodging an attack grants boons.
- 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.
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.
- Deathly Haste (Deathly Haste) — Grant boons to yourself and nearby allies.
Traits that improve quickness
- Imbued Haste (Firebrand) — Gain increased attributes while affected by quickness.
- Quickfire (Firebrand) — Retain Justice passive while it is on cooldown. Granting quickness to an ally also grants Ashes of the Just.
- 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.
- Aggressive Onslaught (Strength) — Gain quickness when you disable an enemy. While you have quickness, your movement speed is increased. This stacks with other movement speed increases.
- 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: Boons#Traits that convert conditions into boons
Related equipment[edit]
Relics that grant quickness[edit]
- Relic of the Chronomancer — Gain quickness when you use a well skill.
- Relic of the Cavalier — Grant yourself aegis, quickness, swiftness, resistance, and might when striking an enemy with your mount's engage skill.
Upgrade components that grant quickness[edit]
Sigils[edit]
- Superior Sigil of Agility — Gain 5 seconds of swiftness and 1 second of quickness when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9 Seconds)
- Superior Sigil of Rage — Gain quickness for 3 seconds upon critically hitting a foe. (Cooldown: 20 Seconds)
- Superior Sigil of Celerity — Gain quickness for 5 seconds after disabling a foe. (Cooldown: 20 Seconds)
Upgrade components that improve quickness[edit]
Runes[edit]
- Superior Rune of the Firebrand — +30% duration (rank 2/6: 10%/20%)
- Rank 4 gives an additional +10% to all boon duration.
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
Version history[edit]
Patch | Changes |
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August 23, 2022 |
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October 05, 2021 |
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May 11, 2021 |
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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.