Quickness

Skills and actions are faster. — In-game description

Quickness

Effect type

Boon

Stacking

Duration

Max. duration

30 seconds

Game link

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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

• 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

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

•   Lightning Leap — Lightning Hammer

Healing skills that grant quickness

•   Combat Stimulant — Armament
•   "We Heal As One!" — Command

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

•   Feeding Frenzy — Juvenile Shark

Skills that convert slow into quickness

Primary article: Boon#Skills that convert conditions into boons

Skills, traits and actions that ignore quickness

• Finish or Resurrect on downed enemies/allies.

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

•   Shelter

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

•   Renewed Focus — Meditation

Related traits

See also: Boon#Related traits

Traits that grant quickness

• Liberator's Vow (Firebrand) — Grant allies quickness when you use your heal skill.
• Stalwart Speed (Firebrand) — When you grant aegis or stability, grant quickness. This can affect multiple targets simultaneously.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Martial Cadence (Tactics) — Soldier's Focus grants boons to affected allies and removes conditions from them. Refresh Soldier's Focus when you swap weapons.
• 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.
• Kinetic Battery (Tools) — Gain Kinetic Charges when you use a tool belt skill. At maximum, charges gain a burst of speed.
• 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 Accelerators (Scrapper) — Grant boons to nearby allies when you successfully combo a field with a blast, leap, or whirl finisher. Your function gyro is now a blast finisher. Whirl finishers can only trigger this trait once per interval.
• 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.
• Fortifying Bond (Nature Magic) — When you gain a boon, it is shared with your pet.
• Lead the Wind (Marksmanship) — Your longbow and harpoon-gun skills pierce and recharge faster. Point-Blank Shot grants boons.
• 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

Primary article: Boons#Traits that convert conditions into boons

Related equipment

Relics that grant quickness

• 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

Sigils

• 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

Runes

• Superior Rune of the Firebrand — +30% duration (rank 2/6: 10%/20%)
  • Rank 4 gives an additional +10% to all boon duration.

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

Version history

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	Updated Felines to now have their regular attack affected by quickness
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 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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