Skiff
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“Your personal skiff is your home away from home on the waves. Explore, relax, and ferry your whole party! Drop anchor to fish, walk around, and more.
— Official site
Skiff is a unique type of movement that allows player characters to sail on the water from one point to another and to fish from it, carrying the owner and up to four passengers. It is available exclusively through the End of Dragons expansion.
Acquisition[edit]
End of Dragons
- Complete
Assist the temple in its defense (80) in north-western Seitung Province. - Purchase the Fishing Skiff item from Hall Director Soohee for 700
and 2 
Writs of Seitung Province, or 700 and 20 
Imperial Favor.
Mechanics[edit]
- While the default keybind in the Options for the Activate Mastery Skill action is J, a unique keybind can be set for Summon Skiff. In order to use "Activate Mastery Skill" key, "Summon Skiff" should be selected as the active skill by right-clicking on it in the Mastery Skill menu.
- Holding down the "Summon Skiff" or "Activate Mastery Skill" key allows to preview the skiff placement in order to change its orientation.
- Holding down left click and moving the mouse allows you to rotate the direction the skiff is facing before summoning it.
- A skiff can only be placed on a deep enough water while the character is standing on solid ground, swimming at the water's surface, or while mounted on a skimmer.
- After a skiff is placed, when the owner of the skiff boards the skiff, all party members in range of the skiff also board automatically.
- Pressing Toggle Anchor when a skiff is at the full stop anchors a skiff and allows moving around and fishing without despawning the skiff.
- A skiff has a leash limit of approximately 3,400 units. If the player moves beyond this limit, the skiff will despawn, and all stacks of Fishing Party Catches will be lost.
- A skiff only has collision with people of the same party, either them standing on the skiff or running their skiff into another. Players can only stand on a skiff when it is anchored; while in motion, everyone on a skiff is forced to sit. Up to five people can fit on a skiff, with one steering and the other four offering various emotes that can help recharge the endurance bar, which is used to give the skiff a short speed boost.
- Skiff turning speed is affected by selected speed; Slow Cruise has fast turning speed while Full Throttle is much slower and Moderate Clip is in the middle between them.
- Skiffs will accelerate from a standstill faster by "moving through the gears" starting from the lowest speed, rather than trying to accelerate directly from Full Throttle (despite what the skill name may suggest).
Related masteries[edit]
| Mastery | XP required | Points | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 Full Throttle
|
381,000 | 2 
|
Learn how to push your skiff to a new top speed. Increases your skiff's hit points by 2,500. |
 Depth Charges
|
635,000 | 3
|
Learn a new skill that sinks swimming enemies close to your skiff. Increases your skiff's hit points by 2,500. |
 Speed Boost
|
1,016,000 | 4
|
Learn how to give your skiff a short burst of speed. Increases your skiff's hit points by 2,500. |
 Fishing Party
|
1,524,000 | 5
|
While on your skiff, you and your party or squad members receive an amount of fishing power based on your total number of catches from fishing nodes. Increases your skiff's hit points by 2,500. |
| Total | 3,556,000 | 14
|
List of skiff skills[edit]
Skiff Owner[edit]
| # | Skill | 
|
|
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slow Cruise | Set the speed of your skiff to a slow cruise. | ||
| 2 | Moderate Clip | Set the speed of your skiff to a moderate clip. | ||
| 3 | Full Throttle | Set the speed of your skiff to full throttle. | ||
| 4 | Depth Charges | 12 | Sink underwater enemies within range. | |
| 5 | Turbo Boost | 25 | Give your skiff a short burst of speed. | |
| 6 | Angler Sense | 15 | Detects fishing nodes and temporarily marks their location on the compass. | |
| 10 | Toggle Anchor | Once your skiff has come to a complete stop, drop your anchor to keep it in place. |
Passenger[edit]
| # | Skill |
|
|
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cheer | Perform a Cheer emote. Grants 10 endurance to the skiff. | ||
| 2 | Beckon | Perform a Beckon emote. Grants 10 endurance to the skiff. | ||
| 3 | Wave | Perform a Wave emote. Grants 10 endurance to the skiff. | ||
| 4 | Laugh | Perform a Laugh emote. Grants 10 endurance to the skiff. | ||
| 5 | Thanks | Perform a Thanks emote. Grants 10 endurance to the skiff. | ||
| 6 | Switch Seats | 1½ | Switch to another passenger seat on the skiff. | |
| Disembark | Leave your seat. If the skiff is not anchored, you will be placed in the water. If it is anchored, you will be able to walk around the skiff. |
Related equipment[edit]
Jade Bot equipment that improve this mechanic[edit]
Skiff Supercharger 1 - Your jade bot enhances your skiff's engine, increasing the speed by 15%.
Skiff Supercharger 2 - Your jade bot enhances your skiff's engine, increasing the speed by 20%.
Skiff Supercharger 3 - Your jade bot enhances your skiff's engine, increasing the speed by 25%.
Mount Energy Booster 1 - Boosts mount energy regeneration by 10%.
Mount Energy Booster 2 - Boosts mount energy regeneration by 20%.
Mount Energy Booster 3 - Boosts mount energy regeneration by 30%.
Skiff skins[edit]
Skins for the Skiff can be viewed and applied in the Skiffs tab of the Hero panel.
Skiff skins can be unlocked account-wide by purchasing them in the Gem Store or through Black Lion Chests. The skins have only cosmetic effects; there are no gameplay advantages associated with them. Skins can be viewed and applied in the Skiffs tab of the Hero panel. Similarly to other mounts, color scheme for the Skiff can be changed in the Dyes tab.
List of Skiff skins[edit]
- See also: Gallery of Skiff skins
(*) The skiffs in the marked rows either don't appear in API:2/account/skiffs and API:2/skiffs and/or don't have an ID set. Therefore it cannot be checked if they have been unlocked.
Gallery[edit]
- See also: Gallery of Skiff skins
Skiff.
Skiff Concept Art
Related achievements[edit]
Cantha: I Am the Captain — Unlock the skiff by completing the Shinota Shore task region in Seitung Province and by purchasing a skiff from Hall Director Soohee. (5
)
Notes[edit]
- Skiffs can act as a platform for mounts.
External links[edit]
- Skiffs and Fishing in Action, Guildwars2.com
- How Do Skiffs Work in End of Dragons? Help.Guildwars2.com
