Guild Wars 2

Quickness: “Skills and actions are 50% faster.”

What does that mean? That, for example, my two second casting spell will became one second cast? My autoatack will shot/hit twice as fast as without it? That’s how i understand the “skills” part. But i’m sure that i’m wrong
I have no idea what “action” could be.

That’s exactly this.

Actions mean reviving, pick up/throw up things…

50% faster = activate in 2/3 the time.
i’m not sure if after cast is affected.

quickness used to be a 100% boost (half the activation time) but that was scaled back some while ago.

Skills are your weapon skills (including the autoattack), healing skill, utility skills, and elite skill.

Actions are miscellaneous things like reviving players, the finisher in PvP/WvW, activating objects, etc…

It doesn’t make things twice as fast. It used to but they nerfed it. 50% faster means that the time it takes to perform the action is reduced by 1/3. When it made things 100% faster before the nerf it reduced the time to perform actions by 50%.

If you guys have never played an Engi I would just like to say that using quickness with Flamethrower is mad hilarious fun but just don’t hit anything with retaliation!

Narrrz.7532:

50% faster = activate in 2/3 the time.
i’m not sure if after cast is affected.

Is that really how it works?

If something takes 2 seconds to cast, wouldn’t 50% faster be 1 second to cast (50% of 2 is 1)? You’re saying that it would be a 1.33sec cast, 33% faster (or 2/3 of the 2sec cast)?

Increasing cast speed actually decreases the length of the cast.

Draknar.5748:

Narrrz.7532:

50% faster = activate in 2/3 the time.
i’m not sure if after cast is affected.

Is that really how it works?

If something takes 2 seconds to cast, wouldn’t 50% faster be 1 second to cast (50% of 2 is 1)? You’re saying that it would be a 1.33sec cast, 33% faster (or 2/3 of the 2sec cast)?

Increasing cast speed actually decreases the length of the cast.

50% faster =/= -50% cast time. If you add 50% to your activation speed, you have 150% of your usual speed, or 3/2 speed for a cast time of 2/3 of the usual. You’d need a 100% increase for a 50% reducal, or 2/1 speed for 1/2 time.

Draknar.5748:

Narrrz.7532:

50% faster = activate in 2/3 the time.
i’m not sure if after cast is affected.

Is that really how it works?

If something takes 2 seconds to cast, wouldn’t 50% faster be 1 second to cast (50% of 2 is 1)? You’re saying that it would be a 1.33sec cast, 33% faster (or 2/3 of the 2sec cast)?

Increasing cast speed actually decreases the length of the cast.

Nope. 1 second is twice as fast as 2 seconds, 100% faster. If you reduce the 2 second cast time by 50% it results in 100% faster cast speed.

If you reduced it by 100%, it would activate instantly and you’d perform infinite actions per second.

Of course, at launch the 100% version doubled speed, didn’t make everything instant. So it reduced cast times by 50%.

Anet has made that math mistake in the past though. In GW1 skills that increased attack speed by 33% actually reduced the time to attack by 33% which resulted in a 50% actual increase in attack speed.

Quickness used to be a 100% increase, but was nerfed to 50% some time ago.