Guild Wars 2

Thanks all for your replies

I don’t follow you there… I guess that you mean that if I can’t stack alacrity enough, then is useless?

That was a very interesting tip you gave me there. Honestly, my question was because if the alacrity only applied to skills triggered while the effect of it, then in my opinion it would be useless (one second of alacrity it would decrease the recharge of only one skill as long as the skill can be triggered in less than a second).
But as you mention, having 10 seconds of alacrity drastically reduces the cooldown of your entire skill bar.
I wonder how often you can redo such buff. I will definitively give it a try

So far, while I do not understood alacrity mechanism, I liked the idea of mixing blind + daze + block, while also take some benefit from alacrity + quickness. Something close to this:

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQRAsa7encfClqh1oBOoBEgiFYjiMASgXq+XH2ltcC2tfD-TZRCABVfCAovMAAPBAOOIAJt/AA

Haven’t give it a try yet, but will do today. So far I see that conditions applied to me might be the biggest of my concerns, but at least foes will find very hard to actually land a hit

Hi, sorry if this is a newby question, but I just bought Hearts of Thorns after at least 2 years without playing GW2. So I need to catch up

My main player is a mesmer, and I do full PvP.

Now, trying to create a build, I was concerned on the mechanics of Alacrity.
This cooldown reduction, does it take effect on any skill currently being recharged? or do I need to active a skill while under the effect of Alacrity?

Thanks in advance and hope you can help me here