Alacrity

Alacrity

Alacrity is a plain but useful passive that increases the attack speed of your Spirit generators. Faster generators mean not only higher base damage over time but also smoother resource generation, since you refill Spirit more quickly and can fire your expensive spenders more often. So the passive works twice over – boosting both damage and energy flow at once.

The slot is most worthwhile in builds that lean heavily on a Spirit-generating skill and benefit from every bit of extra speed, such as hit-driven effects or a fast resource cycle. In playstyles that barely use classic generators, or that already push their attack speed to the ceiling by other means, the benefit is smaller. So you pick Alacrity when your damage cycle hinges on a brisk, reliable Spirit generator.

Which skills get faster

Alacrity speeds up only Spirit Generators by 15%, meaning skills such as Way of the Hundred Fists, Fists of Thunder, Crippling Wave or Deadly Reach. Since these generate Spirit per successful attack, higher attack speed also means more Spirit per second. Spenders, Dashing Strike and Epiphany do not get any faster. The passive becomes available at level 40.

Every third hit arrives sooner

Several generators have a special third hit: Crippling Wave dazes nearby enemies, Fists of Thunder splits Lightning damage among all enemies in front of you, and Deadly Reach can knock enemies into the air. With higher attack speed you reach that third hit sooner and therefore more often. The same goes for the passive Mythic Rhythm, which also counts every third generator hit.

What Alacrity shares the bar with

Besides these generators, Epiphany, which adds Spirit every second, and Dashing Strike as a charge-based movement skill show up. Neither benefits directly from the speed bonus, but both complement the faster resource flow.

by eRnstl