Recharge time

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Recharge time is the time after a skill has been used, interrupted or disrupted via knock down, after which the skill will be ready for use again. When a player successfully finished activating a skill or is interrupted during activation, the skill icon will become darkened, and a timer will be displayed on the skill icon in the form of the skill icon getting brighter again in a clock-like animation that indicates how much time is left on its recharge.

There are many skills that can affect the recharge time of skills. Some quicken them such as Quickening Zephyr and some slow them down such as Energizing Wind. Note that skills that fail are ready immediately and do not start recharging.

A skill's recharge time is determined at the exact moment the skill is completed or interrupted. This means that once a skill starts recharging, that recharge time cannot be altered. Note however that if a skill is disabled, its recharge time can be prolonged but cannot be shortened. For example, if a skill has a recharge time of 3 seconds, and after it's used, the player gets all his/her skills disabled via the skill Blackout for 5 seconds. In this case, the skill that was recharging for 3 seconds will be reset to 5 seconds. On the flip side, if that it was a skill that still had 30 seconds left on its recharge, then it will not be affected by Blackout and will continue to recharge for the remainder of the 30 seconds, not the 5 second Blackout.

A stance can affect a recharge time even if it is activated in the middle of a skill being cast. For instance, if you are casting the spell meteor and you activate Serpent's Quickness right before the you finish casting meteor, the meteor will have the recharge reduction.

Recharge boosts from skills do not stack past 50%. Single skill effects can still bypass this limit.

[edit] Skills that reduce recharge time

• Expert's Dexterity only for attack skills, also increases energy cost
• Serpent's Quickness
• Quickening Zephyr also makes skills cost more energy
• Trapper's Speed only for traps
• Practiced Stance only for Preparations
• Discharge Enchantment reduces its own recharge time if target was hexed
• Mantra of Inscriptions reduces Signets' recharge times
• Mantra of Recovery only for Spells
• Symbolic Posture reduces your next Signet's recharge time
• Celestial Haste PvE only
• Glyph of Swiftness affects only spells
• Flame Djinn's Haste reduces its own recharge if a foe is hit
• Deadly Haste only for half-ranged spells, also decreases activation
• Deadly Paradox only for assassin skills, also decreases activation, disables attack skills for 10s
• Siphon Speed reduces its own recharge if target was moving
• Ghostly Haste affects only spells cast in earshot of a spirit
• Ritual Lord only for Binding Rituals
• Weapon of Quickening only for Spells and Binding Rituals
• Onslaught only for attack skills

[edit] Skills that involve instant recharge

• "On Your Knees!" instantly recharges all of your stances if adjacent to knocked down foe.
• Flourish instantly recharges all of your attack skills and gives energy for each skill recharged.
• Renewing Smash instantly recharges all of your warrior stances if it hits.
• Needling Shot instantly recharges if target is under 50% Health.
• Oath Shot instantly recharges all skills but itself if target is successfully hit.
• Determined Shot instantly recharges all attack skills if target is not hit.
• Signet of Sorrow instantly recharges if target has a dead Pet or is nearby to a corpse.
• Verata's Sacrifice instantly recharges if you have 3 or fewer minions.
• Mantra of Signets instantly recharges your next signet.
• Persistence of Memory instantly recharges interrupted spells.
• Unnatural Signet instantly recharges if target is a summoned creature.
• Glyph of Renewal instantly recharges your next spell.
• Assassin's Promise instantly recharges all skills if enemy dies while affected by this hex.
• Moebius Strike instantly recharges all other attack skills if it hits a foe below 50% health.
• Renewing Surge instantly recharges if holding an item.
• Soul Twisting affects Binding rituals
• Farmer's Scythe instantly recharges if it hits more than one foe.
• Eternal Aura instantly recharges all other Dervish skills when it ends (PvE only).

Note: Although not a skill, the Power Up Box in Rollerbeetle Racing also provides an instant recharge.

[edit] Skills that increase recharge time

• Distracting Shot interrupt target foe, if they were using a skill disable it for an extra 20 seconds
• Energizing Wind increases all skill recharge times by 25%
• Magebane Shot interrupt target foe, if they were using a spell disable it for an extra 10 seconds
• Diversion increases the recharge time of the next skill used by a foe
• Tease touchs a target foe, increasing the recharge time of all his skills. It is canceled if the target hits the caster
• Glyph of Sacrifice also causes instant casting with an additional 30 second recharge
• Repeating Strike increases its recharge by 15 seconds if it misses