Burst Mastery

Burst skills deal more damage, grant swiftness, and restore a portion of adrenaline spent. — In-game description

Burst Mastery

Specialization

Discipline (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Burst Mastery

Burst skills deal more damage, grant swiftness, and restore a portion of adrenaline spent.

 Adrenaline Restored: 33%

 Damage Increase: 15%

 Damage Increase: 7%

 Swiftness (3s): +33% Movement Speed

— In-game description

Notes

• For bladesworns this trait restores 20% flow instead of 33% adrenaline.
• Does not have to hit a target to gain adrenaline and swiftness.
• Swiftness is applied after the activation time with a small delay.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Increased the burst damage increase from 7% to 15% in PvE only.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Reduced flow gain from 33% to 20%.
March 27, 2018	Fixed a bug that prevented the swiftness from this trait from appearing in the tooltips for burst skills.
February 06, 2018	This trait now grants 3 seconds of swiftness when you use a burst skill, in addition to its previous effects.
April 19, 2016	Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from appropriately increasing damage.
September 29, 2015	Updated the description and skill facts for this trait to better reflect its intended functionality.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic.
September 09, 2014	Updated description and functionality to restore adrenaline on burst skill use rather than reducing the adrenaline cost of burst skills.
December 10, 2013	Reduced the damage increase from 10% to 7%. Removed the erroneous adrenaline gain fact.
June 25, 2013	This no longer reduces burst cooldown. It now increases burst damage by 10%.
April 30, 2013	Burst Mastery has been added to the game.