Flow of Time

Gain alacrity for each clone you shatter. Gain increased critical-strike chance for you and your clones[sic] when you have alacrity. — In-game description

Flow of Time

Specialization

Chronomancer (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Minor

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Flow of Time

Gain alacrity for each clone you shatter. Gain increased critical-strike chance for you and your clones[sic] when you have alacrity.

 Alacrity per Clone (1s): +25% Skill Recharge Rate

 Critical Chance Increase: 15%

 Critical Chance Increase: 10%

— In-game description

Related skills

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Signet of Inspiration — Signet

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Distortion — Shatter
•   Split Second — Shatter
•   Rewinder — Shatter
•   Time Sink — Shatter
•   Continuum Split — Shatter

Notes

• As is generally the case with Shatter abilities, the Mesmer (your character) counts as a Clone. Thus, you can Shatter with no Clones to apply a single stack of Alacrity.
• While the trait tooltip says Clones, it should say Illusions as that is the collective term for Clone and Phantasm, which are both affected by critical chance this trait grants.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	This trait now increases the critical-strike chance of yourself and your illusions when under the effects of alacrity.
February 11, 2025	Increased the alacrity duration from 0.75 seconds to 1 second in WvW only.
January 30, 2024	Reduced the alacrity per clone from 1.5 seconds to 0.75 seconds in WvW only.
June 27, 2023	Increased the alacrity per clone from 1 second to 1.5 seconds in WvW only.
July 07, 2020	This trait has been reworked. It now counts the mesmer as a clone. Reduced alacrity gained per clone from 1.5 seconds to 1 second.
July 16, 2019	The alacrity per clone shattered has been increased from 1 second to 1.5 seconds.
April 23, 2019	This trait now grants the full alacrity amount as soon as it is activated instead of waiting for illusions to shatter.
April 19, 2016	The alacrity applied by this trait has been increased from 0.75 seconds to 1 second per illusion shattered.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Flow of Time has been added to the game.