Kinetic Battery

Gain kinetic charges when you use a tool belt skill. At maximum, charges gain a burst of speed. — In-game description

Kinetic Battery

Specialization

Tools (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Kinetic Battery

Gain kinetic charges when you use a tool belt skill. At maximum, charges gain a burst of speed.

 Kinetic Charge: At maximum charges gain a burst of speed.

 Quickness (5s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Superspeed (5s): Movement speed is greatly increased. Maximum duration: 10s

 Kinetic Battery (5s): +15% Damage

 Kinetic Battery (5s): +10% Damage

 Maximum Stacks: 5

 Combat Only

— In-game description

Related skills

• Tool belt

Notes

• The charges will only build in combat, but they will not be removed by leaving combat. [sic] in description field

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
January 13, 2026	This trait now also grants increased strike damage when it triggers.
October 04, 2022	Increased quickness duration from 2 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced quickness duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
December 03, 2019	Reduced quickness duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP only.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This trait has been reworked. It now generates kinetic charges whenever a toolbelt skill is used. At 5 charges, gain quickness and superspeed for 5 seconds. Charges can only be generated while in combat but do not expire until 5 stacks is reached or the trait is unequipped.
July 07, 2015	Fixed an issue that prevented this trait from working properly with Detonate Mine Field.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Kinetic Battery has been added to the game.