Swift Scholar

Equipping a Virtue grants you quickness. Every third Tome skill grants you pages. Stacks reset when exiting a tome. Quickness can only be gained once per interval — In-game description

Swift Scholar

Specialization

Firebrand (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Minor

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Swift Scholar

Equipping a Virtue grants you quickness. Every third Tome skill grants you pages.
Stacks reset when exiting a tome.
Quickness can only be gained once per interval

 Quickness (3s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Quickness (2s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Pages: 1

— In-game description

Mechanics

• Using a Tome skill will grant a stack of  Swift Scholar.
• Will not grant Quickness when the Tome's respective Dormant effect is up.

Related skills

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Tome of Justice — Virtue
•   Tome of Resolve — Virtue
•   Tome of Courage — Virtue

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Valor

• Altruistic Healing — Heal yourself when you grant a boon to an ally.

Virtues

• Inspired Virtue — Virtues apply boons to allies when activated. Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.

Firebrand

• Imbued Haste — Gain increased attributes while affected by quickness.
• Quickfire — Retain Justice passive while it is on cooldown. Granting quickness to an ally also grants Ashes of the Just.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 11, 2025	Increased the quickness duration from 2 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP only.
November 28, 2023	This trait no longer has an internal cooldown. Increased the quickness duration from 1.5 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP and WvW.
December 13, 2022	Added some leniency to the stack removal timing when dismissing a tome during the cast of a skill that would trigger this trait.
November 29, 2022	This trait now also refunds one page after using three consecutive skills in a single tome.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced quickness duration from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Swift Scholar has been added to the game.