On my healer commando, I obtained some mods to increase my Alacrity. I understand that it increases the speed at which abilities are casted, but what exactly does that mean.
What exactly does Alacrity do
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Best Answer
An example of a casted ability is Mortar Volley for the Trooper (Death from Above for the Bounty Hunter). Without any Alacrity, that move takes 3 seconds to complete. With 5% Alacrity, it will take 2.85 seconds (
(1 - 0.05) * 3).Since the 3.0 patch, Alacrity affects virtually everything: Cooldowns (internal timers, the Global Cooldown (GCD), and ability cooldowns), cast and channel times, tick speed of channels and Damage over Time (DoT) abilities, etc. As such, 1% Alacrity is essentially a 1% increase in Damage or Heals Done per Second (DPS/HPS). This is a bit simplified, since using Alacrity means giving up other stats you could use instead, but overall Alacrity is now very useful.