Light on your Feet

Damage and condition duration are increased after dodging or using a ranger skill that evades. Short bow skills pierce and gain recharge reduction, and their attacks from behind or while flanking or against defiant foes are improved. — In-game description

Light on your Feet

Specialization

Skirmishing (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Light on your Feet

Damage and condition duration are increased after dodging or using a ranger skill that evades. Short bow skills pierce and gain recharge reduction, and their attacks from behind or while flanking or against defiant foes are improved.

 Damage Increase: 10%

 On Dodge (6s): Your conditions last longer, and your damage is increased.

 Targets per Arrow: 5

 Recharge Reduced: 20%

 Duration Increase: 10%

 Pierces

— In-game description

Notes

Anomaly:

This trait's condition duration increase is not reflected in the hero panel.

• Damage mentioned in the tool-tip is specifically strike damage.
• This trait activates when using endurance to dodge or with any ranger skill that evades and shows as a buff that stacks in duration.
• The buff cannot increase your condition duration beyond 100%.
•   Crossfire inflicts Bleeding for 2 seconds longer when flanking.
•   Poison Volley inflicts Poisoned for 2 seconds longer when flanking.
•   Crippling Shot inflicts Immobile for 1 second longer when flanking.
•   Concussion Shot also inflicts 10s of 10 stacks vulnerability regardless of positioning.

Traited recharge

	Skill	Traited recharge
Short bow	Poison Volley (WvW, PvP)	6	→	4.8
	Poison Volley (PvE)	8	→	6.4
	Quick Shot (PvE)	8	→	6.4
	Quick Shot (WvW, PvP)	12	→	9.6
	Crippling Shot	12	→	9.6
	Concussion Shot	20	→	16

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	This trait now triggers with any ranger skill that evades. Increased the effect duration from 4 seconds to 6 seconds.
June 27, 2023	All effects that benefit when the player strikes from the flank or from behind now always apply their benefits when striking defiant foes.
July 16, 2019	This trait now also grants its damage bonus when dodging using Quick Shot.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Fixed a bug that was preventing some short-bow skills from displaying all relevant skill facts for this trait.
May 16, 2017	This trait now enhances flanking/behind aspects for short bow skills.
July 28, 2015	Fixed an issue in which this trait granted 3 seconds of the effect instead of 4 seconds.
July 07, 2015	Fixed an issue in which this trait provided an incorrect increase in condition duration.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Light on your Feet has been added to the game.