At The Ready

At The Ready is a defensive answer to the invasion system, priced at the cheapest Notch tier. Its single effect: gain a permanent 25% ability haste when invaded. The flavor line is appropriately terse - "Always ready."

The word "permanent" does the heavy lifting: for the duration of the invasion scenario, your cooldowns cycle a quarter faster across the board - escape tools, defensive skills, damage rotations, everything. Invaders typically arrive with initiative and a plan; the haste swing hands the defender more total casts of every answer they own. For mission runners on invasion-prone servers, that is meaningful insurance from a Tier 1 slot that barely dents the 3-Notch budget.

Outside of being invaded, the charm is inert, which frames its audience precisely: players who spend most of their time running missions or farming in contested spaces, not invaders themselves (who should look at Relentless Hunter) or duel-arena players. No level requirement, zone, weight, or drop source appears in current documentation captures, so how it is obtained is undocumented.