Haste is a common stat in AFK Journey that you see affecting your characters in combat, even if you don’t know where it comes from. At its core, Haste is all about speeding up your characters’ actions and making them more effective.

Haste is a hero attribute in AFK Journey. Each point of Haste increases a unit's attack and skill frequency by one percent, and its animation speed by the same amount. This means that a character will perform all actions faster the more Haste they have. For example, a character who attacks 10 times in 10 seconds without Haste will attack 15 times with 50 Haste, effectively increasing their damage by 50 percent for that period.

The Haste effect increases the frequency of skill triggers for characters like Smokey and Meerky, whose Special Aroma heals allies faster with Haste. With Haste, characters cast Ultimates and other skills faster, shortening their animation times and allowing them to attack sooner. Over the course of a battle, Haste results in higher overall damage output and Energy gain due to faster actions and shorter delays.

Haste changes are indicated by an hourglass icon below the character's health bar during battle; green indicates an increase, while red indicates a decrease. All characters have zero base haste unless they have an ability that increases it, making character buffs the only other way to change haste values.