Advance

Advance

4m Range
Fast
Melee Skill
Skill Type: Melee, Swordplay
Advance on your opponent with two thrusts.

Swordplay:
  Finishers deal increased damage.
  Debilitating Strike disarms your target.
  Dramatic Flourish gives even greater chance to critically hit.
2 Attacks:
... (Main-hand) Damage
... (Main-hand) Damage
+50% Finisher Skills Damage
+10% Dramatic Flourish Critical Chance Potency
Duration: 10s
Cost: [202 at Level 150] Power
Attunes: 3
• Cooldown: 7s

General Information

Class: Mariner

Level: 2

This skill is replaced by  Sweeping Advance (requires trait  Slashing Blade)

Effects

Using this skill applies  Swordplay: Advance to the Mariner. This effect is consumed by the next Swordplay skill.

Skill Interactions

The following Swordplay skills empower Advance:

•  Thrust makes this skill deal +30% Damage. It additionally makes this skill apply  Attacker's Advantage (requires red-line trait).
•  Riposte makes this skill deal +30% Damage. It additionally makes this skill apply  Stunned for 2 seconds (requires yellow-line trait).

The following skills are empowered when they are the next Swordplay skill used after Advance:

•  Lunge,  Dramatic Flourish,  Flèche, and  Draining Strike deal +50% Damage (75% in red-line).
•  Dramatic Flourish gains +10% Critical Chance.
•  Debilitating Strike applies  Primary Weapon: Disarmed to the enemy target (requires yellow-line trait).

Trait Interactions

• The trait  Attacker's Advantage in the Duellist trait tree makes this skill apply Attacker's Advantage to the enemy target when used after  Thrust.
  
• The set bonus  Follow-through in the Duellist trait tree increases Finisher damage by 25% when used after this skill.
  
• The trait  Salted Wounds in the Duellist trait tree increases the bleed damage of this skill by up to 10%.
  
• The trait  Shocking Counterattack in the Rover trait tree makes this skill have up to a 100% chance to apply Stunned for 2 seconds when used after  Riposte.
  
• The trait  Masterful Disarm in the Rover trait tree makes  Debilitating Strike apply Primary Weapon: Disarmed when used after this skill.
  
• The trait  Test Defences in the Duellist trait tree makes this skill tier up Critical Aim on the Mariner upon Critical hit, up to 3 stacks. Further ranks allow the effect to tier up to 5 stacks.
  
• The trait  A Watched Pot in the Rover trait tree makes this skill reduce the active cooldown of all Haversack skills by 1 seconds upon Critical hit.
  
• The trait  Sharpened Blades in the Duellist trait tree increases the damage of this skill by up to 10%.
  
• The trait  Slashing Blade in the Duellist trait tree replaces this skill with  Sweeping Advance.
  

Tracery Interactions

• Fore Skills Damage increases the damage of this skill by up to 16.5%.
  
• Swordplay Damage increases the damage of this skill by up to 11%.
  

Tactical Information

Advance is usually not used in its base form, as Sweeping Advance is much preferred. Regular Advance is more popular among Yellow-line Mariners, but most choose to use Sweeping Advance for the AoE damage and greater chance to land critical hits.