Sweeping Advance

Sweeping Advance

5.2m Range
Fast
Melee Skill
Max Targets: 7
Radius: 5m
Skill Type: Melee, Swordplay
Advance on multiple opponents before you with sweeping cuts.

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: [269 at Level 150] Power
Attunes: 3
• Cooldown: 7s

General Information

Class: Mariner

Trait Tree: The Duellist

Rank Needed: 10 (trait  Slashing Blade)

This skill replaces  Advance.

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.

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  Slashing Blade in the Duellist trait tree reduces the cooldown of this skill by up to 3 seconds.
  
• 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  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%.
  

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

Sweeping Advance is the key skill in the Mariner's rotation. It should be used off cooldown, and should always be prefaced by Thrust. This is the AoE version of Advance and is more commonly used.