Daring Advance

Stance. Leap to an area, tethering nearby enemies and empowering allies. Tethered enemies are revealed and take additional damage from your attacks and are stunned if they move beyond the range threshold. — In-game description

Daring Advance

 

Profession

Guardian (skill list)

Specialization

Luminary

Slot

Elite

Type

Stance

Movement

Leap

Training cost

25 Hero points

Game link

API

76687, 77198

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Daring Advance

Stance. Leap to an area, tethering nearby enemies and empowering allies. Tethered enemies are revealed and take additional damage from your attacks and are stunned if they move beyond the range threshold.

 Damage: 798 (3.0)^?

 Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

 Damage Increase: 15%

 Damage Increase: 10%

 Range Threshold: 300

₂ Might (8s): 60 Condition Damage, 60 Power

 Fury (1s): +25% Critical Chance

 Fury (1s): +20% Critical Chance

 Luminary's Blessing (6s): Reduced incoming strike damage. Heal when this expires.

 Luminary's Blessing (3s): Reduced incoming strike damage. Heal when this expires.

 Revealed: 3

 Daring Advance (8s): You are revealed and take additional damage from the source of the tether.

 Stun: 2 seconds

 Duration: 5 seconds

 Combo Field: Light

 Combo Finisher: Leap

 Defiance Break: 200

 Range: 600

— In-game description

Related traits

Zeal

• Renewing Splendor — Heal yourself when you create a light field or finish a combo in a light field.
• Furious Focus — Your strike damage and movement speed are increased while you have fury. Create a Lesser Symbol of Blades when you activate Virtue skill 1.

Valor

• Altruistic Healing — Heal yourself when you grant a boon to an ally.

Virtues

• Inspired Virtue — Virtues apply boons to allies when activated. Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.
• Glacial Heart — Mighty Blow becomes Glacial Blow. Heal when you disable, immobilize, or chill a foe. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Luminary

• Shimmering Stances — Stances grant protection to affected allies and blind affected enemies.
• Persistent Blessing — Refresh the duration of your Luminary's Blessing and trigger its healing when you exit Radiant Forge.

Notes

• Applies  Daring Advance to enemies within the AoE.
• Applies boons and  Luminary's Blessing every second to yourself and allies making this a pulsing AoE heal.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Updated the description and skill facts to clarify that tethered opponents are revealed and take increased damage from the caster.
October 28, 2025	Visions of Eternity release: Daring Advance has been added to the game.
August 19, 2025	Daring Advance was available during the Visions of Eternity elite specialization Beta Event.

Trivia

• This skill and Hard Light Arena design of the arena created is based on the ArenaNet logo.