Grand Entrance

This article is about the trait. For the skill with the former name of this trait, see Flashbang.

Explosive Entrance grants you resistance and increased critical-strike chance for a brief duration. — In-game description

Grand Entrance

Specialization

Explosives (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Grand Entrance

Explosive Entrance grants you resistance and increased critical-strike chance for a brief duration.

 Resistance (2s): Nondamaging conditions currently on you are ineffective.

 Grand Entrance (3s): +10% Critical Chance

— In-game description

Related skills

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Explosive Entrance — Explosive Entrance

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 17, 2026	Updated icon.
June 24, 2025	This trait has been reworked and renamed Grand Entrance. Explosive Entrance grants resistance and increased critical-strike chance for a short period of time.
May 21, 2024	Reduced the dazed duration from 1 second to 0.5 seconds in PvP only.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
October 13, 2020	Reduced blind duration from 2 seconds to 1.5 seconds in PvP only.
July 28, 2020	Reduced blinded duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Flashbang has been added to the game and replaced Orbital Command. This new trait causes Explosive Entrance to inflict blindness for 3 seconds if it hits. Additionally, it inflicts daze for 1 second on struck foes above 90% health.