Balanced Stance

Stance. Gain stability and swiftness on an interval. Become immune to critical hits. — In-game description

Balanced Stance

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Stance

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

14412

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25

40

 

Balanced Stance

Stance. Gain stability and swiftness on an interval. Become immune to critical hits.

 Balanced Stance (4s): Periodically gain stability. Immune to critical hits.

₂ Stability (1s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

 Swiftness (3s): +33% Movement Speed

 Boon Application Interval: 1 second

 Breaks Stun

— In-game description

Related traits

Defense

• Last Stand — Stances grant vigor and barrier when activated, and they have increased duration.
• Stalwart Strength — Gain stability when you disable a foe. Deal increased strike damage while you have stability.

Tactics

• Empowered — Deal increased strike damage for every boon on you.

Discipline

• Warrior's Sprint — Run faster while wielding melee weapons, and deal increased strike damage while you have swiftness. Movement skills break immobilization when used.

Notes

• When traited with Last Stand it gives these boons 5 times, resulting in 5 seconds stability and 15 seconds swiftness uptime.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 40 seconds to 25 seconds in PvE only.
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 50 seconds to 40 seconds in PvP only.
February 14, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 60 seconds to 50 seconds in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 40 seconds to 60 seconds in PvP only.
May 22, 2018	Fixed a bug in which this skill granted bonus toughness from the Rousing Resilience trait, even when it was not breaking a stun.
November 07, 2017	Reduced duration from 8 seconds to 4 seconds. Reduced stability duration from 3 seconds to 1 second. Reduced effect application interval from 3 seconds to 1 second. This skill now makes you immune to critical hits.
July 26, 2016	Updated the skill description to mention that it is a stance skill. Updated the skill facts to properly mention that swiftness is applied on use.
April 19, 2016	This skill now periodically applies swiftness and two stacks of stability for 3 seconds every 3 seconds that the stance is active.
March 16, 2015	This stance now grants 5 stacks of stability.
June 25, 2013	This now also applies swiftness.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Balanced Stance has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.