Battle Standard

Banner. Place a battle standard that revives fallen allies and finishes downed foes. Once placed, the banner periodically grants boons to allies. — In-game description

Battle Standard

   

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Slot

Elite

Type

Banner

Summons

Battle Standard

Training cost

9 Hero points

Game link

API

14419

This skill has an underwater replacement: Battle Standard (underwater)

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Battle Standard

Banner. Place a battle standard that revives fallen allies and finishes downed foes. Once placed, the banner periodically grants boons to allies.

 Damage: 1,064 (4.0)^?

 Damage: 399 (1.5)^?

 Revive Targets: 5

 Revive Targets: 3

₂ Might (12s): 60 Condition Damage, 60 Power

 Fury (6s): +25% Critical Chance

 Fury (6s): +20% Critical Chance

 Swiftness (12s): +33% Movement Speed

 Boon Application Interval: 3 seconds

 Number of Targets: 5

 Number of Allied Targets: 5

 Duration: 15 seconds

 Effective Radius: 360

 Finisher Radius: 180

 Revival Radius: 360

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Range: 600

— In-game description

Mechanics

Revive and finisher

• Players can be revived from downed state only, most NPCs can be revived from defeat.
• Because the banner has a short travel time when it falls from the air after cast completion, it can also revive the caster if timed perfectly.
• The revive technically heals players for 100% of their total down state health and 100% of their normal health.
  • Through debuffs (such as Poisoned and/or Agony), the banner's revival capabilities can be negated to the point that the affected player will not revive at all, and only regain a portion of their downed health.
  • This is a common issue in fractals, as higher level fractals can cause players to have multiple stacks of agony, thus nullifying the effects completely.
• The banner doesn't finish foes if they are invisible.

Boons

• The first application happens when the banner is summoned.
• The banner will then reapply the boons every 3 seconds for its duration.
• This means a total of 6 applications, for a total of 36 seconds of  Fury and 72 seconds of  Swiftness. 12 stacks of  Might will be applied, with varying total stacks over the duration.

Related traits

Strength

• Pinnacle of Strength — Might applied to you grants more power. Your critical-hit chance is increased.
• Might Makes Right — Gain health and endurance whenever you apply might to yourself.

Arms

• Furious Burst — Gain fury when you swap weapons. Fury gives an increased critical chance.
• Deep Strikes — Gain condition damage when you have fury. You have increased chance to critically strike against bleeding foes.

Defense

• Defy Pain — Cast Lesser Endure Pain when you use an elite skill.

Tactics

• Empowered — Deal increased strike damage for every boon on you.
• Mending Might — Applying might to an ally heals you.
• Phalanx Strength — When you grant yourself might, grant it to nearby allies as well.

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.
• Doubled Standards — Banners grant resolution to allies when they are dropped. Pulsing boons applied through banners last longer.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 24, 2026	Fixed a graphics error in the targeting decal for Battle Standard, Banner of Strength, and Banner of Discipline.
November 18, 2025	Reduced the number of revivable targets from 5 to 3 in WvW only.
June 25, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 120 seconds to 90 seconds in PvE only.
September 13, 2022	Fixed an issue that prevented banner effects from prioritizing the warrior who placed them and their party or squad over other allies.
August 02, 2022	Light combo field radius reduced from 600 to 360. Combo field duration reduced to from 5 seconds to 3 seconds. Pulsing boon radius reduced to 360. Once placed, banners last for 15 seconds and can no longer be picked up. Banners no longer grant quickness on placement by default (except for Banner of Tactics in PvE only). All banner skills (except for Battle Standard) have been reworked. They now grant different boons when placed, depending on the banner: Battle Standard: Damage multiplier has been increased from 1.5 to 4.0 in PvE only. This skill no longer creates a light combo field but acts as a blast finisher instead. Pulsing boons have changed to the following: Battle Standard: Fury (6 seconds), swiftness (12 seconds), and might (12 seconds, two stacks)
June 28, 2022	Fury: Critical chance bonus increased from 20% to 25% in PvE only. Recharge time reduced from 180 seconds to 120 seconds. Reduced base duration of pulsing boons applied by this banner as follows: Might: Reduced from 10 seconds to 5 seconds. Fury: Reduced from 3 seconds to 1 second. Swiftness: Reduced from 3 seconds to 1 second.
May 11, 2021	Reduced the number of allied targets affected from 10 to 5. The Discipline trait Doubled Standards now increases the number of allied targets from 5 to 10. Banners no longer cause blast finishers. They now create a light combo field that persists for 5 seconds after the banner is summoned.
November 19, 2019	A 1-second delay before banners can be picked up has been added.
April 23, 2019	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to have a shorter casting time while underwater than on land. Adjusted the timing of the visual effects so that the attack lines up properly with the banner's arrival. Banners: Adjusted timing for skill warm-up visual effects.
March 05, 2019	Banners: Banners no longer have skills and are instead destroyed when they're picked up. Banners can now only be picked up by the warrior who summoned them. Picking up a banner now reduces the recharge time of that banner by 60 seconds. Banners now follow the same rules as spirits and turrets. Banners are now destroyed when the owner enters certain states, such as mounted or defeated. Resynced the time at which a banner appears to properly line up with the effect. When planted in the ground, this banner skill now deals damage to foes within a radius of 180. Foes who are in a downed state are now finished when damaged by Battle Standard. This skill's targeting reticle will now display the radius for effects that finish foes who are in a downed state and effects that revive allies.
May 08, 2018	The cooldown of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the lower 180-second cooldown in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Fixed a bug that caused banner effects to display at a selected enemy's location rather than the player's location when using a banner underwater. Reduced the cooldown from 240 seconds to 180 seconds in PvP and WvW.
April 15, 2014	Renamed the Warbanner this skill summons to Battle Standard in order to keep it consistent with the skill's name and description.
October 15, 2013	This skill no longer applies boons until the end of the cast to prevent unintended behavior when canceling it.
August 20, 2013	Updated this skill to properly display their duration. Battle Standard now displays the casting range of the skill.
June 25, 2013	This skill has had its underwater aftercast reduced by 1.1 seconds.
May 28, 2013	Warrior banners now apply their buffs immediately. No longer initially applies stability and then transitions over to swiftness. It now applies swiftness with stability coming from the active skill on the banner.
October 22, 2012	This skill no longer goes on full recharge if it's interrupted while being activated.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Battle Standard has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Other banners similar to the one depicted in this skill's icon, identified by the GW1 symbol for warrior profession, also appear in concept art.

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Warrior Banners

  Defense (UW • bundle) •   Discipline (UW • bundle) •   Strength (UW • bundle) •
  Tactics (UW • bundle) •   Battle Standard (UW • bundle)