Chaotic Interruption

When you interrupt a foe, recharge one of your equipped-weapon skills at random. Only affects weapon skills that are recharging. — In-game description

Chaotic Interruption

Specialization

Chaos (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

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Chaotic Interruption

When you interrupt a foe, recharge one of your equipped-weapon skills at random.
Only affects weapon skills that are recharging.

 Recharge Time Reduced: 5 seconds

— In-game description

Notes

• This trait will only select from among skills it can currently recharge. The trait won't 'waste' uses.
• Only skills that are currently visible can be selected. Skills in the inactive weapon set, as well as sequence skills that are not currently visible, will not be selected.
• Due to the fact that skills only go on cooldown after the cast completes, several skills cannot trigger the trait on themselves.   Illusionary Wave and   Chaos Storm will not reduce their own cooldowns.
•   Into the Void cannot be used to recharge its parent skill   Temporal Curtain.
•   Magic Bullet,   Tides of Time, and   Phantom Razor (this one only having a 1 second cool down), can trigger the trait on themselves, but only with excellent timing and placement.
• Some skills can reduce their own cooldown, such as   Phantasmal Mage, or   Counter Blade recharging its parent skill   Illusionary Riposte.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
December 03, 2019	Added additional visual effects to this trait to show when it activates.
October 01, 2019	This trait has been reworked. When interrupting a foe, it now recharges one of your currently recharging equipped weapon skills by 5 seconds. This trait has a 1-second internal cooldown.
August 13, 2019	This trait has been disabled in PvP only.
December 12, 2017	Skills, traits, and sigils that have bonus effects when interrupting foes will now activate when used against foes with defiance bars as though they had been interrupted, with a 3-second cooldown.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. After interrupting a foe, gain 5 stacks of might for 10 seconds and apply a second random boon to yourself.
June 25, 2013	This trait has been moved to the Grandmaster tier. This ability now immobilizes the player's target and randomly applies blind, cripple, or chill.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Chaotic Interruption has been added to the game.