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

Mechanics

• Only recharges equipped-weapon skills that are currently recharging; not 'wasting' uses.
• Cannot recharge trait-skills such as  Method of Madness.

Skills that can recharge themselves

•   Magic Bullet — This skill can only reduce its recharge once despite being able to crowd control twice due to the cooldown of this trait. This is excluding synergy with  Duelist's Discipline.
•   Tides of Time — This skill can reduce its recharge twice due to the duration the skill travels.
•   Phantasmal Mage — The phantasm's  Daze originates from the Mesmer, activating this trait.
•   Counter Blade — Recharges its parent skill   Illusionary Riposte.

Skills that cannot recharge themselves

•   Illusionary Wave — Does not begin recharging until after the crowd control.
•   Mental Collapse — Does not begin recharging until after the crowd control.
•   Chaos Storm — Does not begin recharging until after the crowd control.
•   Into the Void — Does not recharge its parent skill   Temporal Curtain.

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.