Sun and Moon Style

Gain bonuses for each dagger you equip: Main hand—Strike damage is increased versus foes with no boons. Off Hand—Heal for a percent of your outgoing strike damage. — In-game description

Sun and Moon Style

Specialization

Spellbreaker (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Sun and Moon Style

Gain bonuses for each dagger you equip:
Main hand—Strike damage is increased versus foes with no boons.
Off Hand—Heal for a percent of your outgoing strike damage.

 Damage to Healing: 4%

 Damage to Healing: 7%

 Bonus Damage to Boonless Foes: 10%

— In-game description

Notes

Anomaly:

The recharge skill fact is a leftover from the May 11, 2021 game update and doesn't serve any purpose.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 02, 2026	(Undocumented) Fixed an error where this trait's facts referred to healing for critical damage instead of strike damage.
October 08, 2024	This trait now heals for a percentage of all strike damage instead of only critical hit damage.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Life-stealing percentage from critical strikes reduced from 7% to 4% in PvE only.
May 11, 2021	Fixed a bug that could cause trait bonuses to be temporarily lost after recovering from the downed state. The main-hand dagger bonus has been reworked to deal an additional 10% strike damage to foes with no boons.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced quickness duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
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.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Sun and Moon Style has been added to the game.

Trivia

• This trait's name is likely a reference to the Guild Wars skill Sun and Moon Slash.