Moment of Clarity

Gain an attack of opportunity for you and your pet on interrupting a foe. Daze and stun durations that you inflict last longer. This trait can only grant an attack of opportunity against enemies with defiance bars once per interval. — In-game description

Moment of Clarity

Specialization

Marksmanship (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Gain an attack of opportunity for you and your pet on interrupting a foe. Daze and stun durations that you inflict last longer.
This trait can only grant an attack of opportunity against enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

  Attack of Opportunity (10s): +50% damage on next attack.

  Duration Increase: 50%

  Interval: 3 seconds

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Path of Scars — Axe
•   Call of the Wild — Warhorn
•   Counterattack Kick — Greatsword
•   Hilt Bash — Greatsword
•   Point-Blank Shot — Longbow
•   Concussion Shot — Short bow
•   Counterstrike — Spear
•   Deft Strike — Sword
•   Overbearing Smash — Hammer
•   Thump — Hammer

Transform skills that are improved by this trait

•   Lunar Impact — Celestial Avatar
•   Lunar Impact — Celestial Avatar

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Call Lightning — Spirit
•   Spike Trap — Trap
•   Spike Trap — Trap
•   Glyph of Equality — Glyph
•   Glyph of the Tides — Glyph
•   Glyph of the Tides — Glyph
•   Exploding Spores — Cantrip

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Tail Lash
•   Takedown
•   Brutal Charge
•   Brutal Charge
•   Charge
•   Fear
•   Wing Buffet
•   Prelude Lash — Beast

Pet skills that are improved by this trait

•   Bloodthirsty Charge — Juvenile Wallow
•   Dazing Screech — Juvenile Pink Moa
•   Dazing Screech — Juvenile Black Moa
•   Fang Grapple — Juvenile Fanged Iboga
•   Head Toss — Juvenile Rock Gazelle
•   Lashtail Venom — Juvenile Lashtail Devourer
•   Lightning Assault — Juvenile Electric Wyvern
•   Stunning Rush — Juvenile Armor Fish
•   Terrifying Howl — Juvenile Wolf
•   Brutal Charge — Canine
•   Brutal Charge — Porcine
•   Charge — Rock Gazelle
•   Fear — Juvenile Shark, Shark
•   Slam — Turtle
•   Tail Lash — Devourer
•   Takedown — Juvenile Smokescale, Smokescale
•   Wing Buffet — Wyvern
•   Wing Buffet — Juvenile Phoenix

Downed skills that are improved by this trait

•   Thunderclap

Drowning skills that are improved by this trait

•   Thunderclap

Related traits

Traits that are improved by this trait

Beastmastery

• Beastly Warden — Beast abilities taunt nearby foes.

Druid

• Primal Echoes — Reduces recharge of staff skills. Daze nearby foes when you swap to staff.

Notes

• On interrupt you and your pet receive  Attack of Opportunity, which increases the damage of your next attack by 50%.
• Interrupts caused by your pet do not trigger the effect.
• Skills that hit multiple times such as Rapid Fire will only have its first hit in the chain affected by this effect.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 26, 2021	Positive percentage-based enhancements now display with a "+." For example, swiftness now displays "+33% Movement Speed" instead of "33% Movement Speed."
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.
January 26, 2016	The effectiveness of this trait has been reduced from 100% stun and daze durations to 50% stun and daze durations.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Marksmanship Master tier. Removed recharge.
December 10, 2013	Stun duration increased from 50% to 100%.
December 14, 2012	Now also increases daze and stun duration by 50%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Moment of Clarity has been added to the game.