Chaos Focus

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Chaos attacks have a chance to align the user towards chaos. When fully aligned, chaotic magic disrupts reality around the user

Chaos Focus is are one of the primary weapon abilities. They are melee weapons, with most abilities having a range of 3-meters.

Chaos Focus is primarily associated with with abilities that focus on making enemies Impaired or Weakened, attacking with Burst or Frenzy attacks, and landing hits more often. They are one of the primary Tanking weapons in the game. They are primarily suited for the role of Tanking, but can also be used for DPS builds.

Abilities

Special Ability

The Special Ability for Chaos is called Controlled Chaos.

Whenever you do damage with a Chaos ability - the damage done has a 30% chance be an amount that is divisible by 8. When the damage done is divisible by 8, then you will generate between 2 and 4 Paradoxes. Once you have 8 Paradoxes, the Controlled Chaos ability will trigger one of three possible events - Singularities, Enigmas, Doppelgangers.

• Singularities - Singularities are three randomly placed circular AoE effects. Any enemies within the area of effect will be knocked down and Impaired for 3 seconds
• Enigmas - Enigmas are Buffs placed on a random nearby enemy with a minor bonus to the enemy. However, you purge this buff off the enemy, or kill them while it is still running, you will gain a more powerful version of the Buff for yourself. The possible buffs are:
  • Potency Enigma - Increases Critical Power
  • Avoidance Enigma - Increases Evade Chance
  • Reciprocity Enigma - Does reflect damage back at attackers
  • Wellness Enigma - Can heal
• Dopplegangers - Dopplegangers are two alternate versions of you from a parallels universe that appear and attack your target. These two Dopplegangers will remain for Unknown seconds, and will use one of the three following abilities to attack with:
  • Dissonance - A single target attack that hits targeted enemies once for a high amount of damage
  • Dissipation - A single target channeled attacked that hits enemies 5 times for a low amount of damage per hit
  • Cacophony - A TAoE attack that hits up to 6 enemies once for a moderate amount of damage

Active Abilities

Active abilities are broken down into three paths - Collapse, Chance, Building Blocks

• The Collapse path focuses on Damage and includes:
  • Deconstruct
  • Schism
  • Entropy
  • Breakdown
  • Pandemonium
• The Chance focuses on special utility abilities using Exposed or special utility:
  • Tumultuous Whisper
  • Rewind
  • Reality Fracture
  • Twist Fate
  • Anomaly
• The Building Blocks path focuses on Tanking and generating Hate:
  • Distortion
  • Turmoil
  • Winds of Change
  • Evulsion
  • Immutable

See the individual ability pages for more details, or Chaos abilities for a consolidated list

Passive Abilities

There is one passive skill that feeds into all paths, and then 5 (unnamed) paths of passive abilities

• The initial ability is:
  • Paradoxical Restoration
• The First path focuses on modifying Active Abilities in the Collapse path and includes:
  • Paradox Control - Modifies Schism
  • Dissolution - Modifies Entropy
  • Disintegrate - Modifies Breakdown
  • Fractured Existence - Modifies Pandemonium
• The Second path focuses on modifying Active Abilities in the Chance path and includes:
  • Duality - Modifies [[Tumultous Whis[er]]
  • Flash-back - Modifies Rewind
  • Rend Space - Modifies Reality Fracture
  • Backlash - Modifies Twist Fate
  • Disorientation - Modifies Anomaly
• The Third path focuses on modifying Active Abilities in the Building Blocks path and includes:
  • Veil of Deformity - Modifies Distortion
  • Contradiction - Modifies Winds of Change
  • Mass Evulsion - Modifies Evulsion
  • Incongruity - Modifies Incongruity
• The Fourth path focuses on modifying the Controlled Chaos special ability and includes:
  • Resonance Cascade
  • Body Double
  • Long Term Chaos
  • Eye of the Ruinstorm
• The Fifth path focuses on Damage or Protection and includes:
  • Butterfly Effect
  • Aegis of Parallelism
  • Blessing of Octed
  • Probability Protection

See the individual ability pages for more details, or Chaos abilities for a consolidated list

Classes

Main article: Classes

The following starter Classes incorporate Chaos Weapons into their build, and the 'role' they serve.

• Trickster - Chaos/Pistols - Tank, Ranged+Melee
• Magus - Elemental Focus/Chaos - Damage, Ranged+Melee

Achievements

• Warlock (Achievement)
• Ravager (Achievement)
• Cabalist (Achievement)
• Now I am the Master
• 9th Degree Black Belt

Media

Videos

<a href="https://twitter.com/SecretWorldLgds/status/874723518654455808">Chaos Spotlight</a>

Weapons Deep Dive, Chaos - See also Weapons Deep Dive

Images

Chaos Tutorial

Skins

Generic Blades

Name	Icon	Worn	Held	Description
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Named Blades

Name	Icon	Worn	Held	Description
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