Chronomancer - Glamour

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Focused on: Support, Utility.

Designed for:

World vs World

Expansions required:

Overview

Glamour Chrono is a self-sufficient, offensive frontline support that helps its team with strong offensive utility in the form of boonrip and CC as well as high Resistance application.

Skill Bar

Sword/ShieldHealingUtilityElite

Staff

Skill Variants

Utility

In general, drop
to add a different utility. With multiple mesmers available to stomp, dropping
on some is also an option.
when additional Stability is needed, such as a party with one or no guardians.
for stealth access

Elite

Extremely strong AoE CC with a much shorter CD than
. Combos well with
Glamour skill that can hit 10 friendlies, giving Resistance and Quickness. Pulses Slow on enemies.

Specializations

Variants

If not using Staff.

Variants

Both of your adept traits are about equally useful, personal preference.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of Mercy

18x

Healing WvW Infusion

Variants

Sigils

Consumables

Food

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Utility

Usage

General

Activate
at the end of the cast time of a skill, rather than before casting, to fit more skills inside the split window.
- Try to split your longer cooldown abilities so you get more usage, generally the elite,
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- Shatter skills can be used inside
  without disrupting the use of other skills
- Consider usage of
  without
  carefully, unless the skill will make a decisive impact on the fight it is often better to wait and use it inside split for the shorter cooldown. Do not to hesitate to use it when it will have a decisive impact though - it is a very powerful skill.
All of your shatters give a stack of Stability, don't be afraid to use them just to keep yourself safe.
Don't feel the need to max illusions before shattering, it is perfectly acceptable to shatter with one or no illusions out.
Try to land
in places where the last tick will be able to heal your frontline such as regroups or while cleaving downs. Be careful not to obstruct Water Fields with it however.

Opening Combo

Start in Sword/Shield
Weapon Swap to proc
Elite skill.
In the aftercast of your elite skill, use
. If executed correctly your elite will be off cooldown when you leave split. If you are having trouble with this due to ping or other factors, use your split just before the cast finishes instead.
ends

During steps 8-10 you should cast all of your shatter skills (other than
), if you have difficulty using all of them, make sure to at least use
.

Sword/Shield

is your second, short CD
which can be handy when you are expecting a burst but ran out of dodges.
Use the chain skill of
,
to lock down focus targets for your group. Be careful of it putting you in a bad position however, be ready to dodge quickly after casting or in some situations ignore the skill.
Don't be afraid to hold on to
if it isn't immediately needed, you have 10 seconds until the buff expires.
has no target cap and hits both allies and enemies.

Staff

Make use of the About Face keybinding to
forwards quickly.
's Ethereal Field is powerful at the beginning of fights, but be careful not to disrupt Water Fields later on.
can be used on downed players to fish for interrupts on stomps and rezzes.
can be combined with
to safely finish downed players. Use
after starting the stomp then just before the cast time finishes use
to move back to the downed player.

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