Chronomancer - Boonshare

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Focused on: Support, Direct damage.

Designed for:

World vs World

Overview

Boonshare Chrono provides significant group support in the form of 50%-60% uptime Quickness for 5 people as well as high uptimes of other duration stacking boons.

Skill Bar

Sword/ShieldHealingUtilityElite

Staff

Variants

Staff

Greatsword

Healing

Utility

Elite

1½

Spatial Surge

Shoot a beam at your foe. The farther away they are, the more damage you deal.

Damage if range is less than 300 (3x): 219

Damage if range is between 300-600 (3x): 273

Damage if range is between 600-900 (3x): 327

Damage if range is greater than 900 (3x): 381

Number of Targets: 3

Range: 1,200

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8

Mirror Blade

Clone. Throw an illusionary greatsword that bounces between targets, damaging foes and giving might to allies. It creates a clone at its first target.

Damage: 282

₃Might (10s): +90 Power, +90 Condition Damage

₃Vulnerability (3s): 3% Incoming Damage, 3% Incoming Condition Damage

Number of Bounces: 4

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Unblockable

Range: 1,200

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12

Mind Stab

Thrust your greatsword into the ground, damaging foes and removing 1 boon.

Damage: 403

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 240

Range: 1,200

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20

Phantasmal Berserker

Phantasm. Create a phantasm that uses a whirling attack to damage and cripple foes.

Damage (4x): 888

₄Crippled (1s): -50% Movement Speed

Number of Impacts: 4

Number of Targets: 5

Range: 1,200

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30

Illusionary Wave

Push back all foes in front of you with a wave of magical energy.

Damage: 121

Knockback: 450

Number of Targets: 5

Range: 450

Take Greatsword for damage at the cost of survivability.

Utility

• if there are already 2 or more mesmers running it.

⇒

more boonshare.

⇒

you should ask your commander if he would like you to run Portal as it is useful only when all 20 people use it.

⇒

AoE Boon and Condition removal

⇒

for additional AoE damage.

Elite

• Defensive support.
• Offensive support.
• Single target focus.

Specializations

Variants

Trade Chaos for Domination to increase shares but lose boons on shatter.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of Leadership

18x

Mighty WvW Infusion

Variants

• Stats
  • Add more Minstrel's to increase survivability, add Commander's or Wanderer's for more damage.
  • Use 2 exotic rings and 2 exotic earrings with Commander's stats slotted with Platinum Doubloon to hit the boon duration cap without
    Bountiful Sharpening Stone

Consumables

Food

• .

Utility Potions

• Bountiful Sharpening Stone

Usage

General

This build works by sharing boons using

. It can be used either in a regular party or in a party with only other mesmers.

Boons have a maximum of 9 stacks that can be applied at once (Protection, Quickness, Regeneration, Resistance, Retaliation, and Vigor have a cap of 5 stacks).

General

• will always share the full duration possible, even if you have a lower remaining duration than the amount it will share.
  • Use your shatters just before
    to apply

Boonshare rotation:

This rotation is to be used by either two or three mesmers in a party with no other players, all mesmers must be running 100% boon duration for maximum effectiveness. Start this rotation while away from combat. The second mesmer should start the rotation about 10s after the first has finished. Maintain boon stacks with

and

while roaming the map.

• ⇒
• +
  +
  ⇒
• (At the end of the cast of
  ) ⇒
• +
  +
  ⇒
• ends ⇒
• +
  +
  ⇒

• will buff the 5 people other than you, it prioritizes the closest players in your sub-squad/party, then then closest in your squad, then the closest friendly players. Your first priority is to keep the other mesmer in your party in range, but after that try to move around to hit different targets.

Sword

• isn't only for dealing damage - it's your second, short CD
  Distortion

  50

  Distortion

  Shatter. Destroy all your clones and phantasms, gaining distortion for each one shattered.

  Distortion (1s): Evade all attacks.

  Prevents Capture-Point Contribution

  Range: 1,200
  which can be handy when you are expecting a burst but ran out of dodges.
• The chain skill of
  ,
  is one of your key skills. You can Immobilize the target so he can't dodge your burst - the shorter version is simply using the Swap ⇒ Blurred Frenzy ⇒ Mind Wrack combo. But you can also switch weapons after the Immob to Greatsword and land a much more significant burst.

Greatsword burst:

• Stand close to your target for max damage and have at least 2 clones up (also near to your opponent - it's enough if you have 2 clones because Mirror Blade will summon a clone anyways).
• Use
  and
  simultaneously, immediately followed by a
  .
• If your enemy's trying to heal after your burst, use
  to interrupt it.
• Use
  before or after the burst, it's up to you.