Chronomancer - Condi Roamer

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Focused on: Condition damage.

Designed for:

Roaming

Overview

Deals immense condition damage and boasts exceptional survivability with raw resilience and sustain. Also excels at easily clearing camps.

Skill Bar

StaffHealingUtilityElite

Sword/Shield

Skill Variants

Utility

• Null Field for boon/condition support and to combo with Phase Retreat for Chaos Armor.
• Veil for stealth and group support.
• Portal Entre for utility

Elite

• Gravity Well

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of Perplexity

18x

Malign WvW Infusion

Variants

Stats

• Use more Viper's, Carrion or Sinister for more damage.
  • Keep in mind condition duration if replacing gear. The goal is to reach 100% Confusion duration with runes, food and utility.

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Corruption

  Superior Sigil of Corruption

  Gain a charge of +10 condition damage each time you kill a foe, five if you kill an enemy player.

Consumables

Food

• Sweet Bean Bun

  Sweet Bean Bun

  Nourishment (30 m):

  +70 Expertise-20% Condition Duration (Incoming)+25% Magic Find during Lunar New Year

  Consumable
  - Defensive option, recommended.
• Oysters with Spicy Sauce

  Oysters with Spicy Sauce

  Nourishment (30 m):

  +10% Damage Reduction+70 Condition Damage+10 Experience from kills

  Consumable
  - Alternate defensive option.
• Loaf of Saffron Bread

  Loaf of Saffron Bread

  Nourishment (30 m):

  Incoming damage reduced by 20% while stunned, knocked down, or knocked back.-20% condition duration+10 Experience from kills

  Consumable
  - Alternate defensive option.
• Koi Cake

  Koi Cake

  Nourishment (20 m):

  +100 Expertise+70 Condition Damage+10 Experience from kills

  Consumable
  - Offensive option.
• Saffron Stuffed Mushroom

  Saffron Stuffed Mushroom

  Nourishment (30 m):

  Gain +200 condition damage for 30 seconds when you kill a foe. (This effect does not stack)+70 Precision+10% Experience from kill[sic]

  Consumable
  - Alternate offensive option.

Utility

• Magnanimous Tuning Crystal

  Magnanimous Tuning Crystal

  Nourishment (30 m):

  Gain Condition Damage equal to 3% of your VitalityGain Condition Damage equal to 3% of your Toughness+10% Experience from Kills

  Consumable

Usage

General

• Use shatters to deal damage, cleanse conditions, and heal yourself.
• Whenever you shatter a phantasm for the first time it'll respawn - let your phantasms attack at least once before shattering it for a 2nd time.
• Always try to shatter when you have at least 2 active illusions in order to proc Illusionary Reversion. Getting the most out of this trait is a crucial part of the build.
• When you run out of shatter skills activate Signet of Illusions.
• Echo of Memory and Deja Vu got the most synergy with traits. Spawning both phantasms, shattering them and then shattering them again drastically reduces the cooldown of these skills which is good for both defense and offense.
• Root people into your shatters with Swap.
• Shattering illusions reduces your cooldowns thanks to Persistence of Memory and Flow of Time.
• If using Master of Fragmentation, Diversion is an area interrupt, therefore your best skill to stop an enemy group reviving or stomping an enemy. If used in a duel, position your illusions so that they will hit the enemy each with at least a second of delay - maximizing the effect (daze does not stack in duration)
• You can safe stomp both by using Distortion and a combination of start Stomp, Phase Retreat and Blink back on your target. These stomps use important cooldowns, use them only if necessary.
• Distortion combined with Inspiring Distortion can be used to sustain under-pressure team rez or to grant an ally a safe stomp.
• Since the Shatter effects also occurs on yourself (players are considered illusions too), do it in melee range to maximize the damage whenever you can.
• The first healing tick of Well of Eternity will be received even if you're not standing in the well. The second part is an AoE heal for which you must stand in the well as it expires.

Continuum Split (CS)

• Continuum Split allows you to use your skills twice.
• Offensive use: CC your target with either Tides of Time or Swap, cast Signet of Humility and press Continuum Split right before it finishes casting, then unload your shatters while using Blurred Frenzy. The additional Moa can be used on an enemy approaching a downed body (however if used after the enemy has started reviving it will not interrupt the channel, additional CC must be used) or kept for later.
• Defensive use: cast Well of Eternity after using CS, and exit CS before the last pulse of the well. Even though your HP will reset after CS ends thus reverting any damage/healing received, it's possible to gain healing from the final pulse of Well of Eternity if that occurs after CS ends.
• Phantasms summoned and Moa will still persist after CS ends.

Weaknesses

• Heavy condition removal; conditions are 90% of your damage.
• Heavy condition pressure (particularly your own - think Plague Signet)