Chronomancer - Domination Chronomancer

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Focused on: Crowd control, Boon removal and Utility

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

Overview

Support Chronomancer WvW build focusing on revival, utility and crowd control.

Skill Bar

Sword/Focus

X/Shield

Utility

Variants

Weapon

• Sword/Shield ⇒ Staff more Chaos Aura
• Sword/Shield ⇒ Greatsword more phantasms for Quickness or Alacrity

Heal

• Well of Eternity
• Mantra of Recovery
  efficient for proccing "on heal" effects

Utility

• Mantra of Concentration
  if veil isn't needed or you have a party without a guardian

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Specializations

Variants

• Bountiful Blades
  with Greatsword

Variants

• Seize the Moment
  trade Alacrity for Quickness, worth taking if quickness uptime is low in party

Equipment

Head
Minstrel

Shoulders
Minstrel

Chest
Minstrel

Hands
Minstrel

Legs
Minstrel

Feet
Minstrel

Backpiece
Minstrel

Accessory
Minstrel

Accessory
Minstrel

Amulet
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Sword
Minstrel

Focus
Minstrel

Sigil

Sigil

Sword
Minstrel

Shield
Minstrel

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Equipment Variants

Stats

• Minstrel can be replaced by Wanderer or Celestial

Relic

• Relic of Cerus
  - for extra boon removal

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Energy
  ⇒
  Superior Sigil of Concentration
  • Swapping the energy sigil on Sword/Shield out lets you keep 100% duration on both sets

Consumables

• Plate of Peppercorn-Spiced Poultry Aspic
  • Any 100 concentration personal food is viable, since most commanders won't drop this feast
• Magnanimous Maintenance Oil
  • Sharpening Skull

Usage

General

• If using
  Mantra of Concentration
  make sure to recharge as often as possible since the skill recharge is much lower than the count recharge

Priorities

High

• Illusion of Life
• Veil

Moderate

• CC
• Boon rip

Low

• Supporting allies

Surviving

• This build has high passive defense
• This build has low mobility skill access, staying very close to your tag and group is critical
  • Target isolated players to reposition with
    Illusionary Leap
    /
    Swap
    , the clone will die before
    Swap
    can be used if it is summoned into damage
    • Be ready to Dodge as soon as you press
      Swap
• This build has moderate active defenses
  • Deja Vu
    will not activate if you are not hit during the cast time of
    Echo of Memory
    • Signet of the Ether
      will reset the cooldown of
      Echo of Memory
      but not if
      Deja Vu
      is active

Active defense priority

• Dodge
• Echo of Memory
  • Deja Vu
• Distortion

Detailed Explanations

Illusion of Life

• Focus on reviving allies who are far away with
  Illusion of Life
  , don't waste the skill on players that can be hand rezzed.
• Normally
  Continuum Split
  should be saved for
  Gravity Well
  , but resetting
  Illusion of Life
  is also an acceptable use

Veil

• Save your
  Veil
  for the commanders call
  • If you aren't using voice communication, use it as your group pushes into melee, avoid wasting it for a range spike
• Place your
  Veil
  as close to the front of your group as possible without letting the line spawn on top of any allies

CC

• Use your CC when:
  • Your group calls a spike:
    • Winds -
      Winds of Disenchantment
    • Wells -
      Well of Corruption
      +
      Well of Suffering
    • Shades -
      Desert Shroud
    • Traps -
      Procession of Blades
      +
      Test of Faith
  • On top of enemy downs (while alive players are on top of them)
  • Enemy groups moving defensively while your group is pushing
• Your CC skills also remove boons with
  Vicious Expression
• Use
  Continuum Split
  when casting
  Gravity Well
  to reset the cooldown
  • Use
    Continuum Split
    while out of the way of enemy damage and pushes so you aren't brought back in an awkward spot or have your split ended early by damage
  • While inside the split, use as many skills as possible such as
    Null Field
    and Shatter skills as the cooldowns reset
  • You can cast
    Continuum Split
    as another skill cast is finishing instead of before the cast to give yourself slightly more time in split
• Use
  Temporal Curtain
  to pull targets into other CC and spikes, including your own
  Gravity Well
  • Temporal Curtain
    is particularly important when revenants range spike with
    Phase Smash
• Use
  Illusionary Leap
  as your group pushes into the enemy or when trying to catch an enemy that is lagging behind
  • Do not put yourself out of position trying to use it

CC skill priority

• Temporal Curtain
  - on range spikes
• Tides of Time
  - in melee
• Gravity Well
• Temporal Curtain
  - general usage
• Illusionary Leap

Boon rip

• Your shatters (
  Split Second
  ,
  Rewinder
  and
  Time Sink
  ) proc
  Shattered Concentration
  • Since your shatters are melee range, use them when crossing through enemies
    • Don't go out of your way to hit enemies with shatters if it would put you out of position
• Land
  Null Field
  just before an allies spike when possible. Try to place it so one edge is on the enemy group and the other edge is in the direction they are moving

Boon rip skill priority

• Time Sink
  - when in range and targets lack Stability, to proc
  Vicious Expression
• Split Second
  /
  Rewinder
  - when in range
• Null Field

Supporting allies

• Make sure to cast your Phantasms as often as possible to proc
  Stretched Time
  • Be careful using
    Echo of Memory
    since it is valuable defensively
  • Use
    Signet of the Ether
    to reset your Phantasms cooldowns for more application
• If possible, hit allies as well as enemies with
  Null Field
  , but prioritize enemies

Settings

• Under General Options / Combat/Movement turn on Allow Skill Retargetting and set Ground Targetting to Instant Cast, this will make
  Illusion of Life
  cast at the location your cursor is at the end of the cast, instead of where you initially targetted
• Under General Options / User Interface check Always show squad health bars and Always show party health bars. These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support
• Also under General Options / User Interface turn on Thick party health bars and Thick squad health bars
• Under Squad Options check View as a grid. This will allow you to keep track of your allies' health, enabling better decision-making and skill management

Tips & Tricks

Wall Pulling

• Place
  Temporal Curtain
  at the lowest point of a wall that is horizontally in line with the top edge (But not further than 600 range on desert BL walls)
  • Since
    Into the Void
    activates in a radius, this will not reduce the range of your pull but will hide its position and increase the chance of pulling people off walls
• Use
  Illusionary Leap
  ⇒
  Swap
  to give Immobilize to pulled targets
  • It is easier if you pre target enemies likely to get pulled before casting
    Into the Void

Portal Bombing

• Portal bombing is a very high risk strategy and is never recommended
• Try to open
  Portal Exeunt
  behind terrain with respect to the enemy group if possible
• Swap your skills to
  Blink
  Portal Entre
  and
  Veil
  and
  Mass Invisibility
• Equip a torch for
  The Prestige
  • Optionally equip the Chaos traitline for
    Prismatic Understanding

1. Cast
   Portal Entre
   at your groups feet
2. Start running towards the location you want to open the portal
3. Use
   The Prestige
   while casting
   Mass Invisibility
4. Cast
   Blink
   at any time to get closer
5. Once in position open
   Portal Exeunt
6. Cast
   Veil
   directly on the center of the portal