Chronomancer - Power Chrono
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Focused on: Strike damage and Defense
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Expansions required: 
Overview
Power Chronomancer is a powerful solo build with great boon uptime and damage. It has access to plentiful utility, including invulnerability, blocks and teleports, making it a great solo build. This build has a high skill floor, which can be off-putting for some, but investing time into learning it can be very rewarding as its potential is some of the highest in the game.
This build revolves around spamming Phantasm skills to both do damage and gain boons. Namely, permanent 
Fury, 
Quickness, and 25~ 
Might, with 0 boon duration, thanks to the Illusions trait line.
Additionally, this build can sacrifice some of its damage to provide its party with permanent Quickness from or permanent 
Alacrity from by making little changes.
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Weapon Variants
- If you don't have access to dagger from End of Dragon's virtuoso with Weaponmaster Training from Secrets of the Obscure, use mainhand
sword instead. - If you don't have access to land spear with Janthir Wilds, use focus or greatsword.
Alternative weapons:
Greatsword - range and tagging potential with about the same damage as focus.
Focus - extremely helpful pull with and the phantasm blocks projectiles.
Shield - low damage but great CC and allows you to block, twice if you do block at least one attack.
Rifle - good damage and vulnerability for starting fights, but terrible sustained damage.
Skill Variants
Heal skill
is an integral part of this build and you shouldn't replace it.
- - in extremely rare situations where you'd like to trade damage for extra healing or condition cleanse, use Ether Feast.
Utility skill
is a good source of damage and boons. Never replace it.
is a generic stunbreak and movement skill, can be replaced if needed.
good AoE damage, can be replaced if needed.
- - extra damage with no cast time.
- - very strong defensive utility that provides
Aegis per pulse, 
Stability on cast and first pulse, and stunbreaks on cast. - - more Might and Fury for yourself and allies, good option for groups.
- - condition cleanse for yourself and nearby allies.
- - projectile reflection.
- - personal stunbreak and AoE stability.
- - utility for teleporting to previous places.
Elite skill
provides good damage and great CC, you will almost never replace it.
- - slightly less cc than Gravity Well but it happens immediately if you need to break a defiance bar really fast.
Specializations
Variants
- - extremely minor dps loss (Time Catches Up only affects the first hit of Split Second, so it's actually a 5% increase) and your clones will take longer to reach their target to shatter without
Superspeed, but the 
Slow of Delayed Reactions can help a lot with breaking defiance bars.
Domination
Domination can be taken over Illusions if you are playing in a group providing you permanent Quickness and Might.
- - if using greatsword.
Boon support
When playing in groups, you can drop and take the trait to provide yourself and nearby allies with Quickness. If the group already has quickness, you can instead provide Alacrity through . Quickness always takes priority over alacrity.
When doing this, make the following changes.
- Replace the
Illusions traitline with 
Domination. - Use a greatsword or
Spear. On the other weapon set either use dagger-sword for damage, or dagger-focus for the pull of . - Change your utility skills to , , and .
Feel free to change Mantra of Pain to whatever other skill you might need, like a stun break.
- if using greatsword instead of spear.
- to provide Quickness.
- to provide Alacrity.
- You can use any of the three adept traits: for minor healing since you run 3 wells anyway, or for a little bit more CC, or for an extremely minimal damage gain.
Do not play these boon support builds when soloing, the strength of these boon support builds comes from providing your party with either quickness or alacrity. However, when playing solo, you already have permanent self-quickness from the Illusions traitline, and giving only yourself alacrity is never worth losing the extremely strong .
Equipment
This build uses the same gear as Build:Chronomancer_-_Power_DPS for raids for ease of gearing. Infusions are completely optional.
Berserker
Assassin
Berserker
Assassin
Assassin
Assassin
Assassin
Assassin
Berserker
Assassin
Assassin
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
x6
x18
- If you don't have access to Weaponmaster Training with the Secrets of the Obscure expansion, use sword instead of dagger.
- If you don't have access to land spear with Janthir Wilds, use focus or greatsword.
- This set provides 100% critical chance with Fury and food. Or 96.71% without food.
- As for the boon variants, you don't need any boon duration. With 0% boon duration, you provide about 140% uptime of quickness/alacrity.
- You can use to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain, to start combat with boons, or for a little extra defense.
- For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Use defensive food, traits, or skills if required. If necessary, use
Knight trinkets.
Consumables
Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
DPS
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
- /
- /
Defense
Farming
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
- /
- (and variants)
Usage
Continuum Split
is the profession mechanic of the chronomancer specialization that allows them to "rewind" time. Specifically, it tracks the chronomancer's position, health, endurance, and skill recharges, and returns the chronomancer to that point at the end of the split. As this is a Shatter, it will consume active clones, with the duration of the split increasing with each clone shattered.
This extremely powerful skill is used to spam your Phantasms four times in a row.
- Generate 2 or 3 clones.
- Cast your phantasm skills while entering Continuum Split.
- Reset your Phantasm skills with .
- Cast your Phantasm skills again.
- Continuum Split ends.
- Cast your Phantasm skills.
- Reset your Phantasm skills with Signet of the Ether
- Cast your Phantasm skills again.
Use your elite skill inside Continuum Split. Due to its low cooldown, you can use it again after the Split and it will be ready for the next Split, or you can save it for CC.
Dagger/Sword
On dagger/sword you want to spam all your skills except which should be saved for blocking.
If using sword instead of dagger, deals no damage and should only be used if you're missing a third clone before shattering.
Spear
On spear, try to always hit your target with the outer edge of to deal more damage, if you hit with both the outer and inner halves it will count as an outer edge hit, so it's easy to always deal empowered damage. Hitting with gives you "Clarity", which empowers your next spear skill. You want to always cast empowered by Clarity. should be saved for an extra dodge or to cleanse conditions.
If using greatsword instead of spear, use all skills but save for defiance bars.
Damage
DPS variant
The majority of your damage comes from casting your phantasms then using to reset their cooldowns and cast them again. In open world, it is generally better to reset for more boons since it spawns 2 phantasms when empowered.
Try to always hit your target with the outer edge of to deal more damage, and always cast empowered by Clarity. When you swap to dagger, is the first skill you want to cast, and you will cast it a second time before going back to spear. Use off cooldown when every other important skill is on cooldown. You can use for damage once every important skill is on cooldown, or you can save it in case you will need the crowd control.
- Opener
To get the most out of , try to follow this opening when fighting durable enemies like meta event bosses. You want to enter Continuum Split during the aftercast of , before it goes on cooldown but has already reset . The timing for this is tight, but it is worth practicing it.
weapon swap- and during the aftercast.
- and .
- weapon swap
- Try to always hit your target with the outer edge of to deal more damage.
- The idea is to use three times in the spear loop.
- Each sword loop starts and ends with .
- and should be cast off cooldown.
- has the lowest priority and is used in both sets once.
- You will generate so many phantasms that you can fit a 3-clone during the spear loop while spamming 3-clone off cooldown.
- Mastery of this skill priority will provide you with permanent Quickness, permanent Fury, an average of 25 stacks of Might, and about 45% of Alacrity uptime (alacrity comes from ).
Boon variant
Since the boon variant build has to sacrifice , Phantasms become significantly weaker. For this reason, the opening instead focuses on wells.
- weapon swap
- and during the aftercast.
- and .
- weapon swap
- Try to always hit your target with the outer edge of to deal more damage.
- The idea is to use three times in the spear loop.
- Each sword loop starts and ends with .
- Cast your wells off cooldown.
- and should be cast off cooldown.
- has the lowest priority and is used in both sets once.
- You will generate so many phantasms that you can fit a 3-clone during the spear loop while spamming 3-clone off cooldown.
Defense
- Never stop moving, get out of enemy attacks or dodge them.
- Clones and phantasms will tank some hits for you.
- is an extra dodge, heals and cleanses conditions.
- When using sword, dodges incoming attacks for 1 second. Use this to avoid attacks instead of dodging.
- is a block plus evade.
- If you need condition cleanse, slot .
- makes you immune to damage.
Crowd Control
- -
knockdown, 
float and 
pull. - ⇒ -
daze. - - daze.
- -
Stun if used with Clarity. - You can use any of the above in to potentially cast them twice.
Video examples
Phantasmal Defender is completely unnecessary, I just wanted to do a 6-phantasms-Contiuum-Split. Thanks to our blocks, evades, and Distortion, we should be pretty safe from this boss. Should have saved the second Gravity Well to break the boss' defiance bar instead of using it for dps.
Feedback makes the two archers shoot themselves to death, and the boss too. When the boss switches to daggers, I stand back and let my illusions tank his deadly combo. If you get hit, like I did, use Distortion to survive it.
Used an Adrenaline Mushroom to reset my cooldowns. The Avatar hits like a truck so I used Well of Precognition to block some hits. This fight is really a race to see who bursts who first. Breaking his defiance bar close to 50% stops the oneshot attack he tries to do.
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