Chronomancer - Power DPS

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Raids

Overview

A power DPS Chronomancer build for raids. This build deals very high burst and sustained damage against single targets. In addition it has very good CC, utility, and personal defense, and is capable of generating its own Might, Fury, Quickness, and Alacrity.

Be aware that this build requires high uptime of Slow on your target - you can ask a Support Chronomancer to bring the trait if uptime is low, and/or you can take and use it during your .

Skill Bar

Sword/Sword

Sword/Focus

Utility

Weapon Variants

The Focus offhand can be replaced with a Greatsword for an alternative build, with similar damage but a different rotation.

Skill Variants

• instead of if playing the Greatsword variant.
• instead of if your target has more boons than can be removed.
• instead of if extra boon uptime is needed.
• instead of for better Slow (and Quickness) uptime.
• if extra CC is required. Be aware of the long cooldown.

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Specializations

Specialization Variants

• if using the Greatsword variant.
• on encounters where Slow uptime is too low (~30% or less).

Equipment

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Assassin

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Assassin

Accessory
Assassin

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Sword
Berserker

Sword
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Focus
Berserker

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Equipment Variants

• Only a single mainhand sword is required
• If using the Greatsword variant, use a Greatsword instead of the Focus offhand with and .
• If running with , swap runes to . You will undercap crit chance by 15 precision, so you could also swap an armour piece to Assassin stats to make up the difference.

Consumables

Food

• if you don't have a ranger giving you

Utility

Usage

The goal of the rotation is to get as many casts of your phantasm summons as possible, filling downtime with autoattack chains and . In order to do this you can make clever use of and , which when used together can effectively allow you to reset your phantasm cooldowns 3 times in short succession. This is achieved by casting during , which will give you refreshed phantasm cooldowns for the duration of your continuum split, and leaving off cooldown once your continuum split ends.

Opening burst

Start on Sword/Focus.

3. Weapon swap
4. - enter during the cast of this skill.
9. x2
11. - should end during this cast
18. Weapon swap
19. Proceed to Loop rotation

Loop

3. Auto attack until is available
5. Weapon swap
7. Auto attack until is available
11. Auto attack until is available
15. Weapon swap
17. Repeat from step 1

Second Continuum Split

On the loop before becomes available again, skip steps 10 and 16 and on the next loop:

2. - enter during the cast of this skill.
6. + during cast (shattering helps prevent a bug with )
7. should end during here
11. + during cast (shattering helps prevent a bug with )
12. When Weapon swap is available, resume the loop from step 5 - you may need to wait on sword slightly longer for to come off cooldown.

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Variants

• Greatsword - Lower DPS, but stronger in encounters with lots of adds as targets nearby enemies at random.

Notes

• Fill gaps in between skills listed in the rotation with auto-attack chains.
• Make sure not to interrupt your autoattack chain as the damage from it is heavily loaded into the final strike, .
• Use whenever you have 3 clones up. If you have 3 clones up and is on cooldown, you can shatter them with instead.
• Save clones to shatter with if you will need to CC in the immediate future.
• You can use → to pull adds onto the boss if needed.
• should be cast as soon as there is a charge available.