Chronomancer - Power DPS
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Contents
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 .
Skillbar
Variants
The Focus offhand can be replaced with a Greatsword for an alternative build, with similar damage but a different rotation.
- 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 uptime.
- if extra CC is required. Be aware of the long cooldown.
Traits
Variants
- if using the Greatsword variant.
Equipment
Variants
- Only a single mainhand sword is required
- If using the Greatsword variant, use a Greatsword instead of the Focus offhand with and .
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 and timed correctly can effectively allow you to reset your phantasm cooldowns 3 times in short succession. This is achieved by entering during the aftercast of , which will give you refreshed phantasm cooldowns for the duration of your continuum split as well as refreshing the cooldowns outside of continuum split, all while leaving off cooldown once your continuum split ends.
Rotation
Opening burst
Start on Sword/Focus.
Weapon swap
- - enter during the cast of this skill.
- - should end during this cast
- + during cast (shattering helps prevent a bug with )
Weapon swap
- Proceed to Loop rotation
Loop
- Auto attack until is available
Weapon swap
- Auto attack until is available
- Auto attack until is available
Weapon swap
- Repeat from step 1
Second Continuum Split
On the loop before becomes available again, skip steps 10 and 16 and on the next loop:
- - enter during the cast of this skill.
- + during cast (shattering helps prevent a bug with )
- should end during here
- + during cast (shattering helps prevent a bug with )
- 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.
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, but make sure to never use the last charge to avoid having to re-cast the long channel.
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