Chronomancer - Power DPS

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

Focused on: Direct Damage.

Designed for:

Fractals

 

Raid

Overview

A power DPS Chronomancer build for raids and fractals. 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.

Skillbar

Sword/SwordHealingUtilityElite

X/Focus

Variants

• Well of Calamity instead of Mantra of Pain if extra cleave damage is needed to kill adds.
• Signet of Humility if extra CC is required.
• Signet of Inspiration instead of Mantra of Pain if extra boon uptime is needed.

Traits

Dueling:

Phantasmal Fury Fencer's Finesse 24px Superiority Complex

Illusions:

Shatter Storm Maim the Disillusioned Phantasmal Force

Chronomancer:

Time Catches Up Improved Alacrity Chronophantasma

Variants

• Phantasmal Haste if Quickness uptime is bad.
• Danger Time if and only if your squad can have a permanent uptime on Slow. If you're using Danger Time, you'll want to follow a different rotation and use a new set of gear which will be explained later in the guide.

Domination Variant

Domination instead of Illusions is a viable alternative, resulting in higher sustained DPS but overall worse burst.

Domination:

Empowered Illusions Egotism Imagined Burden

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Scholar

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Mighty +5 Agony Infusion

Variants

• Only a single mainhand sword is required
• If using the Domination variant, use a Greatsword instead of the Focus offhand with
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• If playing a Danger Time version, you should use full Berserker gear, except for Assassin's leggings and earrings.

Consumables

Food

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 Blurred Frenzy. In order to do this you can make clever use of Signet of the Ether and Continuum Split, 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 Continuum Split during the aftercast of Signet of the Ether, 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 Signet of the Ether off cooldown once your continuum split ends.

Start on Sword/Focus.

1. Phantasmal Warden
2. Weapon swap
3. Phantasmal Swordsman
4. Phantasmal Disenchanter
5. Phantasmal Defender
6. Illusionary Leap
7. Signet of the Ether - enter Continuum Split during the aftercast of this skill, which will give you the refreshed phantasm cooldowns outside of continuum split
8. Phantasmal Swordsman
9. Phantasmal Disenchanter
10. Phantasmal Defender
11. Blurred Frenzy - Continuum Split should end during this cast
12. Phantasmal Swordsman
13. Phantasmal Disenchanter
14. Phantasmal Defender
15. Signet of the Ether
16. Phantasmal Swordsman
17. Weapon swap
18. Phantasmal Disenchanter
19. Phantasmal Warden
20. Phantasmal Defender
21. Blurred Frenzy
22. Gravity Well
23. Blurred Frenzy
24. Weapon swap
25. Phantasmal Swordsman
26. Phantasmal Disenchanter
27. Blurred Frenzy
28. Phantasmal Swordsman
29. Repeat from step 15 unless Continuum Split is recharged
30. If Continuum Split is recharged, repeat from step 6

Video Example

Variants

• Illusions Danger Time - Much higher damage output, but only if your target has 100% slow uptime
• Domination Improved Alacrity - Better sustained damage, but lower burst and self-quickness generation)
• Domination Danger Time - Much higher damage output, but only if your target has 100% slow uptime

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, Mind Spike.
• Use Mind Wrack whenever you have 3 clones up or if it reaches its second charge.
• Save clones to shatter with Diversion if you will need to CC in the immediate future.
• You can use
  Temporal Curtain

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  Temporal Curtain

  Create a wall of energy that grants swiftness to allies who cross it and cripples foes who touch it. Allies may cross the wall more than once but receive less swiftness after the first crossing.

  Initial Swiftness (12s): 33% Movement Speed

  Swiftness (1s): 33% Movement Speed

  Crippled (5s): -50% Movement Speed

  Duration: 5 seconds

  Combo Field: Light

  Range: 900
    
  Into the Void

  Into the Void

  Shatter your Temporal Curtain, pulling nearby enemies toward its position.

  Number of Targets: 5

  Radius: 600
  to pull adds onto the boss if needed.
• Mantra of Pain 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.

Thanks to Strider and Aerial for the gear setups and rotations