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

Focused on: Strike damage and Defense

Designed for: Open World, Open World General and [[|]]

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Difficulty:

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This build was last updated on March 13, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Power Chronomancer is a powerful solo build with good boon uptime and great damage. It has access to plentiful utility, including evades and blocks, 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, including permanent quickness with 0 boon duration, thanks to the Illusions trait line.

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Skill Bar

Sword/Sword

X/Focus

Utility

Weapon Variants

You can replace the focus with other weapons:

Greatsword - Strongest ranged option
Shield - allows you to block
Torch - access to stealth
Pistol - higher burst but less utility

Skill Variants

Mirror - projectile hate but massive loss of damage and boons.
Well of Precognition - very strong defensive utility that provides blocks and a stunbreak
Mantra of Resolve - condition cleanse for yourself and nearby allies
Feedback - projectile block
Blink - mobility + stunbreak
Mantra of Concentration - personal stunbreak and AoE stability
Phantasmal Defender - defensive option with some CC
Mantra of Pain - sustained damage when no other utility skill is needed.
Gravity Well - mob packing / cc

Specializations

Deceptive Evasion - more clone generation at a large cost of damage

Danger Time - more damage against slowed enemies, synergises with Time Warp, Well of Action, Time Sink, and Delayed Reactions.
Seize the Moment - group quickness uptime at a cost of personal DPS
Improved Alacrity - strong option in very long fights if you have external Alacrity application

Domination

Domination can be taken over Illusions to increase your burst damage, but this results in a very large DPS loss in longer fights since you lose your source of boons.

Bountiful Blades - for higher clone generation if using greatsword

Inspiration

Inspiration provides higher sustain, but massively reduces your damage, This provides significant condition cleanse and mild passive healing, especially if combined with Deceptive Evasion. This variant should only be taken in extreme circumstances, as Mantra of Resolve typically provides plenty of cleanse.

Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.
This set uses gear similar to that of Build:Chronomancer_-_Power_DPS, making it ideal for general PVE

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Sword
Berserker

Sigil

Focus
Berserker

Sigil

Rune
x6

Variant Equipment

Gear

Marauder - trades some damage for a large boost to HP
Knight - mix in a few pieces for increased defense
If you want to optimise your gear for open world solo play, run full Berserker stats with Rune of Superior Rune of the Eagle, and 2 Assassin accessories. This will provide you wit 62.52% crit chance, and you can then use food with precision to reach 65% crit chance. Your sources of Slow (Delayed Reactions, Time Warp, Time Sink, and Well of Action) will allow Danger Time and Fury to provide you 100% crit chance for the highest damage.

Runes

Rune of Superior Rune of the Pack - extra Fury and Quickness.
Rune of Superior Rune of Strength, Rune of Superior Rune of Infiltration - budget DPS
Rune of Superior Rune of Durability, Rune of Superior Rune of the Herald - defense

Sigils

Sigil of Superior Sigil of Celerity can be considered to help with quickness when fighting trash mobs
Sigil of Superior Sigil of Air - budget DPS sigil
Sigil of Superior Sigil of Fire - Use on a Greatsword to aide in Tagging in zergs
Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - very strong defensive sigil

Consumables

Food

Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
- farming
, - DPS
- defense

Utility

(and variants) - farming
, - dps

Usage

Continuum Split and Time Warp

Continuum Split is the profession mechanic of the Chronomancer Specialization that allows a player 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 and sourcess of quickness.

Generate 3 clones quickly.
Shatter Continuum Split
Use Time Warp
Use your phantasm skills
Use your utility skills such as Well of Action

Thus, when the split ends, the phantasms you used and Time Warp will be off cooldown. In most cases, it is fine to use Time War again as soon as the first one ends. However, in especially long fights, such as the Chak Gerent, it is typically best to only use it inside Continuum Split to artificially reduce its cooldown since Continuum Split has a lower cooldown than Time Warp.

Damage

The majority of your damage comes from casting your phantasms then using Signet of the Ether to reset their cooldown and cast them again. The following is a general priority.

Well of Action
Split Second - use this only at 3 clones, can be followed by a 0 clone Rewinder for a little bit of alacrity (Flow of Time).
Phantasmal Swordsman / Phantasmal Warden / Phantasmal Disenchanter
Blurred Frenzy
Fill with auto-attacks; try not to interrupt them as the last attack, Mind Spike, deals a lot of damage.

Rotation

Opening rotation

Against durable enemies like meta event bosses, try to start the fight with this rotation:

Start on Sword/Focus.

Phantasmal Warden
Mirror Images
Illusionary Leap
Weapon swap
Phantasmal Swordsman - enter Continuum Split near the end of the cast of this skill.
Phantasmal Disenchanter
Time Warp
Signet of the Ether
Phantasmal Swordsman
Phantasmal Disenchanter
Well of Action
Blurred Frenzy - Continuum Split should end during this cast.
Phantasmal Swordsman
Phantasmal Disenchanter
Signet of the Ether
Phantasmal Swordsman
Phantasmal Disenchanter
Well of Action
Weapon swap
Proceed to Loop rotation

Loop rotation

The loop is very simple and revolves aroud your phantasm skills. Fill the gaps with auto attacks but never interrupt the chain as the damage is heavily loaded into Mind Spike.

Phantasmal Warden
Blurred Frenzy
Weapon swap - if you have alacrity you can squish a second Blurry Frenzy before weapon swap
Phantasmal Swordsman
Phantasmal Disenchanter
Phantasmal Swordsman
Signet of the Ether
Phantasmal Swordsman
Weapon swap
Phantasmal Disenchanter
Repeat

Mastering of this skill priority will provide you with permanent quickness, permanent fury, an average of 20 stacks of might, and about 40% of alacrity uptime.
If Slow uptime is low, you can use Time Sink inside your Continuum Split.

Defense

Blurred Frenzy dodges incoming attacks for up to 1 second depending on quickness. Use this to avoid attacks instead of dodging.
Illusionary Riposte is a block.

Sustain

If you're going to take a lot of unavoidable damage, you can Continuum Split before taking damage and then Continuum Shift to rewind your health (effectively healing for the entire amount of the damage). Just make sure the rift left by Continuum Split is not destroyed, or you will not revert back in time.
For more sustain you can trait Inspiration and shatter liberally for heals and condition cleanse.
If you need even more condition cleanse, slot Mantra of Resolve.

Crowd Control

Gravity Well
Time Sink
Illusionary Leap
Illusionary Riposte
You can use any of the above in Continuum Split to get a free cast of the skill without it going on cooldown.

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 ==Overview==
-Power Chronomancer is a powerful solo build that relies on blocks and evade spam. It has access to plentiful utility, placing it in a similar category to Firebrand and Scrapper in terms of solo capabilities. This build has a high skill floor, which can be offputting for some, but investing time into learning it can be very rewarding as its potential is some of the highest in the game.
+Power Chronomancer is a powerful solo build with good boon uptime and great damage. It has access to plentiful utility, including evades and blocks, 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, including permanent quickness with 0 boon duration, thanks to the Illusions trait line.
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 ===Weapon Variants===
+You can replace the focus with other weapons:
 * Greatsword - Strongest ranged option
-* Shield - Offhand that provides a block
+* Shield - allows you to block
-* Torch - use for stealth cheese
+* Torch - access to stealth
+* Pistol - higher burst but less utility
 ===Skill Variants===
-* {{Skill|Mirror}} - projectile hate
+* {{Skill|Mirror}} - projectile hate but massive loss of damage and boons.
-* {{Skill|Well of Precognition}} - very strong defensive utility that provides blocks and a stunbreak; used in many places
+* {{Skill|Well of Precognition}} - very strong defensive utility that provides blocks and a stunbreak
-* {{Skill|Mantra of Resolve}} - condition cleanse
+* {{Skill|Mantra of Resolve}} - condition cleanse for yourself and nearby allies
-* {{Skill|Feedback}} - projectile hate
+* {{Skill|Feedback}} - projectile block
 * {{Skill|Blink}} - mobility + stunbreak
-* {{Skill|Mantra of Concentration}} - lots of stunbreaks
+* {{Skill|Mantra of Concentration}} - personal stunbreak and AoE stability
-* {{Skill|Well of Action}} - slow + quickness, basically a mini {{Skill|Time Warp}}
 * {{Skill|Phantasmal Defender}} - defensive option with some CC
+* {{Skill|Mantra of Pain}} - sustained damage when no other utility skill is needed.
 * {{Skill|Gravity Well}} - mob packing / cc
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 * {{Trait|Deceptive Evasion}} - more clone generation at a large cost of damage
 {{Specialization|Illusions|mid|mid|top}}
-{{Specialization|Chronomancer|mid|mid|bot}}
+{{Specialization|Chronomancer|top|mid|bot}}
-* {{Trait|Delayed Reactions}} + {{Trait|Danger Time}} - run in short fights or larger groups for higher damage
+* {{Trait|Danger Time}} - more damage against slowed enemies, synergises with {{Skill|Time Warp}}, {{Skill|Well of Action}}, {{Skill|Time Sink}}, and {{Trait|Delayed Reactions}}.
-* {{Trait|Seize the Moment}} - Can increase group quickness uptime at a cost of personal DPS
+* {{Trait|Seize the Moment}} - group quickness uptime at a cost of personal DPS
-* {{Trait|Improved Alacrity}} - very strong option if you have external {{Tooltip|Alacrity}} application
+* {{Trait|Improved Alacrity}} - strong option in very long fights if you have external {{Tooltip|Alacrity}} application
 ===Domination===
-If running a greatsword it can be beneficial for clone generation and burst damage to replace Illusions with Domination. This will result in an overall loss in DPS in longer fights, but provides higher burst for short fights and can help with clone generation due to {{Trait|Bountiful Blades}}.
+Domination can be taken over Illusions to increase your burst damage, but this results in a very large DPS loss in longer fights since you lose your source of boons.
 {{Specialization|Domination|mid|mid|top|variant=y}}
-* {{Trait|Bountiful Blades}} - for higher clone generation
+* {{Trait|Bountiful Blades}} - for higher clone generation if using greatsword
 ===Inspiration===
-For higher sustain at a dramatic cost of damage, Inspiration can be taken over Illusions. This provides significant condition cleanse and moderate passive healing, especially if combined with {{Trait|Deceptive Evasion}}. This variant should only be taken in extreme circumstances, as {{Skill|Mantra of Resolve}} typically provides plenty of cleanse.
+Inspiration provides higher sustain, but massively reduces your damage, This provides significant condition cleanse and mild passive healing, especially if combined with {{Trait|Deceptive Evasion}}. This variant should only be taken in extreme circumstances, as {{Skill|Mantra of Resolve}} typically provides plenty of cleanse.
 {{Specialization|Inspiration|bot|mid|mid|variant=y}}
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 * {{Tooltip|Marauder}} - trades some damage for a large boost to HP
 * {{Tooltip|Knight}} - mix in a few pieces for increased defense
+* If you want to optimise your gear for open world solo play, run full {{Tooltip|Berserker stats}} with {{Rune|Superior Rune of the Eagle}}, and 2 {{Tooltip|Assassin}} accessories. This will provide you wit 62.52% crit chance, and you can then use food with precision to reach 65% crit chance. Your sources of {{Tooltip|Slow}} ({{Trait|Delayed Reactions}}, {{Skill|Time Warp}}, {{Skill|Time Sink}}, and {{Skill|Well of Action}}) will allow {{Trait|Danger Time}} and {{Tooltip|Fury}} to provide you 100% crit chance for the highest damage.
 ====Runes====
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 ====Sigils====
-* {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Celerity}} - use with a Shield to generate significant {{Tooltip|Quickness}} for yourself
+* {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Celerity}} can be considered to help with quickness when fighting trash mobs
 * {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Air}} - budget DPS sigil
-* {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Fire}} - Use on a Greatsword to aide in Tagging in zergs.
+* {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Fire}} - Use on a Greatsword to aide in Tagging in zergs
 * {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Energy}} - very strong defensive sigil
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 ==Usage==
 ===Continuum Split and Time Warp===
-{{Skill|Continuum Split}} is an especially powerful skill unique to the Chronomancer Specialization that allows a player to "rewind" time. Specifically, it marks a point in time that tracks a player's health, endurance, and skill recharges. As this is a Shatter, it will consume active clones. The duration of Continuum Split increases with each clone shattered.
+{{Skill|Continuum Split}} is the profession mechanic of the Chronomancer Specialization that allows a player 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.
-When solo, this skill should typically be used to artificially reduce the cooldown of {{Skill|Time Warp}}. To do this:
+This extremely powerful skill is used to spam your phantasms and sourcess of quickness.
 # Generate 3 clones quickly.
 # Shatter {{Skill|Continuum Split}}
-# Use big skills, like {{Skill|Well of Action}}, {{Skill|Split Second}}, {{Skill|Blurred Frenzy}}, and {{Skill|Phantasmal Swordsman}}. Be careful; ensure there is enough time left to cast Time Warp.
+# Use {{Skill|Time Warp}}
-# Use {{Skill|Time Warp}} just before {{Skill|Continuum Split}} reverts.
+# Use your phantasm skills
+# Use your utility skills such as {{Skill|Well of Action}}
-This will revert Time Warp's cooldown and allow it to be used again immediately. In most cases, it is fine to use it again as soon as the first one ends. However, in especially long fights, such as the Chak Gerent, it is typically best to hold onto the cooldown until {{Skill|Continuum Split}} is back up.
+Thus, when the split ends, the phantasms you used and Time Warp will be off cooldown. In most cases, it is fine to use Time War again as soon as the first one ends. However, in especially long fights, such as the Chak Gerent, it is typically best to only use it inside {{Skill|Continuum Split}} to artificially reduce its cooldown since Continuum Split has a lower cooldown than Time Warp.
 ===Damage===
-The skill priority is fluid and depends on current clone numbers. If lacking clones, clone generation is more important than damage in general.
+The majority of your damage comes from casting your phantasms then using Signet of the Ether to reset their cooldown and cast them again. The following is a general priority.
 # {{Skill|Well of Action}}
-# {{Skill|Split Second}} - use this only at 3 clones
+# {{Skill|Split Second}} - use this only at 3 clones, can be followed by a 0 clone {{Skill|Rewinder}} for a little bit of alacrity ({{Trait|Flow of Time}}).
-# {{Skill|Rewinder}} - use directly after {{Skill|Split Second}}
+# {{Skill|Phantasmal Swordsman}} / {{Skill|Phantasmal Warden}} / {{Skill|Phantasmal Disenchanter}}
-# {{Skill|Phantasmal Swordsman}} / {{Skill|Phantasmal Warden}}
 # {{Skill|Blurred Frenzy}}
-# Fill with auto-attacks; try not to interrupt them.
+# Fill with auto-attacks; try not to interrupt them as the last attack, {{Skill|Mind Spike}}, deals a lot of damage.
+==== Rotation ====
+=====Opening rotation=====
+Against durable enemies like meta event bosses, try to start the fight with this rotation:
+Start on Sword/Focus.
+# {{Skill|Phantasmal Warden}}
+# {{Skill|Mirror Images}}
+# {{Skill|Illusionary Leap}}
+# {{Tooltip|Weapon swap}}
+# {{Skill|Phantasmal Swordsman}} - enter {{Skill|Continuum Split}} near the end of the cast of this skill.
+# {{Skill|Phantasmal Disenchanter}}
+# {{Skill|Time Warp}}
+# {{Skill|Signet of the Ether}}
+# {{Skill|Phantasmal Swordsman}}
+# {{Skill|Phantasmal Disenchanter}}
+# {{Skill|Well of Action}}
+# {{Skill|Blurred Frenzy}} - {{Skill|Continuum Split}} should end during this cast.
+# {{Skill|Phantasmal Swordsman}}
+# {{Skill|Phantasmal Disenchanter}}
+# {{Skill|Signet of the Ether}}
+# {{Skill|Phantasmal Swordsman}}
+# {{Skill|Phantasmal Disenchanter}}
+# {{Skill|Well of Action}}
+# {{Tooltip|Weapon swap}}
+# Proceed to Loop rotation
+=====Loop rotation=====
+The loop is very simple and revolves aroud your phantasm skills. Fill the gaps with auto attacks but never interrupt the chain as the damage is heavily loaded into {{Skill|Mind Spike}}.
+# {{Skill|Phantasmal Warden}}
+# {{Skill|Blurred Frenzy}}
+# {{Tooltip|Weapon swap}} - if you have alacrity you can squish a second Blurry Frenzy before weapon swap
+# {{Skill|Phantasmal Swordsman}}
+# {{Skill|Phantasmal Disenchanter}}
+# {{Skill|Phantasmal Swordsman}}
+# {{Skill|Signet of the Ether}}
+# {{Skill|Phantasmal Swordsman}}
+# {{Tooltip|Weapon swap}}
+# {{Skill|Phantasmal Disenchanter}}
+# Repeat
-====Celerity Sigil====
+* Mastering of this skill priority will provide you with permanent quickness, permanent fury, an average of 20 stacks of might, and about 40% of alacrity uptime.
-This sigil provides significant quickness uptime but has a 20 second cooldown. As such, it is important to reserve certain skills to proc it when available.
+* If Slow uptime is low, you can use {{Skill|Time Sink}} inside your Continuum Split.
-* {{Skill|Time Sink}} is a daze with a long cooldown; this can be shattered at 0 clones
-* {{Skill|Temporal Curtain}} {{to}} {{Skill|Into the Void}} provides area CC and will proc Celerity
-* {{Skill|Counter Blade}} dazes provided a block is triggered
-* {{Skill|Illusionary Wave}} if using greatsword
-* {{Skill|Magic Bullet}} if using pistol; due to alacrity generation this skill can proc Celerity on its own off cooldown.
-* {{Skill|Tides of Time}} if using shield; this skill also grants some quickness itself, though its cooldown is very long so it must be paired with {{Skill|Time Sink}} or {{Skill|Counter Blade}}.
-* There are many utilities which can proc Celerity off cooldown, though losing any of the utilities above will result in a net loss of DPS.
 ===Defense===
-* {{Skill|Blurred Frenzy}} provides total invulnerability for up to 1 second depending on quickness. Use this to avoid attacks instead of dodging.
+* {{Skill|Blurred Frenzy}} dodges incoming attacks for up to 1 second depending on quickness. Use this to avoid attacks instead of dodging.
 * {{Skill|Illusionary Riposte}} is a block.
 ===Sustain===
-* If you're going to take a lot of unavoidable damage, you can {{Skill|Continuum Split}} before taking damage and then {{Skill|Continuum Shift}} to rewind your health (effectively healing for the entire amount of the damage).
+* If you're going to take a lot of unavoidable damage, you can {{Skill|Continuum Split}} before taking damage and then {{Skill|Continuum Shift}} to rewind your health (effectively healing for the entire amount of the damage). Just make sure the rift left by Continuum Split is not destroyed, or you will not revert back in time.
 * For more sustain you can trait Inspiration and shatter liberally for heals and condition cleanse.
 * If you need even more condition cleanse, slot {{Skill|Mantra of Resolve}}.

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