Build:Chronomancer - Power Chrono

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 [[|]]

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on February 19, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

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.

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Skill Bar

Sword/Sword

X/Focus

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Greatsword - Strongest ranged option
• Shield - Offhand that provides a block
• Torch - use for stealth cheese

Skill Variants

• Mirror - projectile hate
• Well of Precognition - very strong defensive utility that provides blocks and a stunbreak; used in many places
• Mantra of Resolve - condition cleanse
• Feedback - projectile hate
• Blink - mobility + stunbreak
• Mantra of Concentration - lots of stunbreaks
• Well of Action - slow + quickness, basically a mini Time Warp
• Phantasmal Defender - defensive option with some CC
• Gravity Well - mob packing / cc

Specializations

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

• Delayed Reactions + Danger Time - run in short fights or larger groups for higher damage
• Seize the Moment - Can increase group quickness uptime at a cost of personal DPS
• Improved Alacrity - very strong option if you have external 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 Bountiful Blades.

• Bountiful Blades - for higher clone generation

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 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

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Sword
Berserker

Sword
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Focus
Berserker

Sigil

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

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 - use with a Shield to generate significant Quickness for yourself
• 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 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.

When solo, this skill should typically be used to artificially reduce the cooldown of Time Warp. To do this:

1. Generate 3 clones quickly.
2. Shatter Continuum Split
3. Use big skills, like Well of Action, Split Second, Blurred Frenzy, and Phantasmal Swordsman. Be careful; ensure there is enough time left to cast Time Warp.
4. Use Time Warp just before Continuum Split reverts.

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 Continuum Split is back up.

Damage

The skill priority is fluid and depends on current clone numbers. If lacking clones, clone generation is more important than damage in general.

1. Well of Action
2. Split Second - use this only at 3 clones
3. Rewinder - use directly after Split Second
4. Phantasmal Swordsman / Phantasmal Warden
5. Blurred Frenzy
6. Fill with auto-attacks; try not to interrupt them.

Celerity Sigil

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.

• Time Sink is a daze with a long cooldown; this can be shattered at 0 clones
• Temporal Curtain ⇒ Into the Void provides area CC and will proc Celerity
• Counter Blade dazes provided a block is triggered
• Illusionary Wave if using greatsword
• Magic Bullet if using pistol; due to alacrity generation this skill can proc Celerity on its own off cooldown.
• 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 Time Sink or 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

• Blurred Frenzy provides total invulnerability 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).
• 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.