Build:Chronomancer - Support Chronomancer (GvG)

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Focused on: Crowd control, Boon removal and Utility

Designed for: WvW GvG

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

Overview

Support Chronomancer WvW build focusing on revival, utility and crowd control.

Skill Bar

Sword/Focus

X/Shield

Utility

Utility Variants

• Veil
• Mantra of Concentration

Template Code

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Specializations

Variants

• Stretched Time
  - swap if Alacrity would be more valuable than Quickness

Equipment

Head
Minstrel

Shoulders
Minstrel

Chest
Minstrel

Hands
Minstrel

Legs
Minstrel

Feet
Minstrel

Backpiece
Minstrel

Accessory
Minstrel

Accessory
Minstrel

Amulet
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Sword
Minstrel

Focus
Minstrel

Sigil

Sigil

Sword
Minstrel

Shield
Minstrel

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Equipment Variants

• Minstrel can be replaced by Wanderer or Celestial
  • Your equipment in general has minimal impact on this builds performance, but concentration is helpful for Alacrity uptime
• Superior Sigil of Energy
  to
  Superior Sigil of Nullification
  for slightly more boon rip at the cost of survivability

Consumables

• Bowl of Fruit Salad with Mint Garnish
• Sharpening Skull

Usage

Priorities

High

• Illusion of Life

Moderate

• CC
• Boon rip

Low

• Supporting allies

Surviving

• This build has high passive defense
• This build has low mobility skill access, staying very close to your tag and group is critical
  • Target isolated players to reposition with
    Illusionary Leap
    /
    Swap
    , the clone will die before
    Swap
    can be used if it is summoned into damage
    • Be ready to Dodge as soon as you press
      Swap
• This builds has moderate active defenses
  • Deja Vu
    will not activate if you are not hit during the cast time of
    Echo of Memory
    • Signet of the Ether
      will reset the cooldown of
      Echo of Memory
      but not if
      Deja Vu
      is active

Active defense priority

• Dodge
• Echo of Memory
  • Deja Vu

Detailed Explanations

Illusion of Life

• Focus on reviving allies who are far away with
  Illusion of Life
  , don't waste the skill on players that can be hand rezzed.
• Normally
  Continuum Split
  should be saved for
  Gravity Well
  , but resetting
  Illusion of Life
  is also an acceptable use

CC

• Use your CC when:
  • Your group calls a spike:
    • Winds -
      Winds of Disenchantment
    • Wells -
      Well of Corruption
      +
      Well of Suffering
    • Shades -
      Desert Shroud
    • Traps -
      Procession of Blades
      +
      Test of Faith
  • On top of enemy downs (while alive players are on top of them)
  • Enemy groups moving defensively while your group is pushing
• Your CC skills also remove boons with
  Superior Sigil of Absorption
  and
  Vicious Expression
• Use
  Continuum Split
  when casting
  Gravity Well
  to reset the cooldown
  • Use
    Continuum Split
    while out of the way of enemy damage and pushes so you aren't brought back in an awkward spot or have your split ended early by damage
  • While inside the split, use as many skills as possible such as
    Null Field
    and Shatter skills as the cooldowns reset
  • You can cast
    Continuum Split
    as another skill cast is finishing instead of before the cast to give yourself slightly more time in split
• Use
  Temporal Curtain
  to pull targets into other CC and spikes, including your own
  Gravity Well
  • Temporal Curtain
    is particularly important when revenants range spike with
    Phase Smash
• Use
  Illusionary Leap
  as your group pushes into the enemy or when trying to catch an enemy that is lagging behind
  • Do not put yourself out of position trying to use it

CC skill priority

• Temporal Curtain
  - on range spikes
• Tides of Time
  - in melee
• Gravity Well
• Temporal Curtain
  - general usage
• Illusionary Leap

Boon rip

• Your shatters (
  Split Second
  ,
  Rewinder
  and
  Time Sink
  ) proc
  Shattered Concentration
  • Since your shatters are melee range, use them when crossing through enemies
    • Don't go out of your way to hit enemies with shatters if it would put you out of position
  • While proccing
    Vicious Expression
    with
    Time Sink
    is valuable, using it on targets with Stability to proc
    Shattered Concentration
    is still ok
• Land
  Null Field
  just before an allies spike when possible. Try to place it so one edge is on the enemy group and the other edge is in the direction they are moving

Boon rip skill priority

• Time Sink
  - when in range and targets lack Stability, to proc
  Vicious Expression
• Split Second
  /
  Rewinder
  - when in range
• Null Field

Supporting allies

• Cast
  Well of Eternity
  where your group will be when it finishes ticking
  • With
    Stretched Time
    instead aim the well directly onto allies
• If possible, hit allies as well as enemies with
  Null Field
  , but prioritize enemies

Settings

• Under General Options / Combat/Movement turn on Allow Skill Retargetting and set Ground Targetting to Instant Cast, this will make
  Illusion of Life
  cast at the location your cursor is at the end of the cast, instead of where you initially targetted
• Under General Options / User Interface check Always show squad health bars and Always show party health bars. These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support
• Also under General Options / User Interface turn on Thick party health bars and Thick squad health bars
• Under Squad Options check View as a grid. This will allow you to keep track of your allies' health, enabling better decision-making and skill management