Chronomancer - Boon Support Condi DPS

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Focused on: Condition damage, Support and Utility

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on January 12, 2024.

Overview

Condition quickness chronomancer providess permanent Quickness or Alacrity to its subgroup while dealing large amounts of Confusion and Torment.

Skill Bar

Scepter/Torch

Staff

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Axe is similar damage, but with more Torment and less Confusion. This means it will likely perform worse in real encounters (where torment loses damage and confusion gains it), plus it is a melee weapon. The difference is small enough for it to mostly be a matter of preference though, and there may be some niche situations where the evade from Axes of Symmetry is more useful than the block from Illusionary Counter.
• Focus for pulls at a DPS loss.

Skill Variants

Utility

If you need to provide utility such as, replace Mirror Images.

• Well of Senility does decent CC. Also removes boons if that is needed, though the sword auto attack Mind Spike can often cover that.
• Feedback provides a long-duration reflect.
• Well of Precognition provides aegis to your subgroup, useful for fights like Deimos CM.
• Mantra of Concentration provides Stability to your group.
• Mantra of Distraction for encounters that require heavy CC.
• Signet of Domination offers more CC than Mantra of Distraction but on a longer cooldown, which may be more suitable for some encounters.
• Portal Entre if you need a portal.
• Mimic allows you to get a second use out of a key skill if you'll need it more often than the cooldown. Often used together with Portal Entre.

Elite

• Signet of Humility should be used for CC.
• Gravity Well can be used if an encounter has adds that are worth CCing.
• Time Warp can be used when the CC from Gravity Well/Signet of Humility is not required.

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Note that the Grandmaster trait has not been selected

Specializations

Quickness variant

Use Seize the Moment.

Alacrity variant

Use Stretched Time.

Equipment

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Viper

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Scepter
Viper

Torch
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Staff
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

• You don't apply any Bleeding inherently, so the Sigil of Superior Sigil of Earth is required to trigger Relic of the Fractal. Triggering the relic off cooldown will require weapon swapping off cooldown, so if you think this may be an issue you can replace the Sigil of Superior Sigil of Doom with a second Sigil of Superior Sigil of Earth.
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Torment deals very similar damage to a Sigil of Superior Sigil of Bursting.

Consumables

Food

• • Ascended versions of or are a minor DPS loss if you wish to benefit from ascended buffs.

Utility

Usage

Rotation

1. Time Warp - if you are not using Time Warp, you will need to modify the opening to enter Continuum Split sooner to start providing quickness.
2. Ether Clone scepter auto chain to generate a clone (You don't need a target to cycle through the chain, so you can start the chain before engaging the boss)
3. Illusionary Counter ⇒ Counterspell
4. Phantasmal Mage
5. Confusing Images ⇒ Continuum Split at the end of the casting time.
6. The Prestige ⇒ Mirror Images
7. Weapon Swap
8. Phantasmal Duelist ⇒ Rewinder
9. Magic Bullet
10. Signet of the Ether
11. Phantasmal Duelist
12. Illusionary Counter ⇒ Counterspell
13. Continuum Shift
14. Phantasmal Duelist ⇒ Mirror Images
15. Magic Bullet ⇒ Rewinder
16. Signet of the Ether
17. Phantasmal Duelist
18. Confusing Images
19. Illusionary Counter ⇒ Counterspell
20. Weapon Swap

Video example

Video example (axe)

Priority skills

1. On pistol, use Phantasmal Duelist twice with Signet of the Ether.
2. Use Rewinder off-cooldown, you should always have 3 clones up for it.
3. Counterspell or Illusionary Counter
4. The Prestige, Phantasmal Mage
5. Confusing Images
6. Auto attack.

Breakbar

• Time Sink
• Magic Bullet
• Gravity Well or Signet of Humility