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
  is required to trigger
  . Triggering the relic off cooldown will require weapon swapping off cooldown, so if you think this may be an issue you can replace the
  with a second
  .
• deals very similar damage to a
  .

Consumables

Food

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

Utility

Usage

Rotation

Opener

1. The Prestige
2. Time Warp
   (if using)
3. Phantasmal Mage
4. Weapon Swap
5. Phase Retreat
6. Phantasmal Warlock
   and
   Continuum Split
   during the cast
7. Signet of the Ether
   , plus
   Mirror Images
   ⇒
   Rewinder
   during the cast
8. Phantasmal Warlock
   , plus
   Chaos Armor
   during the cast
9. Chaos Storm
   and spam other shatters before Continuum Split ends
10. Continuum Shift
11. Phantasmal Warlock
12. Signet of the Ether
    , plus
    Mirror Images
    ⇒
    Rewinder
    and
    Split Second
    during the cast
13. Phantasmal Warlock
14. Chaos Storm
15. Chaos Armor
16. Autoattack and use
    Phase Retreat
    when it comes off cooldown - make sure to stand in your Chaos Storm to extend the duration of Chaos Aura
17. Weapon Swap

Scepter

1. 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)
2. Illusionary Counter
   ⇒
   Counterspell
3. Phantasmal Mage
4. Confusing Images
   ⇒
   Continuum Split
   at the end of the casting time.
5. The Prestige
   ⇒
   Mirror Images
6. Weapon Swap
7. Phantasmal Duelist
   ⇒
   Rewinder
8. Magic Bullet
9. Signet of the Ether
10. Phantasmal Duelist
11. Illusionary Counter
    ⇒
    Counterspell
12. Continuum Shift
13. Phantasmal Duelist
    ⇒
    Mirror Images
14. Magic Bullet
    ⇒
    Rewinder
15. Signet of the Ether
16. Phantasmal Duelist
17. Confusing Images
18. Illusionary Counter
    ⇒
    Counterspell
19. 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
• Phantasmal Mage
• Signet of Domination
  , though this is a significant DPS loss to use for CC.
• Gravity Well
  or
  Signet of Humility