Chronomancer - Boon Support Condi DPS

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

Focused on: Condition damage and Boon support

Designed for: Raids

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on February 15, 2022 and is up to date for the February 11, 2025 patch.

Overview

Variant of Build:Chronomancer_-_Power_Boon_Support. This build fills the same role of Quickness and Alacrity but deals Torment and Confusion instead of power damage, which makes it perform better on bosses like Soulless Horror and Largos. In addition, this build can deal damage from range (useful for kiting agony on Cairn or doing ranged strat on Deimos) and its conditions increase the damage of teammates via traits like

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Skill Bar

Scepter/Shield

Scepter/Pistol

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Torch will deal very similar damage, depending on which traitlines you run.
• Focus for pulls at a dps loss.

Skill Variants

Healing

• Signet of the Ether
  can be changed to
  Well of Eternity
  for group healing.

Utility

• Well of Action
  Could be taken instead of
  Mimic
  if Quickness uptime is suffering (this may cause Alacrity uptime to suffer instead).
• Null Field
  or
  Feedback
  could be taken if you are using Focus - if the whirl finishers from
  Phantasmal Warden
  combo with the ethereal field they will generate extra Confusion.
• If you are not required to provide Alacrity, then
  can be replaced by
  Signet of Midnight
  for more damage or
  Signet of Domination
  for damage and CC.

Elite

• Signet of Humility
  should be used if an encounter involves large, infrequent breakbars.
• Gravity Well
  can be used if an encounter has many small breakbars.
• Time Warp
  can be used when the CC from
  Gravity Well
  /
  Signet of Humility
  is not required.

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Specializations

Specialization Variants

• Take
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  if you are using a Torch.

• Running Inspiration instead of Dueling will give you access to
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  and 10-target
  Signet of Inspiration
  through
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  , at a significant DPS loss.
• You should use a Torch with
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  in this case as you won't have
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• Chaos can be taken instead of Dueling as a quick-fix if you need more survivability or boon duration.
• You should use a Torch with
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• Consider
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  on Soulless Horror if you're afraid of Stability getting corrupted into Fear.

Equipment

Head
Trailblazer

Shoulders
Trailblazer

Chest
Seraph

Hands
Trailblazer

Legs
Trailblazer

Feet
Seraph

Backpiece
Trailblazer

Accessory
Seraph

Accessory
Seraph

Amulet
Trailblazer

Ring
Trailblazer

Ring
Trailblazer

Scepter
Trailblazer

Shield
Trailblazer

Sigil

Sigil

Scepter
Trailblazer

Torch
Trailblazer

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Equipment Variants

• Condi Boon Chronomancer is most effective on encounters where you are likely to be tanking (Soulless Horror and Twin Largos). For this reason Trailblazer is the default gear, but if you do not need to tank or simply want more damage, then the Trailblazer pieces may be swapped for Viper pieces.
• The setup above has ~35% boon duration. In practise you want somewhere between 30-50%, so feel free to add or remove Seraph pieces to guarantee boon uptime.
• Plaguedoctor pieces instead of Seraph will allow you maintain some tankiness, at the cost of a small amount of damage and boon duration.

Consumables

Food:

• (or any other concentration/expertise food)

Utility:

Usage

Example Opener

1. 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. Mimic
4. Echo of Memory
5. Illusionary Counter
   →
   Counterspell
7. Continuum Split
   during the cast of
8. Time Warp
9. Signet of Inspiration
10. Tides of Time
11. Continuum Shift
12. Tides of Time
13. Signet of Inspiration

• If you're quick, then you won't need three clones for
  Continuum Split
  , and can skip step 1.
• With a three-clone
  Continuum Split
  , you can throw in extra DPS skills for more damage.
• After this opener, wait until
  Tides of Time
  is off cooldown and use it once more, then weapon swap.
• On pistol, use
  Phantasmal Duelist
  twice (three times if you took
  Signet of the Ether
  ) before swapping back to shield.
• Use
  Tides of Time
  as soon as it is available, then swap back to pistol.
• Use boon skills as they come off cooldown, and make sure to
  Mimic
  every other
  .
• Done correctly, your boon skills should come off cooldown just in time for your next
  Continuum Split
  .

For damage, do the following:

• Use
  Confusing Images
  off cooldown.
• Shatter
  Rewinder
  every 3 clones.
• Use
  Illusionary Counter
  to regain clones - block an attack if you can, but don't delay the skill too much.

See Build:Chronomancer - Utility Boon Support for general Chrono tips and boon support rotation.

Breakbar

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