Chronomancer - Boon Support Condi DPS

This is a rough draft. Once adequately written, it will progress to the testing stage, where it can be rated by the community. You can help by proposing changes with a comment.

Focused on: Condition damageSupport and Utility

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds

Difficulty:
Normal

Overview

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


Skill Bar

Scepter/Torch
Staff
Utility


Weapon Variants

  • Axe is similar damage, but with more Torment Torment and less Confusion 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.


Template Code

[&DQctPRg/KA4jDyMPgQGBAYMBgwFrAWsBvAG8AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=]
Copy Template Code

Note that the Grandmaster trait has not been selected


Specializations


Quickness Quickness variant
Use Seize the Moment.
Alacrity 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 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 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 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


Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 2 votes.
Log in or register to rate this build.
4 stars
OfficerAndyGentleman gave this build 4 stars • April 2024
There aren't many encounters where this does competitive damage, but it's nice that it can provide a broader range of boons than the power version, with all the usual mesmer utility.
5 stars
Chinkeeyong gave this build 5 stars • September 2018
Meta variant of Chronomancer on Cairn, Matthias, Soulless Horror, and Largos, as well as ranged Deimos

Comments

Get MetaBattle Premium
Enjoy an ad-free experience & support the website, for less than $1 per month! Upgrade to Premium