Chronomancer - Power DPS

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

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Raids

Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on June 28, 2022 and is up to date for the February 27, 2024 patch.

Overview

A power DPS Chronomancer build for raids. This build deals very high burst and sustained damage against single targets. In addition it has very good CC, utility, and personal defense, and is capable of generating its own Might Might, Fury Fury, Quickness Quickness, and Alacrity Alacrity.

Be aware that this build requires high uptime of Slow Slow on your target - you contribute some slow of your own but need external help to reach very high uptime.

This build and its gear have been updated to the 28th July 2022 patch.

Skill Bar

Sword/Sword
X/Focus
Utility


Weapon Variants

  • Pistol: can replace focus when there are too many adds, since the Phantasmal Warden from focus attacks random targets in range.


Skill Variants

  • instead of if your target has more boons than can be removed.
  • instead of for better Slow Slow (and Quickness Quickness) uptime.
  • if extra CC is required. Be aware of the long cooldown.


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Specializations

Specialization Variants

  • extremely situational, if the boss already has 100% Slow Slow uptime.
  • on encounters where Slow Slow uptime is too low (~30% or less).


Equipment

Head
Berserker
Shoulders
Berserker
Chest
Berserker
Hands
Berserker
Legs
Berserker
Feet
Berserker
Backpiece
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Amulet
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Sword
Berserker
Sword
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Focus
Berserker
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18
  • Use food with power and ferocity.

Equipment Variants

If running with , it is not worth to reach 100% crit chance. Use the following gear and power food to cap at 90,24% crit chance. Reaching 100% would be a dps loss.

Head
Berserker
Shoulders
Assassin
Chest
Berserker
Hands
Assassin
Legs
Berserker
Feet
Assassin
Backpiece
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Amulet
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Sword
Berserker
Sword
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Focus
Berserker
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18
  • Only a single mainhand sword is required
  • Use food with power and precision.


Consumables

Food

Utility


Usage

The goal of the rotation is to get as many casts of your phantasm summons as possible, filling downtime with autoattack chains and . In order to do this you can make clever use of and , which when used together can effectively allow you to reset your phantasm cooldowns 3 times in short succession. This is achieved by casting during , which will give you refreshed phantasm cooldowns for the duration of your continuum split, and leaving off cooldown once your continuum split ends.


Opening burst

Start on Sword/Focus.

  1. Weapon swap Weapon swap
  2. - enter during the cast of this skill.
  3. x2
  4. - should end during this cast
  5. Weapon swap Weapon swap
  6. Proceed to Loop rotation


Loop

  1. Auto attack until is available
  2. Weapon swap Weapon swap
  3. Auto attack until is available
  4. Auto attack until is available
  5. Weapon swap Weapon swap
  6. Repeat from step 1


Second Continuum Split

On the loop before becomes available again, skip steps 10 and 16 and on the next loop:

  1. - enter during the cast of this skill.
  2. + during cast (shattering helps prevent a bug with )
  3. should end during here
  4. + during cast (shattering helps prevent a bug with )
  5. When Weapon swap Weapon swap is available, resume the loop from step 5 - you may need to wait on sword slightly longer for to come off cooldown.

Video Example

Notes

  • Fill gaps in between skills listed in the rotation with auto-attack chains.
  • Make sure not to interrupt your autoattack chain as the damage from it is heavily loaded into the final strike, .
  • Use whenever you have 3 clones up. If you have 3 clones up and is on cooldown, you can shatter them with instead.
  • Save clones to shatter with if you will need to CC in the immediate future.
  • You can use to pull adds onto the boss if needed.
  • should be cast as soon as there is a charge available.


Ratings

This build has a rating of 4 stars based on 5 votes.
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3 stars
OfficerAndyGentleman gave this build 3 stars • November 2022
Recent weapon buffs have made power chrono viable once more, but it's harder, easier to interrupt and deals less damage than virtuoso, so very difficult to recommend to anyone but chrono fans.
4 stars
Warming Hearth gave this build 4 stars • August 2022
Compared to power virtuoso, this build is much much harder to play, with a slightly higher (but delayed) burst, but lower sustained dps. This makes power chronomancer worse pretty much everywhere. The only advantage of this build is Continuum Split, making chronomancer pull ahead on fights that end shortly after CS.
4 stars
Chinkeeyong gave this build 4 stars • September 2018
A strong, self-sufficient power DPS, but has worse burst than most power classes thanks to the "delayed burst" nature of its phantasms, and suffers on any fight where you have to switch targets.
5 stars
AlekSeven gave this build 5 stars • June 2018
Finally a good DPS build for Chrono/Mesmers.
5 stars
Nacho Replay gave this build 5 stars • April 2018
This is a great power DPS build for Chrono, really good CC, strong burst, and really good damage output thats consistent. 9/10

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