Chronomancer - Support Chronomancer

Part of the current metagame

Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Crowd control, Boon removal and Utility

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on February 19, 2022 and is up to date for the April 16, 2024 patch.

Overview

Support Chronomancer focusing on revival, utility and crowd control.

Skill Bar

Sword/Focus

X/Shield

Utility

Utility Variants

• Veil If your group requires stealth for engages
• Mimic Enables an extra use of Illusion of Life.
• Mantra of Resolve Mantra against condition overload.
• Mantra of Concentration if in need of Stability.
• Phantasmal Disenchanter extremely powerful AoE boonrips when not needing to bring Veil.

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Specializations

Seize the Moment some minor Quickness share for your party.

Chaos Variant

Swap Illusions for Chaos for a minor decrease in Illusion of Life and Mimic cooldown as well as access to personal Stability.

Inspiration Variant

Swap Illusions for Inspiration for a small increase in self and party sustain at the cost of boonstrips.

Restorative Illusions for added personal sustain.

Equipment

Head
Minstrel

Shoulders
Minstrel

Chest
Minstrel

Hands
Minstrel

Legs
Minstrel

Feet
Minstrel

Backpiece
Minstrel

Accessory
Minstrel

Accessory
Minstrel

Amulet
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Sword
Minstrel

Focus
Minstrel

Sigil

Sigil

Sword
Minstrel

Shield
Minstrel

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Equipment Variants

• Minstrel's can be replaced by Wanderer's for a minuscule increase in Effective Power but a loss in Healing and self sustain.
• Rune of Superior Rune of Mercy if using Medic's Feedback
• The Energy sigil on your weapons can situationally be replaced with the following:
  • Sigil of Superior Sigil of Transference when using Inspiration
  • Sigil of Superior Sigil of Draining if using Wanderer's gear

Consumables

• feast option with additional concentration

Usage

General

Focus on reviving allies who are far away with Illusion of Life.

Your crowd control skills will strip boons with Vicious Expression.

Use your crowd control when your allies are spiking the enemy, such as inside a friendly Winds of Disenchantment or Necromancer Wells.

Always use Continuum Split before casting either Gravity Well or Illusion of Life to ensure a second cast of these vital skills. While inside the split, use as many skills as possible such as Null Field as you will get a second cast of it.

Crowd Control

Gravity Well is still a strong CC and almost always a good choice to double with Continuum Split.

The follow-up skill of Temporal Curtain pulls enemies towards the curtain. Use it to hinder enemies without stability or pull them from walls.

Tides of Time stuns foes, thus combines well with Sigil of Superior Sigil of Absorption.

Illusionary Leap immobilizes a single target, useful when trying to catch an enemy that is lagging behind.

Chaos Storm is an area Daze on cast useful at long range or for instant boonstrips.