Chronomancer - Boon Support Healer

There is a good amount of flexibility in the traits and skills used, but our default recommendation is as follows:

Weapons

Offhand Focus and Greatsword are mandatory.

Skills

Healing

• 恢复咒语 is the default pick because it provides an instant-cast heal. This is particularly useful as it can save you from 恐惧.
• 永恒法池 is a massive heal that can keep you and allies alive on the towers if things go wrong.
• 幻镜治疗 reflects projectiles during the cast, and if traited also gives you 圣盾. This makes it an excellent option for surviving the mushroom cave.

Utility

• 传送入口 - Even the most experienced player is not going to manage all towers all the time, so it is required to take portal as a backup.
• 镜像复制 or 闪光传送 - In the event that you need to use a portal twice in quick succession, 镜像复制 ensures that you can do that. 闪光传送 can replace it if you are confident, or if you are struggling to survive the mushroom cave.
• 午夜纹章 or 金蝉脱壳 - Access to 潜行 on every tower is important, as some enemies can summon minions or blind you so you need to be able to knock them before they aggro. 金蝉脱壳 has the longer duration, but 午夜纹章 can be activated in midair and has a shorter cooldown.

Elite

Nothing can compete with 群体隐形 for reliably soloing towers.

Traits

Chaos

• 万华领悟 or - 万华领悟 gives you extra time in stealth, which can be very useful if you struggle to activate your skills fast enough. allows you to spam shatters on the tower for 稳固

Inspiration

• 聚能反馈 or 自我回复 - 聚能反馈 can be useful if you want the extra defense or if the ground team is fast enough that you don't reliably have 凡尘帷幔 off cooldown. 自我回复 adds more clones to fuel your shatters.
• 幻象灵感 or 模糊铭文 - 模糊铭文 gives you some distortion if you're using 午夜纹章, otherwise 幻象灵感 will provide some extra sustain if you end up fighting on the tower.

Chronomancer

• 延迟反应 or 善始善终 - 延迟反应 will 迟缓 enemies on the tower after the first pull, making them less able to interrupt the second. 善始善终 could be worth taking if you're using 永恒法池 if you'd rather have more healing.

Mirage?

If available, Mirage (mid-mid-mid) gives you access to a movement skill on mainhand Sword that will make the mushroom cave much faster and safer. It also allows you to dodge during the cast of other skills to make towers more reliable.

Soloing Towers

Place 凡尘帷幔 near the start of the mushroom cave to give yourself 迅捷. Run through the cave, avoiding the mushrooms and running through as many of the pools as possible. Be sure to use your heal and 午夜纹章 or 金蝉脱壳 to stay alive.

After the cave, heal yourself up if necessary, then use 群体隐形 and immediately jump onto the bouncing mushroom. Once on the tower, quickly use 凡尘帷幔 ⇒ 堕入虚无 near the middle of the tower, then weapon swap and use 幻象之波 to knock everyone to the edge (you can also use 午夜纹章 or 金蝉脱壳 for extra safety). If successful, this should instantly capture the tower. To deal with the enemies on the tower, you can either jump onto the turret and aim the attacks at them, or hop over the parapet and run along the wall to give yourself some space.

Be aware that the capture circle is not perfectly centred, so knocking in some directions will not put the enemies outside of it - in general, trying to hit them between the parapets is advised.

For the second tower, once the leyline appears, jump inside and use stealth gliding to keep yourself safe. As you exit the leyline, use 午夜纹章 or 金蝉脱壳 to 潜行 yourself, and repeat the knocking as before. Depending on your group's speed, you may have 群体隐形 available for consecutive towers, but entering a leyline will remove 潜行 from you so you will need to cast it after you've exited the leyline and used 午夜纹章 or 金蝉脱壳. Be aware that timing is important with 午夜纹章 - it can be used in midair but you cannot stealth immediately after gliding, so pressing it too soon can waste the skill.

If at any point you fail to instantly capture the tower, drop a 传送入口 then jump off the tower and glide back to your team. Make sure there isn't a warg about to eat Glenna, then use 镜像复制 ⇒ 传送出口.

Unless your team is very fast, you should have 午夜纹章 or 金蝉脱壳 available for every tower - remember to use shatters while waiting to give yourself 敏捷. You may find it useful to peek at the tower ahead before you take the leyline. In particular you want to look for Cultists and Battle Mages, as the former can summon minions that make it hard to hit all the White Mantle with your CC, and the latter can 目盲 you.

• Bring 重力陷阱 for the breakbars.
• You could bring a Greatsword to provide boonrip during the split phase.
• You could bring a Focus and 凡尘帷幔 to help with seeker control.
• Use 幻象反击 or 回忆幻像 to block/evade through blue AOEs without having to move.
• Cast 永恒法池 just before the Green hits to quickly recover your subgroup's health.
• The 屏障 from 奇点射击 can help mitigate damage taken from Green hits.
• Save 失真 to negate the damage of a Green.
  • You can bring 幻象纹章 to immediately refresh your 失真 after a green, allowing you to use it twice per phase.

For more information, see our Vale Guardian Guide.

• With 镜像复制, 闪光传送 and 传送入口 you can quickly move your group through these events.
• Drop 传送入口 at your group's location. When you see a rift appear, 镜像复制 ⇒ 闪光传送 and open 传送出口 at the rift location. Then 闪光传送 to the closest Adrenal Mushroom, and return to your group to repeat for the next rift.
• During the Spirit Run event, you can drop a 传送入口 at the rift immediately after the glide section and 镜像复制 ⇒ 闪光传送 ⇒ 闪光传送 to the spirit wall. If your group has enough DPS, you can destroy the wall and finish the event before the final two rifts explode.

For more information, see our Spirit Woods Guide.

• Bring 重力陷阱 for the breakbars.
• You can either use a manipulation such as 闪光传送 along with the Chaos variant, or 专注咒语, to provide 圣盾 or 稳固 for the slams.
• You can bring a Focus to use 凡尘帷幔 to pull the adds. The pull works best if you place the curtain just behind his hitbox.

For more information, see our Gorseval Guide.

• Bring 时间扭曲 as there is only one breakbar which your teammates can easily cover.
• Use Focus and 凡尘帷幔 to pull the bandit adds for easier cleaving. You can do this when Sabetha starts her flamewall.
• Be careful of teleporting into flamewalls with 时空转移. You might have to abort CS early or delay it to avoid this.
• You might need to abort Continuum Split if you have to throw a bomb.

For more information, see our Sabetha Guide.

• Bring 重力陷阱 for the breakbars.
• Use 凡尘帷幔 to pull some slublings but always make sure you don't pull your friendly slubling.
• You can use 凡尘帷幔 without the pull (or delay the pull) to provide more projectile defense.
• If you are using 斥力穹窿 keep in mind where your group will stand in the next few seconds. When you're about to move don't place it on your current position.
• 失真 can be used to destroy the projectiles from the unblockable shake attack by jumping inside the boss when it shakes like a wet dog.

For more information, see our Slothasor Guide.

• Bring 重力陷阱 for add control.
• Use focus to pull mobs together.

For more information, see our Bandit Trio Guide.

• Bring 重力陷阱 as failing to CC will result in a squad member's death.
• Be careful with your reflects! You should only use 斥力穹窿 to break Bloodstone Shield. If you reflect his slam attack Matthias will get a damage buff for each projectile you reflected.
  • Also be careful with 时间潮汐 as this skill will eat the shards needed to break Bloodstone Shield.

For more information, see our Matthias Guide.

• Bring 重力陷阱 for add control.
• The most popular strat for this encounter is "all up" or "insta cap", where one chronomancer solos the cave, tanks the tower mobs, and uses 传送入口 to taxi the group up to every tower. This lets you effectively have 9 people on both the main path and the towers. If you are filling this role consider running extra toughness to make it easier to survive the tower mobs on your own. See above for details.
  • If your group is fast you might need to 镜像复制 your 传送入口, or ask another mesmer to bring 传送入口 and help you port the 4th tower.
  • If your team is okay with you not giving quickness in order to make sure you can reliably solo the skip part, you can bring 闪光传送 and 群体隐形.
• Use focus to pull mobs together.

For more information, see our Siege the Stronghold Guide.

• Bring 重力陷阱 for the breakbars.
• Make sure to have 急速 ready for the burn phase.
• You can either use a manipulation such as 闪光传送 along with the Chaos variant, or 专注咒语, to provide 圣盾 or 稳固 for the Tower Drop.
• Use 凡尘帷幔 to help pull the core through the rifts. Coordinate with other players on who is going to pull and when.

For more information, see our Keep Construct Guide.

• If tanking, consider running extra toughness as there is a lot of random damage on this fight and your healer will have their hands full.
• Bring 重力陷阱 for the breakbars.
• 永恒法池 can be useful for condition cleanse and 超级学者符文 uptime.
• Use your 凡尘帷幔 to pull adds into the boss.
• You can use 凡尘帷幔 to pull orbs. Make sure to pull the last orb to make sure you're not pulling more than one orb.
• If you're tanking, make sure to keep Xera facing away from your group as her Blurred Frenzy will deal massive damage to your DPS. You can use 幻象反击, 回忆幻像 or 失真 to protect yourself from the attack while staying in place.

For more information, see our Xera Guide.

• Bring 时间扭曲 as there are no breakbars here.
• If doing greens, you should delay your 急速 until everyone is back in the center.
• If skipping greens, you can provide 稳固 with 专注咒语.

For more information, see our Cairn the Indomitable Guide.

• Bring 时间扭曲 as there are no breakbars here.
• You should take either Claim or Dispel to get 时流不息 on the special action key.

For more information, see our Mursaat Overseer Guide.

• Bring 重力陷阱 as Samarog has a huge breakbar and failing to CC will result in a squad member's death.
• Coordinate your CC with your teammates; try not to burn too many big CCs on the same breakbar.
• Use 堕入虚无 to pull Rigom under Samarog during the split phases.

For more information, see our Samarog Guide.

• Bring 时间扭曲 as the breakbars are small and easily broken by your teammates.
• You can block the pizza attacks and Mind Crush with 群体失真 or 操纵大师.
  • In order to be able to block all of them, you will need to use 操纵大师 along with 闪光传送.
  • Note that a player standing in two pizza slices at the same time will still get hit.
• You can use any of your blocks or 预知法池 to block Mind Crush.

For more information, see our Deimos Guide.

• If tanking, consider taking extra toughness as the boss's autoattacks hit fairly hard.
• Soulless Horror attacks very frequently, so it's easy to get the clones from 幻象反击.
• Bring 谦逊纹章 as failing to CC will wipe the group and 重力陷阱 is risky with the Tormented Dead around.
• Take care when using 时间潮汐 as it will freeze Tormented Dead in place and interrupt knockbacks.
• You can block the AoE attacks for your team with 操纵大师.
• If you're tanking, coordinate the aggro swap with the other tank. Aim to swap aggro as soon as your current stacks expire.
• If you're tanking, move the boss near the wurms at the start so your DPS can cleave them down (with 恶疾肆虐 or otherwise).
• Make sure to stand behind Soulless Horror if possible. If you're the tank, keep her facing in the same direction as her attacks deal massive damage to anyone who isn't the tank.

For more information, see our Soulless Horror Guide.

• It could be useful to bring Greatsword and 幻影除魔 to quickly strip boons from Dhuum.
• 闪光传送 can allow you to minimise your time away from the group if doing greens.
• 闪光传送 can also be useful if you bait the shackle mechanic by standing as close to Dhuum as you can, then immediately blinking away to break them (this assumes you are not tanking).

For more information, see our Dhuum Guide.

• Focus is very helpful for pulling in Swords.
• Focus and 时间潮汐 can be used to ensure the players collecting orbs have 迅捷.
• 重力陷阱 can CC multiple Shields if placed carefully.
• You can either use a manipulation such as 闪光传送 along with the Chaos variant, or 专注咒语, to provide 圣盾 or 稳固 for the slams.
• If you really doubt your group, you can use 斥力穹窿 and 医者反馈 - drop it just before Thunderclap hits to start reviving people that get downed.

For more information, see our Conjured Amalgamate Guide.

• Both bosses attack very frequently, so it's easy to get the clones from 幻象反击 - practically every mechanic can be blocked here.
• If going to Kenut's side, 专注咒语 might save people from the shockwave attack.
  • It can also be used as a stunbreak if you get CC'd.
• Greatsword might be useful to have boonrip available in case Kenut steals boons.
• You have a lot of condition cleanses, so be sure to use them frequently.
• If your group is very slow with CC, then 斥力穹窿 or 凡尘帷幔 can keep people safe from the projectiles during the breakbar attack.

For more information, see our Largos Assassins Guide.

• Portal is incredibly useful here for quickly moving your group around the arena and even skipping the entire jumping puzzle at the end! See our guide for more details.
• Focus is also very useful as it can pull the Magma Elementals into the group for easier cleaving.
• 专注咒语 may be useful to protect agains the Magma Elemental's knock attacks.
• Bring 重力陷阱 to ensure you can break the legendary creatures before they finish their attacks.

For more information, see our Qadim Guide.

• Bring 重力陷阱 to break Sabir's breakbars as quickly as possible.
• 传送入口 can be used to save some distance in the split phases
• Timed correctly, 失真 can be used to ignore the shockwave.

For more information, see our Cardinal Sabir Guide.

• Many groups will stick together in the split phases. By dropping a 传送入口 near the north-west hand as you run around to avoid the sand beam, you can portal your group after killing the south hands and avoid the dangerous run.
• If tanking, make sure to keep a block or 失真 for the cone attack.
• Greatsword can be useful for boon removal if no-one else is doing it.
• Focus can be nice for providing 迅捷 during the split phase.

For more information, see our Cardinal Adina Guide.

• Greatsword is useful for frequent boonrip during the final phase.
• You can either use a manipulation such as 闪光传送 along with the Chaos variant, or 专注咒语, to provide 圣盾 or 稳固 for the knockbacks.
• You can destroy the Caustic Chaos shockwaves by standing in front of them with 失真.
• You can help break Distortions with long-range CC such as 错乱咒语 or 支配纹章.
  • If you can afford the lower healing, 延迟反应 in combination with one of the above will be sufficient to break them.

For more information, see our Qadim the Peerless Guide.