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Focused on: Crowd control and Utility
Designed for: WvW Zerg
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds Secrets of the Obscure builds
Difficulty: Easy
Overview
Support Chronomancer WvW build focusing on boon application, revival, utility and crowd control.
Skill Bar
Variants
Weapons
- Focus ⇒ Shield
Utility
Elite
Template Code
Template Code
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Variants
自我回复 - with 
重力陷阱
精神防御 provides substantial 
抗性 at the start of fights with 
时空裂缝 but with much less Condition Clear
Equipment
Equipment Variants
Relic
Sigils
Rune
Consumables
Usage
Quick Guide
- Chronomancer supports its group by maintaining critical boons, particularly
稳固 - Keep 稳固 on your group for each push by spreading out your cooldowns
- Use 时空裂缝 to reset the cooldown of your elite skill and
专注咒语 - Keep important boons up with Weapon Skills and Shatters +
- CC enemies on your groups spikes
Surviving
- This build has high passive defense
- This build has low mobility skill access
- This build has moderate active defenses
- Target isolated players to reposition with
幻象跳跃/
移形换位, the clone will die before 移形换位 can be used if it is summoned into damage
- Be ready to Dodge as soon as you press 移形换位
- Be ready to Dodge as soon as you press
Priorities
High
Moderate
- Boon Support
- CC
Low
- Healing and Condition Clear
Detailed Explanations
Illusion of Life
- Focus on reviving allies who are far away with
生命幻象, don't waste the skill on players that can be hand rezzed.
Veil
- Save your
暗影遮罩 for the commanders call
- If you aren't using voice communication, use it as your group pushes into melee, avoid wasting it for a range spike
- Place your 暗影遮罩 as close to the front of your group as possible without letting the line spawn on top of any allies
Stability
- Apply 稳固 before allies get caught by enemy CC
- Enemy CC is most likely to land when they spike your group, your group is moving through theirs, or your group is moving away from theirs
- It is better to use your 稳固 too early than too late
- It is better to use your
- Enemy CC is most likely to land when they spike your group, your group is moving through theirs, or your group is moving away from theirs
- Avoid overlapping multiple 稳固 sources on your party, both your own and other players
- Keep 专注咒语 charged before a fight starts
- Prioritize recharging 专注咒语 over everything other than survival if it is uncharged and off cooldown
- Use one charge of 专注咒语 before using 时空裂缝 then use the second charge inside 时空裂缝. This will reset the recharge of 专注咒语
- When using 稳固 skills cover the application by applying other boons immediately after the cast
- Your Shatter skills with other than 时空裂缝 are ideal for this because they are instant, but any boon application is worth doing
- This is done because boon strips (which are the most common type of boon removal) always work on a first in, last out priority
- This means boon strips will always remove the most recently applied boons first
- Boon corrupts remove a random boon which this technique can still mitigate by ensuring you have as many unique boons as possible
- Your Shatter skills with other than
- The 稳固 from 时空裂缝 + is generally not worth considering, since 专注咒语 will always be used with the first 时空裂缝, but in longer fights where 时空裂缝 comes off cooldown it can be used as an alternative application
Boon Support
Non-Stability Boons Per Skill
- Make sure to cast your Phantasms as often as possible to proc
延展时间 - Use your Shatters as often as possible, with the exception of 时空裂缝 to give boons with and
机不可失
- Since 时空裂缝 resets all CDs, you should try to use all Shatters while inside it
- Since
- Use
恢复咒语 to proc 
菲勃古物 off cooldown for 
迅捷
- There is no in-game tracker for the relic cooldown
- Your Rifle skills should be cast as often as possible while engaging the enemy group
- Save
时间扭曲 until 时空裂缝 is ready unless the cooldown on 时空裂缝 is very high - Use 时空裂缝 when casting 时间扭曲 to reset the cooldown
- Use 时空裂缝 while out of the way of enemy damage and pushes so you aren't brought back in an awkward spot or have your split ended early by damage
- While inside the split, use as many Shatter skills as possible since the cooldowns reset
- You can cast 时空裂缝 as another skill cast is finishing instead of before the cast to give yourself slightly more time in split
- Use
CC
CC skill List
凡尘帷幔 - AoE 
拉拽- 重力陷阱 - AoE 拉拽
- 幻象跳跃 - AoE Immobilize Immobilize
幻影狙击 - AoE 
昏迷
- Use your CC when:
- Your group calls a spike such as Wells (
腐化法池) - On top of enemy downs (while alive enemies are on top of them)
- Enemy groups move defensively while your group is pushing
- Your group calls a spike such as Wells (
- Use 凡尘帷幔 to pull targets into other CC and spikes, including your own 重力陷阱 if you're using it
- 凡尘帷幔 is particularly important when your group range spikes
- The CC of 幻影狙击 is unreliable, use it primarily to proc 机不可失 and don't worry too much if the CC lands
- Use 幻象跳跃 as your group pushes into the enemy or when trying to catch an enemy that is lagging behind
- Do not put yourself out of position trying to use 幻象跳跃
- Do not put yourself out of position trying to use
Healing and Condition Clear
- Your Rifle skills should be cast as often as possible while engaging the enemy group
- Most of your condition clear comes from using Shatter skills with
幻象回复
- Prioritize using shatters for boon uptime, but keep this trait in mind. If you expect to need condition clear soon you can delay casting them
Settings
- Under General Options / Combat/Movement turn on Allow Skill Retargetting and set Ground Targetting to Instant Cast, this will make 生命幻象 cast at the location your cursor is at the end of the cast, instead of where you initially targetted
- Under General Options / User Interface check Always show squad health bars and Always show party health bars. These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support
- Also under General Options / User Interface turn on Thick party health bars and Thick squad health bars
- Under Squad Options check View as a grid. This will allow you to keep track of your allies' health, enabling better decision-making and skill management
Tips & Tricks
Wall Pulling
- Place 凡尘帷幔 at the lowest point of a wall that is horizontally in line with the top edge (But not further than 600 range on desert BL walls)
- Since
堕入虚无 activates in a radius, this will not reduce the range of your pull but will hide its position and increase the chance of pulling people off walls
- Since
- Use 幻象跳跃 ⇒ 移形换位 to give Immobilize Immobilize to pulled targets
- It is easier if you pre target enemies likely to get pulled before casting 堕入虚无
- It is easier if you pre target enemies likely to get pulled before casting
