Part of the current metagame
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Focused on: Strike damage and Defense
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds Secrets of the Obscure builds Janthir Wilds builds
Difficulty: Hard
This build was last updated on April 04, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
Power Chronomancer is a powerful solo build with great boon uptime and damage. It has access to plentiful utility, including invulnerability, blocks and teleports, making it a great solo build. This build has a high skill floor, which can be off-putting for some, but investing time into learning it can be very rewarding as its potential is some of the highest in the game.
This build revolves around spamming Phantasm skills to both do damage and gain boons. Namely, permanent 
激怒, 
急速 and 25~ 
威能, with 0 boon duration, thanks to the Illusions Illusions trait line. The Chronomancer trait line also provides permanent self- 
敏捷.
Additionally, this build can sacrifice some of its damage to provide its party with permanent 急速 from 
机不可失 or permanent 敏捷 from 
延展时间 by making little changes.
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Weapon Variants
- If you don't have access to dagger with Weaponmaster Training from Secrets of the Obscure, use mainhand sword Sword instead.
- If you don't have access to land spear with Janthir Wilds, use focus Focus or greatsword Greatsword.
Alternative weapons:
- Mainhand sword Mainhand sword - for players without access to dagger. It deals slightly less damage and is melee, but it has a helpful evade.
- Greatsword Greatsword - good ranged damage and tagging potential, but it requires
飞刃反弹 to truly shine, and this build does not run that traitline by default. - Focus Focus - good damage, extremely helpful pull with
凡尘帷幔 and the phantasm blocks projectiles.
Skill Variants
Heal skill
We default to 
幻光纹章 for its extremely strong ability to reset the recharge of phantasm skills, making it an integral part of this build. However, since the Signet becomes part of your damage rotation, beginner players might want to consider other healing skill until they become more proficient at playing chronomancer.
幻光盛宴 - can be considered if you want a heal on demand, but you lose a significant amount of damage and boon generation.
Utility skill
We default to:
幻影除魔 is a good source of damage and boons. Never replace it.
灾难法池 good AoE damage and soft cc, can be replaced if needed.
闪光传送 is a generic stunbreak and movement skill, can be replaced if needed.
If you want or need to run other skills, here are some suggestions:
苦痛咒语 - extra damage with no cast time.
预知法池 - very strong defensive utility that provides 
圣盾 per pulse, 
稳固 on cast and first pulse, and stunbreaks on cast.
行动法池 - more 威能 and 激怒 for yourself and allies, good option for groups.
坚定咒语 - condition cleanse for yourself and nearby allies.
斥力穹窿 - projectile reflection.
专注咒语 - personal stunbreak and AoE stability.
传送入口 - utility for teleporting to previous places.
Elite skill
We default to 
重力陷阱 as it provides good damage and great CC. If required, it can be replaced by:
谦逊纹章 - slightly less cc than Gravity Well, but it happens immediately if you need to break a defiance bar really fast, and it has a shorter cooldown.
Specializations
Variants
延迟反应 - extremely minor dps loss (Time Catches Up only affects the first hit of Split Second) and your clones will take longer to reach their target to shatter without 
奔驰疾速, but the 
迟缓 of Delayed Reactions can help a lot with breaking defiance bars.
危机时刻 - when playing in groups and someone is providing you with Alacrity so 
幻觉回荡 is wasted, consider using 危机时刻 for higher damage when inflicting 迟缓. Take 延迟反应 for more access to Slow.
Domination
Domination can be taken over Illusions if you are playing in a group providing you permanent 急速 and 威能.
- 飞刃反弹 - if using greatsword.
Boon support
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When playing in groups, you can drop 
时空幻映 and take the trait 机不可失 to provide yourself and nearby allies with 急速. If the group already has quickness, you can instead provide 敏捷 through 延展时间. Quickness always takes priority over alacrity.
When doing this, make the following changes.
- Replace the Illusions Illusions traitline with Domination Domination.
- Use a greatsword Greatsword or Spear Spear. On the other weapon set either use dagger-sword for damage, or dagger-focus for the pull of 凡尘帷幔.
- Change your utility skills to 行动法池, 灾难法池, and 苦痛咒语.
Feel free to change Mantra of Pain to whatever other skill you might need, like a stun break.
[&DQcBHQoaKCUjDyMPzxJpAQQThQFpAWgBsxLtEgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADLwBaAAkBAA==]Do not play these boon support builds when soloing. The strength of these boon support builds comes from providing your party with either quickness or alacrity. However, when playing solo, you already have permanent self- 急速 from the Illusions traitline, and permanent self- 敏捷 from the Chronomancer traitline.
Equipment
This build uses the same gear as Build:Virtuoso_-_Power_DPS for raids for ease of gearing. Infusions are completely optional.
If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Zhed" armor, "Uzoku" dagger, "Bonetti" sword, "Impaler" spear, and "Ebonblade" greatsword. Upgrade to ascended gear as you progress. See also: Guide:How to Gear a Character.
- We default to the same gear set as power virtuoso for ease of gearing. If you want to min-max your chronomancer damage for open world, you can replace the Superior Sigil of Accuracy with
超级冲击法印, but you'll also need to change your Chest armor, 1 accessory, and your weapons to Assassin stats Assassin stats. This is a minor damage increase and not worth it for the average player. - If you don't have access to Weaponmaster Training with the Secrets of the Obscure expansion, use sword Sword instead of dagger.
- If you don't have access to land spear with Janthir Wilds, focus Focus or greatsword Greatsword.
- This set provides 100% critical chance with 激怒 and 敏捷, since Alacrity is improved by
时间涌流. - As for the boon variants, you don't need any boon duration. With 0% boon duration, you provide about 140% uptime of quickness/alacrity.
- For relic alternatives, you can consider
潜行者古物 for an easier to use relic, or 
萨奇洛斯古物 to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain. - For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford.
Consumables
Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
DPS
Farming
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
生日爆破枪 / 
令人愉快的生日蛋糕大餐-
薄荷怪异莓棒
锐磨颅骨 (and variants)
Usage
Continuum Split
时空裂缝 is the profession mechanic of the chronomancer specialization that allows them to "rewind" time. Specifically, it tracks the chronomancer's position, health, endurance, and skill recharges, and returns the chronomancer to that point at the end of the split. As this is a Shatter, it will consume active clones, with the duration of the split increasing with each clone shattered.
This extremely powerful skill is used to spam your Phantasms four times in a row.
- Generate 2 or 3 clones.
- Cast your phantasm skills while entering 时空裂缝.
- Reset your Phantasm skills with 幻光纹章.
- Cast your Phantasm skills again.
- Continuum Split ends.
- Cast your Phantasm skills.
- Reset your Phantasm skills with 幻光纹章.
- Cast your Phantasm skills again.
Note that your phantasms will attack a second time thanks to 时空幻映, and even deal slightly higher damage this second time.
Boons
The Illusions Illusions traitline provides you with numerous boons. 
急速幻影 gives you and your phantasms 急速. When those phantasms becomes clones after attacking, you gain their remaining Quickness thanks to 
回忆留影. 
幻影原力 also gives you 威能. 
幻影之怒 gives 激怒 to your phantasms, but you already have permanent Fury from 
剑术大师.
The Chronomancer Chronomancer traitline gives you permanent 敏捷 from 时间涌流 and 幻觉回荡.
Note that these boons are personal only. To provide boons to nearby allies when playing in a group, check Build:Chronomancer_-_Power_Chrono#Boon_support the boon variant above.
Dagger/Sword
On dagger/sword you want to spam all your skills except 
幻象还击 which should be saved for blocking.
If using sword instead of dagger, 
幻象跳跃 deals no damage and should only be used if you're missing a third clone before shattering. Use 
恍惚狂热 off cooldown but do not interrupt the auto attack chain as the final hit, 
心灵钻刺, deals significantly higher damage.
Spear
On spear, try to always hit your target with the outer edge of 
间隙危机 to deal more damage. If you hit with both the outer and inner halves it will count as an outer edge hit, so it's easy to always deal empowered damage. Hitting with 间隙危机 gives you Clarity Clarity, which empowers your next spear skill. You want to always cast 
幻影长矛 empowered by Clarity. 
虚拟反转 should be saved for an extra dodge or to cleanse conditions.
If using greatsword instead of spear, use all skills except 
幻象之波 which should be saved for defiance bars.
Damage
DPS variant
The majority of your damage comes from casting your phantasms then using 幻光纹章 to reset their cooldowns and cast them again. In open world, it is generally better to reset 幻影长矛 for more boons since it spawns 2 phantasms when empowered by Clarity Clarity.
Try to always hit your target with the outer edge of 间隙危机 to deal more damage, and always cast 幻影长矛 empowered by Clarity. When you swap to dagger, 
幻影剑客 is the first skill you want to cast, and you will cast it a second time before going back to spear. Use 幻影除魔 off cooldown when every other important skill is on cooldown. You can use 重力陷阱 for damage once every important skill is on cooldown, or you can save it in case you will need the crowd control.
Opener
To get the most out of 时空裂缝, try to follow this opening when fighting durable enemies like meta event bosses. You want to enter Continuum Split during the aftercast of 间隙危机, before it goes on cooldown but has already created a clone. The timing for this is tight, but it is worth practicing it.
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幻影除魔
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幻影剑客
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利刃呼唤
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狂刃风暴
- weapon swap Weapon swap
- 间隙危机 and 时空裂缝 after it creates the clone but before it goes on cooldown.
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幻影长矛
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精神崩塌
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幻光纹章
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间隙危机
- 幻影长矛 and
分裂时间 - 灾难法池 and 虚拟反转 to help cancel the aftercast. Continuum Split ends here.
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间隙危机
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幻影长矛
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精神崩塌
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幻光纹章
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间隙危机
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幻影长矛
- weapon swap Weapon swap
- Try to always hit your target with the outer edge of 间隙危机 to deal more damage.
- The idea is to use 幻影长矛 three times in the spear loop.
- Each sword loop starts and ends with 幻影剑客.
- 利刃呼唤 and 狂刃风暴 should be cast off cooldown.
- 幻影除魔 has the lowest priority and is used in both sets once.
- You generate enough clones to cast 分裂时间 with three clones off cooldown. Expend extra clones on
回归原位. - Mastery of this skill priority will provide you with permanent 急速, permanent 激怒, permanent 敏捷 and an average of 25 stacks of 威能.
Boon variant
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Since the boon variant build has to sacrifice 时空幻映, Phantasms become significantly weaker. For this reason, the opening instead focuses on wells.
Defense
- Never stop moving, get out of enemy attacks or dodge them.
- Clones and phantasms will tank some hits for you.
- 虚拟反转 is an extra dodge, heals and cleanses conditions.
- When using sword, 恍惚狂热 dodges incoming attacks for 1 second. Use this to avoid attacks instead of dodging.
- 幻象还击 is a block plus evade.
- If you need condition cleanse, slot 坚定咒语.
失真 makes you immune to damage.
Crowd Control
- 重力陷阱 -
击倒, 
上浮 and 
拉拽. - 幻象还击 ⇒
还击之剑 - 
晕眩. 
时间沉降 - 晕眩.- 精神崩塌 -
昏迷 if used with Clarity. - You can use any of the above in 时空裂缝 to potentially cast them twice.
Video examples
Note that these videos are outdated but still somewhat show how the class looks and is played.
Phantasmal Defender is completely unnecessary, I just wanted to do a 6-phantasms-Contiuum-Split. Thanks to our blocks, evades, and Distortion, we should be pretty safe from this boss. Should have saved the second Gravity Well to break the boss' defiance bar instead of using it for dps.
Feedback makes the two archers shoot themselves to death, and the boss too. When the boss switches to daggers, I stand back and let my illusions tank his deadly combo. If you get hit, like I did, use Distortion to survive it.
Used an Adrenaline Mushroom to reset my cooldowns. The Avatar hits like a truck so I used Well of Precognition to block some hits. This fight is really a race to see who bursts who first. Breaking his defiance bar close to 50% stops the oneshot attack he tries to do.