Chronomancer - Power Chrono

Note that these videos are outdated but still somewhat show how the class looks and is played.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.

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 急速, 敏捷, 激怒, 25~ 威能, with 0 boon duration for yourself.

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.

Weapon Variants

• If you don't have access to dagger with Weaponmaster Training from Secrets of the Obscure, use mainhand Sword instead.
• If you don't have access to land spear with Janthir Wilds, use Focus or Greatsword instead.

Alternative weapons:

• Mainhand sword - for players without access to dagger. It has less clone generation, but it has a helpful evade.
• 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 - 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: is a good source of damage and boons. Never replace it. good AoE damage and soft cc, can be replaced if needed. 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:

• - extra damage with no cast time.
• - more and for yourself and allies, good option for groups.
• - condition cleanse for yourself and nearby allies.
• - projectile reflection.
• - personal stunbreak and AoE stability.
• - utility for teleporting to previous places.

Elite skill

We default to as it provides good damage and great CC. If required, it can be replaced by:

• - 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.

This build uses the same gear as Build

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

• We default to the same gear set as power virtuoso for ease of gearing. The precise infusions are a very minor damage optimisation. 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. 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 instead of dagger.
• If you don't have access to land spear with Janthir Wilds, Focus or 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.

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.

Variants

• 飞刃反弹 - if using greatsword.

Boon support

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
• 盘装辛辣陆行鸟翅膀 / 碗装甜辣冬南瓜汤
• 超级磨刀石 / 罐装水果蛋糕

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)

Continuum Split

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.

1. Generate 2 or 3 clones.
2. Cast your phantasm skills while entering .
3. Reset your Phantasm skills with .
4. Cast your Phantasm skills again.
5. Continuum Split ends.
6. Cast your Phantasm skills.
7. Reset your Phantasm skills with .
8. Cast your Phantasm skills again.

Note that your phantasms will attack a second time thanks to , and even deal slightly higher damage this second time.

Boons

The Illusions traitline provides you with numerous boons. gives you and your phantasms . When those phantasms becomes clones after attacking, you gain their remaining Quickness thanks to . also gives you . gives to your phantasms, but you already have permanent Fury from .

The Chronomancer traitline gives you permanent from and .

Note that these boons are personal only. To provide boons to nearby allies when playing in a group, check Build

Dagger/Sword

On dagger/sword you want to spam all your skills except , which should be saved for blocking.

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.

1. 幻影剑客
2. 利刃呼唤
3. 狂刃风暴
4. Weapon swap
5. 间隙危机 and 时空裂缝 after it creates the clone but before it goes on cooldown.
6. 精神崩塌
7. 间隙危机
8. 幻影长矛
9. 行动法池
10. 灾难法池
11. 时空转移.
12. 间隙危机
13. 幻影长矛
14. 精神崩塌
15. 幻光纹章
16. 间隙危机
17. 幻影长矛
18. Weapon swap
19. 幻影剑客
20. 行动法池
21. 灾难法池

• 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.
• Cast your wells off cooldown.
• 利刃呼唤 and 狂刃风暴 should be cast off cooldown.

When playing in groups, you can drop and take the trait to provide yourself and nearby allies with . If the group already has quickness, you can instead provide through . Quickness always takes priority over alacrity.

When doing this, make the following changes.

1. Replace the Illusions traitline with Domination.
2. Change your utility skills to , , and .

Feel free to change Mantra of Pain to whatever other skill you might need, like a stun break.

• if using greatsword instead of spear.
• to provide .
• to provide .

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- from the Illusions traitline, and permanent self- from the Chronomancer traitline.