The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Strike damage and Control
Designed for: WvW Roaming
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on March 28, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A burst focused Power Chronomancer build for WvW roaming. High damage, low survivability.
Skill Bar
Skill Variants
Weapons
- Torch over Shield - defensive weapon which offers more condition cleansing and adds
潜行 access to the build. Of course the stealth could also be used to sneak up on targets and burst them.
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Equipment
Equipment Variants
Sigils
Greatsword
超级洁净法印 over Vision - better defense against conditions, less consistency on your main burst combo.
Runes
超级神枪手符文 - if you're willing to sacrifice some burst damage for higher crit chance.
Relics
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伊斯加然古物 - potentially higher uptime of a slightly better damage boost, but you have less control over this one. -
午夜国王古物 - adds 
激怒 access to the build for higher consistency.
Consumables
Food
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黑胡椒粉真空烹调肉排 - great offensive stats and some direct damage mitigation.
黑胡椒调味牡蛎汤球 - a bit more defensive but equally viable option.
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芫荽柠檬真空烹调肉排 - highest damage option, no damage mitigation but the life steal procs still provide some sustain. -
蘑菇丁香真空烹调肉排 - this food provides some defense against condition damage without sacrificing damage. -
碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲 - active damage mitigation via more frequent access to dodging, and the 
威能 generation has synergy with various traits.- Budget version:
碗装鲜肉冬菜煲
- Budget version:
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巨龙甜甜圈片 or 
怪异莓幽灵 - cheap precision bump and armor ignoring damage procs that also heal you.
Utility
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强效超级磨刀石 or 
罐装水果蛋糕, whichever is cheaper (note that the sharpening stone lasts twice as long). -
Budget:
紧密硬质磨刀石 either from Canned Food Crates found in WvW 
突袭宝箱s or purchased from the Permanent Portable Provisioner.
Usage
Elite specialization basics
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Chronomancers gain access to
时空裂缝 (CS) in the F5 slot, a new shatter skill. CS only last a couple of seconds, extended by the clones shattered by its activation. Once it ends, your cooldowns and HP will reset back to what they were the moment you've entered Continuum Split. CS is usually used right before costly burst combos as it allows you to do an entire rotation and then repeat it once Continuum Split ends and your CDs reset. -
While your HP reverts back after CS (just like your CDs), any conditions or boons applied to you while CS was active is still going to be on you and your active Wells won't disappear either.
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Your regular shatter skills are replaced by new Chronomancer ones. These are very similar to old shatters in terms of functionality - for example the F1 still hits the hardest and F3 still
晕眩s.
General
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幻光纹章 offers some nice passive healing but its true strength lies in the active. Being able to reduce the CD on 
幻影狂战 for ranged damage or 
回忆幻像 for added sustain via blocking lets you adapt to various situations on top of getting healed. -
闪光传送 is great in just about any sitaution from disengaging from a fight to teleporting in for a quick melee burst. -
Every Signet skill grants
失真. 
午夜纹章 is your panic button: break stuns, applies 潜行 + 失真 and cleanses 5 conditions thanks to 
模糊铭文. SoM is the only mass condition cleanse in the build, keep that in mind when facing condition specs. Correcting mistakes or recovering from bursts becomes harder while this is on CD. -
Sometimes you might want to consider using
午夜纹章 offensively: this could instantly cleanse 
虚弱 and 
目盲 from you while providing a small window of invulnerability which allows you to facetank enemy burst and counterpressure them freely. The brief 潜行 could even make it harder for enemies to avoid your attacks. -
幻象纹章 is taken for its active. With this skill you to be a bit more reckless with your CD management and spam your shatter more which allows you to keep the pressure up longer. As far as defense goes being able to reset 失真 is a huge bump to your survivability.
Damage
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The following burst combo is the backbone of the entire build:
镜像飞刃 ⇒ 
分裂时间 ⇒ 
心灵穿刺 -
This is best used in melee range in order to make
镜像飞刃 (MB) harder to anticipate and to benefit from the 威能 from the bounces. -
The first bounce of MB creates a clone, you should use
分裂时间 (for maximum damage) or 
回归原位 (if Split Second is on CD) to shatter it for burst damage. -
Follow up with
心灵穿刺 as soon as you can. -
This combo can be extended and improved by many other skills in the build, including:
- Rooting people with Sword/Shield's
移形换位 or 
时间潮汐 before the combo is highly recommended as it makes the combo harder to avoid even if they see it coming. 
重力陷阱 works well too. - 幻影狂战 before the combo could soften up targets, force a dodge, or just in general provide 2 extra clones for shatters once the Phantasms expire.
双面镜像 between Mirror Blade and before you shatter instantly adds 2 extra clones for higher burst.- Using 时空裂缝 right before the combo lets you repeat your burst in case the target survived the first one.
幻象之波 could be used to interrupt the enemy if they're trying to heal, or knock away teammates who are coming in to rez them.
- Rooting people with Sword/Shield's
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Sword/Shield is more of a defensive set, but it does have decent clone generation and some CC to set up shatters if you want to.
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回归原位 is your filler shatter. The damage isn't great but it's better than nothing, and the boonrip from
粉碎专注 could soften up targets for your main burst (or just get rid of 
稳固 if you need to interrupt something}. -
分裂时间 is an ammo skill with 2 charges. With the help of 双面镜像 you could do 2 back-to-back shatter combos as it immediately grants you 2 clones which you can shatter using the 2nd Split Second.
Gravity Well combo example:
- Optional: Start this combo on Sword/Shield so you can make use of the
超级远见法印 proc later -
重力陷阱
- 时空裂缝 right before you finish casting Gravity Well (to get the most out of Continuum Split's short duration)
- Optional: swap to GS for sigil proc if you were on Sword/Shield
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镜像飞刃
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分裂时间
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心灵穿刺
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幻影狂战
- Exit CS, repeat from 重力陷阱
Sustain
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Survivability is somewhat low, the best you can do is not get hit. Luckily the build has plenty of ways to avoid damage, from blocks to Distortion.
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Keep your distance between burst combos as much as possible, but getting into melee range is inevitable as that's where your combos are the deadliest.
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Use
失真, 回忆幻像 and 
恍惚狂热 to survive pressure. CC can buy you a couple of seconds too and 闪光传送 works wonders against less mobile enemies. -
If you absolutely have to, even
时空裂缝 could be used defensively. It reverts your HP back once it ends, so if you can activate it right before taking damage then it acts like a healing skill with a delay. You'll also be returned to your original position, allowing you to pull off things like using CS before jumping off a wall and teleporting back with 
时空转移 once the enemies jumped after you. This however is a bit predictable and could even backfire, as you're inevitably going to return to your starting position in a few seconds so they could just wait it out and burst you when CS ends. -
The build has several tools for dealing with conditions:
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You can speed up the recharge of the shield block with the active of
幻光纹章 in case you really need it. -
The best defense is often a good offense. Let's say a Revenant is about to jump you with
位面穿行, simply drop a 重力陷阱 under your feet and capitalize on the CC with a GS burst combo. -
Or a Thief just opened on you from
潜行 and you need to react quickly, do a 恍惚狂热 to mitigate the initial burst followed by a 
时间沉降 to prevent them from attacking you after Blurred Frenzy as you're already casting 
幻象跳跃 + 移形换位 on them, quickly followed by a GS burst combo. Consider throwing in a 失真 or 午夜纹章 as you're about to do the GS combo to avoid being interrupted by 
顺手牵羊.