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.
A burst focused Power Chronomancer build for WvW roaming. High damage, low survivability.
Weapons
幻术师 (Mesmer)
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Sigils
Greatsword
Runes
Relics
- potentially higher uptime of a slightly better damage boost, but you have less control over this one.
- adds access to the build for higher consistency.
Elite specialization basics
Chronomancers gain access to (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.
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 s.
General
offers some nice passive healing but its true strength lies in the active. Being able to reduce the CD on for ranged damage or for added sustain via blocking lets you adapt to various situations on top of getting healed.
is great in just about any sitaution from disengaging from a fight to teleporting in for a quick melee burst.
Every Signet skill grants . is your panic button: break stuns, applies + and cleanses 5 conditions thanks to . 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 offensively: this could instantly cleanse and from you while providing a small window of invulnerability which allows you to facetank enemy burst and counterpressure them freely. The brief could even make it harder for enemies to avoid your attacks.
Food
- great offensive stats and some direct damage mitigation.
- highest damage option, no damage mitigation but the life steal procs still provide some sustain.
- this food provides some defense against condition damage without sacrificing damage.
- active damage mitigation via more frequent access to dodging, and the generation has synergy with various traits.
or - cheap precision bump and armor ignoring damage procs that also heal you.
Utility
or , whichever is cheaper (note that the sharpening stone lasts twice as long).
Budget: either from Canned Food Crates found in WvW s or purchased from the Permanent Portable Provisioner.
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 is a huge bump to your survivability.
Damage
The following burst combo is the backbone of the entire build: ⇒ ⇒
This is best used in melee range in order to make (MB) harder to anticipate and to benefit from the from the bounces.
The first bounce of MB creates a clone, you should use (for maximum damage) or (if Split Second is on CD) to shatter it for burst damage.
Follow up with as soon as you can.
This combo can be extended and improved by many other skills in the build, including:
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.
is your filler shatter. The damage isn't great but it's better than nothing, and the boonrip from could soften up targets for your main burst (or just get rid of if you need to interrupt something}.
is an ammo skill with 2 charges. With the help of 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:
Sustain
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.
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.
Use , and to survive pressure. CC can buy you a couple of seconds too and works wonders against less mobile enemies.
If you absolutely have to, even 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 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:
You can speed up the recharge of the shield block with the active of 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 , simply drop a under your feet and capitalize on the CC with a GS burst combo.
Or a Thief just opened on you from and you need to react quickly, do a to mitigate the initial burst followed by a to prevent them from attacking you after Blurred Frenzy as you're already casting + on them, quickly followed by a GS burst combo. Consider throwing in a or as you're about to do the GS combo to avoid being interrupted by .
