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Chronomancer
Support
Chronomancer
Power
Mirage
Condition

Gear & Food
Traits & Skills
Rotation
Gameplay

Support: Regular Variant

Weapons
Commander’s main hand sword
Berserker’s shield and off-hand sword

Food

Dumplings as cheap alternative.
Note: Toxic Maintenance Oil is better than

Magnanimous Maintenance Oil but only if you have 18 +5 Stat Infusions.

Infusions
18 x Mighty Infusions

Support: Toughness Variant (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง

Weapons
Full Minstrel’s Weapons

Food

Infusions
18 x Resilient Infusions

For more information, check General Gameplay Tips below.

Support: Domination - Inspiration
Support: Illusions - Inspiration
Support: Chaos - Inspiration
Support: Dueling - Illusions

For more information, check General Gameplay Tips below.

Support: Domination - Inspiration

Video :
Written Rotation :

Use your shatter to make up of the lose of Alacrity you have due to
. Feel free to use your damaging Shatters until you roughly have 20sec left on your
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ends.
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Weapon Swap.
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Weapon Swap.
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Weapon Swap.
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Weapon Swap.
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ends.
Repeat from step 8.

Support: Illusions - Inspiration

Video:
Written Rotation :

Use your shatter to make up of the lose of Alacrity you have due to
. Feel free to use your damaging Shatters until you roughly have 20sec left on your
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during the aftercast of the
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ends.
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Weapon Swap.
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Filler.
Weapon Swap.
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Filler.
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Weapon Swap.
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Filler.
when your swap is on 3sec CD..
Weapon Swap.
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Filler.
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Repeat from step 3.

Support: Chaos - Inspiration

Video :
Written Rotation :

Feel free to shatter at your heart’s desire to feed those pesky eles with some empowering boons.

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Weapon Swap.
during the cast of
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ends.
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Weapon Swap.
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Swap when
is ready.
(optional).
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Cast
when Swap is on 3sec CD.
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Weapon Swap.
Swap when
is ready.
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so the CD allign with
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Swap to Shield.
Wait on shield until
is ready.
Repeat from step 2.

Support: Dueling - Illusions

Video :
Written Rotation :

Use your shatter to make up of the lose of Alacrity you have due to
. Feel free to use your damaging Shatters until you roughly have 20sec left on your
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during the aftercast of
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end during the cast of
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Weapon Swap.
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Weapon Swap.
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Weapon Swap.
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Weapon Swap.
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Filler.
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during the aftercast of
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ends.
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Repeat from step 9.

(06/08/17) Vale Guardian - Tank Chronomancer POV

(22/03/17) Gorseval - DPS Chronomancer POV

(12/04/17) Sabetha - Chronomancer POV

(17/07/17) Matthias - Chronomancer POV

(13/04/17) Escort - Cave and Tower Chronomancer POV

(18/03/17) Escort - Main Team Chronomancer POV

(13/06/17) Keep Construct - Tank Chronomancer POV

(31/03/17) Xera - Tank Chronomancer POV

(20/03/17) Xera - DPS Chronomancer POV

(29/05/17) Cairn - Chronomancer POV

(16/05/17) Samarog - Chronomancer POV

(19/07/17) Deimos - DPS Chronomancer POV

(19/07/17) Deimos - Tank Chronomancer POV

Gear & Food
Traits & Skills
Rotation

Weapons
Full Berserker’s Weapons

Food

Infusions
18x Mighty Infusions

Written Rotation

Start on focus. You should shatter
any time you have 3 clones, or when it is about to gain its second charge again.

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Weapon Swap.
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during aftercast of
(this results in the
not going on cooldown, but its effect has been applied outside of
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(
ends during this cast).
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Auto attack until
is off cooldown.
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Weapon Swap.
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Auto attack until
is off cooldown.
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Auto attack until
is off cooldown.
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Weapon Swap.
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Auto attack until
is off cooldown.
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Weapon Swap.
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Auto attack until weapon swap is off cooldown.
Weapon Swap.
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Auto attack until
is off cooldown.
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Auto attack until
is off cooldown.
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Weapon Swap.
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Auto attack until
is off cooldown.
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repeat from step 2.

Credit to Strider.

Gear & Food
Traits & Skills
Rotation
Gameplay

Weapons
Full Viper’s Weapons

Food

Infusions
11x Spiteful & 7 Malign Infusions

Note: Take

Feedback on Matthias instead of

Crystal Sands.
If you lack CC drop

for

Written Rotation

Notes :

Think ahead of when your Phantasm dies and your Clone will spawn, try to immidiatly use this clone for an
or
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Use
off CD.
Dodge during the cast of a phantasm.
Use
off CD.
Get off as many
as you can.
Try to dodge during the cast of
,
or
(you lose 1
skill from
but you gain more overall).
Always finish an
Auto attack chain before you use your next
skill.

Opening:

Precast
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on a diffrent position than you are.
into the
of
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Auto attack chain.
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Auto attack chain.
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Auto attack chain.
Weapon swap.
into
of
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Auto attack chain.
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Auto attack chain.
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should be up again soon.

Rotation:

it’s more of a priority list than a rotation, since Mirage doesn’t have a real rotation.
Good combinations of
chains are:

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Auto attack chain.
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Touch the
of
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Auto attack chain.
Touch the
of
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(14/11/17) Matthias - Condition Mirage Clone Build POV

(06/06/17) Matthias - Condi Mesmer POV

Tips for each encounter - Click on each section below to expand

General Gameplay Tips

Mirage Condition

Try to stand inside your target’s hitbox to get all hits from
.
Keep in mind that your dodge doesn’t actually move you.

Chronomancer Support

Traitline Variation & Explanations

Domination/Inspiration: This build easily keeps up Quickness and Alacrity and gives you the ability to share Aegis via
. This build has really low personal DPS.

Illusions/Inspiration: This build is the easiest for keeping up Quickness and it has more DPS than all the other Inspiration builds. However it doesn’t offer you anything apart from that and if you want DPS you usually go Duel/Illu, it is the least used Inspiration build.

Chaos/Inspiration: This build can keep up Quickness and Alacrity but also keep up ~11boons average on real raid encounters. That is why it synergises well with Elementalists’s
and is the best option for bosses where Aegis sharing isn’t needed.

Dueling/Illusions: This build has the highest personal DPS on support chrono, can keep perma Alacrity and Quickness (only with
which you always take while playing Duel/Illu). It is used on bosses where you don’t need CC. You need Shield offhand on this build to keep perma Alacrity via
since you don’t have
.

How to CC & what you can do to improve it

On Domination/Inspiration,
increases stun and daze duration of the following skills:

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However, It doesn’t affect
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Take
if you are actively using
, this is dependant on your party. Otherwise Gorseval (for last CC) and KC (since you can summon phantasms in orb phase).

When using
, walk out away from the boss before using to get more hits on large hitboxes. Depending on the boss you chain your cc’s and don’t waste everything on one.
Try to coordinate your CC skills: for example on sloth you want always 1 Chronomancer to use
for each breakbar.
If you have a sword offhand equiped, you can double press
to access to
(while you are casting it make sure to not get hit as it will trigger the riposte).
works with
however it only works if your current weapon set has the sigil. Therefore you’ll want to get a shield, focus and pistol with
to ensure you don’t miss out on the proc.
To Clarify - If you swap weapon during
and your 2^nd weapon set does not have this sigil then it will not proc.

Well Placement

Make sure you place your wells within range of your team.

Tanking & Toughness

Vale Guardian, Gorseval, Keep Construct, Xera, Deimos, The Broken King, The Soul Eater and Dhuum have an agro mechanic which causes them to always focus the player with the highest toughness. However, this doesn’t mean that you should always have as much toughness as possible, just that you have to have slightly more than your other squad members, except for the following instances:
On Vale Guardian you should run slightly higher toughness(Minstrel works well here) to be able to tank his auto attacks.
If you are the Tower Mesmer for the Escort event, you should be as tanky as possible.
On the Broken King you should also play as tanky as possible as more DPS won't make the fight significantly faster and being tanky allows the druid to not focus on healing you as much. In case you have problems surviving you can just range tank him as well.
The most important thing to note is that you should try to dodge or move as little as possible when not necessary so the boss stays in place. You can add as much toughness as you want if you need it.
As tank don’t turn to your party and don’t move the boss to much. Only when it is unavoidable like deimos blacks. You want to be tanky enough to not die. A dead mesmer is useless, take as much toughness as you need to stay alive when tanking any encounter.

Spirit Vale

Vale Guardian

Chronomancer Support

Tank Chronomancer

Build & Weapon set

You should play Domination/Inspiration so the Druid doesn’t have to heal you after each green. Offhand Sword & Shield for CC and block.

Non tank Chronomancer

Build & Weapon set

You should play Chaos/Inspiration since the Druid can heal you. Offhand Sword & Shield for CC.

Delay your sword skill 2 (
Blurred Frenzy) so you have it available to avoid getting hit by BLUE AOES.
here is used to break quickly the blue guardian during the split phases (66% & 33%). Coordinate with the other Chronomancer who uses it first, as it won’t be off cooldown if you used it in the first split.

Midway:

For VG you should tank the first two phases in the middle, on the opposite side of your team, if you have good dps. In phase 2 you should go out of the ticking area but you can still tank in the middle you just have to move to the left abit to not get ticked down. In phase 3 you want to move halfway to the left edge of the red area and burst him down there:

Sideway:

Tank between red and blue area for phase 1 phase 2 in phase 3 if you trust your druid you can aswell but he has to camp
when you have both ticking areas there. You always want to move slightly to the non ticking area to stay alive.

Spirit Run

You can blink past trigger points during the run and use portals to skip having to capture the exploding circles.

Gorseval

Chronomancer Support

Tank Chronomancer

Build & Weapon set

You should play Chaos/Inspiration here. Offhand Focus to pull in the spirits & Shield to CC.

Non tank Chronomancer

Build & Weapon set

You should play Chaos/Inspiration here. Offhand Pistol & Shield to CC.

If you have high dps (only 1 Slam Attack per phase) :
yourself to share Aegis (
) so your team doesn’t have to dodge Gorsevals Slam Attack.
If you have normal dps (more than 1 Slam Attack per phase) :
yourself to share Aegis (
) or shatter then use
to share Stability from
so your team doesn’t have to dodge Gorsevals Slam Attack.

here is used break Gorseval quickly. If your squad lacks DPS it’s recommended to wait a bit before using(slow cc).
Coordinate with the other Chronomancer to decide who uses
first/second. If you use it in the first phase it will be off cooldown in the third phase.
If you want to break Gorseval faster you can run
on your offhand weapons.

Sabetha

Chronomancer Support

Chronomancer 1

Build & Weapon set

You should play Duelling/Illusion here. Offhand Focus for pull & Shield for Alacrity.

Chronomancer 2

Build & Weapon set

You should play Duelling/Illusion here. Offhand Sword & Shield for Alacrity.

here to make it easier to maintain Quickness. You can cast it when one of the players assigned to do cannons returns, as they might have missed your normal quickness rotation. You should coordinate with the other Chronomancer who uses it first.
The Chronomancer with the focus should pull in the triple bandit spawn.

Salvation Pass

Slothasor

Chronomancer Support

Both Chronomancers

Builds & Weapon sets

You should play Chaos/Inspiration here. Offhand Focus for pull & Shield for CC.
Take
in organised groups (Co-ordinate with the other Chronomancer) and take
in unorganised groups.

Shatter at the end of the breakbar then use
to share Stability from
.
You should have
on your offhands and also run
(It’s a Master Trait in Inspiration).
Its worth remembering that slubbing groups spawn at; 6:30, 6:00, 5:30 and 5:00. Use
Temporal Curtain to pull these adds ontop of Slothasor.
You can
yourself (make sure to have at least 2 clones as you
) and jump repeatedly inside of Slothasor’s hitbox to block the projectiles he shoots out during his shake attack.

Trio

Chronomancer Support

Both Chronomancers

Builds & Weapon sets

You should play Domination/Inspiration. Offhand Focus for pull & Shield.

Video: How to do Mortars in 16s.

Matthias

Chronomancer Support

Both Chronomancers

Builds & Weapon sets

You should play Chaos/Inspiration. Offhand Sword & Shield for defense.
If you are not running a Condition Mirage then one Chronomancer needs to take
instead of
.

If you are lacking CC, one of the Chronomancer can delay his rotation until the first sacrifice to use his
in
so it is off CD for the 2^nd/3^rd sacrifice. If the first sacrifice happens to be you, you might aswell ALT + F4.
At 40% when Matthias transforms, time your well(s) so they expire after all bombs have exploded.
Co-ordinate with the other Chronomancer (and Condition Mirage) as to who will use
1st, 2nd and 3rd.

Mirage Condition

Take
over
. You have to use it when Matthias starts channeling his projectile attack.
You can use
as a gap closer to help you with mechanics.

Stronghold of the Faithful

Escort

Chronomancer Support

You should play Domination/Inspiration here.
Here you should take
.
If you are Cave/Upper Chronomancer then you should take tankier gear. If you are the Main Team Chronomancer just take your normal offensive gear.
Both
Portal and
Mimic are required if you are playing the Upper Chronomancer. If you want to have an easier time as Upper Mesmer you can swap
Signet of Inspiration for
Blink.

Insta Cap Method

The idea behind this method is that one mesmer handles the towers and
the entire team, aside from the Druid. If everyone takes the
, you are able to instantly cap the tower. This method is safer and faster than splitting the team up.
The Chronomancer that takes care of the first 3 towers should run minstrel to be comfortable when tanking mobs. Before opening the first
, you should use
inside your
. This way you will have
for the 2nd tower as well.
As you used Minic inside your
you can also
this 2nd
, allowing you to have
available again for the 3rd tower. By only using one mesmer for the first three towers, this lets you 8 man the mobs and thereby clear faster.
The 2nd mesmer doesn’t need
, as he only has to do the
to the 4th tower by using the ley line. Since the second mesmer isn't minstrel he can take the leyline just as the group takes the
back down from the 3rd tower. The 1st Mesmer can stand on the turret and tank the mobs to help out if you choose to. After you insta cap the 4th turret the 1st Mesmer stands on it tanks the mobs and his
will be off cd for the 5th turret.

Keep Construct

Chronomancer Support

Both Chronomancers

Builds & Weapon sets

You should play Chaos/Inspiration. Offhand Focus for pull & Shield for CC.
If you have high dps, go
as have to CC more often.
If you have normal dps go
.

yourself to share Aegis (
) your subgroup when Keep Construct does his Jump Attack.
Playing focus here will really help your orb pusher as you can pull the orb through the unstable rifts.

Mid tactic:

The Tank chronomancer takes the aggro of the jump, by walking under the boss, and moves him between the two spawning illusions.
In phase 1 the jump is too late so you have to move the boss with yourself between the two statues.
Make sure the 2 people with fixation both stay on the left side of the bosses hitbox which will make it easy to cleave down both illusions.
As for pulling the orb out, chronomancers go to the west circle 1 mesmer places his
Temporal Curtain on the edge of the green circle and the other one pulls out. This way you instantly pull through the rift and have 1 orb damage buff.

Temporal Curtain

Side tactic:

The Tank chronomancer takes the aggro, by walking under the boss, and moves him to the left of the arena, where ever the illusion spawns.
After the first illusion is dead you should move the boss towards the 2nd illusion.
Use
Temporal Curtain. to pull the orb in rifts depending on how many orbs you do just make sure to not use both on the same rift.

Xera

Chronomancer Support

Both Chronomancers

Builds & Weapon sets

You should play Chaos/Inspiration here. Offhand Focus for pull & Shield for CC (also CC on trashmobs).

Decide with the other Chronomancer as to who will pull the human adds and who will pull the illusions.
Using focus allows you to also pull an orb on the 1^st platform.
As the tank avoid turning in group’s direction if Xera is doing Blurred Frenzy, as it will most likely kill them. Save your
Blurred Frenzy so you can use it while she uses her blurred frenzy, this way you don’t need to dodge it.

Try Hard Tanking Positions

Lower DPS Tanking Positions

Bastion of the Penitent

Cairn

Chronomancer Support

Both Chronomancers

Builds & Weapon sets

You should play Duelling/Illusion here. Offhand Sword & Shield for Alacrity and defense for the AoEs.

As Chronomancer make sure you take 2nd or 3rd Agony AoE.
If your party decides not to take greens after 50% then try to time your
Signet of Inspiration to share Stability from
Spirit of Nature.
REMEMBER TO NOT REFLECT HERE!!

Mirage Condition

DPS golem.

Mursaat Overseer

Chronomancer Support

Both Chronomancers

Builds & Weapon sets

You should play Dueling/Illusion here. Offhand Sword & Shield for Alacrity.

Ensure that one Chronomancer uses
outside of
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Samarog

Chronomancer Support

Chronomancer 1

Build & Weapon set

You should play Chaos/Inspiration here. Offhand Focus for pull & Shield for CC.

Chronomancer 2

Build & Weapon set

You should play Chaos/Inspiration here. Offhand Pistol & Shield for CC.

Focus is used to pull Rigom under Samarog during the split phase.
is used here here for the CC phase every ~10%. Coordinate with the other Chronomancer who uses it first.
If you want to break Samarog more quickly you can run
on your offhand focus.

Deimos

Chronomancer Support

Tank Chronomancer

Build & Weapon set

Offhand Sword & Shield for Defense.
If you have high dps (only 1 knockback attack per phase), you should play Chaos/Inspiration.
If you have normal dps (more than 1 knockback attack per phase), you should play Domination/Inspiration.

Non tank Chronomancer

Build & Weapon set

Offhand Sword & Focus for DPS.
If you have high dps (only 1 knockback attack per phase), you should play Chaos/Inspiration.
If you have normal dps (more than 1 knockback attack per phase), you should play Domination/Inspiration.

yourself to share Aegis (
) to avoid getting knocked back. If you do so make sure to stand in only 1 part of the knockback attack.
As Non-Tank Chronomancer make sure to use
outside of
at the start of the encounter and in the last 10% phases.
REMEMBER TO HAVE MORE TOUGHNESS THAN THE HAND KITER!

Hall of Chains

Soulless Horror

Chronomancer Support

Both Chronomancers

Builds & Weapon sets

You should play Domination/Inspiration here. Offhand Sword & Shield for CC.

Try to Aegis share the expanding AoE for your team.
At the start you should swap aggro at three stacks and then swap again once you have lost all stacks for the subsequent aggro swaps. Alternatively, swap when the current tank is about to die.
Try to tank in the middle and face the direction of the wurms. This allows the scourges to use Epidemic on them if they are in range. Scourges can also use their
to allows squad members to avoid large walls going through the middle.
Avoid moving through the boss, to prevent her from auto-attacking your squad. Her auto-attack will deal a lot of damage and can potentially down your DPS classes.
Note If your party lacks healing, use your
outside of the regular to rotation to heal your squad.
Try to have your
&
for the CC when her breakbar is up.
You want to stay in the inner circle and knock the Flesh Golems away from the middle. Preferably you want to knock them off the platform and let them die there.
Staying within the inner circle of the platform will result in smaller wall spawns or walls with gaps in them. Meanwhile if you stay on the outer circle of the arena, you will get larger wall spawns, which will result in you having to needlessly move.

RIVER OF SOULS

Chronomancer Support

You should play Chaos/Inspiration here.
One Chrono should take:
,
,
and
. This allows you to skip past the first section of wall spawns up to the Enervator and the last walls up to the last enevator since your portal will be off cooldown at that time again.
The other Chrono should run normal utilities, but replace
for
to block the subsequent walls.
Use your heal well on Desmina to heal her when she gets low.
Note You can’t heal her when an Enervator is channelling his attack on her.
There is a chance that the Chrono could go down after opening his
, try to resurrect him as soon as you go through the
.
If your team struggles to close rifts you can take a scepter in your off set to help close them.

STATUES OF GRENTH

Chronomancer Support

Both Chronomancers

Builds & Weapon sets

You should play Chaos/Inspiration here. Offhand Focus for pull and utility & Shield for CC alacrity and defense.

Broken King: One of the Chronos should run a full tank set-up here. This will allow the tank to sustain himself without help from his squad. This chrono should also go
to remove the constant resistance so Vuln etc. applies.
Soul Eater: One of the Chronos will have to tank him again, however you just need sufficient toughness to hold the aggro.
As the tank it is your duty to move him towards the glowing platforms and keep him there. Meanwhile your team should be killing the spiders. They should then pick up the yellow orbs that spawn after the spiders die and throw them onto the glowing platform where the boss is standing. This renders him vulnerable to attacks allows two people to go up in the air to collect souls.
While two party members are picking up to souls in the air you will move the boss to the next glowing platform so you can repeat what you did earlier. When your team has collected 18 Souls you can kill the Eater and the fight will be over.
Eye duo: You have a 30 second window to kill both Eyes. Otherwise they will start healing up again.
Ideally you want to split into three groups; you should split into a 4-2-4 group, whereby both chronos will stay up with the [lights]. Each Chrono should throw the [lights] to their assigned side (either North or South). Always throw the lights on top of the Eye.
For utilities take:
,
,
and
.
gives you greater mobility to collect the lights on top.
gives you the ability to assist your assigner party on the last 10%. Additionally you can
across to the other side to assist the other side if you killed your Eye. Use
on for the party that you are assisting.
Note you can CC the light thieves with
and
when they are trying to steal your light.

Dhuum

Chronomancer Support

Tank Chronomancer

Build & Weapon set

You should play Chaos/Inspiration here. Offhand Sword & Shield for defense.

Non tank Chronomancer

Build & Weapon set

You should play Chaos/Inspiration here. Offhand Sword & Shield for defense and Alacrity.
Takes first green port. If you can’t reach it reliably, drop
for
.

Again one of the Chronos should tank this boss. While you don’t need excessive amounts of toughness to tank; feel free to take Minstrel Gear for the added safety and support it provides.
During phase place
so it expires after The bomb explosion.
When the boonstrip is about to happen, place your
so it expires under you and your allies for the healing.
As tank, use your
after each boonstrip so you can re-apply Quickness to everyone.

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