Guild Wars 2

I find myself in this 1v1 a lot. I’m using this build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAodn0XCNYiFYCeOAcYilNAb4BEAKgu71A7hl4DcBqAA-TJxGAB2XGAgTAA5PAAf2fAA

While not 1v1 oriented by any means I still need to find a proper rotation that doesn’t end in me being downed or disengaging. Sometimes I’m the only one who cares enough to take back home and sometimes I even get the Chrono’s health down by a decent amount but can’t seem to complete the downed. My stats typically follow these scenarios:

1.Rushdown. Just use all the skills I can starting with the ones that link more fluidly and try saving Earth for when I’d need obsidian flesh, otherwise ending with lightning for the attunement. Interrupts like air and water 5 are camped. This strat however runs into issues as it leaves too many gaps due to Tempest’s charge nature.

2.Passive Aggressive. Since Chrono is specced for damage they’d win an autoattacking race, but otherwise this involves waiting for the absolute safest moment to burn skills.

In either scenario I typically wait until at least 8 stacks of confusion before cleansing, but this means I need to spec into earth for the cleansing skill and water to cleanse anything additional, meaning these attunements are on cooldown and I have no significant offensive pressure under earth. On Druid and Revenant I seem to cope just fine but Tempest vs. Chrono is just a big uphill battle. I’d rather just support in teamfights but I sometimes find myself getting teams that just scatter all over the map not caring for objectives and even turtling 2 or 3 at home when no enemies are even approaching it.

When I play chronomancer I often have trouble against shocking aura elementalist. I can win if I dodge well but it definitely counters sword and shatters as long as you stay close to them. Diamond skin can counter some condition mesmers. But it is hard and you probably have to be the better player.

Shocking aura being wind on a sizable cooldown means it’ll come late in the battle, and an early air overload is going to get interrupted even traited for stability, avoided and waited out (though lightning flash fortunately doesn’t cancel it) or at worst bursted down during the animation. I’ve defeated some DH’s, Reapers, and Druids well enough but all the Chronos seem to know when to pop their blocks and stack confusion. I do some stuff in fire but the lack of condi damage means the burning provides minimal pressure while water is good for chill or even an overload heal if I have the time.

Its a tough match up indeed. Most mesmers have enough invuln and dazes to make the fight difficult to win.

The biggest thing is getting interrupts on them.

The beginning of the fight is all about avoiding their damage and shield 5 skill.

If you can force them to blow all their cooldowns without losing much health it will put you in a good position.

You might want to consider changing your shouts since they are a long cooldown.

I know that powerful auras is a strong option, however, your survivabilty will increase substantially by simply changing your utilities to lower cooldown auras and taking cleansing water.

Allies still gain the benefits of auras from shouts and Elemental Bastion which I feel is more than enough support.

You should really take Invigorating torrents instead as well since auras will remove conditions.

Not enough damage in your build to justify traits and utilities to increase damage output.

Sorry if thats all over the place. Alot goes into fighting chronos, however, I find alot of their rotations generally the same.

I don’t think it’s possible to “win” the matchup as Tempest in the sense of killing the chrono.

If you’re willing to run Cleansing Water + aura regen over Powerful Auras + overload stab, you can stall indefinitely. The trick is to not use your cleansing skills while diamond skin is still up — let the clones or staff autoattacks hit you to proc diamond skin. Once you dip below 75%, swap to water and/or use one of your auras to cleanse and pop back over 75%, then let diamond skin do the cleansing again. If you keep this up, your defensive CDs will last longer than the mesmer’s offensive CDs. (You can see Wakkey doing this really well in a lot of the earlier Proleague matches this season, before mesmers stopped trying to decap against him).

But stalling indefinitely against the mesmer isn’t really a “win,” since that means you’re not around to support your team in teamfights.

Your best bet is to get a rev or thief to +1 and down the mesmer quickly (with your support, including condi cleanse, shocking aura to interrupt blurred frenzy, Air5 to interrupt block). Or swap in someone who can do better in the matchup (like druid or war) so that you’re free to leave the point and join a teamfight.

With Powerful Auras (which I notice you’re running), I don’t think the matchup is winnable. The mesmer will put on condis faster than you can cleanse.