Guild Wars 2

so I went dueling dom chrono and I.. I dont like it. Maybe I didnt try it long enough, but shield feels like a waste of time. I dont see taking wells over mantras/feedback. I dunno, its just my first impression and im not fond of it, but maybe im crazy

Try Dom/Illusion/Chrono. Take Persistence of Memory and Chronophantasma. It makes for some incredibly engaging game play regardless of weapons. Simply summon 3 phants shatter them twice and enjoy your alacrity, and massive reduction to your phat cooldowns.

I don’t think the shield is very PvE material. It is too support-oriented, but not really the kind of support PvE needs currently. Also, alacrity is not super valuable in PvE.

The only thing I could see as a strong bonus for chronomancer is the ability to shatter with chronophantasma + maybe also the damage well and well of action to get a higher spike damage.

I believe PvE-wise, chrono will benefit condition build more (with duelist) because

• condi build really only need dueling and illusion to do high DPS, so there is a place for chronomancy
• duelist has a longer time between volleys which chronophantasma will shorten

Loony.3714:

Try Dom/Illusion/Chrono. Take Persistence of Memory and Chronophantasma. It makes for some incredibly engaging game play regardless of weapons. Simply summon 3 phants shatter them twice and enjoy your alacrity, and massive reduction to your phat cooldowns.

^this,
My shatter Phantom pure dmg build
http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgMG6AJ8BZg~
Sadly Illusion lack of Good GM… if only Master of Fragmentation could make Mind Wrack be a Blast finisher for each shatter… or Seize The Moment was GM Illusion…

When more support needed:
http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgMG6AJ8BFw~
take note that you can change support Traits as you need, its open up to player.

Its tricky build, and you need timing clones/dodges with phantoms and shatters.

Overal Wells>Mantras no doubt in it. You waste tons of time preparing mantras with no real profit… with Alcarity, Quickness you can dish out amazing dmg, duo to Shatter being viable in PvE. Ofc wells are situational, like other skill.

Also dont ignore alcarity 1s Alcarity make all others skill cd 0.4s instead 1s. Sadly its hard to give others more than 3s lower cds, but mesmer can have it like 80% of the time…

Profit is huge, you basicaly :
Summon clones>shatter them>cast Phantoms> Phantoms end roatiotn>shatter them>summon Clones>shatter>Phantom roatiotn>shatter
or
summon clones>F5>Time Wrap>Well of Recall> Iwarden>Ehter signet>Iwarde>F5 ends so oyu cna summ I warden>Shatter: this will reset Iwardens so they will start again rotation when they done shatter= tons of dmg

Basicaly for you its 11 quickness(with guardians 20+) and 10s+ of Alcarity

I called it “snowbalTime”

I tried out Dueling/illusions/Chrono with deceptive evasion today with sword/shield and it seemed to go pretty good. This is obviously more for support.

The only problem I have been thinking about, but never came across yet is aggro. Chronophantasma and illusionary reversion make it so its almost impossible to get rid of your illusions if you need to. I could see this being a problem in certain situations if you have these traits.

I tried dom/duel/chr and took as many alacrity sources as possible. I actually really enjoyed it once I figured out how to use F5 to produce something like 10-15 seconds of alacrity uptime.

I was able to produce 100% alacrity uptime on golems with scepter without Improved Alacrity. It requires you to be scepter AAing most of the time, but it’s pretty funny.

I just finished some extensive testing of Dueling/Illusions/Chrono condi and I ripped through pve mobs like nothing else I’ve played, d/d zerker thief included.

I walked up to a line of 5 Slingers outside Indigo, and killed them almost fast as I could walk past them.

So something I did…

Trait dueling, insp, chrono. Take illusionary reversion, take quickness on shatter, take phant -> sig of inspiration. Take mirror images, take sig of inspiration, take quickness well.

Put up 3 illusions. Drop the well, shatter, spawn a clone, dodge roll, shatter, mirror images, shatter, cast phantasm, cast SoI.

Everyone around you now has ~15 seconds of quickness.

Edit: If you keep shattering to keep alacrity up, this combo has ~25s cooldown.

Fay.2357:

So something I did…

Trait dueling, insp, chrono. Take illusionary reversion, take quickness on shatter, take phant -> sig of inspiration. Take mirror images, take sig of inspiration, take quickness well.

Put up 3 illusions. Drop the well, shatter, spawn a clone, dodge roll, shatter, mirror images, shatter, cast phantasm, cast SoI.

Everyone around you now has ~15 seconds of quickness.

Edit: If you keep shattering to keep alacrity up, this combo has ~25s cooldown.

I love it.
I bet we can even heavily improve on it with careful f5 timing.

alright, now I get it.

I enjoy this for pve now. I wasnt embracing wells fully and was trying to sick with mantras and the harmonious mantra trait. Theres simply no place for that with Chrono and thats ok.