Guild Wars 2

Without much typing, basically my question is:

Exactly how does chronophantasma work?

What I’m having trouble understanding specifically is the wording on the wiki and the tooltip.

“Your phantasms are resummoned after the first time they are shattered.
(Resummoned phantasms are briefly dazed.)”

There is no icd or anything like that, so what does “First Time” mean. First time in a fight? First time in a certain amount of time? First time in a match?

I’ve noticed that sometimes my phantasms are resummoned and sometimes they aren’t so this has me a little confused…

Its the first time each individual phantasm is shattered. With Chronophantasma your phantasms spawn with a buff (and a butterfly particle affect around them). When you shatter them, they respawn but lose the buff. If they don’t have the buff, they die after a shatter like usual.

Supraluminal.7482:

Its the first time each individual phantasm is shattered. With Chronophantasma your phantasms spawn with a buff (and a butterfly particle affect around them). When you shatter them, they respawn but lose the buff. If they don’t have the buff, they die after a shatter like usual.

ok i get that, my question is more towards that “buff” once they spawn without it when do they get it back? when does it reset? after you ooc?

Each Phantasm will only get the Chronophant Buff when they are first summoned through normal skill usage. Their “resummoned” variants will never get that Buff and will disappear permanently if you shatter them.

Basically instead of fizzling on the first Shatter, every Phantasm fizzles on the second Shatter.

It’s slightly more involved than that but that’s about the gist of it.

savacli.8172:

Each Phantasm will only get the Chronophant Buff when they are first summoned through normal skill usage. Their “resummoned” variants will never get that Buff and will disappear permanently if you shatter them.

Thanks for the quick response, but i understand that part of how it works. What i have questions about is the “reset” for the Chronophant Buff, is there a icd for it? or does it reset after you ooc? or after the fight ends? or after meeting any other requirements? Bc “permanently” means you never get to use it again, and that sounds like a terrible GM trait to take.

It’s not a buff on the Mesmer, it’s a buff on the Phantasm. Every Phantasm that is conjured.

There’s no ICD, every Phantasm you conjure get the buff. When a Phantasm with the buff is Shattered it loses the buff so the next time it’s Shattered it’s gone for good, like usual. It’s individual for every Phantasm.

Lets try an example:

You summon a iZerker, it has the buff on it.
You mind wrack, iZerker runs at enemy and blows up.
iZerker respawns, without the buff.
You mind wrack again, iZerker runs at enemy and blows up.
iZerker does not respawn.

This is on a per-phantasm basis:

Summon iZerker #1, it has the buff.
Mind wrack, iZerker 1 explodes and respawns without the buff.
Summon iZerker #2, it has the buff.
Mind wrack again, iZerker #1 and iZerker #2 explode.
iZerker #2 respawns (without the buff), whereas iZerker #1 does not.

Its the act of casting the phantasm creation ability that grants the buff to the phantasm, it never gets it back.

To determine if a phantasm will respawn after shattering just ask yourself “Have I pressed a shatter button since I spawned this phantasm?” If the answer is yes, then it will go away. If the answer is no, it will respawn.

Embolism.8106:

It’s not a buff on the Mesmer, it’s a buff on the Phantasm. Every Phantasm that is conjured.

There’s no ICD, every Phantasm you conjure get the buff. When a Phantasm with the buff is Shattered it loses the buff so the next time it’s Shattered it’s gone for good, like usual. It’s individual for every Phantasm.

let see if this explains my question better. Once i used all my phantasms in a fight and shattered them and then shattered the resummoned ones. When do i get to use chronophantasma again?

sorry if I’m making it harder than it is, everyone is being very helpful answering the part of the question i already know. Not the part about how “often” can you use chronophantasma

Edit: yes i definitely was making harder than it is

Supraluminal.7482:

Lets try an example:

You summon a iZerker, it has the buff on it.
You mind wrack, iZerker runs at enemy and blows up.
iZerker respawns, without the buff.
You mind wrack again, iZerker runs at enemy and blows up.
iZerker does not respawn.

This is on a per-phantasm basis:

Summon iZerker #1, it has the buff.
Mind wrack, iZerker 1 explodes and respawns without the buff.
Summon iZerker #2, it has the buff.
Mind wrack again, iZerker #1 and iZerker #2 explode.
iZerker #2 respawns (without the buff), whereas iZerker #1 does not.

Its the act of casting the phantasm creation ability that grants the buff to the phantasm, it never gets it back.

To determine if a phantasm will respawn after shattering just ask yourself “Have I pressed a shatter button since I spawned this phantasm?” If the answer is yes, then it will go away. If the answer is no, it will respawn.

OK this is what i was looking for, thank you.