Guild Wars 2

Does anyone have a Chronomaster Wells Build for WvW? I run in zergs mostly and I am tired of running the typical shatter build.

I realized I should probably post the build I’m using as a starting point. I’m sure I’m screwing something up so any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhMQNAR7encfCFrh1fC+fCEgilTj6sKiirjMAWgCo+Zv2tF-TFCBQBM4BAAw9HAwFBIP6GMiyPco+zDM/JhjAoEMAACwN3Z6sODQKAIWWB-w

Just something from top of my head.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vhMQNAR8encfCtfilpBmfCEgiFVjqeZf2s98JeupjMAqgdC-TVyHAB9rMY5LAgX6GaX9HAeCA+o0L+DCQ57PEnSwAAIA3cnhODQKAvmaB-w

So ok. If you use F1, F2 or F3 to get some quickness and than use GS 2 switch to Sword, use sword 3. F5 and than gravity well, well of calamity, well of action, F5, gravity well, well of calamity, well of action, Shield 4 to share all that quickness go in while in block, shield 5 for some more cc, echo of memory out and you should still have blink for emergency. Sigil of draining should be healing u for 1000 every interupt and with 2 gravity wells on slowed enemies + shield 5 should proc a lot. With enemies being slowed + fury you are at 100% crit chance.
Prefrably u are in party with herald for that fury(this is covered by another mesmer running build bellow(pack runes)) and 50% boon duration.
Not realy sure about power block and blured inscriptions.

It should acctuly work great with another mesmer running something like this, for veil obviously and more slow and quickness from timewarp.Or well just use 2 mesmers with above build, i just wanted to cover veil+PU.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhMQNAR8elsnhS1YZawYNQtGLAH15IMabgZCkKBQ9nOqtKA-TFCEABNp8Ln9H4X9HAVCCwFAoNdDP8EAS4gAEAAB4m3Mb2mBDdoDdoDdodzbezbezbWKAvmaB-w

Mesmers can bounce boons beetween eachother if second mesmer goes into boonshare instead of temporal enchanter.

These builds are not optimized or tested due to huge cost of obtaining all of this equipment.

Sry for bad language and lack of formating but i just dont have the nerve to go trough it.

Just some QoL tweaks to your starting point, from my perspective. If you don’t mind.
The changes will be mostly minimal, to stick with the QoL.

1. Swap precog for calamity (Or even blink, so you can reposition yourself easier). Precog sucks now, it’s just a block.
2. Swap Sc/Sh for staff, gives a bit of get away power and another AoE to toss down.
3. Imagined burden is likely less valuable than either powerblock or mental anguish. Since those 2 will let you better deal with a gank that gets in your face.
4. Mental defense is literally worthless, swap it out for temporal enchanter, which will give your team a bit of probably useless resistance.
5. Consider swapping persisting images out for medic’s feedback (illusions will die instantly anyway)
6. Consider swapping chronophantasma out for lost time. Lost time could be useful here, with your high crit rate and AoE.
7. Swap sigil of accuracy on GS for either fire or blight (I prefer blight in GvGs, you might prefer fire in Zerg v Zerg)
8. I would put either hydromancy/energy on staff, and consider adding impact/force as well. Considering one of your wells is gravity well, impact might be valuable when combined with calamity. Otherwise, force is prob better. Or even another blight sigil. shrug

Edit:
9. Also, I would consider (not necessarily actually do it) swapping chrono runes for scholar runes. Idk, I like the flat 10% damage boost as long as I play it safe.

2nd Edit:
Also note that veil isn’t as valuable without PU from Chaos. So… you might not run that. It also doesn’t work well in GvGs, so. ehhh~

I’ve found the most effective “well” to run in zergs is Feedback since the most recent patch made it ground-targetted.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAW8ensnBFrhtqBmpBEgiFcjqOWr1etMAatfxMDChKA-TFyHABAcRA8SXQ47PwkSw4fCAfpRod1f6R5HpAKSZE-w

(any 3 grandmaster traits in chaos are good choices, but I personally prefer chaotic interruption)

I’ve been running a mild boon-duration build around it with staff because of the heavy protection uptime and its ability to provide reliable clone generation for “clutch” continuum splits. With all the boon duration and extra reliability of CS, you also get extra mileage out of Seize the Moment.

Here are some clips of me messing around with the build in zergs: (the first clip I had some friends run Feedback with me)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNiacDANIjw

I’ve been running Chrono in WvW since HoT patch and pretty much exclusively til they nerfed alacrity. I’ve tried staff, , Scepter+Shield, scepter+focus, scepter+torch, Sword+Shield, sword + focus, and GS (pretty much all the standard weapons).

All I have to say is post-nerf, Precog is absolutely GARBAGE. It is never worth slotting over blink , Null Field, or Well of Recall. If you ever want stability, Power Break gives more stacks and has 2 uses. Before nerf, you could drop it right where the enemy is bombing and invuln hits for 5 people. Now it is weaker than any necromancer well with the well trait that gives 3s protection (Vampiric Ritual).

SloRules.3560 gave you a good template (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=http%3A%2F%2Fen.gw2skills.net%2Feditor%2F%3FvhMQNAR8encfCtfilpBmfCEgiFVjqeZf2s98JeupjMAqgdC-TVyHAB9rMY5LAgX6GaX9HAeCA%2Bo0L%2BDCQ57PEnSwAAIA3cnhODQKAvmaB-w).

If you’re going to be dropping wells, make sure nobody is dropping more powerful fields such as chill fields, water fields when stacking/resetting/empowering, or fire fields for might.

If you want to run wells, Gravity well + Well of Calamity (a bit of damage on end) / Well of Recall (pre-nerf to alacrity) + Well of Action (quickness/slow ).

Unless you’re fighting rangers , rifle warriors (lol gunflame), or DHs & using the Inspiration trait line, wouldn’t recommend Mirror over Well of Eternity , Signet of the Ether , or even Ether Feast. Note that the evasive Mirror breaks stealth.

Gravity well / Tides of Time have strong synergy with Power Block if you opt to use it.

This is pretty much what I would consider the basic for zerguing: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAR8+Glph1fCEgClojqePL0D9MACMA-w

You can do interesting things in zergs with a chronomancer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTvC5aMHrSM