Guild Wars 2

How is condichronomancer looking? Is it viable? I was theorycrafting it in builder and it all “clicks together” for me better then power build where I simply always miss one trait line…

You talking pvp or pve?

Chrono doesn’t offer anything specifically for the condition playstyle. It offers opportunities for shatter builds to do more shattering, so you can certainly make a good condi shatter Chronomancer if you can find a spec line to drop from your existing condi shatter build.

I tried to find a good condi shatter build with Chronomancer. You loose too much when you take the trait line that its not worth it.
So far the only real benefit for chronomancer is for Power Block and Power Shatter builds.

Kusa.6438:

I tried to find a good condi shatter build with Chronomancer. You loose too much when you take the trait line that its not worth it.
So far the only real benefit for chronomancer is for Power Block and Power Shatter builds.

If I wasn’t having amazing success with a chrono condi shatter build, I might think you knew what you are talking about.

AlphatheWhite.9351:

Kusa.6438:

I tried to find a good condi shatter build with Chronomancer. You loose too much when you take the trait line that its not worth it.
So far the only real benefit for chronomancer is for Power Block and Power Shatter builds.

If I wasn’t having amazing success with a chrono condi shatter build, I might think you knew what you are talking about.

This. Condi Chrono is absolutely amazing.

Condi Chrono (Dueling, Illusions, Chrono) is pretty broken, i’ve seen bursts for 30+ confusion by pretty much spamming all shatters twice with iReversion.

Condi benefits much more from chrono than power because condi really needs only 1 trait line (illusion) so they don’t give up as much as power which usually need their 3 lines already.

Condi Shatter relies more heavily on Illusion production than Power Shatter does. That’s because Mind Wrack doesn’t scale linearly. Meaning, the damage per illusion goes down as you Mind Wrack with more illusions though the total damage goes up slightly. A single Illusion shatter w/ Mind Wrack does about 99% of the damage a 3 illusion shatter w/o Mind Wrack does. With Mind Wrack it does 33% more damage.

Meanwhile, all of the condi stuff does scale linearly. Everything is based on per Illusion effects. This means that Chronomancer is a very strong support for a Condi build since you can use Illusionary Reversion and Chronophantasma to greatly increase your effective Illusion production. In addition, your inflicting of conditions is based on ALL of your shatters and not as reliant on Mind Wrack burst as Power is. So being able to refresh all of your shatters AND put more illusions into them is huge.

I seriously hope nerfs don’t happen before I get a chance to play with it.

I’m afraid of ICDs being slapped on IR and Cp, especially on IR.

I hope they leave it alone because it’s the only thing since the MtD nerf making me excited again.

Slow makes interrupt easier, Illusionnary Reversion and Chronophantasma allow you generate clones fast. Alacrity makes skills available faster and you get it on every shatter. You also get more and easier access to Quickness.
It probably helps condition builds quite a bit.

Iavra.8510:

Condi Chrono (Dueling, Illusions, Chrono) is pretty broken, i’ve seen bursts for 30+ confusion by pretty much spamming all shatters twice with iReversion.

how the hell 30 stacks

if you began with 3 clones with F2 its 8 stacks than f1 its 2 stacks than f3 its 2 stacks and f4 its 2 stacks and f5 its 2 stacks and all over again with f1-f4 which is 8 stacks
so total 24 stacks with #3 scepter its 6 more. but the duration of the earlier stacks will be finished

now did you use it on golem like anet did?!

my best was 22 stacks but i burn all my shatter .gg with that on real fight

messiah.1908:

Iavra.8510:

Condi Chrono (Dueling, Illusions, Chrono) is pretty broken, i’ve seen bursts for 30+ confusion by pretty much spamming all shatters twice with iReversion.

how the hell 30 stacks

if you began with 3 clones with F2 its 8 stacks than f1 its 2 stacks than f3 its 2 stacks and f4 its 2 stacks and f5 its 2 stacks and all over again with f1-f4 which is 8 stacks
so total 24 stacks with #3 scepter its 6 more. but the duration of the earlier stacks will be finished

now did you use it on golem like anet did?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qtxJ_HtB1A

are you sure? :P
what you see there is all condition damage, no physical damage cause that mob takes no damage from front (all those 0’s you see)

Telekinesis.8312:

messiah.1908:

Iavra.8510:

Condi Chrono (Dueling, Illusions, Chrono) is pretty broken, i’ve seen bursts for 30+ confusion by pretty much spamming all shatters twice with iReversion.

how the hell 30 stacks

if you began with 3 clones with F2 its 8 stacks than f1 its 2 stacks than f3 its 2 stacks and f4 its 2 stacks and f5 its 2 stacks and all over again with f1-f4 which is 8 stacks
so total 24 stacks with #3 scepter its 6 more. but the duration of the earlier stacks will be finished

now did you use it on golem like anet did?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qtxJ_HtB1A

are you sure? :P
what you see there is all condition damage, no physical damage cause that mob takes no damage from front

omg pve common PVE food duration etc… go with power and you will do more dmg

i am pvp players and hope anet dont nerf us by pve game play

you cant obviously get to 30 stacks of confusion in pvp, the other player might be a total noob :-) just an evade will break it

messiah.1908:

i am pvp players and hope anet dont nerf us by pve game play

ahaha, it’s one if the first time I see this sentence it that direction

The fact is even 30 stacks confusion still does lower damage than a standard ele, while the ele can sustain the damage (while here, the chrono gave all he had)

Silverkey.2078:

messiah.1908:

i am pvp players and hope anet dont nerf us by pve game play

ahaha, it’s one if the first time I see this sentence it that direction

The fact is even 30 stacks confusion still does lower damage than a standard ele, while the ele can sustain the damage (while here, the chrono gave all he had)

He’s only a pvp player, he wouldn’t understand the so called “intricacies of a simple pve chronomancer”

Or the otherway around, We are pve players, we dont pvp.. even if we want to, we cant.. we’r strictly pve.. targets dont just stand and take damage in pvp you know? :-P

The super speed on shatter helps a great deal

Daniel Handler.4816:

The super speed on shatter helps a great deal

absolutely, i made this comment on the other post as well.. i’m spoiled by that trait.. i cant shatter and look at my illusions crawl to the target anymore :-)