Guild Wars 2

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQRAsc8dnsIC9fiVoBGoBUrhFVj68JGijgMAGhirOZn2qF-TxBBABYp8DgTCQe6H6f/hAeCAVq+zZKBJFQgTtA-e

After losing countless attempt at the Vale Guardian due to people not being able to figure out the concept of getting into a green circle, I ended up coming up with this build.

The idea behind it is simple, to replace the ranged team in the Vale Guardian fight. Distortion is sufficient to prevent the damage taken by the green circle AoE, and Inspiring Distortion allows a mesmer to share a second of it on an internal cooldown of 5 seconds, which is a short enough cooldown to share distortion during every single explosion.

Signets are taken along with Blurred Inscriptions primarily in order to provide a low cooldown source of distortion. By alternating between Signet of Midnight and Signet of Inspiration, you can have a source of distortion up every time that a green circle needs people inside it.

Meanwhile, time warp, 100% boon duration with facet of nature, and signet of inspiration will provide significant quickness uptime to the raid, while also helping to maintain other buffs on allies, while well of recall additionally provides acceptable alacrity uptime.

Full berserker stats are maintained, while also retaining the large damage modifier from running domination traits. Sword offhand is used to stack three illusionary swordsmen, while focus is used in order to pull seekers off the main group.

With two chronomancers running this, each in their own control groups, instead of having two split teams, it is possible to run a full melee composition, and the pressure of not screwing up circles is focused on two people rather than relying on four people to do their job, allowing you and a friend that you trust to single handedly eliminate the most common cause of PuG raid wipes.

The only caveat is that the allies that you’re going to share distortion with must be within 300 range of you, which could potentially cause issues during phases where you need to avoid teleports, but, the tell for the teleport is long enough that your group can simply walk out of them rather than scattering.

Shield can replace sword for less phantasm damage, but significantly more AoE quickness, and alacrity for the group.

This is equal parts brilliant and horrid.

Your weapon set choices choices are either an elaborate troll, or you’re Zee from team paradigm reborn into the modern era of gw2.

Trigr.6481:

Your weapon set choices choices are either an elaborate troll, or you’re Zee from team paradigm reborn into the modern era of gw2.

This is a PvE thread, and yes I saw this before/if it gets deleted/edited.

Fay.2357:

Trigr.6481:

Your weapon set choices choices are either an elaborate troll, or you’re Zee from team paradigm reborn into the modern era of gw2.

This is a PvE thread, and yes I saw this before/if it gets deleted/edited.

Haha, fair enough.

Thank you. This is very useful.

Motoko.2361:

Thank you. This is very useful.

oboi

This thread is about a year out of date in terms of how builds are for VG. Granted, current chrono builds actually do use the distortion share mechanic to allow green skipping, but the build is necessarily quite different.

You basicly still run this build for Distortion share:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAs+cncfC9fiFoBmfCMrhFVj68JWipjMAGhirOZn2qF-TxRBQBT8BAcFlfmRJI/2fAP6FAwJBgSq/QKgAnaB-e

If you are new to the whole Distortion thing, I suggest you use Midnight over Recall to fix any mistakes you make:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAs+cncfCVohFoBmfCMrhFVjqOZn2q98JWipjMAGhiD-TxRBQBXR5nZUCCgTCwEfAAUS9H+t/Ae0LQKgAnaB-e