Guild Wars 2

Just seen the chronomancer video and am i missing something?

What’s the trade off for becomign a chronomancer? Wich skills or trait lines i lose?
Am i forced to use those 4 utilitys/elite?
Do i lose some weapon?

Am you missing something?
Yes

What’s the trade off?
With new revamp of the traits, each trait lines would be called “specialisation”. Instead being able to spend points across different trait lines, you will be only able to choose THREE trait lines. Due to this, choosing the Chronomancer trait line would mean you only have 2 other trait line as choices to combine.

Am you forced to used those new utilities/elite?
No, Chronomancer unlocks the ability for you to use those skills. It doesn’t restrict you to only able to have those skills as utlities.

Do you lose some weapon?
No, Chronomancer unlocks the ability for you to use a Shield in the off-hand. You don’t have to use shield. You don’t lose the ability to equip other weapons. You could be a chronomancer but not have a shield equipped. However you cannot be a Mesmer and have a shield equipped.

I don’t believe there ever was any official mention of losing anything when using an elite spec. Certainly none of the official posts mentioned anything.

You forfeit one of the standard specialization lines.

Now go look at those, look at any build you might want to run, and tell me you don’t see major trade-offs for each and every one of them.

As an example, go with a classic Power-Shatter build and significant trade-offs you will make:
1) Dueling: Clone generation on dodge, AoE Blind on Shatter, Vigor
2) Domination: Mental Torment, Fragility, AE Boon-stripping
3) Illusions: Shattered Strength (15% CD redux on all shatters & Might on shatter), Compounding Power, and Master of Fragmentation (pretty big deal from what people are saying it’s now 20% to Crit chance, the usual AoE on F3 & Reflect on F4, and possibly another damage bonus?)

Every line has significant and unique traits that you won’t get if you go with Chronomancer. Also we have not experienced how Chronomancer plays, so anyone who thinks it will be automagically superior to other lines, is simply talking out their tail end.

The whole F5 thing frankly sounds like a pretty big trade-off, one that a competent player whom is playing against a competent team may quickly grow to hate. You can be pulled out of your rift at the enemies discretion, basically, depending mostly on how many “HPs” a rift has. I’m guessing it’s not going to be a whole lot. This alone should be a huge red warning sign to competent players who like being in control of their own destiny. ;-) (Being pulled into a coordinated AoE burst will not be a whole lot of fun.)

A powerful ability on paper, indeed, but until we see how it actually plays we just can’t judge how powerful it really is.

Edit:

Taiyetos.3260:

I don’t believe there ever was any official mention of losing anything when using an elite spec. Certainly none of the official posts mentioned anything.

Actually I believe they stated in the video that the F5 shatter specifically, and choosing Chronomancer in general too IIRC, will disable some existing abilities for balancing reasons.

For the low cost of 100g paid to me, you can become a Chronomancer :-p

That is all you have to forfeit. Offer ends soon.

Windwalker.7421:

Actually I believe they stated in the video that the F5 shatter specifically, and choosing Chronomancer in general too IIRC, will disable some existing abilities for balancing reasons.

I don’t recall them saying that at all, I’m fairly certain people have just been speculating on that. If you could find where they said that in the video, I’d be appreciative.

I’m with Pyro here. I don’t recall them saying anything like that.

Would you please direct us to where/when in the video they stated something like that?

You have to play a mesmer.

Fay.2357:

Windwalker.7421:

Actually I believe they stated in the video that the F5 shatter specifically, and choosing Chronomancer in general too IIRC, will disable some existing abilities for balancing reasons.

I don’t recall them saying that at all, I’m fairly certain people have just been speculating on that. If you could find where they said that in the video, I’d be appreciative.

People keep speculating about we would lose IP if we spec into Chrono because Robert Gee kept using Mirror Images to demonstrate F5 shatter in the stream.
This is a ridiculous idea and I hope this is not the case, guys please DON’T feed Anet crazy ideas like this one. That would suck.

Niminion.1982:

You have to play a mesmer.

Rofl. This guy.

Niminion.1982:

You have to play a mesmer.

Thread ended.

Nice one!