Beginner Power Boon Chronomancer

Alright, to generate Quickness/Alacrity for your subgroup with 100% uptime, you want to create Phantasms and then use your Shatter skills as often as possible, ideally with 3 active Clones. See Clone & Boon Info if you need a refresher on how boons are generated.

Let's begin with Dagger/Sword:

• Use and off Cooldown.
• Weapon Swap when available.

Now we switch to Spear where the rotation is more rigid:

• : The first skill gives Clarity allowing the second to make two Phantasms.
• : The first skill here refreshes the second allowing you to get an extra Clone.
• Weapon Swap when available.

Pretty easy so far, right? Now, you need to pay a bit more attention. To actually generate more boons, you need to Shatter your Clones. Aim to use or whenever you have 3 Clones.

Putting it all together, your basic rotation should be:

Dagger/Sword:

• twice
• off Cooldown
• once
• once if available
• Weapon Swap

Spear:

• twice
• once
• once
• once if available
• Weapon Swap

is the main mechanic of the Chronomancer. Activating it creates a rift at your current position that saves your current Health, Endurance, and Cooldowns. When the skill ends, you will rewind to the prior saved state. And yes, that means all skill you press while in will be refreshed.

The opener is important to learn as it provides a comfortable boon buffer. Start each encounter in Dagger/Sword and use:

2. Weapon Swap
3. 3. All Shatter skills from F1 to F4.

When ends, pick up with your combos from Step 1 remembering to Weapon Swap often. You now have a good boon buffer built up.

Now you're ready to expand the opener a little more. The goal is to maximize boon generation and align Cooldowns so smoothly go into the rotation from Step 1. Starting on Dagger/Sword:

2. Weapon Swap
3. 4. All Shatter skills from 'F1' to 'F4'.
11. Weapon Swap
12. Pickup your normal rotation loop

You may have noticed that has snuck into the rotation. When used, it resets the Cooldowns of your Phantasm skills. Here we use it to sneak an extra Clarity empowered in. The next step will discuss more.

Do not move on until you can reliably complete this extended opener fluently and fast. Aim for 12 seconds! In that time, you will generates over 35 seconds of Quickness/Alacrity for your subgroup. After that, you only need to worry about maintaining the boon duration. |

Note that will make your personal Alacrity uptime lower. If your Alacrity suffers, your personal damage and subgroup's boons will suffer too, so don't slack off on your rotation!

To generate some extra boons and increase damage, use the following to fill instead of Auto Attack when available:

• in Dagger/Sword twice per loop
• in Spear once per loop
• , and when available
• , never using the last charge of

There are a few more skills of note that will help improve your playstyle:

• is an important skill to note. It will not just heal you, but also reset the cooldown of both and . Generally speaking, it is best used in Dagger/Sword for a third . If bad encounter phasing, allied boons are getting stripped, or another reason for boon uptime to faulter occurs, you can use on Spear for a third , but this is not recommended.
• makes you invincible via Distortion with a duration depending on the number of Clones shattered it with. Don't hesitate to use it during an encounter!

will increase your Strike Damage for 8 seconds whenever you apply a disable on your target. This amplifies your damage when built in properly into the rotation. Aim to use at least one of the following between each Weapon Swap:

• Daze from
• Stun from Clarity empowered via
• Float from
• Daze from
• Daze from if you need

Additionally, when using try to use your Wells and any other weapon skills you can fit in.

You are now ready for the Full Boon Build and the Power DPS Build. Both have more complex openers which you should master, and mostly rely on short timeframes to hit your combos. The boon build will also introducte a faster paced gameplay making Quickness/Alacrity uptime tighter.

can also be used off Cooldown for damage while benching, but it has been excluded from this guide to be used for big Breakbar damage. If timing allows, add it to your rotation.

Ready? Good luck!