Power Alac Chronomancer

Weapons Choices

Always use Greatsword in combat.

Off-hand

While Sword off=hand is your highest damage weapon choice, both Shield and Focus can be used situationally. It is recommended to run focus in trash heavy T4s as standard.

Shield:

• Echo of Memory and its flip skill Deja Vu can be used for blocks.
• Tides of Time can provide an additional 8 group Might

Focus:

• Temporal Curtain is a 5 target pull
• Phantasmal Warden mitigates projectiles

Situational Traits

You can go play Illusions over Domination when you’re facing Quickness uptime issues to be more self-sufficient in bad groups, if you’re also lacking Might and Fury consider going Persistence of Memory as well.

All's Well That Ends Well can be taken for an additional group sustain.

Traits for Skips

While we don’t recommend leaving your party during boss fights, when dealing with sections of trash mobs, Mesmer has fantastic utility to speed these sections up, often allowing your party to ignore sectrions of some fractals entirely, using Blinks, Stealth, and Superspeed. Some traits you will find useful for this are:

• Temporal Enchanter - This will let you provide Superspeed to yourself and your party.
• Prismatic Understanding - This will increase the duration of Stealth gained from skills such as Mass Invisibility and Veil .
• Utilize Mirage for skips when moving across large distances or you need leaps! Elusive Mind , Jaunt and Mirage Thrust along with the typical Mesmer toolset makes it really good for mobility and skips.

Defiance Bar Damage

Situational Skills

Skill priority

To play Power Alacrity Chronomancer in fractals you need to adapt on the go, as Phantasms / Wells are our main damage source, but also slower than most skills of other classes.

If you lose yourself in the rotation follow this priority list:

1. On Greatsword, Phantasmal Berserker is your strongest skill and should be used of cooldown to be able to get three usages before swapping (utilising Signet of the Ether ).

2. On Sword, Phantasmal Swordsman follows the same principle.

3. You want to use your utility skills in the following priority:

   1. Well of Calamity
   2. Well of Action
   3. Gravity Well (when no CC is required)
   4. Phantasmal Disenchanter / Well of Senility if taken and not required for their utility!

4. You should use a charge of Mantra of Pain off cooldown and, the final charge should be used at the end of phases in fights with periods of downtime long enough for the skill to recharge.

5. Ideally, Mirror Blade can be used three times and Mind Stab twice. On Dagger/Sword you basically prioritise the same way Unstable Bladestorm twice as well and Bladecall three times.

6. If close to phasing, remember that your direct damage skills hit quicker than Wells and Phantasms, so therefore should be prioritised.

Shatters

Even though casting Phantasms already covers a large portion of the necessary Alacrity uptime, shatters take an important part as well thanks to Stretched Time .

Most fractal encounters include downtimes in between their phases, which means that you would want to make use of as many Clones as possible, to build up spare uptime.

Make sure to cast Split Second on cooldown and ensure to keep three Clones for this one, since it’s your main damage Shatter.

As long as that requirement is matched, you can freely use any spare Clones on Rewinder ; and Time Sink (as long as there is no upcoming defiance break).

Continuum Split

Continuum Split rewinds all your skills back to the status they have been while entering. The duration depends on the numbers of Clones spent, but usually two Clones are the optimal amount.

Your goal should be to cast as many high priority skills during that time window, to be able to cast them twice as often as usual.

Since your Shatters will get rewound as well, you can shatter all of them for additional Alacrity.

Information

Golem rotations out of the raid builds are generally suboptimal in fractals due to Exposed and phases being much shorter compared to raids. The raid rotations are optimized for sustained DPS while in fractals a player needs the ability to adapt a rotation to the amount of time a group needs to finish a phase.

It’s important to note that Phantasms do not benefit from most modifiers unless it is stated to be the case.

They do, however, benefit from Exposed.

Opener

Example with Continuum Split :

• Mantra of Pain would usually be your dps choice if there is no need for Phantasmal Disenchanter or Well of Senility

• Start on Dagger/Sword

1. Precast finished

   1. Phantasmal Disenchanter on Mistlock Instability: No Pain, No Gain days without a defiance bar
   2. or Signet of Humility + Time Sink if the boss has a defiance bar (strips NPNG as well)
2. Phantasmal Swordsman

3. Bladecall -> Weapon Swap

4. Mirror Blade

   1. Illusionary Wave if the boss has a defiance bar

5. Well of Calamity ( Continuum Split )

   1. Well of Action ( Mantra of Pain )
   2. Phantasmal Berserker
   3. Signet of the Ether
   4. Phantasmal Berserker ( Split Second ) + remaining shatters
   5. Mind Stab -> Mirror Blade ( Continuum Split ends)

6. Well of Calamity ( Mantra of Pain )

7. Well of Action
8. Phantasmal Berserker
9. Signet of the Ether
10. Phantasmal Berserker
11. Mirror Blade
12. Mind Stab

13. Weapon Swap

14. Phantasmal Swordsman
15. Unstable Bladestorm
16. Bladecall

17. remaining stacks of Mantra of Pain

Rotation Adjustments

The opener takes around 15s and Continuum Split has 70s cooldown with permanent Alacrity.

Now it is up to you to figure out how many usages you can get at a certain fractal encounter and which phases would even be long enough to recommend using it.

Often times you won’t even have access to all the skills that got used in the opener above, or maybe you still gonna have cooldown on your Weapon-Swap.

Based on that, another approach could be to by-pass phases with low resources by duplicating the few options you have.

Otherwise double-casting Wells only makes sense at 9s+. Therefore you could also precast them, skipping their cast times during the actual phase, while still taking advantage of most of the pulsing/final damage.

Mesmer Skips