Chronomancer

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"And once more..."

Chronomancers manipulate the battlefield through the use of wells, creating brief ripples in time that give their allies various boons and slowing your enemies. They also have access to the powerful alacrity boon, reducing skill cooldowns.

— In-game description

Chronomancer is an elite specialization for the mesmer unlocked with the Heart of Thorns expansion. Chronomancers have learned to control time itself, unlocking a new shatter skill, Continuum Split, that creates a brief rift in the space-time continuum for the chronomacer to exploit, before shifting to the original timeline with their previous health, endurance, and cooldowns, effectively using skills twice by travelling back in time. Their other shatters are also empowered with double strikes, reduced cooldown, or slowing down the actions of their enemies.

Chronomancers have learned well skills, ripples in time that tick down and explode to damage enemies and provide boons to nearby allies, or even manipulate gravity. They can wield shields as their off hand weapon, a defensive choice to block attacks or freeze enemies in time. Chronomancers can support nearby allies with their skills to manipulate time, speeding up their actions with quickness, or improving the recharge of their cooldowns with alacrity; or go all in on the offensive with phantasms that travel back in time to attack twice.

List of chronomancer skills

See also: List of mesmer skills

Profession mechanic

New Chronomancer Shatters are the Chronomancer's profession mechanic. Using a shatter will create a powerful effect by destroying all of your clones.

#	Skill			Description
F1	Split Second		12	Shatter. Destroy all your clones, damaging nearby foes. Strikes again after a delay. Shatter traits only affect the first strike of this skill.
F2	Rewinder		30	Shatter. Destroy all your clones, confusing nearby foes and recharging this skill for each clone shattered.
F3	Time Sink		38	Shatter. Destroy all your clones, dazing and slowing their targets.
F4	Distortion		50	Shatter. Gain distortion and destroy all your clones, gaining additional distortion for each one shattered.
F5	Continuum Split		105	Destroy all your clones and create a rift in the space-time continuum. When it expires, you will revert back to your original point with your previous health, endurance, and skill recharges. Duration increases with each illusion shattered. This skill's recharge cannot be reset by other mesmer skills.
F5	Continuum Shift			Revert back to the previous timeline. Your health, endurance and cooldowns are reverted to their previous states. You are transported back prematurely if the rift is destroyed.

Weapon skills

#	Skill			Description
Shield
4	Echo of Memory	10.5½	30	Phantasm. Block incoming attacks for a short duration. If this skill fully channels, summon a phantasm that slows enemies and grants protection to allies. If an attack is blocked, Deja Vu is usable for a short time and the phantasm is summoned instantly.
4	Deja Vu	10.5½		Phantasm. Block incoming attacks for a short duration. If this skill fully channels, summon a phantasm that slows enemies and grants protection to allies. If an attack is blocked, the phantasm is summoned immediately.
5	Tides of Time	0.75¾	35	Grant boons to nearby allies as you launch a wave of temporal energy that damages and stops enemies it passes through, then returns to you. Touching the returning wave reduces the recharge of this skill.

Slot skills

Healing

Skill				Description
Well of Eternity		0.25¼	30	Well. Create a well that rewinds time, removing conditions from allies. When it expires, the well heals all allies in the area.

Utility

Skill				Description
Well of Action		0.75¾	20	Well. Create a well of delayed time, damaging and slowing foes. When the well expires, time snaps back, granting boons to allies.
Well of Calamity		0.75¾	20	Well. Create a well that rends time, damaging, weakening, and crippling foes in the area. When the final pulse of Well of Calamity triggers, it deals massive damage to foes in the area.
Well of Precognition		0.5½	30	Well. Create a well that gives allies the ability to see the future, allowing them to block incoming attacks. When the well ends, allies within the well regain endurance.
Well of Senility		0.75¾	20	Well. Creates a well that steals memories from foes, damaging and chilling them. When it expires, foes still inside the well have boons removed from them.

Elite

Skill				Description
Gravity Well		1	60	Well. Create a powerful well that warps space in an area, knocking down, floating, and pulling foes caught in its event horizon. When it expires, foes still inside the well take heavy damage.

List of chronomancer traits

See also: List of mesmer traits

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Proficiency	Shield Proficiency		You can wield shield items.
Minor Adept	Time Splitter		Gain access to chronomancer shatter skills and Wells.
Major Adept	Delayed Reactions		Disabling a foe slows them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear. This trait can only affect the same enemy with once per interval.
Major Adept	Time Catches Up		Activating a Shatter gives your illusions superspeed. Shatters deal increased damage to movement-impaired foes.
Major Adept	All's Well That Ends Well		Wells heal allies when they end.
Minor Master	Flow of Time		Gain alacrity for each clone you shatter.
Major Master	Danger Time		Gain additional critical-hit chance against slowed enemies. This bonus also applies to your illusions.
Major Master	Illusionary Reversion		Shatter skills generate a clone if you have enough clones present.
Major Master	Improved Alacrity		Alacrity applied to you is stronger but has a reduced duration. Gain increased critical-strike damage when you have alacrity.
Minor Grandmaster	Time Marches On		You move 25% faster. The duration of incoming movement-impairing conditions is reduced by 25%.
Major Grandmaster	Stretched Time		Flow of Time now affects nearby allies. Grant alacrity to nearby allies when you summon a phantasm.
Major Grandmaster	Seize the Moment		You and nearby allies gain quickness for each clone you shatter. Grant quickness to nearby allies when you summon a phantasm.
Major Grandmaster	Chronophantasma		The first time a phantasm would become a clone, it instead resummons itself and attacks again. Resummoned phantasms inflict a percentage of the original's damage. (Resummoned phantasms are briefly dazed.)

Lore

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Those who choose the path of the chronomancer gain new abilities that allow them to rend both space and time. Being able to use both a shield and new wells, their skill set focuses on past versus future and fast versus slow as key themes. Chronomancers also gain access to Continuum Split/Shift, as well as the new alacrity effect that speeds up skill recharges rather than slowing them down.

— Chronomancer release notes

Chronomancers are mesmers that are able to rend and manipulate the local perception of time and space. Just as the structure of time within the Mists might seem fluid and ineffable to mortal minds, chronomancy has a decidedly mystical bent, as chronomancers traditionally use shields with ancient arcane mechanisms to help them with time manipulation—such mechanisms are clockworks, hourglasses, and celestial bodies. Skilled chronomancers slip nimbly through the flow of time while bringing their enemies to a screeching halt; if the perception of time is an illusion, it’s one that they’re uniquely equipped to both create and shatter.

Gallery

Promotional material

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  Horologicus

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  Gravity Well

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  Tides of Time

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  Well of Precognition

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  Echo of Memory

Icons

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  Recolored official promotional icon (original in black and white)

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  Official icon

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  Official icon

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  Wiki icon

Associated items

• Chronomancer's Shield
• Horologicus
• Chronomancer's Epaulets
• Superior Rune of the Chronomancer

Related achievements

• Specializations: Adept Chronomancer — Begin training the mesmer's chronomancer elite specialization. (5)
• Specializations: Master Chronomancer — Completely train the mesmer's chronomancer elite specialization. (10)
• Specialization Collections: Horologicus — Collect these 14 items and skins to receive the chronomancer's shield, Horologicus. (3)

Trivia

• The Chronomancer was intended to be a new profession in the canceled Guild Wars Utopia campaign.
• Continuum Shift, Well of Calamity, and Chronophantasma reference the subtitles of the BlazBlue series of video games.
• Danger Time is a reference in both name and effects to the video game Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign-.
• Time Splitter is a reference to the TimeSplitters series.
• The game update of 16th of July 2019 removed Chronomancers' access to Distortion, moving Continuum Shift to F4, and making it apply the distortion effect on cast.
  • The game update of 7th of July 2020 removed the distortion effect from Continuum Split.
  • The game update of 4th of October 2022 restored the original design, moving Continuum Split back to F5 and returning Distortion to F4.

External links

• Meet the Chronomancer: Mesmer's Elite Specialization
• Hidden Arcana: Creating the Chronomancer
• Points of Interest: Chronomancer spotlight on YouTube

References

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Mesmer