Chronomancer Guide

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Chronomancer is a powerful class with a very solid push for mysteries in the post-voidmancer stage.

Updated for v1.35.0

  • Range: e90-e220+ mysteries
  • Run duration: 10 minutes - 10 hours. Does not rely on long runs until later.
  • Pets: Archivist portrait.pngArchivist, Geode portrait.pngGeode, Simulacrum portrait.pngSimulacrum, Zombie portrait.pngZombie, Risen Giant portrait.pngRisen Giant
  • At this range, items are still being discovered. Focus on using items that increase maximum Temporal Distortion and provides bonuses to incantation efficiency, evocation efficiency, character ability power and idle bonus for bursting. Naturally, during set-up, evocation efficiency and pet experience are always welcome. Incantation efficiency is normally best in slot for burst, but if you are snapshotting Spell Stabilize the Flow.pngStabilize the Flow and Spell Gem Resonance.pngGem Resonance other stats will work better in burst.

Attributes

While there are more effective attributes for this build, at this stage you are still finding items and the requirements of items you find are also a large effect on your attribute distribution. In Bold there will be very effective attributes, but feel free to tinker with those as well. Always distribute your attributes based on the perks you'll obtain from them, after filling for your best items, and then dump the excess in the designated 'dump' attribute.

  • Intelligence: 25
  • Insight: 25
  • Wisdom: 25 ²
  • Patience: 40 for Risen Giant portrait.pngRisen Giant and as much as possible without losing gear otherwise. Your best attribute.
  • Mastery: 25

    1. Patience benefits this build the most because of how well Risen Giant portrait.pngRisen Giant scales with 3% idle. After patience is maxed, SPC is very good because it helps burst and adds additional time skipped in build.

    2. Wisdom doesn't help you with profit, so it's a balancing act to keep up your casts in build going at max rate without sacrificing too much profit. At higher mysteries, you won't need this as much because of spell shard upgrades. But at low mysts you may want 25 Wisdom or more to keep casts going quick.

Phase 1: Build up Levels

Your goal here is to get some levels, early game just so you can equip Chrono's spells, and at higher mysts because you'll need some levels for profit. Equip the first spellset displayed below. First, equip Homunculus and then Simulacrum to max your sources. Then, equip Pixie portrait.pngPixie. Spells get interrupted during wormhole, so summons won't give autoclicks, but Pixie portrait.pngPixie will. Using wormhole + Pixie portrait.pngPixie, you can get some autoclicks for levels. Note that Pixie portrait.pngPixie gives more autoclicks than the t2 pet, so don't upgrade her. Just get autoclicks until you aren't gaining substantial experience anymore. Then, switch to Archivist portrait.pngArchivist to get some Void entities. At low levels, you may want to do a preburst/burst phase real quick to get some more sources for character experience. You may also have trouble using Spell Wormhole.pngWormhole and Spell Temporal Distortion.pngTemporal Distortion on reckless, so you may have to cast those manually. You may also need to equip Geode portrait.pngGeode at low levels to start off if you can't reach the spells. Gear priority this phase is evocation efficiency and pet experience.

Spell.png Spell Singularity Beam.png

Spell.png Spell Wormhole.png

Spell.png Spell Ritual Of Power.png

Spell.png Spell Synthetic Entity.png

Spell.png Spell Temporal Distortion.png

Spell.png Spell Spell Focus.png



Phase 2: Build up Superposition and Ritual of Power

At lower mysteries you should just use the first spellset here with Archivist portrait.pngArchivist. Since wormhole interrupts spells, you will continue stacking spells even though Archivist portrait.pngArchivist increases the duration of your incantations. Archivist portrait.pngArchivist will also increase your skipped time and the void entities you get from Spell Synthetic Entity.pngSynthetic Entity.

When your gains start slowing down, after stacking a bunch of skipped time with the first spellset you can swap to the second spellset with Spell Time Helix.pngTime Helix. Stacking it doesn't increase your profit a huge amount compared to your other incantations, but it is better than Spell Synthetic Entity.pngSynthetic Entity after you've gotten enough skipped time with Archivist portrait.pngArchivist. Spell Time Helix.pngTime Helix resets all experience from things like max mana, autoclicks and void entities. The only thing it doesn't reset is character experience from sources. It's easier to use at higher mysteries when you won't lose too many levels to use it again, Geode portrait.pngGeode can help with the level requirements, but only use it if you can't recklessly cast Spell Time Helix.pngTime Helix with Archivist portrait.pngArchivist. Once you are done stacking in this phase, you'll be at 0 Autoclicks, Void Entities and low max mana because of Spell Time Helix.pngTime Helix. You'll want to do a quick phase 1 build again with Pixie for AC's and Archivist for skipped time/VE, and a quick vm/burst to get higher max mana. You should gain a large amount of character levels and some upgrades from this. Next you'll equip Risen Giant portrait.pngRisen Giant and the first spellset here. Risen Giant portrait.pngRisen Giant scales with played pet time you gain from wormhole. You can see the bonuses on Risen Giant portrait.pngRisen Giant, once they stop increasing very much, make sure you fill up the spell shards for your burst spells and move to the next phase. Gear priority this phase is evocation efficiency and pet experience.

Spell.png Spell Singularity Beam.png

Spell.png Spell Wormhole.png

Spell.png Spell Ritual Of Power.png

Spell.png Spell Superposition.png

Spell.png Spell Synthetic Entity.png

Spell.png Spell Spell Focus.png


Spell.png Spell Singularity Beam.png

Spell.png Spell Wormhole.png

Spell.png Spell Ritual Of Power.png

Spell.png Spell Superposition.png

Spell.png Spell Time Helix.png

Spell.png Spell Spell Focus.png



Phase 3: PreBurst

Because Risen Giant portrait.pngRisen Giant stacked with wormhole skipped time is so good, we won't be able to pet swap to Voidterror for VM like many other classes. We'll use void radiance to get VM. Equip the spellset below. Once you have enough VM, stop casting Temporal Distortion, cast Stabilize The Flow and swap to the burst spellset. For gear for this phase, pieces with void mana per entity are priority, followed by incantation efficiency.

Spell.png Spell Singularity Beam.png

Spell.png Spell Temporal Distortion.png

Spell.png Spell Void Lure.png

Spell.png Spell Void Radiance.png

Spell.png Spell Spell Focus.png

Spell.png Spell Stabilize the Flow.png


High Level Snapshot Optimization

This section applies mostly if you have high rarity gear or enchants post e200. Gem Resonance and Stabilize The Flow work differently than most spells. If you change your gear, their values won't update, so you can 'snapshot' the values by equipping your highest incantation efficiency gear and casting them, and then switching to your regular burst gear and your burst set. To do this, you'll want to set up another item set with your incantation efficiency gear and the spellset below. Swap to the spellset below, equip your incantation efficiency gear, and cast GR/StF (good idea to use hotbuttons to minimize void mana decay). After that, switch to your burst gear and the burst set. It's important to keep the GR/Stf in the same slots on both sets. Otherwise, you'll recast them when you swap spellsets and lose your bonus.

Spell.png Spell Singularity Beam.png

Spell.png Spell Temporal Distortion.png

Spell.png Spell Void Lure.png

Spell.png Spell Void Radiance.png

Spell.png Spell Gem Resonance.png

Spell.png Spell Stabilize the Flow.png


Phase 4: Bursting

You'll likely gain a lot of mysteries from this burst, and you can repeat it if you're still getting good gains before you exile.

Spell.png Spell Singularity Beam.png

Spell.png Spell Superposition.png

Spell.png Spell Converge Timelines.png

Spell.png Spell Ritual Of Power.png

Spell.png Spell Gem Resonance.png

Spell.png Spell Stabilize the Flow.png

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Credits:

Tito - Master Chronomancer -- original guide

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