Roadkizzle.2157

So how much would it take to restore the Chronomancer to a viable support character? Would it just be by improvising some other boon application? I think it can now maintain 16 stacks of Might 100% with the long duration Shield 5 and Well of Action. Those also give Alacrity. As all mesmers the Chrono can also give out Fury 100% if you can crit enough. What other boons are needed for a viable support?

Or it could be an actual support class. The Mesmer has Virtuoso to be a pure DPS spec. From what I hear before EoD and the changes to the Chrono boons it still wasn't desired as Support because it didn't provide anything other than the Quick/Alac. If the Chrono could actually function as a support now that would be great so it wouldn't be required to work 3 times harder than the other Mesmer specs just to do 1000 more damage than them.

See to me that sounds like a downside. I want to be able to use the Elite Spec skills... If I didn't want to use the Chrono skills then why choose it? That's my problem with the Chrono DPS build. It only uses Core Mesmer tools to spend 3 times more effort to get only 2.5% more damage than Virtuoso or Mirage.

But why is Alacrity only viewed as a Mirage boon for the Mesmer? Why doesn't it seem acceptable for Chrono to provide the Alacrity with their Wells? Chrono can maintain Alacrity while providing Aegis, CC with Gravity Well and Tides of Time, or the other wells. I never seriously considered the Chrono as a healer but I like the Well of Precognition for providing Aegis. My problem with the Mantra healing is it still requires almost 3 second cast time and still needs to burn the charges.

Why do people always talk about the Quickness Chrono? Alacrity seems so much easier to maintain while focusing on actually fighting. Just have a couple of Wells and Tides of Time and you can maintain Alacrity. But Sieze the Moment only gives 1s per clone shattered. So is entirely dependent on how fast you can maintain clone generation... And shatter cooldowns. Is Quickness just that much better of a boon?

TLDR: -Can Chronomancers be a good group support Spec? I've seen conflicting information around the community. -Of the Chrono is lacking for the support roles what would it take to be a decent support? Not necessarily healer. I have about 90 hours in the game so I'm still new. I haven't gotten into Fractals but I'd like to. My main character has been a Chronomancer. And I love the elite spec. It's been my favorite specialization to play from what I've tried... But I honestly think that the hoops to jump through to achieve exceptional DPS will turn me off from continuing down the route of Chrono as a pure DPS... I'd prefer to go to another spec then practice hours to optimize the spamming and resetting of Phantasms. Is the Chronomancer actually capable of functioning as a support class for group content? I see so many people saying that they aren't good support anymore because they don't provide what's needed. I love the class but I just want to be able to use the Shield skills, Wells, and even Continuum Shift to be able to benefit the group well. But the DPS specs for Chrono never use the Shield and rarely seem to make use of the Wells, instead focusing on the Phantasms... To me it's ceasing to be a Chronomancer and just becoming a Core Mesmer that can get an additional cooldown reset button. Similarly I came from ESO where I didn't like the hoops you had to jump through to optimize DPS... So instead I was able to spec into tanking and enjoy the Dungeon content. I'd love to be able to do something similar in GW2 even though I understand tanking really doesn't exist in this game.