[Outdated - Updated Video Link in Description] Heal Chronomancer | Guild Wars 2

This looks great! What changes, if any, would you make for WvW?

Wonder if able to do a variant of this with out any mantra and only wells, really dislike the nerf to them awile back where have to recast again.

How do you maintain alac/quick? or is this not the right one for alac/quick chrono?

Never been more excited to go back in jail.

i was always a walls chrono, never thought that mantra heal outcome was that good !! THANK YOU SOO MUCH for giving me my main char in gw2 back !! that is so much joy now again,was so hardly waiting for the rifle but yes <3 !! made my day

You descended from heavens with this build. I was trying to cook heal chronomancer for don't know how long.

feel like i always get shafted FB for fractals but this looks like a solid replacement

Hi, nice! Did you try trailblazer chrono for solo bounties etc? Just want to know, if it's better for solo (: thanks a lot!

@Emi As a weapon recommendation, i like to run scepter+pistol as my off-hand set with reneval and paralysation sigills. So whenever i need additional cc or emergency burst heal just swap.

tysm, I was getting tired of gw2 content since I wanted to learn to tank and be "the carry" which is heal tanking in this game and playing dps is boring but I just hate the current good healers. Firebrand is too spammy and has a god awful boon radius, I hate the mechanist pet with a passion and refuse to play it, tempest requires a Phd to play, is too squishy, isn't that great of a tank and has little reactivity for healing which for me makes healing unsatisfying and Herald kind of has to choose between giving boons and healing which feels terrible for me and also takes the spot from a firebrand in fractals. Maybe now I can finally seize my dreams of being the mvp heal tank with chrono. Not to meantion mesmer is by far my favourite class thematics wise to play <3 my only only only wish is that the radius was 600 but I will still take this absolute W that is this rework.

Is it possible to maintain the golem pressure if we play full harrier stat. i tried several times ... i die ...
Ty for the video

Oh and which weapon is the focus replacing? staff or shield?

Just ran daily eod/ds with Sloth and someone pointed you/your yt out - I thought it was a meme so looked you up; sick guide. I've been a Mesmer junkie since all the way back in gw1, stoked to have another awesome resource for mes info! Never enough hahah. Cheers. :3

on golem fights I feel like boons are good but while playing fractals boon uptime is just horrible haha. am I doing something wrong?

Thank you so much for the video, Emi. I started maining chrono because of you!

Finally someone who agrees with the Mantra of Pain thing, i dunno why people keep recommending it to me, yea i get it gives Might, some healing and throws Vulnerable on targets but you waste so much time with it, would rather throw a third well in there before Pain.

Thanks for the build Emi!! Been running this but having some trouble keeping up permanent quick/alac (It's around 80% ish most of the time) :/ Not sure what I'm doing wrong, maybe I'm not spawning clones the right way after the opener?

I decided to try it and didn’t understand at all how to support quickness or alac. With 3 clones, 7 seconds of quickness or alac. If you are distracted by people, then immediately minus buffs. And this is practically a full harrier. Honestly, it’s somehow too hard for a healer.

Great video made me look at heal chrono again. The alac trait does not provide alac on shatter like its quickness counterpart. This makes camping scepter a quite shakey for newer players if they're not swapping to staff or spamming the block off cd. For alac, the sIgnet heal on staff with a relic swap would be more forgiving.

I'm someone who has always had a hard time getting into the light armor classes (except Necromancer) because they are often very squishy or complicated, which leads to me constantly dying. I wasn't sure if there was a decent healer/tank combo for mesmer that was also low intensity, but after watching this... I think I may give my mesmer another look.

Edit: Well I can honestly say... I can't believe it.
I'm still short on some of the pieces of gear (namely the armor runes and appropriate accessories), but just from using the skill rotations and using the recommended equipment, I've had more up time with my mesmer than I ever have in the past.

Thank you so much for this video.

Chrono just went from mind meltingly complex to a walk in the park

Amazing video! It helped me so much to improve my chrono! thanks Emi

100% agree on the mantra of pain thing, just tried playing it on fractal 100 it was a mess, it feels spammy and clunky and forces you to choose between healing, utilities and boons, meanwhile spamming healing mantra off cd and auto attack on scepter the rest of the time lets you do it all at the same time and leading your party to the victory 💪🏼 and feels way smoother and cool 😊

Damn I recently started supporting as tempest and now I see this and want to try it as well. Nice guide!

Couldn't find anyone mentioning this, but after running fractals with heal chrono for a little over a week I learned a few things and figured I'd share them.

I personally found it a lot easier to just use staff the majority of the time, and only really switching to scepter while in a boss. To me it just felt a lot easier to keep my boons up with staff 3 and 2, doing 3 > 2 and then casting Mantra of Recovery gives me just enough time to spend a stack and shatter, and then immediately getting 2 clones from staff 3 and using the last mantra stack to get a 3rd clone and shattering again.
A lot of the time I'll simply not swap out of staff because it can easily generate enough clones to keep your boons up.

So if you were like me and were struggling with keeping alac or quick up on fractal runs, try running staff!

is it worth spamming the scepter 2 skill for clones?

question how do you make your mouse cursor like that ty

Do you think plague doctors can even enter the discussions for a more hybrid approach? Or is the healing tradeoff not worth the extra condition damage?

Subscribed. I was on the verge of quitting chrono for good then stumble upon your video. Thank you

I have swichted completely to staff because i prefer staff per se on mesmer but arenanet hates the use of staff on mesmer either you dont give enough boons or you dont do enough damage or as a bonus both.
I hope with the new upcoming "balance patch" at the end of this month and the destruction of mantra healing its still a playable option.
And with the rework of Relic of the Flock you also loose your only option of barrier.

Funny i never see mantras from the Firebrand being nerfed hard or traits around it. And all mantras from the firebrand are reloadable instant casts unlike mesmers which need to be casts each time anew have each load more buffs and better effects.
Why not nerf them into the ground? Yeah Yeah beloved child of arenanet.

thanks for the video! do any pvpers who might be reading this know if there's a heal chrono build for pvp? i'd be interested in seeing it

Thx you, I was wondering if I can turn my mesmer from c.virtu to h.chrono since my team lack heal quick, was afraid it will be hard to play but your way seem very chill, I'll try that as soon as possible !

Appreciate this! Long time Mesmer main, but returning player not used to so many changes. Glad to see some confirmation that Scepter skill #1 leads to the overpowered heals I suspected it did (and that mantra spamming Pain is not worth the fun it sacrifices, though many site suggest its use). Expecting some fun when Rifle comes into this build too :)

is it just me or am i able to get both 100% alac and 100% quickness using the quickness trait? also mantra charges heal now + relic of the flock turned the barrier into extra healing and barrier only when overhealing oml i love this update. one more thing i spam my 2 scepter skill to generate an extra clone + 1 charge of heal mantra + 1 auto attack chain to get 3 clones easily and i dont need staff to get 3 clones easily for the start of the fight (also i precharge my stability mantra to have easy access to aegis + stab in the beginning and on demand heals lol) sry bout the long comment

I'm just starting the game and this is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much for this!

"heal chrono is back", when did it go away?

THIS IS VERY LOW HEALING. FACT

So far she is the only one to slow things down at the end to explain the rotation for new players. I was gonna need a new keyboard for a sec meme. Seriously thoe if you have a keyboard bind Guide too please that would be incredible no idea where to put anything! playing with one hand is light years ahead for me

HFB is quietly laughing in a corner of the room

Hello Emi 😊

I want to try this build on a combination of gears. Like Harrier's weapons and armors and Giver's trinkets.

Do you think that would affect the overall healing effectiveness?

I swear by 'Signet of Illusions' !! Not only does it generate a clone every 10's but it also refresh's all your shatters for amazing uptime or burst!

Oh I am so excited! I have been really loving Healbrand as a tank as well, but wanted to have some other classes in my bag to change things up. I love how flexible chrono seems, and WAY less daunting with your clear explanation and some focus on LI. I think my main worry was having all these new skills and clones (to first create them, and then figure out when to shatter) this gives me a great baseline to practice and see how the skills work without feeling so overwhelmed. Also THANK YOU for the screen pauses and arrows! Huge help to see what exactly is being explained.

Ehhhh really close build to what I am doing... but man.. Healing on a tempest just seems cleaner. Trying so hard to make this work right now.

Clearest guide with simple rotation advice ive seen. Wish you did more

Great video. Love the pinned comment. New to Mesmer and this helps A LOT!

Hi! Thank you for this guide, it’s been really helpful for me on this amazing journey. Altough, whenever I try to practice on the golem, I CANNOT MAKE IT ALIVE :S i just die, if not at the start then like 10s into the combat. I noticed that I have a lot less hp than you do at the start of the fight. I have around 19k hp while u have a lot more. Im running the same build as you did, with staff and sc+shield, except I was running two magi rings, just because I had them on hand. Could that be the reason I cant survive? I will try to change them to full harrier but for now Im trying to make it work as much as possible. I also run a relic of flock, rest is full from snowcrows, yet still, my hp on the extreme threat damage level is dropping soooo fast. I try to follow the exact rotation as you did, but I still cant keep up with healing myself up to escape a lurking death 😢

My friend advised me to drop one of the weapons and just use rifle instead, but im not sure which one should i even drop. It seems much harder to play rifle properly as well. Any tips?

Superb work. The extra mile you went with editing made the guide easy to follow

As someone who doesn't like the aesthetic of rifle (not a fan of guns healing) is it still viable to go scepter/shield w/ staff? I'm not planning on doing hardcore raids anytime soon, so as long as its viable in "most" endgame content like strikes and fractals I wouldn't feel too bad playing it.

edit 2/27/2024:
TLDR: RIFLE IS OP, USE IT :D

RIFLE IS NOW AVAILABLE AFTER COMPLETING THE ASTRAL WARD ARSENAL ACHIEVEMENT:

quick summary on skill usage:
- rifle 2: clone, healing, regen
- rifle 3: explode early for healing, no explode for might/fury
- rifle 4: phantasm for quick/alac, BIG cc
- rifle 5: barrier generation, use again for portal (i don't recommend 2nd use unless for movement, the first cast for barrier is very good though)

overall verdict:
- rifle is insanely strong.
- really good clone generation with 3 second cd on rifle 2 (with improved alacrity)
- very good healing and barrier with rifle 2, 3, 5
- you can keep up 100% uptime on quick/alac with just rifle 4 off cooldown + 3 clone f1 shatter

skill usage recommendation:
- for low intensity healing fights, honestly just rifle camp is fine. swap into pistol/focus/shield for cc, pulls, or block as needed, similar to the playstyle described in the video.

- note: if you don't plan on weapon swapping, i would HIGHLY recommend changing your relic to relic of febe for swiftness uptime since you aren't getting it from shield offhand anymore. you lose the insane healing from flock relic, but rifle is insane healing anyways so you probably don't need it. mix and match to what you like to play though

- for higher intensity healing fights or a more active playstyle, swap weapons off cooldown or when certain skills are needed. try to use heal mantra while wielding rifle to generate rifle clones for more passive healing. double use rifle 3 for burst heal (if you want, you can drop well of action and let it time out for fury/might gen instead, i'd replace well of action with one of many options), and use rifle 4 for quick/alac generation and cc.

weapon combo recommendations:
- rifle + scepter/shield: base set for lots of personal blocking and boon generation, comfy for tanking in raids
- rifle + scepter/pistol: more cc with pistol 5
- rifle + scepter/focus: add control with focus 4
- rifle + staff: if you don't need the utility from the offhand weapons, probably very comfy in fractals for faster phantasm/quick/alac generation