Chronomancer feeling like a nerf

Hmnn , so my build rn is to invest all 8 points to get Time Snap, Time Freeze, Now and Again and Temporal Rift

The addition of Phase Form means that "Now and Again" was moved to a whole different branch. Phase Form is now mandatory before Temporal Rift. This also means that I have to wait till second ascendancy to be able to get Temporal Rift, which was the best skill to get as the first ascendancy while leveling up.

"Now And Again" and "Time Snap" were my offensive options while my defense relied on "Time Freeze" and "Temporal Rift", now it is impossible to have all four at once.

Now I have three ways to play

- Lose "Now and Again" : This would make the build overly-defensive with Phase Form, Rift and Time Freeze, but Snap is not good enough for burst.

- Lose "Time Freeze" : Basically my only tool against Bosses -.-

- Lose "Temporal Rift" : While "Phase Form" sounds kinda cute for defense it is a lot more boring than Rift.


Maybe I'll get rid of "Now and Again" since it seems like it's yet another thing that was modified in a way that removes Cooldown Skills from its arsenal. 0.4.0 "Now and Again" had great synergy with Time Snap because between the extra CD recovery, the chance not to spend CD and Time Snap you could sometimes really do burst of a CD skill. The new "Now and Again" is not even going to work with Eye of Winter anymore, since it can't echo and it has a CD so it can't repeat.


Edit: A lot of this could be ameliorated by swapping "Temporal Rift" and "Phase Form"'s positions

They could simply add the effect of Now and Again into the new one.
20% chance to repeat and echo spells isn't something mindblowing.

Having additional utility of resetting cooldowns is a nice bonus on top.