Chronomancer buffs are indirect nerfs to the class itself

After looking through the upcoming 0.5 Chronomancer changes for a while, I honestly think some of these “buffs” might actually make the ascendancy feel worse to play overall.

Yes, there are definitely some genuinely good additions:

-Phased Form looks insanely strong defensively
-Inevitable Agony finally got much needed QoL improvements
-Some of the new ideas are actually pretty cool

But at the same time:

-Temporal Rift is now effectively a 4-point investment
-Time Freeze is locked behind Time Snap
-The old 33% cooldown reset mechanic is gone
-Rapid Rivers was removed
-Chronomancer recoup identity got pushed into the passive tree instead

Before 0.5, you could get both Temporal Rift and Time Freeze with only 4 ascendancy points total, leaving room for utility and identity nodes.

Now it feels like most of your ascendancy budget is spent just trying to regain the same core mechanics you already had before.

Personally, I think the biggest issue here is the layout and overall class identity.

Chronomancer used to feel like a proper time manipulation ascendancy.
Now parts of it feel closer to a generic spell caster with some time-themed mechanics attached to the end of the tree.

Curious what everyone else thinks about the changes so far.

One simple fix is to swap Time snap and Time freeze.
That's it.

Swapping the 4 point nodes with the 2 point nodes would be really nice. Temporal Rift is my favorite ability and the reason why Chrono is my most played Ascendancy. Time Snap isn't as applicable to a build as Time Freeze is. Or maybe even Inevitable Curse with Time Snap. Time Snap shouldn't be on the hourglass nodes.

I know Chrono is a Sorceress Ascendancy. But, I also wish it was less hard-lined into being a spellcaster and had more general use tags in its nodes. Attack Chrono could be a really cool thing.

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SkyCakeLight#7781 wrote:

Swapping the 4 point nodes with the 2 point nodes would be really nice. Temporal Rift is my favorite ability and the reason why Chrono is my most played Ascendancy. Time Snap isn't as applicable to a build as Time Freeze is. Or maybe even Inevitable Curse with Time Snap. Time Snap shouldn't be on the hourglass nodes.

I know Chrono is a Sorceress Ascendancy. But, I also wish it was less hard-lined into being a spellcaster and had more general use tags in its nodes. Attack Chrono could be a really cool thing.

I actually made a video about this, how chrono changes will hurt the ascendancy more than help it. https://youtu.be/MpRIr8jqHic

Agreed. Probably there are going to be some sick synergies with kalguran skills so it wont feel as nerf as much but... it still will.

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SalamiHaze#9389 wrote:

Agreed. Probably there are going to be some sick synergies with kalguran skills so it wont feel as nerf as much but... it still will.

Probably. But sadly temporal rift doesn't recover Runic ward so it may not be nearly as good.

I pray they will listen and add Runic ward recovery to Temporal rift. It's one league, what can go wrong with it honestly... especially for Chronomancers.