Identity
Chronomancer is Sorceress's time-control Ascendancy: it resets and removes skill cooldowns, mitigates incoming damage by delaying and reducing it, and freezes or slows enemies outright. It's the most defensively-minded of Sorceress's three Ascendancies, trading direct damage scaling for control and survivability.
Notables
- Footprints in the Sand — Grants the skill Temporal Rift: return to your oldest afterimage/past position, resetting your Life, Mana, and Energy Shield to the values they had at that time.
- Ultimate Command — Grants the skill Time Freeze, which stops time for affected enemies for a duration, with diminishing returns on repeat use against the same target.
- Inevitability — Grants the curse Inevitable Agony, which ignores the normal curse limit; a target killed while cursed with it takes 50% of the Hit damage that killed them again when the curse expires.
- Unbound Encore — Grants the skill Time Snap, which resets the cooldowns of your other skills.
- Now and Again — Cascadable Spells have a 20% chance to Echo, and Repeatable Spells have a 20% chance to Repeat. (Reworked in patch 0.5.0 — the previous version instead gave a 33% chance for skills to not consume a Cooldown when used; this old effect is still widely published elsewhere, including on some sites that normally track patch history closely, so double-check the source's date if you see the "33% chance" version quoted.)
- Phased Form — Added in patch 0.5.0. Take 30% less Damage; 4 seconds after being Damaged by an enemy Hit, take Damage equal to 30% of that Hit's Damage, cleared by casting Temporal Rift. (Whether this delayed-damage clause excludes Damage over Time specifically hasn't been independently confirmed — treat that detail as unverified.)
- Quicksand Hourglass — Grants the "Sands of Time" buff: 1–60% increased Skill Speed, scaling up and back down over 10 seconds, while Area of Effect scales the opposite direction over the same window. (This is the current, 0.5.0-era version — the stat it scales was changed from Cast Speed to Skill Speed that patch. An older, simpler version of this node instead gave a flat "50% more Cast Speed for 4 seconds every 12 seconds" — that's a pre-0.2.0 design, and it's still what several otherwise-reliable guide sites currently show.)
- Apex of the Moment — Enemies in your Presence are Slowed by 20%.
- Circular Heartbeat — 30% of damage taken is Recouped as Life.
- The Rapid River — Recoup effects instead occur over 4 seconds (rather than their normal duration).
Small passives
- 6% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate (this appears to be a single node, not two separate ones as an earlier source suggested — worth a final in-game check if you're building around stacking this specifically)
- Buffs on you expire 10% slower
- Debuffs on you expire 10% faster
- Debuffs you inflict have 6% increased Slow Magnitude
- 8% increased Area of Effect
- A combined node granting 4% increased Skill Speed and 6% increased Area of Effect
- Cast Speed — value disputed, not yet resolved. One source lists this small passive at 4% increased Cast Speed; another lists it at 6%. Both are otherwise reliable sources on this Ascendancy's other nodes, and no patch note was found addressing this specific passive either way — treat the exact percentage as unconfirmed until verified in-game.
Keystone
Chronomancer has no keystone-tier node of its own.
Practical notes
- Now and Again's current effect (Echo/Repeat chances) only matters for skills that are themselves Cascadable or Repeatable — it does nothing for a skill that's neither, unlike its old cooldown-skipping effect which applied universally. Worth checking your specific skills' tags before counting on this notable.
- Quicksand Hourglass's Sands of Time buff is a smooth ramp, not a flat toggle — Skill Speed and Area of Effect trade off against each other continuously over the 10-second cycle rather than switching on and off.
- Phased Form and Circular Heartbeat both convert incoming damage into a delayed or reduced form rather than preventing it outright — useful to know if you're stacking damage mitigation and want to understand what's actually being prevented versus just deferred.
