Chronophantasma

The first time a phantasm would become a clone, it instead resummons itself and attacks again. Resummoned phantasms inflict a percentage of the original's damage. (Resummoned phantasms are briefly dazed.) — In-game description

Chronophantasma

Specialization

Chronomancer (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Chronophantasma

The first time a phantasm would become a clone, it instead resummons itself and attacks again. Resummoned phantasms inflict a percentage of the original's damage.
(Resummoned phantasms are briefly dazed.)

  Percent: 100%

  Percent: 50%

  Daze: 0.25¼ seconds

  Daze: 10.5½ seconds

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Phantasmal Duelist — Pistol
•   Phantasmal Swordsman — Sword
•   Phantasmal Warden — Focus
•   Phantasmal Mage — Torch
•   Phantasmal Berserker — Greatsword
•   Phantasmal Warlock — Staff
•   Phantasmal Mariner — Spear
•   Phantasmal Whaler — Trident
•   Echo of Memory — Shield
•   Deja Vu — Shield

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Phantasmal Defender — Phantasm
•   Phantasmal Disenchanter — Phantasm

Downed skills that are improved by this trait

•   Phantasmal Rogue

Drowning skills that are improved by this trait

•   Phantasmal Rogue

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Lesser Phantasmal Defender — Mental Defense

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Domination

• Illusion of Vulnerability — Inflict vulnerability when you interrupt a foe. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Furious Interruption — Gain quickness when you interrupt a foe.
• Vicious Expression — You and your illusions deal increased strike damage to foes without boons. Disabling a foe removes boons from them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Power Block — Interrupts deal damage and inflict weakness. Enemy skills that you interrupt have an increased cooldown. Cannot increase recharge of skills with no recharge or skills on creatures with defiance bars. This trait can only damage enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Dueling

• Duelist's Discipline — Pistol attacks from you and your illusions have a chance to cause bleeding. Interrupting a foe recharges pistol skills. This trait can only reduce recharge on enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Chaos

• Chaotic Interruption — When you interrupt a foe, recharge one of your equipped-weapon skills at random. Only affects weapon skills that are recharging.

Chronomancer

• Delayed Reactions — Disabling a foe slows them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear. This trait can only affect the same enemy with once per interval.

Notes

• Applies  Chronophantasma to the phantasm.
• Effects that trigger on phantasms becoming clones (such as  Persistence of Memory) will trigger both when the phantasm resummons itself, and when the second one eventually becomes a clone.
• Effects that trigger upon summoning a phantasm will also trigger on the second phantasm ( Phantasmal Haste,  Illusionary Inspiration, etc.)

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 02, 2023	Reduced daze duration from 1.5 seconds to 0.25 seconds in PvE only.
November 29, 2022	Increased resummoned phantasm damage from 75% to 100% in PvE only.
May 11, 2021	Resummoned phantasm damage is now 75% in PvE only.
July 28, 2020	Fixed a bug that could cause this trait to daze resummoned phantasms more than once.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
May 08, 2018	Resummoned phantasms now do 50% less damage in PvP and WvW.
February 06, 2018	This trait now causes phantasms to resummon themselves after the first time they would normally be replaced with a clone. A phantasm that resummons itself will not create a clone.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Chronophantasma has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The name of this trait is likely a reference to the fighting game BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma.
• Clones summoned while this effect is active have the  Chronophantasma effect automatically applied.