Chromie

Chromie
"Here we go again!"
Basic Info
Title	Keeper of Time
Role	Ranged Assassin
Difficulty	Hard
Franchise	Warcraft
Price	750 / 10,000
Release Date	May 17, 2016
Base Stats
Attack Type	Ranged
Health	1390
Health Regen	2.8984
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.625
Attack Speed	1.0
Attack Range	7
Attack Damage	82
Data Page

Chromie, the Keeper of Time, is a Ranged Assassin Hero from the Warcraft universe. At first glance, Chromie appears to be an ordinary gnome. In truth, she is Chronormu, Bronze Dragon and a master of time. When it comes to temporal manipulation, there's no problem she can't solve... with some help from her future self, of course.

Chromie is a long-range mage with high burst damage. She requires good timing and setup.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft universe.

Chromie (aka Chronormu) is a bronze dragon, tasked with maintaining and restoring Azeroth's timeline. Disguised as a gnome, Chromie would ask adventurers in World of Warcraft to help her maintaining the timeline and was eventually sent by the bronze dragonflight to investigate the Nexus.

Gameplay

Chromie is a long range, high burst damage Mage, who requires good timing and setup. When playing Chromie, it is of utmost importance to anticipate your target's movement path, since both Sand Blast and Dragon's Breath come with a short delay.

Strengths

• Outstanding poke
• Extremely long range
• High burst damage output

Weaknesses

• Low health pool
• High learning curve
• Requires good positioning
• Below average mobility

Abilities

See Data page for a table of scaled values at key levels.

Timewalker

Chromie has traveled to the future, and as such, will learn her Talents 2 levels earlier than her teammates!

D

Detonate Time Trap

Cooldown: 2 seconds

Detonate active Time Traps.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Allied & Enemy Heroes, Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect, Time Stop

Cast time: Instant

Range: Global

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 2.0

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• Detonate Time Trap is put on cooldown every time a new Time Trap is placed.

Q

Sand Blast

20 Mana Cooldown: 3 seconds

After 0.5 seconds, fire a missile that deals 305 damage to the first enemy hit. Deals 50% damage to Structures.

Casting Sand Blast leaves an Echo behind that mimics Chromie's Sand Blast and Basic Attack, dealing 40% damage. Maximum of 1 Echo active at a time.

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Type: Spell Damage / Invulnerable Summon

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Clamping, Skillshot

Cast time: 0.5 + 0 seconds

Range: 15.4

Hitbox: 1.25 x 1.0

Missile speed: 24

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• Sand Blasts fired by Sand Echoes count for Sand Blast related talents and quests.
• Sand Echoes can cast Sand Blast even if the cast is interrupted by enemy.
• Sand Echoes' Basic Attacks deal Physical Damage.
• Sand Echoes' damage reduction stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers.

W

Dragon's Breath

65 Mana Cooldown: 14 seconds

Launch 3 blasts into the air that land every 0.75 seconds toward the targeted direction, dealing 215 damage each.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Vector Targeting

Properties: Area of Effect

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 13

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 2.0

Blast spacing: 2.0 (center to center)

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• First blast lands 0.75 seconds after a successful cast.
• First cast point determines the location of first blast and second the direction of following blasts.

E

Time Trap

20 Mana Cooldown: 15 seconds

Place a Time Trap that arms and Stealths after 2 seconds. Chromie's Trait can be activated to detonate the trap, placing all nearby allied or enemy Heroes in Time Stop for 2 seconds. Maximum of 1 trap active at a time.

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Type: Summon

Targeting: Point target

Cast time: 0.1875 + 0 seconds

Range: 6.0

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• Attemping to place a Time Trap on unpathable terrain will not work and will place the Ability on full cooldown.

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Time Trap

Type: Passive

Scaling: 4.00% (health)

Properties: Stealth

Health: 400

Basic Attack damage: -

Movement Speed: -

Unit radius: 0.75

Sight radius: 3.5

R

Slowing Sands

Cooldown: 5 seconds

5 Mana per second
Summon a sand vortex that Slows enemies by 10% every 0.25 seconds, up to 70%.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Slow

Cast time: Instant

Range: 8

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.5

Tickrate: 4.0 per second

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• Slowing Sands is interrupted and put on cooldown when Chromie cancels the ability, runs out of Mana or moves 30 units away from it.
• Each Hero has their own stack counter. Stacks are reset immediately when the affected Hero leaves the area.
• 0.75 Mana is consumed per tick.

R

Temporal Loop

60 Mana Cooldown: 50 seconds

Choose an enemy Hero. After 3 seconds, they are teleported back to the location where Temporal Loop was cast on them.

Basic Abilities recharge 500% faster for 3 seconds after casting Temporal Loop.

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Type: Crowd Control

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Displacement, Unremovable debuff

Cast time: 0.1875 + 0 seconds

Range: 8.0

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• Temporal Loop cannot be removed, but its displacement effect will be prevented if the target is Unstoppable when it triggers.

Talents

1

Once Again the First Time

❢ Quest: Hit 40 Heroes with Sand Blast from Chromie or her Echoes.

❢ Reward: Increase the maximum number of active Echoes to 2, and increase Echo damage to 45%.

Deep Breathing

❢ Quest: Every time Dragon’s Breath hits an enemy Hero, increase its damage by 1%, up to 20%.

❢ Reward: After hitting 20 Heroes, reduce the cooldown of Dragon’s Breath by 4 seconds and its Mana cost from 65 to 40.

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Type: Bonus damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Ability

Timewalker's Pursuit

Cooldown: 25 seconds
Gain 10% Spell Power and reduce the arming time of Time Traps by 0.75 seconds. Activate to reveal the targeted area for 4 seconds. Enemies seen are revealed for 4 seconds.

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Type: Status effect (active) / Offensive damage modifier, Healing dealt modifier

Affects: Enemies / Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Revealed, Spell Power

Cast time: Instant

Range: Global

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 10

Tickrate: 16.0 per second

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• Does not dismount.
• Spell Power from Timewalker's Pursuit stacks additively with itself and other sources of Spell Power as well as other offensive damage modifiers and healing dealt modifiers affecting the Chromie.

2

Chronic Conditions

After its Time Stop ends, enemies affected by Time Trap are Slowed by 30% for 3 seconds and allies gain 30% Movement Speed for 3 seconds.

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Type: Crowd Control / Status effect

Affects: Enemies / Allies

Properties: Slow, Movement Speed

Time Troubles

After its Time Stop ends, enemies affected by Time Trap lose 15 Armor for 3 seconds and allies gain 30 Armor for 3 seconds.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemies / Allies

Properties: Armor

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• Does not stack with other negative/positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Andorhal Anomaly

Increase the charges and maximum active Time Traps to 3, and reduce its cooldown by 8 seconds.

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• Upon placing a 4th Trap the oldest one disappears.
• Time Traps cannot be placed such that their detonation radiuses overlap.

5

Bronze Talons

Hitting a Hero with Sand Blast from Chromie or Her Echoes grants 50% additional Basic Attack damage for 5 seconds.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

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• Stacks additionally with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Cromie's Basic Attack damage.

Mobius Loop

Dragon’s Breath deals 30% bonus damage to enemies hit by its center. Enemy Heroes hit by its center are Slowed by 60% for 0.75 seconds.

A Proper Greeting

Damaging a Stunned, Rooted, or Slowed enemy Hero grants 20% additional damage for 3 seconds.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

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• Sand Echo Basic Attacks trigger this effect even if the attack misses due to Chromie being Blinded or the enemy Hero Evading as long as they are Stunned, Rooted or Slowed
• Stacks additionally with other offensive damage modifiers affecting Chromie's damage output.

8

Slowing Sands

Cooldown: 5 seconds
Summon a sand vortex that Slows enemies by 10% every 0.25 seconds, up to 70%.

Temporal Loop

Cooldown: 70 seconds
Choose an enemy Hero. After 3 seconds, they are teleported back to the location where Temporal Loop was cast on them.

Basic Abilities recharge 500% faster for 3 seconds after casting Temporal Loop.

11

Gnome Speed Ahead!

After casting Sand Blast, Chromie gains 20% Movement Speed and 200% increased Health Regeneration for 3 seconds.

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Type: Bonus Health regeneration

Scaling: -

Here and There

Cooldown: 20 seconds
Active: Activate to teleport to an area near an Echo, swapping it with Chromie's previous location.

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Type: Movement: Teleport

Affects: Self

Targeting: Point target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 20

Radius: 11 (from Echo)

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• Does not dismount Chromie.

Time Out

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Active: Activate to place Chromie in Stasis and gain Invulnerability for up to 5 seconds. Can be reactivated to end the effect early.

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Type: Status Effect

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Stasis

Cast time: Instant

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• Time Out can be reactivated after 0.5 seconds to end its effect early.

14

Shifting Sands

Hitting an enemy Hero with Chromie's primary Sand Blast grants 5% Spell Power for 8 seconds, up to a maximum of 50%. The duration is refreshed whenever an enemy is damaged by the primary Sand Blast.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier, Healing dealt modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Spell Power

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• Spell Power from Shifting Sands stacks additively with itself and other sources of Spell Power as well as other offensive damage modifiers and healing dealt modifiers affecting Chromie.

Fast Forward

If Chromie's primary Sand Blast travels at least 50% of its base distance and hits a Hero, its cooldown is reduced to 0.5 seconds and it refunds 10 Mana.

Quantum Overdrive

Cooldown: 45 seconds
Active: Activate to increase Spell Power by 30% for 8 seconds. Hitting an enemy Hero with Sand Blast reduces this cooldown by 3 seconds.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier, Healing dealt modifier

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Spell Power

Cast time: Instant

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• Spell Power from Quantum Overdrive stacks additively with itself and other sources of Spell Power as well as other offensive damage modifiers and healing dealt modifiers affecting Chromie.

18

Unravelling

Every 0.25 seconds, enemy Heroes Slowed by Slowing Sands have their Spell Armor reduced by 10, up to 50. Slowing Sands persists for 5 seconds after it is canceled.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Spell Armor reduction

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• After being deactivated, Slowing Sands still continues to consume Mana until it expires.
• Spell Armor reduction exceptionally is not cleansed by Stasis.
• Stacks additively with itself, but not with other negative Spell Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Stuck in a Loop

Temporal Loop teleports the target a second time after the first, and Basic Abilities continue recharging for an additional 3 seconds. Increase the cooldown recharge rate from 500% to 700%.

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• If this Talent is selected while Temporal Loop is active on an enemy, the mark will remain on the enemy Hero for the rest of the match, permanently effectively revealing their location even through fog of war (although not on the minimap).

Piercing Sands

Sand Blast casts from Chromie and her Echoes now pierce all enemies hit.

Blessing of the Bronze

Cooldown: 30 seconds
Active: Activate to cause Chromie and all allied Heroes to gain 20% Movement Speed and their Basic Abilities to recharge 35% faster for 8 seconds.

Hitting an enemy Hero with Sand Blast from Chromie or her Echoes reduces the cooldown of Blessing of the Bronze by 1 second.

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Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Targeting: No target

Cast time: Instant

Builds and guides

Icy Veins Chromie Guide

Chromie Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

Chromie Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Skins

Chromie Skins
Keeper of Time
Backstory: At first glance, Chromie appears to be an ordinary gnome. In truth, she is Chronormu, Bronze Dragon and a master of time. When it comes to temporal manipulation, there's no problem she can't solve... with some help from her future self, of course.
750 / 10,000 Keeper of Time	Free Ruby	Free Emerald	120 / 75 Obsidian
Dream Genie
Backstory: Despite their immense magical power, Luxorian genies usually guide and influence mortals by appearing in their dreams. Chromie, however, favors a more direct approach.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Luxoria skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Scarlet	350 / 400 Dreamie	350 / 400 Verdant	350 / 400 Elegant
Fel Queen
Backstory: There are an infinite number of timelines and fixing any of them can be a tricky proposition. But this one where Chromie is Queen of the Fel Drakes?, Yeah, that seems worth looking into.
Features: Altered voice-over, themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of alternative history skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Golden	350 / 400 Crimson	350 / 400 Violet
Timewalker
Backstory: The vestments of a Bronze Dragon are blessed by a power that exists beyond time and space. They are a fragment of both who Chromie was and who she is still yet to be.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Iron	120 / 75 Lil-Ming	120 / 75 Leper

Chromie Event Skins
Creepie
Backstory: This is definitely the darkest timeline.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Innocent	120 / 75 Haunted	120 / 75 Dottie	120 / 75 Monster
Techno Vandal
Backstory: Chromie, the leader of the Azure Dragons is an elusive hacker and anti-corporate street artist. Lately, her work has taken a turn for the dark, as if she sees something sinister rising from beneath the city.
Features: Themed abilities, themed animations.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Caldeum Complex skins.
600 / 1,200	600 / 1,200 Jade	600 / 1,200 Amber

Portraits

Chromie Portraits
Azure Dragon Chromie	Carbot Chromie120 / 75	Chromie Hero	Chromie Mastery	Creepie Chromie75 / 40	Fel Queen Chromie75 / 40	Timewalker Chromie Icon75 / 40
Toon Techno Vandal Chromie75 / 40	WoW Chromie75 / 40

Sprays

Chromie Sprays
Carbot Chromie120 / 75	Creepie Chromie75 / 40	Sands of Time Castle75 / 40	Magical Gal Chromie75 / 40	Techno Vandal Chromie75 / 40	Techno Vandal Chromie Graffiti180 / 112	Timestop-corn75 / 40
Timewalker Chromie Icon75 / 40

Emojis

Chromie Pack 1			Chromie Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Chromie Happy	:chromiehappy: :chrohappy:		Chromie Angry	:chromieangry: :chroangry:
	Chromie ROFL	:chromielol: :chromierofl: :chrolol: :chrorofl:		Chromie Cool	:chromiecool: :chrocool:
	Chromie Sad	:chromiesad: :chrosad:		Chromie Embarrassed	:chromieoops: :chromieembarrassed: :chrooops: :chroembarrassed:
	Chromie Silly	:chromiesilly: :chrosilly:		Chromie in Love	:chromielove: :chromieinlove: :chrolove: :chroinlove:
	Chromie Speechless	:chromiemeh: :chromiespeechless: :chromeh: :chrospeechless:		Chromie Surprised	:chromiewow: :chromiesurprised: :chrowow: :chrosurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Chromie/Quotes

Reworks

Lead Game Designer, Brett Crawford, acknowledged the issues that Chromies long-ranged playstyle causes in-game: "We have always kind of had a problem making artillery Mages feel good in our game. There were times and, it was something that we thought players would enjoy, is that we spent a lot of time thinking about what Chromie would be if we just made her a Time Mage instead of an artillery Mage. So we went through the thought process of, 'Can she slow down the entire Battlefield?' At the end of the day, there were so many people that love playing the long-range poke hero so we felt it would be a disservice to not go that route."

Trivia

• Chromie first appeared in World of Warcraft (November 2004).
• Chromie was teased as a new hero with a Twitter gif showing the shadow of a dragon.
• Chromie is voiced by Karen Strassman.
• Chromie is the smallest hero in the game.
• Chromie was the first dragon hero in the game, the other two being Alexstrasza and Deathwing.
• All of Chromie's base skin tints have the color schemes of different dragonflights. Emerald Chromie resembles a member of the Green Dragonflight; Ruby Chromie resembles a member of the Red Dragonflight; and Obsidian Chromie resembles a member of the Black Dragonflight.
• The Iron Timewalker Chromie skin resembles a Dark Iron dwarf.
• The Lil-Ming Timewalker Chromie skin resembles Li-Ming, as the name implies.
• The Leper Timewalker Chromie skin resembles a leper gnome.

Gallery

General

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  Chromie's artwork

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  Chromie home screen

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  Master Chromie skin

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  Caldeum Complex concept art

Abilities

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  Q: Sand Blast

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  W: Dragon's Breath

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  E: Time Trap

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  R1: Slowing Sands

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  R2: Temporal Loop

Gameplay

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  Blackheart's Bay

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  Towers of Doom

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  Dragon Shire

External links

• In Development: Chromie, Medivh, and more!
• Chromie Hero Week
• Chromie - Heroes of the Storm
• Chromie - Wowpedia
• Chromie Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Chromie Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm