The Deaths of Chromie Scenario Guide

Chromie needs your help to stop her death! In this solo scenario, you will defeat eight different attacks on Chromie throughout time before it is too late. Rewards include Timewarped Badges, the Timelord title, and transmog gear.

  • Head to Wyrmrest Temple to find Chromie.
  • You will have to run this scenario a number of times to farm reputation to unlock Chromie's talents, unlock the Chronoportals, and learn how to beat it in time.
  • You have 15 minutes (plus whatever bonus time you can collect) to stop all eight attacks on Chromie.
  • Completing the scenario in time rewards the Chromie themed armor set transmog.
  • You will have an item level of 1000 and player level of 112.
  • You will have to do a slow clear of each Dragonshrine once to unlock the other four situations that Chromie needs to be saved from.
  • The chests that Chromie will reveal on the map with a talent are also present without the talent, so keep an eye out for them.


Video
This video shows a lucky and relatively relaxed run with full talents. If you are lucky or try to significantly optimize your route and gameplay, you may be able to complete the scenario in time without the full set of talents.



The Deaths of Chromie Scenario Rewards






Quests


Chromie's Talents
Chromie has seven tiers of talents, with a higher reputation level needed for each one. Tiers 3-7 take time to research and each tier must be researched before moving on to the next. You can chain run the scenario to farm reputation, allowing you to reach max reputation far before you will be able to research all of the talents. You will be able to swap between talents instantly after researching that tier.


  • Tier 1
    • Time Stop - Chromie can freeze an enemy and all enemies within 5 yards of them for 3 sec.
    • Acceleration - Movement and mounted speed is increased by 20%.
    • Bonus - Damage and healing increased by 5%.
  • Tier 2
    • Acceleration Aggression - Chromie is a tank, increasing threat by 200% and healing received by 60%. Damage increased by up to 100% (scaling with her health), but she loses 2% health every second while above 50% health. Damage bonus increased up to 500% when you are a healer.
    • Rapid Recovery - Chromie is a healer, with 3 new abilities. Reduce the damage you take from the next 3 attacks by 90%, allies within 10 yds regenerate 1% health every 3 seconds, and restore an ally's health to highest point in last 8 seconds.
    • Bonus - Health increased by 5%.
  • Tier 3 - 1 Day Research
    • Dragon's Determination - Chromie's damage taken is reduced by 20%.
    • Chrono Charisma - Reputation gain increased by 100% during final 5 minutes and 300% during final minute.
    • Bonus - Movement and mounted speed increased by 5%.
  • Tier 4 - 1 Day Research
    • Insight - Chromie reveals nearby treasure chests.
    • Blessing of the Bronze Dragonflight - Greater chance to earn Bronze Drake from Sands of Time, instantly clearing a dragonshrine.
    • Bonus - Damage and healing increased by 10%.
  • Tier 5 - 1 Day Research
    • Fortuitous - Chance to find Sands of Time increased by 100%.
    • Bonus - Health increased by 10%.
  • Tier 6 - 2 Days Research
    • Infinite Velocity - Unlock portals from Wyrmrest to each dragonshrine and back.
    • Continuous Keepsakes - Greater chance to earn a Keepsake Box from Sands of Time. These boxes contain items that reduce the difficulty of Chronoportal challenges.
    • Bonus - Movement and mounted speed increased by 10%.
  • Tier 7 - 5 Days Research
    • Dragon Crash - Chromie can summon a dragon that crashes into your foes, dealing Physical damage.
    • Bonus - Damage, healing, health, movement, and mounted speed all increased by 50%.


Sands of Time
There is a chance to find Sands of Time on enemy corpses, as quest rewards, and from chests. The item allows you to choose from one of two rewards to make the scenario a little bit easier. Generally the priority for your choice should be Keepsake Box or Bronze Drake, Stolen Time, followed by the rest. Currently damage reduction isn't very necessary, even for cloth casters.

Keep in mind that once a choice is presented, it doesn't change. This can be useful in giving you a little bit of control over the rewards. For example, if you have only cleared one Dragonshrine and get a Bronze Drake as an option, go ahead and clear two more before selecting the drake so that you can use it on the far away final shrine. The same goes for getting a Keepsake box near the end of one of the Chronoportals. Don't make the choice until after you complete that Chronoportal, otherwise you could get one for the current portal you are almost finished with!

  • Time-Lost Keepsake Box - Grants an item that allows you to quickly complete one of the Chronoportal challenges.
  • Bronze Drake - Allows you to complete one of the Dragonshrines instantly.
  • Stolen Time - Grants 10, 20, or 30 extra seconds to complete the scenario.
  • Favor of the Bronze - Grants 25% increased reputation with Chromie in the scenario. This buff stacks.
  • Wings of the Bronze - Increase run speed by 10% while in the Deaths of Chromie scenario, stacking up to 10 times.
  • Hide of the Bronze - Reduce damage taken by 10% while in the Deaths of Chromie scenario, stacking up to 9 times.
  • Fangs of the Bronze - Increase damage dealt by 10% while in the Deaths of Chromie scenario. This buff stacks.
  • Timewarped Badges - Grants 10 Timewarped Badges.
  • Time-Lost Wallet - Grants a small amount of gold and a rare chance at one of the two pets.
  • Reputation - Grants 50, 100, or 200 reputation with Chromie.




Dragonshrines
After completing the tasks to reveal the boss at each Dragonshrine, you will be able to head directly to the boss's location in future runs of the scenario, saving significant time.



Chronoportals
There are four Chronoportals that are unlocked after you complete one of the corresponding Dragonshrines for the first time.

  • Mount Hyjal
    • Run up to the injured Chromie, fight off the waves of attackers, defeat the Fiery Behemoth
    • If you have a Brimstone Beacon, you can skip right to the boss.
  • War for Andorhal
  • The Well of Eternity
    • Mount up and ride along the edge of the well down the path to the portal. You will have to kill anything you pulled before being able to take the portal, including the Felhound that gets sent chasing you.
    • Mount up, follow the path back towards where you normally enter the instance. Don't dismount until you come across Grolethax. Be sure Chromie is next to you and around the corner against the invisible wall to line of sight the caster NPCs.
    • After killing everything to drop combat, take the portal out. If you don't drop combat, sometimes you are stuck in combat and can no longer mount for the rest of the scenario.
  • Culling of Stratholme
    • This is an ideal Chronoportal to be able to skip, as it can take up to seven minutes without speed buffs.
    • Head into the city and pick up Smoke, Meat, and Pretty Flowers from Emery Neill
    • Purchase all of the special scenario items from the shop vendors. You will probably make two trips the first time through, as the followup quest sends you to buy other things from the same shops.
    • Take the Town Hall key, run up to the hidden bookcase, and run through the streets along the normal instance path. Be sure to pull the casters so they aren't pulled by Chromie and kill her.
    • Kill Nezar'Azret, free Chromie, and move on!
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 7.2.5 - The Deaths of Chromie Scenario started by chaud View original post
Comments 60 Comments
  1. Super Kami Dende's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Spirthealer View Post
    I think the only salty one here, is u right now... Unless there is a rely nice reward which there is not, people might do this 3, MAYBE 5 times max. then its dead content, salt all u want defending blizzard, but with out a reward or reason to do said content, people will find better things to do. People like you just get all upset because people want to do content that is fun & rewarding, but u get all salt ass because u know the game is losing players, because 50% of the content is just skin/scale...

    Its showing now, truth hurts the die hard fans.
    Have you played any other MMO's recently? That's all they are.
  1. Kynario's Avatar
    The post above is why the excitement is gone for many people...

    Luckily I haven't and won't read it.

    Why ruin the fun? Just experience it firsthand...
  1. h4rr0d's Avatar
    The title is kinda neat, but I doubt I'll ever use anything other than 'the Magic Seeker'...
    The xmog is just plain disgusting. It's even worse than the ToV ensembles and those are random drops. I'll definitely give it a whirl, probably try and get the title, but that's about it.
  1. jdbond592's Avatar
    So Chromie thing is new withered training?
  1. Fjordkeeper's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eleccybubb View Post
    Urgh they brought a HD version of that godawful HoT dungeon gear back for plate. Why?
    Yeah they look absolutely terrible.. But whatever, maybe someone likes them for some reason lol.
  1. Frumpy Frumpy Frak's Avatar
    My interest in this is entirely dependent on just how many Timewarped Badges we get.

    I hate Dr. Who so that title means nothing to me and I'm up to my ears in battle pets but allowing me to buy three new mounts without having to keep grinding dungeons I got sick of years ago would be totally worth it.
  1. mmocb0599ef382's Avatar
    The scenario seems fun, but it's Karahzan all over again. Fun, definitely thumbs up, and then never touch it again after the first time because there's no point.

    The fun aspect is satisfied after the first two or three times. We need a reward to grind over and over, which is what the whole game is about. Lets do M+ over and over, because titanforges and AP. Lets re-do raids, because skins or drops. Lets re-do Chromie... er... why?
  1. Frumpy Frumpy Frak's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ehuehuecopter View Post
    Do us a favor guys since you can't kill yourselves, just stop play wow if everything is "durr Hurr farming salta recolored"
    Cut off the free money for blizzard, get back your freedom and go play something else that appeals your flavor, since wow isnt more touching your chord.
    Do it and free us from your cancer attitude from this place.
    Exactly, every other video game I play rarely lasts for than a month or two before I finish with it, what is it about MMOs that makes it mandatory for the game to always have new content? How hard is it to just do something else with your time?
  1. mmocb0599ef382's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ehuehuecopter View Post
    BLA BLA BLA WE WANT NEW CONTENT BLA BLA
    BLA BLA WE WANT EPIX BLA BLA
    BLA BLA BLA WANT UBER DUPER XMOG BLA BLA


    fucking living tumors


    Do us a favor guys since you can't kill yourselves, just stop play wow if everything is "durr Hurr farming salta recolored"
    Cut off the free money for blizzard, get back your freedom and go play something else that appeals your flavor, since wow isnt more touching your chord.
    Do it and free us from your cancer attitude from this place.
    You have problems. This isn't Tumblr so give it a rest. You can't even construct a decent reply so you're making baby noises and wishing cancer? Man, sad sad sad.

    What has been said is simple enough. Time and money has been put in this new content, but the rewards are weak. How many times can we repeat an event until it is no longer 'fun'? Would we re-do M+ and Withered Scenarios if all it had for it was 'fun'? Fun is enjoyed the first few times. Are we still doing WQs for 'fun' ater the first two months? No, because it had rewards we cared for. It's been pointed out. It's lazy. Old already existing low res mogs? It's Trial of Style all over again. At least Trial of Style might have its rewards upgraded, but I doubt Chromie will

    Now if you don't care about time and money being poured into projects with very limited life spans that is fine too, baby noises and cancer wishing and all. The rest of us will just keep on shaking our heads and trying to remember that Blizz is a multi million company and in theory they aren't amateurs.

    P.S. I really miss GW2's approach to cosmetics. I don't need or want all content to drop 'epix', I have raids for that. But more skins would never be a bad thing.
  1. Eazy's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zuuda View Post
    You have problems. This isn't Tumblr so give it a rest. You can't even construct a decent reply so you're making baby noises and wishing cancer? Man, sad sad sad.

    What has been said is simple enough. Time and money has been put in this new content, but the rewards are weak. How many times can we repeat an event until it is no longer 'fun'? Would we re-do M+ and Withered Scenarios if all it had for it was 'fun'? Fun is enjoyed the first few times. Are we still doing WQs for 'fun' ater the first two months? No, because it had rewards we cared for. It's been pointed out. It's lazy. Old already existing low res mogs? It's Trial of Style all over again. At least Trial of Style might have its rewards upgraded, but I doubt Chromie will

    Now if you don't care about time and money being poured into projects with very limited life spans that is fine too, baby noises and cancer wishing and all. The rest of us will just keep on shaking our heads and trying to remember that Blizz is a multi million company and in theory they aren't amateurs.

    P.S. I really miss GW2's approach to cosmetics. I don't need or want all content to drop 'epix', I have raids for that. But more skins would never be a bad thing.
    Thansk for pointing these things out.

    I think that people who gives constructive criticism are a lot more valuable than the ones that are just calling everyone around "cancers" and still do nothing, but pray the Blizzard for everything. They are type of the people when Blizzard are be peeing on themselves they would say it's "raining".
  1. Evilmoo's Avatar
    There are no rewards (maybe title, if you are a diehard dr.who fan) worth wasting your time on grinding rep for this shit.
    and these transmogs - Oh My God
  1. Ehuehuecopter's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eazy View Post
    Thansk for pointing these things out.

    I think that people who gives constructive criticism are a lot more valuable than the ones that are just calling everyone around "cancers" and still do nothing, but pray the Blizzard for everything. They are type of the people when Blizzard are be peeing on themselves they would say it's "raining".
    Beside the fact that you aren't giving any constructive criticism

    Just the usual bloating of cry and sorrow because blizzard didn't give you what YOU wanted, no epix no super duper xmog

    And therefore just cry for everything.

    Delete your sub and be free.
  1. Zephre's Avatar
    I've been getting increasingly annoyed at how this multi billion dollar company cannot design unique rewards such as armour sets or even battle pets to be tied into things like this, instead they toss out copy pastes all the bloody time, the titles nice but that's not enough for me to motivate myself to do this, hope those interested in this have fun with it though.
  1. Teri's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Evilmoo View Post
    You find THIS fun?
    Please seek a help from a professional.
    This doesn't give you 950 epix , so it's instantly bad, and people who like it are clearly "retarded" in your eyes.

    Not everything needs instant player power upgrades in the form of AP or Gear.
  1. Hellrime's Avatar
    Some people are in it for the story, not the reward. If the story is good then that is the reward. WoW isn't just a reward button. No, completing the scenario isn't going to give you an item to one shot every boss in ToS, it just gives you something to do in a game that is full of things to do that no one does because they're too busy complaining about nothing to do.

    This is the issue with the "free purples" design, no one wants to do the content just for fun, they expect to be in mythic raid gear while they do it without even a fraction of the effort it takes to get it.
  1. Teri's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Hellrime View Post

    This is the issue with the "free purples" design, no one wants to do the content just for fun, they expect to be in mythic raid gear while they do it without even a fraction of the effort it takes to get it.
    The same type of people probably would buy 110 + itemlevel 955 gear boost from the store if it were a thing... and then hate on 99.9% of the rest of the game or players that are "inferior" to them.
  1. Hellrime's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eleccybubb View Post
    Yeah so do I. And had they kept with that model other more appealing MMOs would have wiped the floor with them. But there's a thread in general to discuss what people believe are WoWs glory days so I'll leave it at this.

    Also they could have easily designed unique armor sets for this. But no they went lazy mode and just thought "oh let's upscale the 4.3 dungeon pieces to HD, nobody will notice".
    That is strange, it seems like the most popular expansions in the series were like that and that was when WoW was really crushing the competition, instead of kind of crushing the competition. Could it be that players are so over-rewarded in this game now that the mere thought of just playing the goddamn game is confusing?
  1. mmocb0599ef382's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ehuehuecopter View Post
    Nobody cares about your "boo ohhh no more cry babies"

    You have mental problem due to the fact that you are unable to separate what you want in wow. Vs what the majority wants and blizzard delivers.

    Maybe you will get it or maybe not.

    On the "leaving the game" I have played since vanilla and I enjoyed most of the xpac, with their pro and cons, but you can bet that I never act like you and the other bunch of little kids that want istant gratification.
    And this is the best thing.
    Someone who thinks baby noises and cancer wishing consists of a reply is calling others little kids...?

    ;D

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teri View Post
    This doesn't give you 950 epix , so it's instantly bad, and people who like it are clearly "retarded" in your eyes.

    Not everything needs instant player power upgrades in the form of AP or Gear.
    Good thing the whole thread revolves around people complaining how they just copy pasted a low res old mog for a reward and called it a day.

    Man, it's almost like you just answered without having read a thing of what was said... But that would just be silly. Wouldn't it?
  1. Teri's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zuuda View Post


    Good thing the whole thread revolves around people complaining how they just copy pasted a low res old mog for a reward and called it a day.

    Man, it's almost like you just answered without having read a thing of what was said... But that would just be silly. Wouldn't it?
    So what if they copy pasted a transmog and recolored it, you know it makes sense that they chose that set as you know, the Cata End-time dungeon was a similar setting, you stop a future version of nozdormu, chromie is a bronze dragon too, and having a bronze-ish colored version fits the bronze theme.

    People weren't complaining about just a transmog model, basicly they were going on about "no rewards = useless" as a whole....
  1. Ruts's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Indil View Post
    Not interested in that, i will be too busy in Tos and M+ to care
    Thank you for sharing your insightful thoughts.

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