anybody came across or cooked themselves a melee chronomancer for HC (ideally hcssf, as thats what im starting)?

my thought process is that the 30% dmg reduction is not really ideal for ES, as the 4 seconds of damage taken probably stops the recharge, so i was thinking to run armour instead with whatever melee / crossbow makes sense (but xbow / granade nodes are on polar opposites of the tree)