Chilling Nova (trait skill)

This article is about the Chilling Nova trait skill. For the trait, see Chilling Nova.

Create a nova at the target that damages and chills nearby foes. — In-game description

Chilling Nova

Profession

Necromancer (trait skill list)

Specialization

Reaper

Trait

 Chilling Nova

Game link

API

29604

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Chilling Nova

Create a nova at the target that damages and chills nearby foes.

 Damage: 299 (1.125)^?

 Damage: 27 (0.1)^?

 Chilled (10.5½s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

 Chilled (2s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

 Number of Targets: 5

 Cannot Critical Hit

 Radius: 180

— In-game description

Related traitss

Spite

• Bitter Chill — Chilling a foe inflicts vulnerability.

Curses

• Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.

Death Magic

• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Reaper

• Chilling Nova — Critical hits against chilled foes cause an explosion that chills adjacent foes.
• Shivers of Dread — Whenever you inflict fear, you also chill. Chill lasts longer.
• Chilling Victory — Striking a chilled foe grants might and life force. Single attacks can activate this trait more than once before recharging.
• Cold Shoulder — Chilled foes take increased strike damage from your attacks and deal less strike damage to you.
• Deathly Chill — Chill deals damage over time.

Notes

• The explosion hits the original target as well.
• The damage dealt uses the unequipped (690.5) weapon strength in the damage calculation.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 29, 2022	Reduced cooldown from 8 seconds to 3 seconds in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.6 to 0.1. Increased chill duration from 1.5 seconds to 2 seconds. Increased internal cooldown from 8 seconds to 10 seconds.
December 11, 2018	The damage of this trait has been increased by 25% in PvE, and it will no longer be able to critically hit foes in all game modes.
May 16, 2017	The damage of this trait has been reduced by 33% in PvP only.
April 19, 2016	The chill duration from this trait has been reduced from 2 seconds to 1.5 seconds.
January 26, 2016	Fixed an issue that prevented this trait from firing when jumping or underwater. Reduced the recharge from 10 seconds to 8 seconds. Fixed a bug that caused the nova to have a smaller than intended radius.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Chilling Nova has been added to the game.