Death Nova

When you or one of your minions is downed, create a Poison Nova. Summon a jagged horror when you kill a foe. — In-game description

Death Nova

Specialization

Death Magic (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Death Nova

When you or one of your minions is downed, create a Poison Nova. Summon a jagged horror when you kill a foe.

 Jagged Horror Maximum: 5

 Jagged Horror Summon Recharge: 3 seconds

 Jagged Horror Summon Recharge: 15 seconds

 Jagged Horror Lifetime Duration: 30 seconds

— In-game description

Trait skill

Skill			Description
Poison Nova (PvE)	10.75¾		Corruption. The target area is enveloped in a noxious cloud of poison.
Poison Nova (PvP)	10.75¾		Corruption. The target area is enveloped in a noxious cloud of poison.
Poison Nova (WvW)	10.75¾		Corruption. The target area is enveloped in a noxious cloud of poison.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 17, 2023	Increased the minion summoning interval from 3 seconds to 15 seconds in WvW only. Reduced the power coefficient from 0.6 to 0.3 in WvW only.
May 10, 2022	Reduced power coefficient from 0.75 to 0.6 in WvW only.
September 21, 2021	Reduced base health from 8,922 to 6,246 in PvP only.
August 17, 2021	Fixed a bug that could cause this trait to fail to properly summon a jagged horror when killing enemies in certain content types or locations.
March 23, 2021	Reduced power coefficient from 0.6 to 0.45 in PvP only.
February 23, 2021	Reduced the power coefficient of the Poison Nova explosion from 0.75 to 0.6 in PvP only.
October 01, 2019	Updated skill facts and description. Updated attack name from Lesser Poison Cloud to Poison Nova in order to indicate that it has different behavior from Corrosive Poison Cloud. Fixed an issue that caused this trait to use the minion's stats instead of the necromancer's. Fixed various issues that caused this trait to behave inconsistently with certain minions. Increased damage by 60% in PvE only.
December 11, 2018	The time between jagged horror summons has been reduced from 15 seconds to 3 seconds for this trait. A maximum of 5 jagged horrors can be summoned at a time. Summoning a new jagged horror after reaching this maximum will kill the oldest jagged horror.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic.
March 16, 2015	This trait will now remain active when the necromancer enters the downed state.
April 15, 2014	Reanimator: This trait has been merged into Death Nova. Summon a jagged horror whenever you kill a foe. Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from properly activating when a player is down.
June 25, 2013	Minions now deal damage when Death Nova is triggered.
May 28, 2013	Now functions with Necrotic Traversal.
November 15, 2012	This skill now properly activates when using Taste of Death and Putrid Explosion. The internal cooldown has been removed. This skill's field duration is now 4 seconds, and the rate it pulses has been increased to every 2 seconds. Its poison duration is 5 seconds per pulse.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Death Nova has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this trait.