Chilling Nova

Critical hits against chilled foes cause an explosion that chills adjacent foes. — In-game description

Chilling Nova

Specialization

Reaper (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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3

10

Chilling Nova

Critical hits against chilled foes cause an explosion that chills adjacent foes.

— In-game description

Trait skill

Skill			Description
Chilling Nova (PvE)			Create a nova at the target that damages and chills nearby foes.
Chilling Nova (WvW, PvP)			Create a nova at the target that damages and chills nearby foes.

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Deathly Enervation — Sword
•   Gormandize — Sword
•   Spinal Shivers — Focus
•   Chillblains — Staff
•   Sinister Stab — Spear
•   Isolate — Spear
•   Frozen Abyss — Trident
•   Chilling Scythe — Greatsword
•   Grasping Darkness — Greatsword

Transform skills that are improved by this trait

•   Executioner's Scythe — Reaper's Shroud

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Haunt
•   Spectral Grasp — Spectral
•   Well of Darkness — Well
•   "Suffer!" — Shout

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Plaguelands — Corruption
•   "Chilled to the Bone!" — Shout

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Lesser Spinal Shivers — Chill of Death

Related traits

Traits that are improved by this trait

Curses

• Chilling Darkness — Blinding a target will also apply chill.

Reaper

• Shivers of Dread — Whenever you inflict fear, you also chill.

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 trait 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.