Death Nova/history
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This page contains information about a Guild Wars 2 trait that has been updated since its introduction. Some of the information on this page no longer applies to the game as it currently exists. For the current version of this trait, see Death Nova. |
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.
“Death NovaWhen 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 Lifetime Duration: 30 seconds
— In-game description
May 10, 2022
- Death Nova: Reduced power coefficient from 0.75 to 0.6 in WvW only.
September 21, 2021
- Jagged Horror: Reduced base health from 8,922 to 6,246 in PvP only.
August 17, 2021
- Death Nova: 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
- Death Nova: Reduced power coefficient from 0.6 to 0.45 in PvP only.
February 23, 2021
- Death Nova: Reduced the power coefficient of the Poison Nova explosion from 0.75 to 0.6 in PvP only.
“Death NovaWhen you or one of your minions is downed, create a Poison Nova. Summon a jagged horror when you kill a foe.
— In-game description
October 01, 2019
- Death Nova: 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.
“Death NovaWhen you or one of your minions is downed, create a Lesser Poison Cloud. Summon a jagged horror when you kill a foe.
— In-game description
December 11, 2018
- Death Nova: 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.
“Death NovaWhen you or one of your minions is downed, create a Lesser Poison Cloud. Summon a jagged horror when you kill a foe.
— In-game description
June 23, 2015
- Death Nova: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic.
“Death NovaMinions explode in a cloud of poison when they die. This effect also triggers when you are downed. When you kill an enemy, summon a Jagged Horror minion to fight by your side.
— In-game description
March 16, 2015
- Death Nova: 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.
“Death NovaMinions explode in a cloud of poison when they die. This effect also triggers when you are downed. When you kill an enemy, summon a Jagged Horror minion to fight by your side.
— In-game description
June 25, 2013
- Death Nova: Minions now deal damage when Death Nova is triggered.
May 28, 2013
- Death Nova: Now functions with Necrotic Traversal.
November 15, 2012
- Death Nova: 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.
“— In-game description
Original version
“— In-game description
