Spinal Shivers

Chill your target and remove up to three boons, dealing extra damage based on the number of boons removed. — In-game description

Spinal Shivers

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Weapon

Focus

Game link

API

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Spinal Shivers

Chill your target and remove up to three boons, dealing extra damage based on the number of boons removed.

 Damage—Three Boons: 1,321 (4.0)^?

 Damage—Three Boons: 867 (2.625)^?

 Damage—Two Boons: 1,156 (3.5)^?

 Damage—Two Boons: 619 (1.875)^?

 Damage—One Boon: 991 (3.0)^?

 Damage—One Boon: 371 (1.125)^?

 Damage—No Boons: 825 (2.5)^?

 Damage—No Boons: 165 (0.50)^?

 Chilled (5s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

 Boons Removed: 3

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Spiteful Talisman — Deal increased strike damage to foes with no boons. Focus and axe skills recharge faster.
• 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.
• Chilling Victory — Striking a chilled foe grants might and life force. Single attacks can activate this trait more than once before recharging.
• Cold Shoulder — Chill lasts longer, and chilled foes take increased strike damage from your attacks.
• Blighter's Boon — Gain life force when you apply a boon to yourself or remove a boon from an enemy. If you are in reaper's shroud, gain health instead.
• Deathly Chill — Chill deals damage over time.

Scourge

• Nourishing Ashes — Gain life force when you inflict burning, and remove or corrupt a boon.
• Feed from Corruption — When you remove or corrupt a boon from an enemy, gain barrier.

Notes

• If this skill triggers boon applications like Metaphysical Rejuvenation, the new boons won't be affected
• Chilled is applied before damage.
• This skill won't be blocked by Aegis if Aegis is among the boons that will be removed. Otherwise, Aegis will block this skill.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 02, 2023	Increased power coefficients from 2.0/2.375/2.75/3.125 to 2.5/3.0/3.5/4.0 in PvE only.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Recharge reduced from 20 seconds to 16 seconds. Damage multiplier on targets with no boons increased from 0.75 to 2, one boon from 1.125 to 2.375, two boons from 1.875 to 2.75, and three boons from 2.625 to 3.125. Fixed an issue that caused incorrect damage to be displayed in the tooltip of this skill.
October 02, 2018	The base damage and bonus damage of this skill have been increased by 50%.
July 26, 2016	This skill casts approximately 0.25 seconds faster than before.
April 19, 2016	Increased the damage when removing two and three boons by 25% and 40% respectively.
July 28, 2015	Removed an incorrect unblockable skill fact from this skill. While this skill does remove aegis before striking, it is not unblockable.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Focus skill range increased to 1200.
October 15, 2013	Added a damage fact for each damage value based on the boons the target currently has on them.
April 30, 2013	Updated damage facts to indicate damage dealt based on boons removed.
February 26, 2013	This ability now deals bonus damage for each boon that it removes. One boon removed deals 50% extra damage, two boons deals 100% extra, and three boons removed will grant an extra 150% damage to the ability.
January 28, 2013	Fixed a bug which caused this skill to enter its full cooldown if used when facing away from the target.
November 15, 2012	This skill's casting effects and audio are now consistent with or without the Spiteful Talisman trait.
October 22, 2012	This skill now properly removes aegis rather than being blocked by it.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Spinal Shivers has been added to the game.

Trivia

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

See also

•  Chill of Death