Chilling Victory

Striking a chilled foe grants might and life force. Single attacks can activate this trait more than once before recharging. — In-game description

Chilling Victory

Specialization

Reaper (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

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Chilling Victory

Striking a chilled foe grants might and life force.
Single attacks can activate this trait more than once before recharging.

 Might (8s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power

 Might (6s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power

 Life Force: 1%

— In-game description

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
•   Chilling Nova — Chilling Nova

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Spite

• Awaken the Pain — Might grants you more power and less condition damage. Gain might when entering shroud.

Reaper

• 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.

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

• Single attacks can activate this trait more than once before recharging means that if an attack hits multiple targets, it will trigger the trait multiple times as long as the trait is not on cooldown.
• The attack created by Chill of Death, Chilling Nova, Sigil of Fire, and Sigil of Air will trigger this trait before it goes on cooldown, doubling the effect against the struck target(s).
  • Lifesteal effects from traits, runes, and sigils do not trigger this trait.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 14, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 2 seconds to 1 second in PvP
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced might duration from 8 seconds to 6 seconds.
May 16, 2017	The cooldown of this trait has been increased from 1 second to 2 seconds in PvP only.
November 04, 2015	Updated this trait's skill fact to correctly show 8 seconds of might duration instead of 5.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Chilling Victory has been added to the game.

Trivia

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