Deathly Chill

Chill deals damage over time. — In-game description

Deathly Chill

Specialization

Reaper (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Deathly Chill

Chill deals damage over time.

₄ Bleeding (4s): 352 Damage

 Bleeding (8s): 176 Damage

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Deathly Enervation — Sword
•   Gormandize — Sword
•   Spinal Shivers — Focus
•   Chillblains — Staff
•   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

Curses

• Barbed Precision — Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Increases bleed duration.
• Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
• 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.

Blood Magic

• Blood Bond — Cast Lesser Signet of Vampirism on your foe when you inflict bleeding on them that matches or exceeds the threshold.

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

• Applies Bleeding whenever Chill is applied.
  • This includes per-instance of chill transferred via   Plague Signet.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 02, 2023	Adjusted bleeding from 2 stacks for 8 seconds to 4 stacks for 4 seconds in PvE only.
December 12, 2017	Bleeding has been adjusted from 3 stacks for 5 seconds to 2 stacks for 8 seconds in PvE.
November 07, 2017	This skill's PvP split has been extended to WvW and will now apply 1 stack of bleeding for 8 seconds upon chill application.
February 22, 2017	Increased bleed stacks to 3 for 5 seconds in PvE only.
April 19, 2016	This trait no longer causes chill to inflict damage but instead applies 8 seconds of bleeding each time you apply chill to an enemy.
February 24, 2016	Reduced the condition damage multiplier for this trait by 15%.
November 04, 2015	Removed the 50% health threshold on this skill so that it now does the same damage at all times. Adjusted the damage ratio. Decreased the base damage from 40 to 10. Increased the level multiplier by 25%. Increased the condition damage multiplier by 87%.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Deathly Chill has been added to the game.

Trivia

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