Chill of Death

Cast Lesser Spinal Shivers on a foe when attacking them while their health is below the threshold. — In-game description

Chill of Death

Specialization

Spite (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Chill of Death

Cast Lesser Spinal Shivers on a foe when attacking them while their health is below the threshold.

 Health Threshold: 50%

— In-game description

Trait skill

Skill			Description
Lesser Spinal Shivers (PvE)		20	Chill your target and remove up to three boons, dealing extra damage based on the number of boons removed.
Lesser Spinal Shivers (WvW, PvP)		20	Chill your target and remove up to three boons, dealing extra damage based on the number of boons removed.

Notes

• When the attack hits, this trait activates before damage is dealt.
• 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
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficients as follows: When removing no boons, coefficient has been reduced from 0.35 to 0.03. When removing 1 boon, coefficient has been reduced from 0.525 to 0.045. When removing 2 boons, coefficient has been reduced from 0.875 to 0.075. When removing 3 boons, coefficient has been reduced from 1.225 to 0.105.
December 11, 2018	The damage of this trait has been increased by 20% in PvE, and it will no longer be able to critically hit foes. The damage displayed in its tooltip has been fixed in PvP and WvW.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: The skill fired by this trait has been renamed to Lesser Spinal Shivers.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic.
March 16, 2015	This trait will now remain active when the necromancer enters the downed state.
December 10, 2013	Increased the trigger threshold from 25% to 50%.
August 20, 2013	Changed the radius skill fact to a range skill fact.
February 26, 2013	This trait 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.
October 01, 2012	This Spite trait no longer slows down the player's autoattack when activated.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Chill of Death has been added to the game.