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Name | Elemental Nova |
Class | Mage level 4 skill |
Description | Casts a nova around you that deals fire, cold and lightning damage. All types of Elemental Nova that you have enabled have an equal chance to be cast. |
Cooldown | No cooldown |
Mana cost | 11 |
Tags | LightningColdFireSpellIntelligence |
Scaling | Per Point of Intelligence:
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Skill Tree Nodes
Name | Max Points | Stats | Description | |
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Elemental Nova | 0 | Casts a nova around you that deals fire, cold and lightning damage. All types of Elemental Nova that you have enabled have an equal chance to be cast. | ||
Ice Nova | 1 |
| Enables Ice Nova, which has a freeze rate of 40. Elemental Nova hits deal more (multiplicative with other modifiers) damage. | |
Glyphs of Winter | 4 |
| Elemental Nova has a chance to chill enemies and an increased chance to freeze enemies. | |
Spreading Frost | 1 |
| Elemental Nova hits have a chance to create Lesser Ice Novas, which have a freeze rate of 12 and scale with your increases to cold damage and spell damage, but not other nodes on this tree. | |
Glacial Might | 4 |
| Elemental Nova hits deal more (multiplicative with other modifiers) damage, but Elemental Nova costs more mana. | |
Protective Strikes | 5 |
| Elemental Nova hits have a chance to grant ward. | |
Magical Barrier | 7 |
| Protective Strikes and Survival of the Victor grant more ward. | |
Lightning Nova | 1 |
| Enables Lightning Nova, which has 20% more critical strike chance than other Elemental Nova types. Elemental Nova hits deal more (multiplicative with other modifiers) damage. | |
Charged Destruction | 3 |
| Elemental Nova hits have an increased critical strike chance. | |
Survival of the Victor | 3 |
| Elemental Nova kills have a chance to grant ward. | |
Arcane Protection | 5 |
| You have more ward retention for 4 seconds after killing an enemy with Elemental Nova. You may have only one instance of this buff at once. | |
Fire Nova | 1 |
| Enables Fire Nova, which deals 11% more hit damage than other Elemental Nova types. All Elemental Nova hits deal more (multiplicative with other modifiers) damage. | |
Infernal Prism | 7 |
| Elemental Nova hits penetrate enemy elemental protections. | |
Ash Frenzy | 5 |
| Elemental Nova hits deal more damage against enemies that are at full health (multiplicative with other modifiers). Elemental Nova has increased cast speed. | |
Arcane Projection | 1 |
| Elemental Nova is now cast at a target location instead of around you. | |
Infernal Nova | 1 |
| Elemental Nova has a significantly larger area of effect and ignites caused by Elemental Nova have increased duration, but Elemental Nova has a 4 second cooldown. The area of effect increase is smaller if Elemental Nova is channeled. | |
Conflagrating Speed | 8 |
| Elemental Nova has a shorter cooldown. | |
Spark Charges | 5 |
| Elemental Nova hits have a chance to attach a Spark Charge, which deals lightning damage to nearby enemies after 0.7 seconds or when the enemy dies. Elemental Nova hits deal more (multiplicative with other modifiers) damage. | |
Immolation | 8 |
| Elemental Nova has a chance to Ignite enemies. | |
Flame Battery | 2 |
| You can store an additional charge of Elemental Nova. | |
Elemental Expanse | 5 |
| Elemental Nova has a larger area of effect. | |
Overcharge | 5 |
| Elemental Novas have a chance to overcharge. Overcharged Novas shock enemies and have a larger area of effect. | |
Ascended Current | 3 |
| Shocks you inflict have increased effectiveness if you have hit an enemy with Elemental Nova recently (past 4 seconds). | |
Elemental Tranquillity | 6 |
| Ice Nova has a higher chance to Freeze enemies. Lightning Nova has a chance to Shock enemies. Fire Nova has a chance to Ignite enemies. | |
Cryomantic Fragility | 4 |
| Elemental Nova costs less mana, but you take increased cold damage if you have cast Elemental Nova recently (past 4 seconds). | |
Arcana Elementorum | 5 |
| Elemental Nova deals more elemental damage (multiplicative with other modifiers) and has a slightly larger area of effect. | |
Fiery Destruction | 4 |
| Elemental Nova critical strikes deal more damage. | |
Luminaire | 1 |
| Elemental Nova becomes a channeled ability, unleashing 5 novas per second, and rapidly draining your mana. You do not regenerate mana while channelling. Elemental Nova has a smaller area of effect (multiplicative with other area modifiers). | |
Star Prism | 3 |
| Elemental Nova costs less mana per second to channel | |
Silenced Spark | 1 |
| You have additional lightning resistance while channeling, but Lightning Nova is disabled. If you have not taken the Fire Nova or Ice Nova nodes, then this node re-enables basic Elemental Nova. | |
Shatter Nova | 3 |
| Elemental Nova hits deal more damage against chilled enemies, frozen enemies, shocked enemies, and ignited enemies (multiplicative with other modifiers). |