Poison Nova – Diablo 2: Reign of the Warlock

Description

Emits an expanding ring of concentrated poison.

Poison Nova does not overwrite itself, and its duration is always 2 seconds.
As a result you get almost no benefit from casting Poison Nova more often than once every 2 seconds (because each subsequent casting doesn't increase the duration on monsters that have already been affected).
For this reason FCR is not a top priority for poison necromancers.
Even so, it is still a very cool skill.
Poison Nova works well with the Lower Resist curse.
You can quickly clear an area of weak monsters by casting Lower Resist and then promptly following it up with Poison Nova.
Unlike Nova, which emits a single, expanding, ring-shaped hitbox, Poison Nova emits 64 individual projectiles in lines away from the caster.
Furthermore, the skill is subject to a 4 frame Next Hit Delay.
This is why the projectiles appear to pass through units even with the skill's lack of any piercing quality.
As a consequence of this, only one of the many projectiles created with each casting will poison a target, no matter how many appear to be hitting the unit.

If you are playing in Resurrected mode, this ability's projectiles provide a small radius of light, illuminating the dark slightly as the poison Bolts expand outward.
This is because the poison Bolts disappear when they hit the targets that are closer to the Necromancer, so targets further away from you may not be hit at all.

Values use the listed effective skill level; synergies are not included.

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40
Mana Cost	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20
Over	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s	2 s
Poison Damage	3-5	3-6	4-7	5-8	6-8	7-9	7-10	8-11	9-12	10-13	12-14	13-15	14-16	15-18	16-19	17-20	19-22	21-24	23-25	25-27	26-29	28-31	31-33	33-36	36-39	39-41	42-44	44-47	48-50	51-53	54-56	57-59	60-63	63-66	66-69	69-72	73-75	76-78	79-81	82-84