Nightfall

Warlock · Affliction · opens at 15 points spent · 2 ranks

Nightfall works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

Nightfall ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Gives your Corruption, Drain Soul, Drain Life, and Wrack spells a 2% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.
  2. Rank 2 Gives your Corruption, Drain Soul, Drain Life, and Wrack spells a 4% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.

What Nightfall does in Classic Era

Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.

  1. Rank 1 Gives your Corruption and Drain Life spells a 2% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance state after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance state reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.
  2. Rank 2 Gives your Corruption and Drain Life spells a 4% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance state after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance state reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.

Where Nightfall sits in the Affliction tree

Nightfall is a Affliction talent for Warlock. You need 15 points in Affliction before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Nightfall

83 of the 212 public Warlock builds saved here — 39% — put at least one point in Nightfall. Counted across the 1498 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Builds that take Nightfall

8 of the public Warlock builds written up here spend points on Nightfall.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.69893