Darkness
Priest · Shadow Magic · opens at 25 points spent · 5 ranks
Darkness has been read from Forever footage and matches its Classic Era wording.
Darkness ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases your Shadow damage done by 2%.
- Rank 2 Increases your Shadow damage done by 4%.
- Rank 3 Increases your Shadow damage done by 6%.
- Rank 4 Increases your Shadow damage done by 8%.
- Rank 5 Increases your Shadow damage done by 10%.
What Darkness 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.
- Rank 1 Increases your Shadow spell damage by 2%.
- Rank 2 Increases your Shadow spell damage by 4%.
- Rank 3 Increases your Shadow spell damage by 6%.
- Rank 4 Increases your Shadow spell damage by 8%.
- Rank 5 Increases your Shadow spell damage by 10%.
Where Darkness sits in the Shadow Magic tree
Darkness is a Shadow Magic talent for Priest. You need 25 points in Shadow Magic before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Early Demise
How often people take Darkness
60 of the 180 public Priest builds saved here — 33% — put at least one point in Darkness. Counted across the 1500 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.
Where this came from
Same as Classic (verified).
- BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage
- Xaryu VOD 2872270692 @5:28:27 (rank 1 tooltip)