Nightfall

Nightfall ranks in Forever

1. Rank 1 Gives your Corruption, Drain Soul, and Drain Life 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, and Drain Life 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 200%.

Slot corrected from a secondary source; not yet verified in footage.

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. It also requires Fel Concentration first. Taking it opens Siphon Life.

• Requires: Fel Concentration
• Unlocks: Siphon Life
• Same row: Malevolence, Curse of Exhaustion

How often people take Nightfall

92 of the 206 public Warlock builds saved here — 45% — put at least one point in Nightfall. 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

Changed in Forever.

• BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage
• Xaryu VOD 2872270692 @5:19:06 (rank 1 tooltip)