Blackout, a Shadow Priest talent in WoW Forever

Blackout is a passive talent in row 1 of the Shadow tree. It needs no points in Shadow, so you can take it from level 10 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 5 ranks. It moved since Classic Era, from row 1, column 3 to row 1, column 2 of the Shadow tree.

Blackout

5 ranks

Gives your Shadow damage spells a 2% chance to stun the target for 3 sec.

Every rank of Blackout

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Gives your Shadow damage spells a 2% chance to stun the target for 3 sec.
Rank 2	Gives your Shadow damage spells a 4% chance to stun the target for 3 sec.
Rank 3	Gives your Shadow damage spells a 6% chance to stun the target for 3 sec.
Rank 4	Gives your Shadow damage spells a 8% chance to stun the target for 3 sec.
Rank 5	Gives your Shadow damage spells a 10% chance to stun the target for 3 sec.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Shadow tree

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Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

• Improved Psychic Scream

That talent needs Blackout at 5/5.

Same row

• Shadow Focus
• Spirit Tap

Row above

None: this is the first row

Row below (row 2)

• Shadow Affinity
• Improved Shadow Word: Pain
• Shadow Reach

Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Blackout.

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Game data from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70291, as published by talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0) on 2026-10-08 and reformatted by us. Numbers can still change before launch.