Forever Calc

Nightfall, an Affliction Warlock talent in WoW Forever

Nightfall is a passive talent in row 4 of the Affliction tree. It needs 15 points in Affliction, so the earliest you can take it is level 25 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 2 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Nightfall

2 ranks

  • Requires 15 points in Affliction

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%.

Every rank of Nightfall

RankText
Rank 1Gives 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%.
Rank 2Gives 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%.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Affliction tree

Improved Life TapSuppressionImproved CorruptionMaledictionSoul HarvestImproved DrainsImproved Bane of AgonyFel ConcentrationAmplify CursePandemicMalevolenceNightfallCurse of ExhaustionSiphon LifeSoul SiphonShadow MasteryWrack
Needs
No prerequisite talent
Unlocks
No talent needs it
Same row
Row above (row 3)
Row below (row 5)

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

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text.

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

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%.

WoW Forever

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%.

Open the Warlock talent calculator

All Affliction talents

  1. Improved Life Tap
  2. Suppression
  3. Improved Corruption
  4. Malediction
  5. Soul Harvest
  6. Improved Drains
  7. Improved Bane of Agony
  8. Fel Concentration
  9. Amplify Curse
  10. Pandemic
  11. Malevolence
  12. Nightfall
  13. Curse of Exhaustion
  14. Siphon Life
  15. Soul Siphon
  16. Shadow Mastery
  17. Wrack

The other Warlock trees: Demonology and Destruction. Everything that changed for the Warlock since Classic is on the changes page.

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.