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For the removed priest talent, see Ability priest darkness [Darkness]. For the Hearthstone card, see The Darkness. For the joke character, see Darkness (character).
Darkness
Ability demonhunter darkness
  • Darkness
  • Row 8 demon hunter talent
  • 5 min cooldown
  • Instant
  • Summons darkness around you in an 8 yd radius, granting friendly targets a 20% chance to avoid all damage from an attack. Lasts 8 sec.
Properties
Class Demon hunter
School Physical
Cooldown 5 minutes
Radius 8 yards
Talents
Talent required Spell mage overpowered [Illidari Knowledge] or Spell shadow demonform [Demonic]/Artifactability havocdemonhunter anguishofthedeceiver [First of the Illidari]
Improvements Ability demonhunter darkness [Cover of Darkness], Spell fire twilightimmolation [Long Night], Sha spell warlock demonsoul [Pitch Black]
Related buff
Ability demonhunter darkness
  • Darkness
  • Attacks against you have a 20% chance to inflict no damage.

Darkness is a level 39 Havoc demon hunter ability.

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2022-11-10): Fixed an issue that caused Darkness' effect to be 10% as Vengeance instead of the intended 20%.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 8 class talent (was a level 39 Havoc ability). Rank 2 converted into the Sha spell warlock demonsoul [Pitch Black] talent.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.1.0 (2021-06-29): Now grants a 50% chance to avoid damage while in PvP Combat (was 20%).
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13):
    • Now learned at level 39 (was 100). Cooldown increased to 5 minutes (was 3).
    • Rank 2 added at level 47: Cooldown reduced by 120 sec.
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now grants a 20% chance to avoid all damage from an attack (was 15%).
  • Battle for Azeroth Hotfix (2020-05-18): Fixed a bug that prevented Haste from reducing the global cooldown of Darkness.
  • Legion Hotfix (2016-08-12): Darkness is now only available to Havoc Demon Hunters.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Added.

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