Nightfall

Item effects

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SkillGrants Skill: Raise Shield

SkillGrants Skill: Soaring Midnight

01+150 Strength Requirement

02(10-20)% increased Block chance

03(350-450)% increased Armour

04+(30-40)% to Cold Resistance

05(10-20)% of Fire damage taken as Cold damage

06(10-20)% of Lightning damage taken as Cold damage

Vaal Cultivation Orb

Other Unique rule

Nightfall is not listed among the 48 corrupted Vaal Uniques with an item-specific Cultivation modifier pool. Using a Vaal Cultivation Orb follows the separate rule for other Uniques: it replaces the item with a random Corrupted Unique of the same Item Class.

Target class: Shields
Result: Random Corrupted Unique of the same Item Class
Exact pool: Not published as an exhaustive list

The exact random pool depends on item class and current eligibility rules, so it is not represented as a fixed item-to-item outcome.

Compare the Vaal Unique modifier pools and the other Unique rule

Vaal Orb outcomes

4 outcomes / 10 enchantments

Vaal Orb can corrupt Nightfall. One applicable outcome is selected, and the item normally cannot be modified again by ordinary crafting.

01

No change.

02

Applies a modifier magnitude multiplier of 0.78x to 1.22x (in 0.01 increments) before rounding to explicit modifiers. Applies before quality effects.

The resulting values are rounded to the nearest whole number, rather than always being rounded down like most decimal values in the game. However, testing suggests the game may use truncation with a +0.5 shift instead of standard rounding. This appears to bias internally negative stats (like 10% Reduced Dexterity) toward zero, preventing some expected values from appearing while making others more common. A formula of trunc(value + 0.5) may explain this behavior.

03

Adds a special Vaal enchantment to the item.

04

Adds an item socket to weapons (including sceptres) and armour, ignoring socket limits.

For jewellery, no change. (This outcome is not removed by Omen of Corruption.)
The item cannot have more sockets than the amount of space the item takes up.
If the item is socketed with Cadigan's Epiphany, the item cannot gain an augment socket via corruption.

Possible corruption enchantments10

(15-25)% increased ArmourLocal / Level 1

(10-20)% reduced Attribute RequirementsLocal / Level 1

(20-30)% increased Block chanceLocal / Level 1

+3% to maximum Block chanceLocal / Level 1

(20-25) Life gained when you BlockGlobal / Level 1

(10-15) Mana gained when you BlockGlobal / Level 1

(15-25)% increased ArmourLocal / Level 1

(15-25)% increased Armour and EvasionLocal / Level 1

(15-25)% increased Armour and Energy ShieldLocal / Level 1

(40-50)% increased Thorns damageLocal / Level 1

View every corruption outcome and enchantment

How it works

1 interactions

01

Damage taken conversion

Converts 10-20% of both Fire and Lightning damage taken to Cold, concentrating elemental mitigation around Cold Resistance.

Important details

1

Adds 150 to the shield's Strength requirement.

Patch history

1 changes

0.5.0

Direct change

New Unique item: Nightfall

Base, mechanics, and similar items

10 connections

Base typeGlacial Fortress

Block chance: 26%

Granted skillRaise Shield

Raise your Shield to Block all incoming Blockable hits. Release immediately after Blocking when an enemy is close to perform a Shield Bash, damaging and Stunning enemies. While your Shield is raised you cannot be Light Stunned by hits you Block, but Blocking too much damage may Heavy Stun you. You cannot Evade while your Shield is raised, but Evasion instead grants an equal chance to avoid this Heavy Stun buildup.

Granted skillSoaring Midnight

Hurl your Shield as a Projectile which Returns to you at the end of its flight. While the Shield is in flight, this skill is replaced with Embrace the Fall. This skill's cooldown is skipped if you catch the Shield as it Returns, or destroy an Ice Crystal with the Embrace the Fall.

Referenced mechanicArmour

Armour connects 104 imported PoE2 records.

Referenced mechanicBlock

Block connects 18 imported PoE2 records.

Referenced mechanicCold

Cold connects 122 imported PoE2 records.

Referenced mechanicCold Resistance

Cold Resistance connects 32 imported PoE2 records.

Referenced mechanicFire

Fire connects 149 imported PoE2 records.

Referenced mechanicLightning

Lightning connects 130 imported PoE2 records.