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Drain Life

Spell

Drain Life

Shadow

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Instant castLong Range

Steals 100 to 180 life from target enemy.

Drain Life

Tooltip

Steals 100 to 180 life from target enemy.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is Health Leech (effect type 9). Its base value is 100. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Drain Life is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it drains health from the target (base value 100).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70003. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Health Leech (9)
Value: 100
Spell power coefficient: 1

Raw client values from the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70003. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

How to learn

Items that grant this spell

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 106 separate Spell records named "Drain Life". This page is record #21170. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page. The 12 records closest by id are compared here.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#17173duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#17238duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#17620duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#18084used by: Cast by Fist of the DamnedA helper record another spell casts
#18557duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#18815school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#18817used by: Cast by Drain LifeA helper record another spell casts
#20743duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#24300duration: 7 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#24435duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#24585no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#24618duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup

Compared fields: SpellMisc difficulty rows, school, cast time and duration; Spell subtext and tooltip text; SpellEffect types and base values; journal and class usage. The reason column names the first difference found.

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