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Drain Essence

Spell

Drain Essence

Physical

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Your essence is being drained!

Drain Essence

Tooltip

Your essence is being drained! Ouch! PH

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2).

What it does

Drain Essence is a Physical spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Physical damage.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70631. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolPhysical
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)

Raw client values from the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70631. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Drain Essence appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 49 separate Spell records named "Drain Essence". This page is record #104906. 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
#75645cast time: 1 sec; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#104905school: Shadow; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#108610school: Shadow; effect types: Knock Back, effect 164, effect 164A different effect setup
#173356effect types: noneA different effect setup
#174740effect types: noneA different effect setup
#176701effect types: noneA different effect setup
#176859effect types: noneA different effect setup
#183510effect types: noneA different effect setup
#184672effect types: noneA different effect setup
#186048effect types: noneA different effect setup
#199837effect types: noneA different effect setup
#205111effect types: noneA 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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