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Drain Life

Spell

Drain Life

Shadow

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Warlock

Instant castSelf Only

Drains life from the target and restores it to the caster.

Drain Life

Tooltip

Drains life from the target and restores it to the caster.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Heal (effect type 10).

What it does

Drain Life is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it heals.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70449. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Heal (10)

Raw client values from the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70449. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 106 separate Spell records named "Drain Life". This page is record #107545. 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
#71838effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#71839effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#79616duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#79619duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#79933duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#84533duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#91291duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#105337cast time: 2 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#108022used by: Cast by Item - Dragon Soul - Proc - Str Tank Sword; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#109828used by: Cast by Item - Dragon Soul - Proc - Str Tank Sword LFR; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#109831used by: Cast by Item - Dragon Soul - Proc - Str Tank Sword Heroic; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#131577duration: 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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