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WarlockTooltip
Drains the life from the target, causing Shadow damage and restoring 2% of the caster's total health every 1 sec.
Generates 10 Demonic Fury per second.][]
Soulburn:
Healing increased by 50%.
How it works
Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.
Drain Life is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:
- Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 1 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 6 times over the full 6 sec (6 base in total).
- Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 2.
- Effect 3 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 10.
What it does
Drain Life is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 40 yards and effects that last 6 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec and applies an aura.
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
| School | Shadow |
|---|---|
| Range | 40 yards (Long Range) |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Global cooldown | 1.5 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Duration | 6 sec |
| Effect #1 | Apply Aura (6) Aura type id 3 Value: 1 Period: every 1 sec |
| Effect #2 | Apply Aura (6) Aura type id 4 Value: 2 Misc value: 10 |
| Effect #3 | Apply Aura (6) Aura type id 4 Value: 10 Misc value: 10 |
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.
Related
More Warlock spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 106 separate Spell records named "Drain Life". This page is record #689. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #12693 | duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #16375 | duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #16414 | used by: Cast by Wraith Scythe; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip text | A helper record another spell casts |
| #16608 | used by: Cast by Demon Forged Breastplate; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A helper record another spell casts |
| #17173 | duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #17238 | duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #17620 | duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #18084 | used by: Cast by Fist of the Damned; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip text | A helper record another spell casts |
| #18557 | duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #18815 | school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #18817 | used by: Cast by Drain Life; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip text | A helper record another spell casts |
| #20743 | duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A 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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