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Siphon Essence

Spell

Siphon Essence

Physical

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Instant castSelf Only

Your melee attacks have a chance to drain life from your target.

Siphon Essence

Tooltip

Your melee attacks have a chance to drain life from your target.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 42. It triggers Siphon Essence.

What it does

Siphon Essence is a spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it applies an aura. It also casts Siphon Essence (record #244329).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the current retail game build. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolPhysical
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 42
Trigger spell: Siphon Essence

Raw client values from the current retail game build. 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 26 separate Spell records named "Siphon Essence". This page is record #244330. 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
#137889duration: 168 hr; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#139409school: Shadow; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect values: 9.81 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#139590duration: 2147483.6 sec; effect types: Trigger Spell, Trigger Spell, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#139622used by: Cast by Siphon Essence; duration: 2147483.6 secA helper record another spell casts
#139641used by: Cast by Siphon Essence; duration: 2147483.6 secA helper record another spell casts
#143582duration: 3 secA variant record
#174964school: Shadow; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#186470school: Shadow; duration: 5 sec; effect values: 65 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#210684school: Arcane; cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect values: 3.13 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#244329used by: Cast by Siphon Essence; school: Shadow; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#318319school: Shadow; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#318345used by: Cast by Siphon Essence; effect types: Dummy, effect 136; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts

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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