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Devour Essence

Spell

Devour Essence

Shadow

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Instant castSelf Only

Drains the life from targets within 10 yards, inflicting 6.84 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 6 sec and healing the caster.

Devour Essence

Tooltip

Drains the life from targets within 10 yards, inflicting 6.84 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 6 sec and healing the caster.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Health Leech (effect type 9). Its base value is 6.84. Its area radius is 10 yards.

What it does

Devour Essence is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it drains health from the target (base value 6.84) in a 10 yard radius.

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

SchoolShadow
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Health Leech (9)
Value: 6.84
Radius: 10 yards

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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Devour 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 25 separate Spell records named "Devour Essence". This page is record #394333. 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
#299499cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#299504effect values: 50 (this record: 6.84); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#328864school: Physical; effect types: effect 136A different effect setup
#333612cast time: 2 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#333616effect values: 2 (this record: 6.84); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#333619school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#367428used by: Cast by Rending Bite; school: Holy, Nature, Shadow, Arcane; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#394334cast time: 3 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#422277journal encounter: Smolderon; school: Physical; effect types: Dummy, Dummy, Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#424367school: Physical; effect types: effect 144A different effect setup
#455649school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#455651school: Physical; effect types: Weapon % Damage, effect 136; 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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