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Devour Essence

Spell

Devour Essence

Shadow

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3 secSelf 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

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 23. It ticks every 1 sec, 6 times over the full 6 sec. It triggers Devour Essence.

What it does

Devour Essence is a Shadow spell with a 3 sec cast, no range (it targets the caster) and effects that last 6 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec. It also casts Devour Essence (record #394333).

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 time3 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration6 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 23
Period: every 1 sec
Trigger spell: Devour 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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 25 separate Spell records named "Devour Essence". This page is record #394334. 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; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#299504used by: Cast by Devour Essence; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#328864school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; 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
#333616used by: Cast by Devour Essence; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#333619used by: Cast by Devour Essence; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#367428used by: Cast by Rending Bite; school: Holy, Nature, Shadow, Arcane; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 4 sec; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#394333used by: Cast by Devour Essence; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#422277journal encounter: Smolderon; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, Dummy, Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#424367school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: effect 144A different effect setup
#455649school: Physical; duration: 5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#455651used by: Cast by Devour Essence; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage, 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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