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Devour Essence

Spell

Devour Essence

Physical

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3 secMedium Range

The caster drains the blood of their target for 5 sec, inflicting Physical damage and restoring 5% of the caster's maximum health every 1 sec.

Devour Essence

Tooltip

The caster drains the blood of their target for 5 sec, inflicting Physical damage and restoring 5% of the caster's maximum health every 1 sec.

How it works

Its dispel type is client id 1.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 23. It ticks every 1 sec, 5 times over the full 5 sec. It triggers Devour Essence.

What it does

Devour Essence is a spell with a 3 sec cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 5 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec. It also casts Devour Essence (record #455651).

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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time3 sec
Duration5 sec
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
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 #455649. 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
#299499school: Shadow; cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#299504used by: Cast by Devour Essence; school: Shadow; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#328864cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: effect 136A different effect setup
#333612school: Shadow; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#333616used by: Cast by Devour Essence; school: Shadow; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#333619used by: Cast by Devour Essence; 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; school: Shadow; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#394334school: Shadow; duration: 6 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#422277journal encounter: Smolderon; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, Dummy, Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#424367cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: effect 144A different effect setup
#455651used by: Cast by Devour Essence; 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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