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Devour Essence

Spell

Devour Essence

Physical

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Instant castMedium 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

Devour Essence is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Weapon % Damage (effect type 31). Its base value is 25.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 136, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 5.

What it does

Devour Essence is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals a percentage of weapon damage (base value 25).

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 timeInstant
Effect #1Weapon % Damage (31)
Value: 25
Effect #2Effect 136
Value: 5

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 #455651. 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; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#299504school: Shadow; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#328864effect 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
#333616school: Shadow; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#333619effect 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
#394333school: Shadow; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#394334school: Shadow; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#422277journal encounter: Smolderon; effect types: Dummy, Dummy, Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#424367effect types: effect 144A different effect setup
#455649cast time: 3 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; 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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