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Drain

Spell

Drain

Shadow

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Instant castTen yards

Leeches life from a target, inflicting 100 Shadow damage and leeching an additional 5.59756 health as Shadow damage.

Drain

Tooltip

Leeches life from a target, inflicting 100 Shadow damage and leeching an additional 5.59756 health as Shadow damage.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is Health Leech (effect type 9). Its base value is 5.5976.
  2. Effect 2 is Weapon % Damage (effect type 31). Its base value is 100.

What it does

Drain is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 10 yards. When cast it drains health from the target (base value 5.5976) and deals a percentage of weapon damage (base value 100).

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
Range10 yards (Ten yards)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Health Leech (9)
Value: 5.5976
Effect #2Weapon % Damage (31)
Value: 100

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 32 separate Spell records named "Drain". This page is record #215482. 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
#187340school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#202658cast time: 3 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#202706school: Physical; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#202707used by: Cast by Drain; school: Physical; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#202716school: Physical; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#202717used by: Cast by Drain; school: Physical; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#212568journal encounter: Gul'dan; cast time: 1 sec; duration: 21 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 203, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different caster
#214427cast time: 2 sec; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#216433used by: Cast by Drain; school: Nature; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#216435school: Nature; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#222487cast time: 3 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#222488school: Physical; effect types: effect 140A 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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