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Drain Essence

Spell

Drain Essence

Shadow

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Instant castMedium Range

Draining life and magic from a target.

Drain Essence

Tooltip

Draining life and magic from a target.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4.

What it does

Drain Essence is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and an effect that lasts until cancelled. When cast it applies an aura.

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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
DurationInfinite
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4

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 49 separate Spell records named "Drain Essence". This page is record #186048. 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
#108610used by: Cast by Drain Essence; duration: none; effect types: Knock Back, effect 164, effect 164A helper record another spell casts
#173356cast time: 1 sec; duration: 10 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#174740duration: 6 sec; effect values: 175 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#176701duration: 5 sec; effect values: 1.94 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#176859duration: 9 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#183510school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#184672cast time: 1 sec; duration: 10 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#199837school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 136; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#205111duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#205112duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#240314duration: 6 sec; effect values: 175 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#256878cast time: 2 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect values: 2 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning

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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