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Drain Essence

Spell

Drain Essence

Shadow

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Instant castMedium Range

Drains the life essence from the target over 6 sec.

Drain Essence

Tooltip

Drains the life essence from the target over 6 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 53. Its base value is 175 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 6 times over the full 6 sec (1050 base in total).

What it does

Drain Essence is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 6 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec.

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
Duration6 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 53
Value: 175
Period: every 1 sec

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 #240314. 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
#174740no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#176701duration: 5 sec; effect values: 1.94 (this record: 175); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#176859duration: 9 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#183510school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#184672cast time: 1 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 175); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#186048duration: until cancelled; effect values: 0 (this record: 175); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#199837school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 136; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#205111effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#205112effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#256878cast time: 2 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect values: 2 (this record: 175); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#266036cast time: 1 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect values: 6.6 (this record: 175); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#288411school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect values: 0 (this record: 175)Different 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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