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Drain Essence

Spell

Drain Essence

Shadow

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1 secLong Range

Drains the target's life essence, inflicting 6.6 Shadow damage every 0.5 sec for 8 sec.

Drain Essence

Tooltip

Drains the target's life essence, inflicting 6.6 Shadow damage every 0.5 sec for 8 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 53. Its base value is 6.6 per tick. It ticks every 0.5 sec, 16 times over the full 8 sec (105.6 base in total).

What it does

Drain Essence is a Shadow spell with a 1 sec cast, a range of 40 yards and effects that last 8 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 0.5 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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast time1 sec
Duration8 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 53
Value: 6.6
Period: every 0.5 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 #266036. 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
#240314cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect values: 175 (this record: 6.6); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#256878cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 2 (this record: 6.6); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#288411school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect values: 0 (this record: 6.6)Different tuning
#310206cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: effect 137; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#314992journal encounter: Maut; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#314993cast time: instant; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#314994cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Power Burn; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#314995cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Power Burn; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#320861school: Arcane; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#325815cast time: instant; duration: 2 hr; effect values: 0 (this record: 6.6)Different tuning
#325821school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect values: 0 (this record: 6.6)Different tuning
#325823used by: Cast by Drain Essence; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA 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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