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Drain Essence

Spell

Drain Essence

Shadow

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Maut drains life and mana from players, inflicting 10 Shadow damage and burning 4 mana every 1 sec for 8 sec.

Drain Essence

Tooltip

Maut drains life and mana from players, inflicting 10 Shadow damage and burning 4 mana every 1 sec for 8 sec.

Upon removal the spell erupts, inflicting 10 Shadow damage and burning 10 mana from allies.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its area radius is 300 yards.

What it does

Drain Essence is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range.

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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Radius: 300 yards

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?

Drain Essence appears in: 1 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 49 separate Spell records named "Drain Essence". This page is record #314992. 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
#310206effect types: effect 137; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#314993duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#314994effect types: School Damage, Power Burn; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#314995effect types: School Damage, Power Burn; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#320861school: Arcane; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#325815duration: 2 hr; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#325821school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#325823used by: Cast by Drain Essence; school: PhysicalA helper record another spell casts
#325835school: PhysicalA variant record
#327052cast time: 2 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#327771duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#327773used by: Cast by Drain Essence; school: Physical; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA 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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