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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

Its dispel type is client id 1.

Drain Essence is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 226. Its base value is 4 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 8 times over the full 8 sec (32 base in total).
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 2.
  3. Effect 3 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 61. Its base value is 15.

What it does

Drain Essence is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, an unlimited range and effects that last 8 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec and 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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Duration8 sec
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 226
Value: 4
Period: every 1 sec
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Value: 2
Effect #3Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 61
Value: 15

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 #314993. 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
#310206duration: none; effect types: effect 137A different effect setup
#314992journal encounter: Maut; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#314994duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Power BurnA different effect setup
#314995duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Power BurnA different effect setup
#320861school: Arcane; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; 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: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#325835school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#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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