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Drain Essence

Spell

Drain Essence

Shadow

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Instant castEight yards

Shadow spell.

Drain Essence

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its area radius is 20 yards.

What it does

Drain Essence is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 8 yards and effects that last 2 hr. When cast it applies an aura in a 20 yard radius.

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
Range8 yards (Eight yards)
Cast timeInstant
Duration2 hr
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Radius: 20 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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 49 separate Spell records named "Drain Essence". This page is record #325815. 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
#314992journal encounter: Maut; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#314993duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#314994duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Power Burn; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#314995duration: 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
#325821school: Physical; duration: until cancelledA variant record
#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; different tooltip textA variant record
#327771duration: 6 secA variant record
#327773used by: Cast by Drain Essence; school: Physical; duration: 1 min; effect values: -1 (this record: 0); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#339782duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup

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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