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Drain Essence

Spell

Drain Essence

Shadow

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Consumes the essence of up to 3 players, draining 3 health every 0.2 sec*4 sec for 6 sec.

Drain Essence

Tooltip

Consumes the essence of up to 3 players, draining 3 health every 0.2 sec*4 sec for 6 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Health Leech (effect type 9). Its base value is 3.

What it does

Drain Essence is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it drains health from the target (base value 3).

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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Health Leech (9)
Value: 3

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 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

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 #339888. 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
#325823school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#325835school: Physical; 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
#327773school: Physical; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#339782duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#339788duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#346651journal encounter: The Council of Blood; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#346653school: Physical; effect types: Dummy, DummyA different effect setup
#346654cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#351675school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#351676school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA 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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