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Drain Essence

Spell

Drain Essence

Shadow

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1.5 secSelf Only

Baroness Frieda, pulls the life energy from her targets, inflicting 18 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 4 sec.

Drain Essence

Tooltip

Baroness Frieda, pulls the life energy from her targets, inflicting 18 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 4 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 226. It ticks every 1 sec, 4 times over the full 4 sec.

What it does

Drain Essence is a Shadow spell with a 1.5 sec cast, no range (it targets the caster) and effects that last 4 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 1 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
RangeSelf Only
Cast time1.5 sec
Duration4 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 226
Period: every 1 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.

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 #346654. 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; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#325835school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#327052cast time: 2 sec; duration: 6 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#327771cast time: instant; duration: 6 secA variant record
#327773school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 1 min; effect values: -1 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#339782cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#339788cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect values: 3 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#339888cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#346651journal encounter: The Council of Blood; cast time: instant; effect values: 18 (this record: 0); different tooltip textA different caster
#346653school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, DummyA different effect setup
#351675school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#351676school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelledA variant record

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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