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Drain Life

Spell

Drain Life

Shadow

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2 secTower 80

Drains the life from the target, causing Shadow damage and restoring of the caster's total health every 1 sec.

Drain Life

Tooltip

Drains the life from the target, causing Shadow damage and restoring of the caster's total health every 1 sec. Lasts 8 sec.

How it works

Its dispel type is client id 1.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 83.0193 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 8 times over the full 8 sec (664.15 base in total).

What it does

Drain Life is a Shadow spell with a 2 sec cast, a range of 80 yards and effects that last 8 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
Range80 yards (Tower 80)
Cast time2 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration8 sec
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 83.0193
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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 106 separate Spell records named "Drain Life". This page is record #105337. 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
#71838cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#71839cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#79616cast time: instant; duration: 5 sec; effect values: 3 (this record: 83.02); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#79619cast time: instant; duration: 5 sec; effect values: 3 (this record: 83.02); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#79933cast time: instant; duration: 5 sec; effect values: 50 (this record: 83.02); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#84533cast time: instant; duration: 5 sec; effect values: 50 (this record: 83.02); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#91291cast time: instant; duration: 5 sec; effect values: 4.3 (this record: 83.02); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#107545subtext: Health Energize; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Heal; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#108022used by: Cast by Item - Dragon Soul - Proc - Str Tank Sword; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#109828used by: Cast by Item - Dragon Soul - Proc - Str Tank Sword LFR; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#109831used by: Cast by Item - Dragon Soul - Proc - Str Tank Sword Heroic; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#131577cast time: instant; duration: 5 sec; effect values: 100 (this record: 83.02); different tooltip textDifferent tuning

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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