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Drain Life

Spell

Drain Life

Shadow

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Instant castLong Range

Steals life from target enemy.

Drain Life

Tooltip

Steals life from target enemy.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Health Leech (effect type 9).

What it does

Drain Life is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it drains health from the target.

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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Health Leech (9)

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.

How to learn

Items that grant this spell

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 106 separate Spell records named "Drain Life". This page is record #144231. 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
#108022used by: Cast by Item - Dragon Soul - Proc - Str Tank Sword; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#109828used by: Cast by Item - Dragon Soul - Proc - Str Tank Sword LFR; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#109831used by: Cast by Item - Dragon Soul - Proc - Str Tank Sword Heroic; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#131577duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#144237no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#144241no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#146814duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#148612duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#149992duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#151475journal encounter: Groyat, the Blind Hunter; school: Physical; cast time: 1 sec; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#156854journal encounter: Teron'gor; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#173566cast time: 1 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Trigger Spell; 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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