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Drain Life

Spell

Drain Life

Shadow

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Instant castLong Range

Your melee attacks have a chance to drain life from the target enemy.

Drain Life

Tooltip

Your melee attacks have a chance to drain life from the 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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Drain Life 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 106 separate Spell records named "Drain Life". This page is record #16414. 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
#12693effect values: 40 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#16375different tooltip textA variant record
#16608used by: Cast by Demon Forged Breastplate; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#17173duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#17238duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#17620duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#18084used by: Cast by Fist of the Damned; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#18557duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#18815school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#18817used by: Cast by Drain Life; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#20743duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#21170different tooltip textA 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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70425, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted2 effect rows in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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