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Drain Life

Spell

Drain Life

Shadow

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Instant castTwenty yards

Drains health from an enemy over 5 sec., transferring it to the caster.

Drain Life

Tooltip

Drains health from an enemy over 5 sec., transferring it to the caster.

How it works

Each cast of Drain Life costs 75 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its dispel type is client id 1.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 53. Its base value is 4 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 5 times over the full 5 sec (20 base in total).

What it does

Drain Life is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 20 yards and effects that last 5 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
Cost75 Mana
Range20 yards (Twenty yards)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration5 sec
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 53
Value: 4
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 #17173. 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
#12693duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#16375duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#16414used by: Cast by Wraith Scythe; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#16608used by: Cast by Demon Forged Breastplate; duration: 4 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 4); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#17238effect values: 24 (this record: 4); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#17620effect values: 5 (this record: 4); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#18084used by: Cast by Fist of the Damned; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#18557different tooltip textA variant record
#18815school: Physical; duration: none; effect values: 1 (this record: 4); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#18817used by: Cast by Drain Life; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#20743effect values: 9.04 (this record: 4); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#21170duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; 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.

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 sighted1 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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