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Drain Life

Spell

Drain Life

Shadow

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1.5 secTen yards

Leeches the target's life every second.

Drain Life

Tooltip

Leeches the target's life every second.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 53. Its base value is 100 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 5 times over the full 5 sec (500 base in total).

What it does

Drain Life is a Shadow spell with a 1.5 sec cast, a range of 10 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
Range10 yards (Ten yards)
Cast time1.5 sec
Duration5 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 53
Value: 100
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 #232310. 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
#211308school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#211491cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#212471cast time: instant; duration: 8 sec; effect values: 150 (this record: 100); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#213111school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect values: 0 (this record: 100)Different tuning
#213113school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect values: 0 (this record: 100)Different tuning
#221309cast time: 4 secA variant record
#232265cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 60 (this record: 100); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#234153used by: Warlock; cast time: instant; effect values: 0 (this record: 100); different tooltip textA different owner
#234423cast time: 3 sec; duration: 16 sec; effect values: 30.79 (this record: 100)Different tuning
#235107cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#236816cast time: 3 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect values: 75 (this record: 100); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#239005cast time: 4 sec; effect values: 125 (this record: 100)Different 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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