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Spell
Drain Life
Shadow
WarlockDrains life from the target, causing Shadow damage over 5 sec, and healing you of the damage done.
Tooltip
Drains life from the target, causing Shadow damage over 5 sec, and healing you of the damage done.
Drain Life heals for 15% more while below 50% health.
How it works
Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.
- Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 53. It scales with 0.75 times spell power. It ticks every 1 sec, 5 times over the full 5 sec.
What it does
Drain Life is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 40 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
| School | Shadow |
|---|---|
| Range | 40 yards (Long Range) |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Global cooldown | 1.5 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Duration | 5 sec |
| Effect #1 | Apply Aura (6) Aura type id 53 Spell power coefficient: 0.75 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.
Used by
Where is this spell used?
Drain Life appears in: 1 skill line.
Skill lines
- Warlock, learned automaticallySkill line
From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.
Build history
this spell Changelog
Changes between the retail game builds our datamine has recorded, newest first.
- Effect: Spell power coefficient changed from 0.6 to 0.75 (patch 12.1.0)
Related
More Warlock spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 106 separate Spell records named "Drain Life". This page is record #234153. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #211308 | school: Physical; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #211491 | duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #212471 | duration: 8 sec; effect values: 150 (this record: 0); different tooltip text | Different tuning |
| #213111 | school: Physical; duration: until cancelled | A variant record |
| #213113 | school: Physical; duration: until cancelled | A variant record |
| #221309 | cast time: 4 sec; effect values: 100 (this record: 0); different tooltip text | Different tuning |
| #232265 | cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 60 (this record: 0); different tooltip text | Different tuning |
| #232310 | cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 100 (this record: 0); different tooltip text | Different tuning |
| #234423 | cast time: 3 sec; duration: 16 sec; effect values: 30.79 (this record: 0); different tooltip text | Different tuning |
| #235107 | effect values: 100 (this record: 0); different tooltip text | Different tuning |
| #236816 | cast time: 3 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect values: 75 (this record: 0); different tooltip text | Different tuning |
| #239005 | cast time: 4 sec; effect values: 125 (this record: 0); different tooltip text | 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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