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Drain Life

Spell

Drain Life

Shadow

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3 sec20 sec cooldownVision Range (AOI)

Leeches the target's life every second.

Drain Life

Tooltip

Leeches the target's life every second.

How it works

It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 53. Its base value is 30.7866 per tick. Its area radius is 100 yards. It ticks every 1 sec, 16 times over the full 16 sec (492.59 base in total).

What it does

Drain Life is a Shadow spell with a 3 sec cast, a range of 100 yards, a 20 sec cooldown and effects that last 16 sec. When cast it applies an aura in a 100 yard radius 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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast time3 sec
Cooldown20 sec
Global cooldownNone
Duration16 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 53
Value: 30.7866
Radius: 100 yards
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 #234423. 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: 30.79); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#213111school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect values: 0 (this record: 30.79)Different tuning
#213113school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect values: 0 (this record: 30.79)Different tuning
#221309cast time: 4 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect values: 100 (this record: 30.79)Different tuning
#232265cast time: 2 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect values: 60 (this record: 30.79); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#232310cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect values: 100 (this record: 30.79)Different tuning
#234153used by: Warlock; cast time: instant; duration: 5 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 30.79); different tooltip textA different owner
#235107cast time: instant; duration: 5 sec; effect values: 100 (this record: 30.79); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#236816duration: 6 sec; effect values: 75 (this record: 30.79); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#239005cast time: 4 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect values: 125 (this record: 30.79)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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