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Drain Life

Spell

Drain Life

Shadow

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Instant castRanged Weapon

Drains 275.622 health from an enemy over 10 sec., transferring it to the caster.

Drain Life

Tooltip

Drains 275.622 health from an enemy over 10 sec., transferring it to the caster.

How it works

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 13.7811 per tick. It scales with 0.1 times spell power. It ticks every 0.5 sec, 20 times over the full 10 sec (275.62 base in total).

What it does

Drain Life is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 0.5 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
Range30 yards (Ranged Weapon)
Cast timeInstant
Duration10 sec
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 53
Value: 13.7811
Spell power coefficient: 0.1
Period: every 0.5 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 #46291. 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
#35748duration: 5 sec; effect values: 1.04 (this record: 13.78)Different tuning
#36224duration: 5 sec; effect values: 4 (this record: 13.78)Different tuning
#36655duration: 5 sec; effect values: 6.89 (this record: 13.78)Different tuning
#36825duration: 5 sec; effect values: 0.92 (this record: 13.78)Different tuning
#37992duration: 8 sec; effect values: 0.92 (this record: 13.78)Different tuning
#38817duration: 5 secA variant record
#39676duration: 5 sec; effect values: 6.89 (this record: 13.78)Different tuning
#43417duration: 5 sec; effect values: 4 (this record: 13.78)Different tuning
#44294duration: 3 sec; effect values: 10.34 (this record: 13.78)Different tuning
#46155duration: 3 sec; effect values: 9 (this record: 13.78)Different tuning
#46466duration: 5 sec; effect values: 10.34 (this record: 13.78)Different tuning
#55646duration: 5 sec; effect values: 11.42 (this record: 13.78)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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