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Drain Life

Spell

Drain Life

Shadow

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Instant castLonger Range

Transfers 15.8587 health every 1 sec from the target to the caster.

Drain Life

Tooltip

Transfers 15.8587 health every 1 sec from the target to the caster. Lasts 5 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 53. Its base value is 15.8587 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 5 times over the full 5 sec (79.29 base in total).

What it does

Drain Life is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 45 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
Range45 yards (Longer Range)
Cast timeInstant
Duration5 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 53
Value: 15.8587
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 #64160. 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
#44294duration: 3 sec; effect values: 10.34 (this record: 15.86); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#46155duration: 3 sec; effect values: 9 (this record: 15.86); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#46291duration: 10 sec; effect values: 13.78 (this record: 15.86); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#46466effect values: 10.34 (this record: 15.86); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#55646effect values: 11.42 (this record: 15.86); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#64159effect values: 9.52 (this record: 15.86)Different tuning
#69066duration: 4 sec; effect values: 7.14 (this record: 15.86); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#71838duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#71839duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#79616effect values: 3 (this record: 15.86); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#79619effect values: 3 (this record: 15.86); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#79933effect values: 50 (this record: 15.86); different tooltip textDifferent 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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