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Drain Soul

Spell

Drain Soul

Shadow

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Instant castTwenty yards

Drains health from an enemy over 5 sec, transferring it to the caster.

Drain Soul

Tooltip

Drains health from an enemy over 5 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 200 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 5 times over the full 5 sec (1000 base in total).

What it does

Drain Soul is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 20 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
Range20 yards (Twenty yards)
Cast timeInstant
Duration5 sec
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 53
Value: 200
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 33 separate Spell records named "Drain Soul". This page is record #171893. 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
#136378effect values: 150 (this record: 200); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#139420effect values: 5 (this record: 200); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#161718effect values: 50 (this record: 200); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#181965duration: 3 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 200)Different tuning
#182065duration: 10 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 200)Different tuning
#185181used by: Cast by Force Cast - Drain Soul; duration: 10 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 200)A helper record another spell casts
#190711duration: until cancelled; effect values: 0 (this record: 200)Different tuning
#197801school: Fire; duration: 168 hr; effect values: 0 (this record: 200); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#198590effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#205292duration: none; effect types: Energize; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#209200effect values: 0 (this record: 200)Different tuning
#209264duration: 7 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 200)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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