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Drain Soul

Spell

Drain Soul

Shadow

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Warlock

Instant castLong Range

Drains the target's soul, causing (556.9% of Spell Power) Shadow damage over 5 sec.

Drain Soul

Tooltip

Drains the target's soul, causing (556.9% of Spell Power) Shadow damage over 5 sec.

Damage is increased by 100% against enemies below 20% health.

Generates 1 Soul Shard if the target dies during this effect.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

Drain Soul is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. It scales with 1.1138 times spell power. It ticks every 1 sec, 5 times over the full 5 sec.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 100.
  3. Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 20.

What it does

Drain Soul 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

SchoolShadow
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration5 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Spell power coefficient: 1.1138
Period: every 1 sec
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Value: 100
Effect #3Dummy (3)
Value: 20

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 #198590. 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
#161718effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#171893effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#181965duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#182065duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#185181used by: Cast by Force Cast - Drain Soul; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#190711duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#197801school: Fire; duration: 168 hr; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#205292duration: none; effect types: Energize; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#209200effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#209264duration: 7 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#231853school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#242938effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup

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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