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Drain Soul

Spell

Drain Soul

Shadow

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Warlock

Instant castLong Range

Drains the target's soul, causing 8.83068 Shadow damage over 6 sec, and healing you of the damage done.

Drain Soul

Tooltip

Drains the target's soul, causing 8.83068 Shadow damage over 6 sec, and healing you of the damage done.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 53. Its base value is 1.4718 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 6 times over the full 6 sec (8.83 base in total).

What it does

Drain Soul is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 40 yards and effects that last 6 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
Duration6 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 53
Value: 1.4718
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 #251528. 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
#181965duration: 3 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 1.47)Different tuning
#182065duration: 10 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 1.47)Different tuning
#185181used by: Cast by Force Cast - Drain Soul; duration: 10 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 1.47)A helper record another spell casts
#190711duration: until cancelled; effect values: 0 (this record: 1.47)Different tuning
#197801school: Fire; duration: 168 hr; effect values: 0 (this record: 1.47); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#198590duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#205292duration: none; effect types: Energize; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#209200duration: 5 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 1.47)Different tuning
#209264duration: 7 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 1.47)Different tuning
#231853school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect values: 0 (this record: 1.47)Different tuning
#242938duration: 5 sec; effect values: 8.4 (this record: 1.47); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#328785duration: until cancelled; effect values: 0 (this record: 1.47)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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