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Life Tap

Spell

Life Tap

Shadow

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Warlock

Instant castSelf Only

Grants 1 Soul Shard at the cost of your maximum health.

Life Tap

Tooltip

Grants 1 Soul Shard at the cost of your maximum health.

How it works

It works on charges (charge category 1717); the charge count and recharge time live in a client table the datamine does not carry, so they are not stated here. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is Energize (effect type 30). Its base value is 10.

What it does

Life Tap is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it restores a resource (base value 10).

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
ChargesCharge category id 1717 (charge count not in the datamine)
Effect #1Energize (30)
Value: 10
Misc value: 7

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 2 separate Spell records named "Life Tap". This page is record #1454. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#28830school: Physical; effect 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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70532, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted1 effect rows in the beta client's data
Level data sightedBase level 6 in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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