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Siphon Essence

Spell

Siphon Essence

Shadow

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2 secTwenty yards

Steals a piece of the target's essence, inflicting Shadow damage and healing the caster for the damage inflicted.

Siphon Essence

Tooltip

Steals a piece of the target's essence, inflicting Shadow damage and healing the caster for the damage inflicted.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Health Leech (effect type 9). Its base value is 150.

What it does

Siphon Essence is a Shadow spell with a 2 sec cast and a range of 20 yards. When cast it drains health from the target (base value 150).

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 time2 sec
Effect #1Health Leech (9)
Value: 150

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 26 separate Spell records named "Siphon Essence". This page is record #174964. 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
#101149school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: effect 90A different effect setup
#101384used by: Cast by Siphon Essence; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy, effect 77; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#137889school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 168 hr; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#139409cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#139590school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 2147483.6 sec; effect types: Trigger Spell, Trigger Spell, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#139622used by: Cast by Siphon Essence; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 2147483.6 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#139641used by: Cast by Siphon Essence; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 2147483.6 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#143582school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#186470cast time: instant; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#210684school: Arcane; cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#244329used by: Cast by Siphon Essence; cast time: instant; effect values: 0 (this record: 150); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#244330school: Physical; cast time: instant; 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.

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