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Siphon Essence

Spell

Siphon Essence

Shadow

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Instant castTwenty yards

Drains 7.0189 health every 1 sec for 4 sec, heals for three times the amount of damage done.

Siphon Essence

Tooltip

Drains 7.0189 health every 1 sec for 4 sec, heals for three times the amount of damage done.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 53. Its base value is 7.0189 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 4 times over the full 4 sec (28.08 base in total).

What it does

Siphon Essence is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 20 yards and effects that last 4 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
Duration4 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 53
Value: 7.0189
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 26 separate Spell records named "Siphon Essence". This page is record #75755. 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
#38395used by: Cast by Dot Heals; school: Holy; duration: none; effect types: Heal; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#40291school: Physical; duration: 6 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 7.02); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#40293used by: Cast by Siphon Essence; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#70299school: Physical; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#87976used by: Cast by Fire LPAC; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Create Item, DummyA helper record another spell casts
#101140school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: effect 164, Trigger Spell, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#101146used by: Cast by Siphon Essence; school: Physical; duration: 8.5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, effect 77; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#101149school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: effect 90A different effect setup
#101384used by: Cast by Siphon Essence; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, effect 77; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#137889school: Physical; duration: 168 hr; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#139409cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect values: 9.81 (this record: 7.02); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#139590school: Physical; duration: 2147483.6 sec; effect types: Trigger Spell, Trigger Spell, 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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