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Siphon Life

Spell

Siphon Life

Shadow

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Warlock

Instant castLong Range

Siphons the target's life essence, dealing (82.5% of Spell Power) Shadow damage over 15 sec and healing you of the damage done.

Siphon Life

Tooltip

Siphons the target's life essence, dealing (82.5% of Spell Power) Shadow damage over 15 sec and healing you of the damage done.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its dispel type is client id 1.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 53. It scales with 0.165 times spell power. It ticks every 3 sec, 5 times over the full 15 sec.

What it does

Siphon Life is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 40 yards and effects that last 15 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 3 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
Duration15 sec
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 53
Spell power coefficient: 0.165
Period: every 3 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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Siphon Life appears in: 2 talents.

Talents

  • Siphon Life for Warlock (Affliction, Demonology, Destruction)Talent
  • Siphon Life (a talent definition no current talent tree places)Talent

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 12 separate Spell records named "Siphon Life". This page is record #63106. 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
#35195cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect values: 11 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#41597school: Physical; duration: 1 min; effect values: 32.25 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#140630cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech, effect 140; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#140631used by: Cast by Siphon Life; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#285141effect values: 1 (this record: 0)Different tuning
#325701duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#388375duration: none; effect types: Health Leech, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#388454used by: Cast by Siphon Life; duration: none; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#388676cast time: 1 sec; duration: 6 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#452999school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#453000school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Heal; 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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