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Soul Consumption

Spell

Soul Consumption

Shadow

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4 secLonger Range

Drains health from nearby enemies, healing the caster.

Soul Consumption

Tooltip

Drains health from nearby enemies, healing the caster.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Health Leech (effect type 9). Its base value is 197. Its area radius is 45 yards.

What it does

Soul Consumption is a Shadow spell with a 4 sec cast and a range of 45 yards. When cast it drains health from the target (base value 197) in a 45 yard radius.

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
Range45 yards (Longer Range)
Cast time4 sec
Effect #1Health Leech (9)
Value: 197
Radius: 45 yards

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 5 separate Spell records named "Soul Consumption". This page is record #12667. 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
#68242school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: InstakillA different effect setup
#74792cast time: instant; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#74799cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, effect 124; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#74800cast time: instant; duration: 1 min; effect types: SummonA 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

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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