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Vampiric Touch

Spell

Vampiric Touch

Shadow

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Priest

1.5 secLong Range

A touch of darkness that causes (466.7% of Spell Power) Shadow damage over 21 sec, and heals you of damage dealt.

Vampiric Touch

Tooltip

A touch of darkness that causes (466.7% of Spell Power) Shadow damage over 21 sec, and heals you of damage dealt. If Vampiric Touch is dispelled, the dispeller flees in Horror for 3 sec.

Generates 4 Insanity.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its dispel type is client id 1. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

Vampiric Touch is built from 4 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 2.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 53. It scales with 0.6667 times spell power. It ticks every 3 sec, 7 times over the full 21 sec.
  3. Effect 3 is Energize (effect type 30). Its base value is 400.
  4. Effect 4 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 3.0434 times spell power.

What it does

Vampiric Touch is a Shadow spell with a 1.5 sec cast, a range of 40 yards and effects that last 21 sec. When cast it applies an aura, applies an aura every 3 sec, restores a resource (base value 400) and deals Shadow damage.

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 time1.5 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration21 sec
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Value: 2
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 53
Spell power coefficient: 0.6667
Period: every 3 sec
Effect #3Energize (30)
Value: 400
Misc value: 13
Effect #4School Damage (2)
Spell power coefficient: 3.0434

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?

Vampiric Touch appears in: 1 class specialization.

Class specialization

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 8 separate Spell records named "Vampiric Touch". This page is record #34914. 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
#52723cast time: instant; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#52724cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#60501cast time: instant; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#65490duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#195999cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#250037duration: 24 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Energize; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#284402effect types: Apply Aura, Trigger Spell, Energize; 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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