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Consume Essence

Spell

Consume Essence

Shadow

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Instant cast30 sec cooldown10-40

Consumes the lifeforce of a Gan'arg, restoring your health.

Consume Essence

Tooltip

Consumes the lifeforce of a Gan'arg, restoring your health.

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.

  1. Effect 1 is Health Leech (effect type 9). Its base value is 36501.

What it does

Consume Essence is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 10-40 yards and a 30 sec cooldown. When cast it drains health from the target (base value 36501).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Burning Crusade client, build 2.5.6.70006. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
Range10-40 yards (10-40)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown30 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Health Leech (9)
Value: 36501

Raw client values from the Burning Crusade client, build 2.5.6.70006. 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 28 separate Spell records named "Consume Essence". This page is record #40565. 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
#33012school: Physical; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#33013used by: Cast by Consume Essence; school: Arcane; effect types: Energize; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#79213effect types: noneA different effect setup
#79224effect types: noneA different effect setup
#79704effect types: noneA different effect setup
#104738effect types: noneA different effect setup
#160711effect types: noneA different effect setup
#196877effect types: noneA different effect setup
#196882used by: Cast by Consume Essence; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#245727effect types: noneA different effect setup
#267459journal encounter: Vol'zith the Whisperer; effect types: noneA different caster
#267809effect types: noneA 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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