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Drain Life

Spell

Drain Life

Physical

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Instant castSelf Only

When struck in combat has a 3% chance of stealing 35 life from target enemy.

Drain Life

Tooltip

When struck in combat has a 3% chance of stealing 35 life from target enemy.

How it works

Its aura has a 3% chance to proc when its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 42. Its base value is 1. It scales with 1 times spell power. It triggers Drain Life.

What it does

Drain Life is a spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and an effect that lasts until cancelled. When cast it applies an aura. It also casts Drain Life (record #18817).

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

SchoolPhysical
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
DurationInfinite
Proc chance3%
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 42
Value: 1
Spell power coefficient: 1
Trigger spell: Drain Life

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.

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Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 106 separate Spell records named "Drain Life". This page is record #18815. 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
#16375school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#16414used by: Cast by Wraith Scythe; school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#16608used by: Cast by Demon Forged Breastplate; school: Shadow; duration: 4 sec; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#17173school: Shadow; duration: 5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#17238school: Shadow; duration: 5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#17620school: Shadow; duration: 5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#18084used by: Cast by Fist of the Damned; school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#18557school: Shadow; duration: 5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#18817used by: Cast by Drain Life; school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#20743school: Shadow; duration: 5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#21170school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: Health Leech; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#24300school: Shadow; duration: 7 sec; different tooltip textA variant record

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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