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Drain Life

Spell

Drain Life

Shadow

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Instant castLong Range

Steals 141 to 163 life from target enemy.

Drain Life

Tooltip

Steals 141 to 163 life from target enemy.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Health Leech (effect type 9). Its base value is 141.

What it does

Drain Life is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it drains health from the target (base value 141).

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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Health Leech (9)
Value: 141

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 #26693. 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
#18815school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#18817used by: Cast by Drain LifeA helper record another spell casts
#20743duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#21170no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#24300duration: 7 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#24435duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#24585no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#24618duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#27994duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#29155no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#34107used by: Cast by Drain LifeA helper record another spell casts
#34696no compared field differsA duplicate client 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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