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Drain Life

Spell

Drain Life

Shadow

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Instant castLong Range

Steals 105 to 125 life from target enemy.

Drain Life

Tooltip

Steals 105 to 125 life from target enemy.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is Health Leech (effect type 9). Its base value is 105. It scales with 1 times spell power.

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 105).

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
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Health Leech (9)
Value: 105
Spell power coefficient: 1

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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Drain Life appears in: 2 spells that cast it.

Spells that cast it

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 106 separate Spell records named "Drain Life". This page is record #34107. 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
#26693no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#27994duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#29155no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#34696no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#35748duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#36224duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#36655duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#36825duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#37992duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#38817duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#39676duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#43417effect 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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