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Drain Life

Spell

Drain Life

Shadow

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Instant castLong Range

Steals 152 life from target enemy.

Drain Life

Tooltip

Steals 152 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 152.

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 152).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70425. 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: 152

Raw client values from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70425. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Sounds

Drain Life sounds

The sounds the game plays when Drain Life is cast and lands, straight from the client. Press play, or open a kit for every file and the download formats.

SPELL_Shadow_CastSoundKit 2560

  1. Shadowcast0.8s · ID 569766 · spells/cast
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

Joined in the WoW Forever beta client: spell visual, then visual kit, then SoundKit, then the sound file. Browse every game sound in the sound archive.

How to learn

Items that grant this spell

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; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#18817used by: Cast by Drain Life; effect values: 270 (this record: 152)A helper record another spell casts
#20743duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#21170effect values: 140 (this record: 152)Different tuning
#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
#24585effect values: 51 (this record: 152)Different tuning
#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
#29155effect values: 200 (this record: 152)Different tuning
#34107used by: Cast by Drain Life; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#34696effect 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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70425, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted1 effect rows in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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