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Necropile Drain

Spell

Necropile Drain

Shadow

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Instant castVision Range

Steals 28 life from the target enemy.

Necropile Drain

Tooltip

Steals 28 life from the 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 28.

What it does

Necropile Drain is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it drains health from the target (base value 28).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
Range100 yards (Vision Range)
Cast timeInstant
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Health Leech (9)
Value: 28

Raw client values from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Sounds

Necropile Drain sounds

The sounds the game plays when Necropile Drain 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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70532, read from the beta game data we hold
New in the beta dataYes - no match for this spell id in the Classic Era baseline we hold
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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