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Soul Drain

Spell

Soul Drain

Shadow

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2 secLong Range

Immobilizes an enemy for 10 sec.

Soul Drain

Tooltip

Immobilizes an enemy for 10 sec. and drains 35 health, transferring it to the caster.

How it works

Its dispel type is client id 1. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

Soul Drain is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Health Leech (effect type 9). Its base value is 35. It scales with 1 times spell power. It jumps to up to 5 targets.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 26. It jumps to up to 5 targets.

What it does

Soul Drain is a Shadow spell with a 2 sec cast, a range of 40 yards and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it drains health from the target (base value 35) jumping to up to 5 targets and applies an aura jumping to up to 5 targets.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70450. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast time2 sec
Duration10 sec
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Health Leech (9)
Value: 35
Spell power coefficient: 1
Chain targets: 5
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 26
Chain targets: 5

Raw client values from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70450. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Sounds

Soul Drain sounds

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

Precast Shadow LowSoundKit 745

  1. Precastshadowmagiclow6.6s · ID 569424 · spells
    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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 22 separate Spell records named "Soul Drain". This page is record #7295. 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
#41303journal encounter: Reliquary of Souls; effect types: noneA different caster
#93863effect types: noneA different effect setup
#230992effect types: noneA different effect setup
#250486effect types: noneA different effect setup
#250504effect types: noneA different effect setup
#254858effect types: noneA different effect setup
#266467effect types: noneA different effect setup
#278871effect types: noneA different effect setup
#281129effect types: noneA different effect setup
#281131effect types: noneA different effect setup
#319891effect types: noneA different effect setup
#323790effect 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 1.60.1.70450, 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 sighted2 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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