Drain Life
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| Drain Life | |
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| Properties | |
| Class | Warlock |
| School | Shadow |
| Cooldown | None/Global Cooldown |
| Other information | |
| Level learned | 9 |
| Improvements |
 [Accrued Vitality],  [Essence Drain],  [Rot and Decay] |
| Related debuff | |
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- "Tonight, I'll drink to your health—may it long be mine."[1]
Drain Life is a channeled warlock spell that damages a targeted enemy, draining their health to restore the warlock's own.
Tips and tactics
- While the healing returned itself cannot crit, damaging critical ticks will appropriately return twice the amount of healing.
Background
This appears to be the Life Drain ability that Dark Rangers used in Warcraft III. This ability absorbs the life essence of a target enemy unit and gives it to the Dark Ranger.[2]
Lore
Warlocks could leech life energy and power their own magical abilities.[3] The warlocks' death/mortal coil spell is a variation of the Drain Life spell and is one of the necromantic abilities[4] warlocks share with necromancers.[5]
Draining the life energy of creatures, plants, and people with magic ages them.[6][7][8]
Trivia
- Drain Life is a basic Warlock spell in Hearthstone. The flavor text reads: ""I've just sucked one year of your life away.""
- Drain Life is one of Gul'dan's Basic Abilities in Heroes of the Storm.
- A drain life skill rune exists in Diablo.
- In Classic, mechanical mobs are immune to Drain Life.
Gallery
An orc warlock stealing the life essence of a night elf.
A satyr draining the life force of a night elf.
Patch changes
Hotfix (2023-07-13): Fixed an issue where Drain Life would not target enemies affected by 
[Soul Rot] via 
[Soul Swap]. 
Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 9 (was 13). 
Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): New visual effect. Now available again for Affliction. Duration reduced to 5 seconds (from 6). Mana cost increased to 3% per sec (up from 1% per sec). 
Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): No longer available to Affliction. - Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Damage increased by 5%. Now learned at level 13 (was 1).
- Hotfix (2016-09-23): Drain Life damage increased by 10% for Affliction.
- Hotfix (2016-08-26): Drain Life now does damage of 35% of Spell Power per tick (was 30%).
- Hotfix (2016-07-22): Drain Life and Drain Soul now consider Mechanicals to be valid targets.
- Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now learned at level 1 by all warlocks (was Affliction and Demonology only at level 10). Healing significantly increased.
Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): No longer available to Destruction warlocks. No longer gains a benefit from 
[Soulburn]. Now heals for 30% less than before. Now leared at level 10 (was 7). 
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Duration increased from 3 to 6 sec. Can no longer be dispelled. Now learned at level 7 (was 6). 
Hotfix (2011-05-19): Now deals 25% less damage. - Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23):
- Damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
- The [Soulburn] version of this was charging 17% of base mana instead of 12% like the normal version. This has been corrected.
- Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Range increased to 40 yards (up from 30 yards). Now learned at level 6 (was 14).
Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Visual spell effect changed. 
Patch 2.3.0 (2007-11-13): Now reduce the amount healed when the warlock is affected by healing reducing effects. - Patch 2.2.0 (2007-09-25): The tooltip for this spell will now update correctly when a Warlock is affected by spell haste.
- Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Range has been increased.
Patch 0.8 (2004-07-07): Life Drain renamed to Drain Life.
See also
- Life Drain, TCG card
References
- ^ Heroes of Azeroth, Steal Essence
- ^ http://classic.battle.net/war3/neutral/darkranger.shtml
- ^ Tides of War pg. 362 - "Ambush! Attack!" cried Malkorok. He suited action to word, charging at a huge brown bear with painted markings ripping into an undead warlock who was frantically trying to drain the druid's life to power his own magical abilities.
- ^ The Schools of Arcane Magic - Necromancy
- ^ Justin Parker on Twitter (2014-08-07)
- ^ Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects - He spoke an incantation, and a strand of white arcane energy shot out from the artifact. It wrapped itself around the whelp, a rope of magic, and began to pull golden life energy from the small dragon. It squeaked in pain. "No!" screamed Kirygosa, lunging forward. The man jerked on the chain, hard. Kirygosa dropped to her knees, hissing in agony. The whelp grew. It opened its mouth and let out a small, squeaking cry as its body spasmed. Thrall could almost hear bones creaking and skin stretching as the mage drained its life energy, aging it quickly.
- ^ The Last Guardian - "Nature magic?" asked Medivh. "Ripening, culling, harvesting? Can you take a seed and pull the youth from it until it becomes a flower?"
- ^ Rise of the Horde
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