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Drain Soul
Spell shadow haunting
  • Drain Soul
  • Row 5 Affliction warlock talent
  • Replaces Spell shadow shadowbolt [Shadow Bolt]
  • 40 yd range
  • Channeled
  • Drains the target's soul, causing (232.032% of Spell power) Shadow damage over 5 sec.

    Damage is increased by 100% against enemies below 20% health.

    Generates 1 Soul Shard if the target dies during this effect.
Properties
Class Warlock
School Shadow
Cooldown None/Global Cooldown
Talents
Talent required Spell shadow shadowembrace [Shadow Embrace] or Warlock spelldrain [Harvester of Souls]
Improvements Inv elemental primal shadow [Dark Virtuosity], Spell warlock soulburn haunt [Rot and Decay], 70 inscription glyph demonhunter major [Sargerei Technique], Spell shadow shadowembrace [Shadow Embrace], Spell shadow shadowbolt [Withering Bolt]
Related debuff
Spell shadow haunting
  • Drain Soul
  • Suffering (46.4064% of Spell power) Shadow damage every 1 seconds.
  • Duration: 5 seconds
"Give yourself to me." —Mistress Nesala[1]

Drain Soul is an Affliction warlock talent.

Tips and tactics[]

  • Drain Soul's primary strength is its ability to "snipe" Soul Shards, allowing the Warlock to quickly collect a soul shard from a mob near death. This is unique to Drain Soul as Shadow Bolt cannot generate Soul Shards for Affliction.
  • Drain Soul cannot be reflected.

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Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2023-08-21): Now deals 15% increased damage in PvP combat.
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2023-01-09): Damage increased by 10%.
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2022-12-19): Damage increased by 20%.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 5 Affliction talent (was a level 15 Affliction talent).
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.3.0 (2020-01-14): Damage increased by 50%.
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now a level 15 talent (was a level 13 ability) and replaces Spell shadow shadowbolt [Shadow Bolt] (was Spell shadow lifedrain02 [Drain Life]). No longer restores health to the caster. Now deals additional damage to targets below 20% health. Duration reduced to 5 seconds.
  • Legion Hotfix (2017-06-29): Damage increased by 15% in PvP situations.
  • Legion Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Now learned at level 13 (was a level 15 talent).
  • Legion Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Damage increased by 6.6%.
  • Legion Hotfix (2016-09-23): Drain Soul damage increased by 10%.
  • Legion Hotfix (2016-08-26): Drain Soul now does damage of 52% of Spell Power per tick (was 44%).
  • Legion Hotfix (2016-07-22): Drain Life and Drain Soul now consider Mechanicals to be valid targets.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now a level 15 talent (was a level 24 ability) and replaces Drain Life.
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2015-07-20): Drain Soul damage has been increased by 50%, and now causes all other damage over time spells to instantly deal 50% of their normal damage (up from 40%).
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
    • Now creates 1 Soul Shard (down from 4 Soul Shards) when the target dies.
    • Ability warlock everlastingaffliction [Malefic Grasp] has been merged into Drain Soul: When Drain Soul deals damage, it causes all of your other damage over time spells on the target to instantly deal 40% of their normal damage.
    • Now learned at level 24 (was 19).
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): No longer energizes Soul Shards from the pets and guardians of players, and now deals 34% less damage. If other periodic Affliction damage effects are triggered by Drain Soul, they now deal 60% of their normal damage (down from 100%).
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now a level 19 Affliction specialization ability (was a level 10 ability for all warlocks). Duration reduced from 15 to 12 sec, and causes double damage below 20% health instead of 25%. Now also causes all other periodic Affliction damage effects to instantly deal 100% of their normal periodic damage when the target is below 20% health.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): It is no longer possible to leave combat while channeling Drain Soul.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): This spell now refreshes 3 soul shards.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): This spell now deals 4 times the normal damage for all ranks. Previously it was only ranks 6 and above.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Each time Drain Soul deals damage to a target which can grant experience, it now has a chance to generate a Soul Shard.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.3 (2008-11-04): Rank 6 now properly deals additional damage to targets below 25% health.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Will now cause four times the damage if the target is at or below 25% health. Visual spell effect changed.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.4.2 (2008-05-13): Channeling of this spell will now always stop when a player target dies.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07): Honorable kills will now generate a Soul Shard when Drain Soul is used.

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