| Drain Soul | |
|---|---|
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| Properties | |
| Class | Warlock |
| School | Shadow |
| Cooldown | None/Global Cooldown |
| Talents | |
| Talent required |
 [Shadow Embrace] or  [Harvester of Souls] |
| Improvements |
 [Dark Virtuosity],  [Rot and Decay],  [Sargerei Technique], [Shadow Embrace],  [Withering Bolt] |
| Related debuff | |
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- "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.
Gallery[]
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A soul being drained. -
A soul being drained and devoured. -
Patch changes[]
Hotfix (2023-08-21): Now deals 15% increased damage in PvP combat. - Hotfix (2023-01-09): Damage increased by 10%.
- Hotfix (2022-12-19): Damage increased by 20%.
- Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 5 Affliction talent (was a level 15 Affliction talent).
- Patch 8.3.0 (2020-01-14): Damage increased by 50%.
- Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now a level 15 talent (was a level 13 ability) and replaces [Shadow Bolt] (was [Drain Life]). No longer restores health to the caster. Now deals additional damage to targets below 20% health. Duration reduced to 5 seconds.
- Hotfix (2017-06-29): Damage increased by 15% in PvP situations.
- Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Now learned at level 13 (was a level 15 talent).
- Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Damage increased by 6.6%.
- Hotfix (2016-09-23): Drain Soul damage increased by 10%.
- Hotfix (2016-08-26): Drain Soul now does damage of 52% of Spell Power per tick (was 44%).
- Hotfix (2016-07-22): Drain Life and Drain Soul now consider Mechanicals to be valid targets.
- Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now a level 15 talent (was a level 24 ability) and replaces Drain Life.
- 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%).
- Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
- Now creates 1 Soul Shard (down from 4 Soul Shards) when the target dies.
- [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).
- 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%).
- 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.
- Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): It is no longer possible to leave combat while channeling Drain Soul.
- Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
- Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): This spell now refreshes 3 soul shards.
- 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.
- 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.
- Patch 3.0.3 (2008-11-04): Rank 6 now properly deals additional damage to targets below 25% health.
- 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.
- Patch 2.4.2 (2008-05-13): Channeling of this spell will now always stop when a player target dies.
- Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07): Honorable kills will now generate a Soul Shard when Drain Soul is used.
References[]
- ^ Tomb of the Forgotten, #55
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