Drain Soul

Drain Soul
Drain Soul Level 15 Affliction warlock talent 40 yd range 1% of base mana per sec Channeled Drains the target's soul, causing (75% 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.
Usable by
Class	Warlock
Properties
School	Shadow
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	15
Related debuff
Drain Soul Suffering (15% of spell power) Shadow damage every 1 seconds. Duration: 5 seconds

"Give yourself to me." —Mistress Nesala

Drain Soul is a level 15 Affliction warlock talent designed to replace [Shadow Bolt] as the main filler for Affliction Warlocks.

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.

Images

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  A soul being drained.

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  A soul being drained and devoured.

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  In the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.

Patches and hotfixes

• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now a level 15 talent and replaces [Shadow Bolt]. No longer restores health to the caster. Now deals additional damage to targets below 20% health. Duration reduced to 5 seconds.
  
• Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): No longer a talent, now learned at level 13 in place of [Drain Life].
  
• 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 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.
  • Effects from [Malefic Grasp] have been merged into Drain Soul.
    
• 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 an Affliction specialization ability. 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 4.0.3a (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 3.0.2 (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.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB