Drain Life

Drain Life
Drain Life 40 yd  range 1% of base mana, plus 1% per second 30 Demonic Fury, plus 30 per second Channeled Drains life from the target, causing x Shadow damage Affliction and restoring 6% of the caster's health Demonology (Level 10) and generating 60 Demonic Fury over 6 sec. Empowered Drain Life (Level 92+) Health gained from your Drain Life grows by 10% each time it heals you.
Usable by
Class	Warlock
Properties
Type	Offensive, Utility
School	Shadow
Casting time	Channeled
Cooldown	(GCD 1.5 sec)
Talents
Specialization	Affliction, Demonology
Level required	7
Related debuff
Drain Life Suffering x Shadow damage every 1 seconds. Restoring 1.0% of maximum health to the caster when Drain Life deals damage. Duration: 6 seconds

• Drain Life
• 40 yd  range
• 1% of base mana, plus 1% per second
  30 Demonic Fury, plus 30 per second
• Channeled
• Drains life from the target, causing x Shadow damage
  
  Affliction
  and
  
  restoring 6% of the caster's health
  
  Demonology (Level 10)
  and generating 60 Demonic Fury
  
  over 6 sec.
  
  Empowered Drain Life (Level 92+)
  Health gained from your Drain Life grows by 10% each time it heals you.

Drain Life is a warlock ability learned at level seven for those with the Affliction or Demonology specialization. It allows warlocks to damage enemies, draining their life to restore their own.

Modified by

• Glyph of Drain Life
• Glyph of Life Pact

Talents

• Harvest Life
• Grimoire of Sacrifice

Notes

• Because Drain Life deals damage and heals, it receives a 50% penalty from +damage gear. The total bonus is then distributed amongst the five ticks of the spell. For example - if you have +100 spell damage, each tick of Drain Life will transfer +10 HP from the target ((100*0.5) / 5).
• Drain Life combined with [Life Tap] can allow a Warlock to act as a tank.

Patch changes

• Patch 6.0.2 (14-October-2014): Drain Life is no longer available to Destruction Warlocks.; Drain Life no longer gains a benefit from Soul Burn.; Drain Life now heals for 30% less than before.
  
• Patch 4.0.6 (8-Feb-2011): Drain Life cast when under the effects of Soulburn no longer has higher damage than the normal version of Drain Life.
  
• Patch 2.3.0 (13-Nov-2007): Drain Life and Siphon Life now reduce the amount healed when the warlock is affected by healing reducing effects (e.g. Mortal Strike, Wounding Poison).
  
• / Patch 2.0.1 (05-Dec-2006): The range of "Drain Life" and "Drain Mana" spells have been increased.
  

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