Drain Life
- ️Thu Jul 13 2023
| Drain Life | |
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| Properties | |
| Class | Warlock |
| School | Shadow |
| Cooldown | None/Global Cooldown |
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| Level learned | 9 |
| Improvements |
 [Accrued Vitality],  [Essence Drain],  [Grim Feast],  [Rot and Decay] |
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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[]
An undead warlock draining the life energy of a skull.
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[]
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An orc warlock stealing the life essence of a night elf.
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A satyr draining the life force of a night elf.
Patch changes[]
See also[]
- Life Drain (Reign of Fire), 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
