Drain Soul

Drain Soul
Drain Soul Level 19 Affliction warlock ability 40 yd range 1.5% of base mana Channeled Drains the soul of the target, causing X Shadow damage every 2 sec and energizing one Soul Shard after it deals damage twice. If the target dies, three Soul Shards are energized. Lasts 12 sec. If the target is at or below 20% health when Drain Soul deals damage, it deals 100% additional damage and causes all of your other periodic Affliction damage effects to instantly deal 100% of their normal periodic damage.
Usable by
Class	Warlock
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Shadow
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	19
Improvements	[Soul Siphon], [Everlasting Affliction], [Pandemic]
Related debuff
Drain Soul [X/6] Shadow damage every 2 seconds. Duration: 12 seconds

The truest agony goes deeper than mere flesh and bone.

Drain Soul is a channeled Affliction warlock spell that steals the soul from the enemy, dealing damage that is doubled if the target is at or below 20% health.

It is learned at level 19.

Improvements

• Glyph of Soul Consumption
• Major Glyph
• Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
  
  Drain Soul restores 20% of your total health after you kill a target that yields experience or honor. You store 20% of your total health after you kill a target in Demon Form that yields experience or honor. You store 20% of your total health after you kill a target with Chaos Bolt or Shadowburn that yields experience or honor.
• Classes: Warlock
• Requires Level 25
• Sell Price: 1

Tips and tactics

• Drain Soul cannot be reflected.
• Every second tick of Drain Soul replenishes one Soul Shard. Channeling Drain Soul while a mob dies replenishes all Soul Shards. The mob must be "green level" or higher.

Trivia

As of patch 3.1.0, players can farm Soul Shards from training dummys.

Patch changes

• 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.
  
• Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07): Honorable kills will now generate a Soul Shard when Drain Soul is used.
  

External links

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