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Drain Soul

Drain Soul

1.5% of base mana, plus 1.5% per second	40 yd range

Channeled
Requires Warlock (Affliction)
Requires level 24

Drains the target's soul, causing [(4 * (20.9% of Spell power))] Shadow damage over 4 sec. If the target dies and yields experience or honor, one Soul Shard is energized.

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.

Improved Drain Soul (Level 92+)
Your Drain Soul deals 100% additional damage on targets below 20% health.

Buff

Drain Soul

Deals (20.9% of Spell power) Shadow damage every 1 sec and causes all of the Warlock's other damage over time spells to instantly deal 40% of their normal damage.
4 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

4 seconds

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

1.5% of base mana, plus 1.5% per second

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Channeled

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Periodic Damage
Value: 1 every 1 second

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Periodic Dummy
Interval: 1 second

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: 40
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Comment by Toldry

This will probably be the bread and butter spammed spell for Affliction Warlocks in Pandaria (to replace Shadow Bolt)

Comment by Jarlax83

This can deal massive amount of damage when you manage to use it with all your dots, and Haunt active.

Every 1 sec, when Malefic Grasp deals damage, it causes all of your other periodic Affliction damage effects to instantly deal 50% of their normal periodic damage.

If you have Grimoire of Sacrifice used, then the other dots will deal 75% instead, essentially doubling your dots on the target for the duration of Grasp.

I've managed to nuke players(with proper pvp gear) from +100k health to 0 in 2-3 secs. Pretty awesome for affli lock :D

Comment by Nazgren

Can be used to forcibly increase stacks of Agony which comes in handy as a sort-of burst.

Comment by link428

Replaces Shadow Bolt.

Comment by Redninja642

I love the appearance of it, its so sick. I have a warlock and haven't tried affliction yet because i have no idea what it is capable of

Comment by sylancer

for Affliction Warlock, Drain Soul replaces Shadow Bolt.

Comment by Bill0the0turtle

I have a general question. I'm new to using wowhead, and I'm noticing that the SP% for DoTs is really low for being over long periods of time. I haven't played WoW for 2 years but I'm looking to get into it and want to plan ahead. Is this amount of damage per tick, or is it really that low?

Comment by MacForGaming

Shadow Bolt is better than this spell. Use Shadow Bolt as your filler, however still switch to Drain Soul at 20%.

Comment by Mathrotthill

In 5.4 the DoT boosting effect of Malefic Grasp was reduced so much that Affliction no longer has a valid filler spell. Between refreshing DoTs and applying Haunt when a Soul Shard is available, your best bet now is probably to run around like a headless chicken and hope your foe dies from your damage over time. I wish we still had Shadow Bolt as a decent, direct-damage filler spell.

Comment by Rforn

Had to come here just to find out if it replaced shadow bolt as I was given no notification that id had. bit silly that.

Comment by Kanariya

In WoD, this spell becomes Drain Soul, with the current being removed. Drain Soul will essentially operate exactly like Malefic Grasp presently does, lasting for four seconds and will no longer generate shards from channeling. It will only generate a single soul shard if the target dies while channeling.

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