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Harvest Life

Harvest Life
40 yd range
Requires Warlock (Affliction, Demonology)
Requires level 15

Drain Life deals 50% more damage and 100% more healing.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done (22)
Value: 50%
Affected Spells:

	Drain Life

Effect #2

Dummy
Value: 100
Server-side script
Affected Spells:

	Drain Life

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Passive spell

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Warlock DPS Guide

Warlords of Draenor
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Comment by borek921

wierd

Comment by demonlock666

A great way to Heal yourself when in a jam with multiple attackers.

Comment by George14

This functions like Mind Sear, as it does not harm the target but those around it.

Comment by Alnair

The amount you are healed is not increased by the number of targets you are draining. The self heal component is based strictly on a percentage of your health pool. The healing is roughly double what you get from Drain Life.

As an AoE attack it functions just like Mind Sear so you can target your tank and the drain area of effect will move with the tank as s/he moves to gather up more targets.

As an AoE attack it works really well for Affliction because Seed of Corruption alone is rather difficult to work with now that only your own damage can detonate SoC. Instead of Spamming SoC like in Cata, you put Agony and UA on one target and then Soul Burn+SoC and Soul Burn+Curse of the Elements on that same target and then follow up with Harvest Life x 2. The Corruption spread by SB+SoC will return the soul shards you used.

Most Destruction Locks will be using a combination of Rain of Fire and Fire and Brimstone buffed attacks so Harvest life becomes a bit redundant and it provides no way to built up embers. Would not recommend. You are better off with Soul Leech which synergizes with Fire and Brimstone attacks.

Not sure how it works with Demonology, presumably it builds fury in Caster form and costs fury in Demon form.There was a bug(?) in beta where casting Harvest in Demon Form cost a set amount of fury but the dot built fury per each target so above a certain number of targets it was fury positive in Demon form; but i don't know if this has been changed. The 6 second channel of Harvest Life lines up fairly well with the 6-second Shadowflame dot applied by Hand of Guldan so presumably you could cast HoG->Harvest->HoG->Harvest->HoG->Harvest in caster form as a way to build up fury on multiple targets very efficiently. If you do not pick this talent you will be using Rain of Fire rather than Harvest (HoG->RoF->HoG->RoF->HoG->RoF) as RoF also has a 6 second Channel but does not move with the target like Harvest life, meaning you risk wasting the cast if the tank moves, and besides you don't get any self healing benefit. (note that Hellfire has been removed from the game). If you switch to metamorposis you will use Immolation Aura+Chaos Wave and perhaps glyphed Carrion Swarm, Harvest may fit into the Demon form AoE toolkit or may not depending on its fury balance. Finally, Felguard/Wrathguard is still the goto multi-target demon minion.

Comment by Rankler

Contrary to what others have said, I believe the healing from this does scale based on the amount of targets being drained, but not linearly. From what I have observed, the skill restores 3% life per tick for the first target, and an additional 0.25% per tick for each target beyond the first.

From my tests with approximately 420k life, the large ticks were for 13887 (about 3.3% of my life) and the smaller ticks for 1157 (about 0.275% of my life). Since I have 10% bonus to all healing received from Fel Armor, that puts those numbers at almost exactly 3% and 0.25% respectively.

This means that if the tooltip is to believed, the healing will cap out at 7 targets being drained, with 3% from the first and 6 * 0.25 = 1.5% from the other 6 for a total of 4.5%. I haven't tested that part though, and I'm unsure if the damage component has a similar cap or not.

The soulburn effect as listed currently on beta is wrong, also. It says healing is increased by 133%, but in fact, healing is increased only by 33%. Furthermore, only the large primary ticks are increased by 33%, and the smaller ticks aren't increased at all. This may be a bug, tooltip error, or a mix of both.

Comment by QuickBASIC37

Be careful what you cast this on, as unlike Drain Life, it is an AOE. It will hit neutral mobs or mobs that aren't already in combat, so you can accidentally pull more than you bargained for.

It also kills nearby critters... my guild made substantial progress on Critter Kill Squad since I started using this.

Comment by Jarkeva

If your current target dies, Harvest Life will switch to another nearby target and continue channeling. If this happens, the green "drain" effect will only display for that one target, but all nearby targets will still take damage (and you will still receive healing from each as expected).

Comment by seahen

Tooltip now shows a higher spell power coefficient than Hellfire, and probably therefore replaces it. This will be useful when dungeon leveling -- a lot of healers asked me not to AoE at all, because the backlash and the mob cleaves were too much between the two of them.

Comment by MrCer

Harvest Life is a 6 second Channeling Spell.

If I stack haste does it do anything to this spell?

Will I get more attacks within the 6 seconds? or does it shorten the channeling time down from 6 seconds to something lower.?

Comment by djimatt

Harvest Life plus Burning Rush plus plus Grimoire of Sacrifice plus Soul Link = omg

Comment by HappyPotato

Has anyone done the math on how long range this ability has with Mannoroth's Fury ? On secondary target, I mean, doubt it affects main target...

Comment by Tempertotem

Would this spell be considered a healing spell for a warlock making an item such as Price of Progress a semi-decent trinket until something better drops?

Comment by MusedMoose

Just started using this talent today. I have to say, there is something fundamentally awesome about draining the life out of half a dozen things at once. That is all.

Comment by Keelerak

At 10 671 spell power/intellect, this outscales . (note that even though VR has a bigger coeff, it scales less because it has a 1.5 sec GCD, while HL deals damage every 1 sec)

Comment by Traxus4

As of 5.4, no longer siphons life from multiple targets, instead buffing drain life's damage and healing. VERY disappointing that you can no longer drain en mass. It was awesome.

Comment by Mosakyrie

OMC gonna do it , I swear I'm gonna do it ....

changing harvest life like that is worthy of everquest not wow : P

Comment by dlbert2000

This seems like just a leveling talent now
I haven't even thought about using it at all since 5.4

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