Drain Life

Drain Life
Drain Life (9 ranks) Warlock ability 30 s. yd range 17% of base mana Channeled Transfers X health every 1 sec from the target to the caster. Lasts 5 sec.
Properties
Class	Warlock
School	Shadow
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Improvements	[Soul Siphon], [Grim Reach], [Shadow Mastery], [Fel Concentration],
Related debuff
Magic Drain Life Drains X health every 1 sec to the caster. Duration: 5 sec

[[Category:warlock abilities]][[Category:warlock abilities]]

"Tonight, I'll drink to your health—may it long be mine."

Drain Life is a warlock ability that damages the targeted enemy's health while restoring his own.

Rank	Damage	Level	Cost
1	10	14	8 10
2	17	22	22 50
3	29	30	54
4	41	38	90
5	55	46	1 17
6	71	54	1 80
7	87	62	2 70
8	108	69	6 30
9	133	78	16

Notes

• This spell works well with +Shadow Damage gear. If you combine a lot of +Damage gear with maxed ranks in [Soul Siphon] and [Improved Life Tap] you can significantly increase your net gain in mana when you Life Drain to regain what you lose with [Life Tap].
• 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.
• Drain Life does not benefit from +healing.
• In Patch 2.3, the amount healed is reduced when the warlock is affected by healing reducing effects (e.g. Mortal Strike, Wounding Poison).
• [Demon Armor] will allow the warlock to gain more health from the heal in the same way Mortal strike effects reduce the amount of healing done by the spell.

External links

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