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Improved Drain Mana
Spell shadow siphonmana
  • Improved Drain Mana (2 ranks)
  • Causes 15/30% of the Mana drained by your Drain Mana spell to damage the opponent.
Requirements
Class Warlock
Points required 5
Properties
Affects Spell shadow siphonmana [Drain Mana]

Improved Drain Mana is a warlock talent in the Affliction tree. It enhances Spell shadow siphonmana [Drain Mana] by adding Shadow damage to its mana drain.

Functionality[]

Notes[]

  • In an earlier version, unskilled Drain Mana did not break crowd control, whereas Improved Drain Mana did. This has been changed, so that it breaks CC regardless of this talent.
  • The damage caused by this talent draws extra aggro, which may be bothering.
  • It does not benefit from spell damage or Shadow damage.

Tips and Tactics[]

  • The extra damage bonus could be helpful, if a player used Drain Mana often. However, its damage is pretty weak and does not benefit from spell damage, making it less desirable for better geared players.
  • It is very important to note that this does not increase the mana given back by Drain Mana, it only adds a damage element. If you wanted to do damage while gaining mana, it may be more effective to use Spell shadow lifedrain02 [Drain Life] in combination with Spell shadow burningspirit [Life Tap].

Patch changes[]

  • Bc icon Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Replaced by Ability warlock soulsiphon [Soul Siphon].
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.7.0 (2005-09-13): The Improved Drain Mana talent no longer does additional damage from plus damage items. This bonus damage was unintended and was a bug.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07):
    • Damage caused is now considered Shadow damage and is no longer reduced by armor.
    • Damage caused by this talent is now improved by the Spell shadow spectralsight [Shadow Mastery] talent.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.3.0 (2005-03-07): Will now report to the combat log all damage caused.

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