Improved Drains

Improved Drains is a new talent in WoW Forever that does not exist in Classic Era. Warlock Affliction talent, 1 ranks.

Improved Drains details in WoW Forever

The ability this talent grants, the tooltip players see in-game, side by side with each changed line marked.

Classic Era 1.15.9.69722

Soul Siphon

Physical school

Instant

Causes your Drain Soul to to deal damage 3 times faster and increases the amount drained by your Drain Life and Drain Soul spells by an additional 6% for each of your Warlock Shadow effects afflicting the target, up to a maximum of 18% additional effect. When Drain Soul is cast on a target below 20% health, it instead gains 50% per effect, up to a maximum of 150%. In addition, your Drain Soul can now trigger your Nightfall talent.

Forever 1.60.1.69913

Improved Drains

Physical school

Instant

Increases health drained or damage done by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by 20%.

changed value added in Forever removed in Forever

Also changed behind the tooltip: the displayed icon was reassigned, and effects (not shown in a tooltip line). See the full field diff below for both values side by side.

Ability field diff every changed column on the granted spell

Field	Classic Era	Forever
description	Causes your Drain Soul to to deal damage $s4 times faster and increases the amount drained by your Drain Life and Drain Soul spells by an additional $s1% for each of your Warlock Shadow effects afflicting the target, up to a maximum of ${3$m1}% additional effect. When Drain Soul is cast on a target below $s3% health, it instead gains $s2% per effect, up to a maximum of ${$m23}%. In addition, your Drain Soul can now trigger your Nightfall talent.	Increases health drained or damage done by your Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Wrack spells by $m1%.
effects	[ { "amplitude": 0, "aura": 4, "auraPeriod": 0, "basePoints": 6, "chainTargets": 0, "dieSides": 0, "effect": 6, "index": 0, "miscValue": [ 0, 0 ], "realPointsPerLevel": 0, "triggerSpell": 0, "variance": 0 }, { "amplitude": 0, "aura": 4, "auraPeriod": 0, "basePoints": 50, "chainTargets": 0, "dieSides": 0, "effect": 6, "index": 1, "miscValue": [ 0, 0 ], "realPointsPerLevel": 0, "triggerSpell": 0, "variance": 0 }, { "amplitude": 0, "aura": 4, "auraPeriod": 0, "basePoints": 20, "chainTargets": 0, "dieSides": 0, "effect": 6, "index": 2, "miscValue": [ 0, 0 ], "realPointsPerLevel": 0, "triggerSpell": 0, "variance": 0 }, { "amplitude": 0, "aura": 4, "auraPeriod": 0, "basePoints": 3, "chainTargets": 0, "dieSides": 0, "effect": 6, "index": 3, "miscValue": [ 0, 0 ], "realPointsPerLevel": 0, "triggerSpell": 0, "variance": 0 }, { "amplitude": 0, "aura": 107, "auraPeriod": 0, "basePoints": -2000, "chainTargets": 0, "dieSides": 0, "effect": 6, "index": 4, "miscValue": [ 19, 0 ], "realPointsPerLevel": 0, "triggerSpell": 0, "variance": 0 } ]	[ { "amplitude": 0, "aura": 108, "auraPeriod": 0, "basePoints": 20, "chainTargets": 0, "effect": 6, "index": 0, "miscValue": [ 22, 0 ], "realPointsPerLevel": 0, "triggerSpell": 0, "variance": 0 } ]
iconFileId	136169	136163
name	Soul Siphon	Improved Drains

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