I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. The enemies are high enough level… I even stop my minion from attacking before the enemy dies. I channel drain soul to kill and it only works and gives me a shard like 1/5 times… feels like only when it wants to. Is it because my curses kill it and not the drain soul? Does that matter? What’s going on with this move
in classic as long as it gives exp or honor while drain life is active it’ll give you a shard 100% of the time. doesn’t matter what kills it, just make sure drain soul actually ticks at least once, if you cast it too late it won’t give you a shard.
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Are you trying to kill it with only drain soul? Are the mobs usually hitting you while you channel? Are you interrupting the channel when you think its dead but you’re interrupting the final tick?
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When you say tick do you mean the cool down rotation?
I have a bag full of shards that says it does make shards.
You’re either casting it too late or ending it too early. With how batching works, it takes a little getting used to. Just keep trying and you’ll be fine.
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As long as it’s on mob for at least a second you’ll be ok. If it’s less, game might not register it due to spell batching.
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Meaning you need to channel through the mob dying. Move too early and you don’t get credit. Start channeling as a mob dies and it might not register.
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Make sure you don’t have an addon interfering. There are warlock addons that will delete extra shards. So perhaps you have an addon deleting them?
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I don’t have any add ons. Is it because I have Rank 1? I could be drain souling them for 8 whole seconds and still not get the shard
Drain harder!
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I assume you’re not using a macro that’s deleting them. Also…you have room in your bags, right?
The batching problems seem to really really mess with drain soul.
I often have drain soul up for several seconds on a mob and even see a tick of damage, no shard. It seems particularly bad in groups. It’s super frustrating having to basically start drain soul at 20% health on a mob if i want a shard.
No macros. No add ons. And I have plenty of room in my bags 
Weird. At one point in Classic I had a warlock around level 45 or so and can’t recall any time drain soul failed to create a soul shard. But that was early Classic. Not sure if something has changed.
I have never yet not gotten a soul shard as long as an enemy was high enough level to give XP and died while I was using Drain Soul on them, for my part.
Batching makes drain soul do wonky things. Shadowburn is even worse.
I have never had this fail for me, ever… even through being attacked (I usually start it at 10% or less life). I am so curious to watch what you’re doing because I bet it’s something really simple that is not being conveyed in text.
It sounds like you’re soloing.
The issues seem to mostly happen in raids for me. And they are very common.
I think I’m going to write a ticket to Blizzard. I’ve even had other high level warlocks watch what I was doing and say “Hmm… strange. You definitely did it lol”
In raids, drain soul uses a debuff slot, and thus gets knocked off easily, cancelled immediately no shard.