Gurubashi Blood-Drinker

Gurubashi Blood-Drinkers are mobs found in Zul'Gurub.

Abilities

Blood Drinkers will frequently use their blooddrinking ability which will drain life out of players in range (AoE) and transfer it to the drinker. This is shadow damage and can be absorbed or resisted by the appropriate abilities.

They also have an ability that drains 1k life per second from any friendly target and heals them for 5k life a second. This ability will also break sheep, so you need to tank the Drinkers away from other CCd adds.

Legacy

Gurubashi Blood-Drinkers were used to bring an end to what was becoming a storied CSM tradition of evade-bugging mobs while inside Arlokk's temple, by standing on one of the bridges and pulling aggro on mobs. On one historic night, when Zelf and Revalation were evade-bugging mobs, Whitemage used Mind Control on a nearby Gurubashi Blood-Drinker and activated its Life Drain ability while targeting Zelf and Revalation, killing them near-instantly to the amusement of the rest of the raid. Whitemage was promptly g-kicked in what was probably the most well-earned g-kick in guild history.

Mind Controlling Gurubashi Blood-Drinkers wasn't nearly as funny after that, but it didn't stop Whitemage (or later, other priests) from continuing to do it, either to ensure zero-durability-loss during wipes, or just to annoy people.