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Commento di 6046

Best farmed in northern Silithus off the Dust Stormers. Be prepared, though, everyone and their brother farms these things there, it is sometimes hard to get them. Visit at off-peak hours for your best chance.

Commento di Asher

If this doesn't work for you, you might try buying Essence of Water and getting them transmuted. That's probably the easiest way since EoW are always on the AH for a reasonable price.

Commento di 396

A warlock specced with Intensity and a Paladin can duo these and clear the whole place before respawns. Have the Paladin use Concentration Aura, tag 4-7 elementals (as much as you can grab running around without losing them) with Curse of Elements, and once they're on you, use Hellfire and have the Paladin heal you. You can easily get 5-12 essence per hours.

Commento di Binary

I've spent several hours farming these off the Dust Stormers in Silithus. The drop rate varied, but I was able to get about 4-8 essence per hour as a shadow spec'd priest. Depending on your server, you may have to compete with others for the mobs - I however never had a problem.

Commento di 8722

I don't know how readable this will be but here's a little diagram of the transmute circle that is possible with elemental essences. The main circle is Earth to Water to Air to Fire and back to Earth. The two branches are Life to Earth to Life and Water to Undeath to Water.

Life ‹-› Earth ‹-› Water ‹-› Undeath
...............^............v
.............Fire.. ‹-› ..Air

Commento di 9932

Dont bother trying to find the Cyclone warrios or any of the rarer mobs because they take too long to find, your better off farming the dust stormers. I farmed there for about 20 minutes and managed to get 4 essences and a Krol Blade! And the dust stormers give rep with the waterlords

Commento di Sware

The best class to farm essence of air is mages, they can AoE atleast 6-12 at a time. With 2 points in magic attunement and Ice barrier they will be hitting you for 30 damage a hit thats after they break your ice barrier.

Commento di Darkvalor

They have lowered the drop rate greatly since 2.0

Commento di 13065

Jsut killed 200 dust stormers. Not one essence drop. pls bring back old droprate;) everyones in outlands anyway.

Commento di 18315

2 drops in 65 kills tonight. The drop rate isn't as bad as previously stated. I'm going to try to grind out about 4 more, will update stats afterwards.

2.. now at 140 kills. Ok, ok, the drop rate IS as bad as people say. I guess I just got lucky early on. Good luck to anyone needing alot of these.

Commento di 28506

i got the essence after around 30 kills, but there are quite a lot and are easy to farm (i still didn't get intellect on weapon after 600 researchers :P)

Commento di 35402

Lvl 55-56 hunter. getting about 2 an hour..killing easily 60 an hour..easy
(Side note: Be prepared to get a lot of nothing drops, they have a lot of those :(.. )

Commento di redia

As a hunter, my pet has got the highest nature res, just for this essence. ^ ^

Commento di 14992

As a level 70 hunter ive spent like an hour to get 4 of these :) Drop rate is low as shit

Commento di 43244

as of 2.1.0 you can farm these off any mob that can drop motes of air.

Commento di 46973

Ok...wtf is up with all the essences droping in outlands, you dont need them for anything anymore...

Commento di 32469

30mins farming these and i got 13 seems the drop rate has been increased since Patch 2.1.0

Commento di 65048

imo these r completely overrated and i dont know why anyone would farm them
on my server which is wildhammer us they sell for about 50 silver each...not the 15 gold stated on wowhead...

idk...once again this is all just imo except for the fact that they sell for 50s each

Commento di idahoe

Are essences still in high demand now that Burning Crusade is out? I don't think I really should spend the time to get the transmutes for these items, as I don't come across these in the Outlands. I'll have to check my AH to see the prices, but it would surprise me if there is a demand for these, unless they are connected to a class quest.

Commento di 130612

how much are these worth I have a stack of ten I don't need how much could I sell it for?

Commento di 175555

I farmed dust stormers for 15 mins with my 59 dk, no down time. I got 2 breaths of wind, 8 essence of air(i only needed 2 for the +15 agi wep enchant for my twink, continued to keep going since they were way overpriced on ah, might as well make some money), 20 core of elements, one green item, 4 elemental airs.

Commento di TheLegendaryNick

As of 3.0.3 here is what I managed to farm from Dust Stormers in one hour as a level 64 Feral Druid

Essence of Air x 30
Breath of Air x 6
Core of Elements x 69
Elemental Air x 5
Green BoE x 3
Plans: Radiant Gloves x 1

Commento di 326094

Been in sil for about 10 minutes killed about 18 odd air ellementals and obtained 5 essence of airs (its obvious that the drop rate has been increased massivly) current time is 0307 gmt +1 (server time) and the place is dead

now at 38 kills and 7 essence of air's time is 0312

Commento di 48128

Can be very easely obtained running circles around the mountain in Silithus, if you're lucky a rare spawn might just make his appearance there, watch out as he's not easy to solo if you're lv 60...

My first round around the mountain i had: (i didn't kill the air elementals further away from the mountain)
6 essence of earth
5 essence of air
3 elemental air
2 breath of wind
trash: random bs plans, star ruby

My second round:
5 essence of earth
1 core of earth
1 elemental earth
4 essence of air
2 elemental air
2 breath of wind

My third and final round:
4 essence of earth
2 core of earth
8 essence of air
1 elemental air
2 breath of wind
trash: aquamarine, green bracers, green mace

This took roughly 30-40 minutes as a lv 80 warlock
Done on Bloodscalp EU, high population and noone was in the zone.

Commento di 427036

As people have said, Silithus is the best place. Especially if you are level 80. I killed all of the ones alive in the NW corner and got 2. Which is what I was needing for the Eng. pet.

off to farm Globes of Water

Commento di 296909

12 Essence of Air over 15-20 minutes. I recommend farming in Silithus and trying to get this essence from Dust Stormer. I've put on me 4-5 elements and used some aoe and it was very fast.The avarage buyout price on our server is arround 17-23gold per one essence.

Commento di 516366

10 of these sells for about 250 gold on my server, Aman'thul (Horde side).

Commento di Jubjub

19 kills - 8 drops.
Thats like 50% drop chance, so much better than it used to be.

Commento di logitec

I farmed every elemental in the area for about 30 minutes came out with 1 BoE green, 51 Core of Elements and 29 Essence of air. I killed alot of Dust stormers since the other mobs didnt appear much

Commento di SelendaWoW

These can fetch a good price on the AH. Used for Agility weapon enchantments. Best farmed off Dust Stormers.

Commento di Shadowjack

I've farmed a couple batches of these lately. In Silithus I get a rate of about 1 Essence of Air per minute.

Commento di 53930

Murlocs (Tichondrius - Horde) Essence of Air MARKET CONTROL STRATEGY

I went to Silithus today at around midnight server time, and left the zone at 1:15 with 60 essence of air, and a stranglehold on the server's essence of air market for 2-3 days. Here's how I did it.

Every once in a few days, there is an elemental invasion in Silithus, where a large number of "Whirling Invaders" spawn. Check silithus daily for the event. The Windreaver mob yells over silithus announcing the invasion periodically.

To make HUGE money off this event, follow this strategy (Just don't do it on my server!)

Round up and kill the "Whirling Invader" mobs as efficiently as you can. They have the highest chance of any regular mob in the game to drop Essence of Air - around 40%
If you feel up to it, you can repeatedly aggro The Windreaver, kill his 3 Whirling Invader adds, and then force him to drop aggro, and immediately kill his 3 adds again. This method of "Juggling" the boss mob might be the most effective way to quickly kill Whirling Invaders.
Spend an hour or so doing this. In an hour I had nearly 60 Essence of Air.
Kill The Windreaver. This is devious, underhanded, and a bit unfair... But it allows you to control the Essence of Air market for the next few days - as no other method of farming this item is nearly as lucrative. (For those who don't know, when The Windreaver dies - the invasion ends and the mobs stop spawning.)
Mop up the remaining invaders, and filter your Essence of Air onto the auction house at 5-8 at a time (DON'T flood the auction house, it will devalue your items!)
Enjoy making 400-500 gold for an EASY hour's work. Be proud of the fact that you rounded up a lot of a rare item, then forced the farming of the item to halt for several days!

If you are dilligent, you should get good at timing the invasion so that the next time the Air Elementals take over northwest Silithus, you are ready to go round up their drops and end the invasion again!

Commento di UberShifting

I farmed them for 30 minutes.
I got 33 of Essence of air .
They sold for 43G.
I made about 1419 G :).

Commento di Zulustriker

There is real money to be had here since people roll alts with their heirloom items (weapons in this case). Since heirlooms can only be enchanted with old world enchants which do not have any restrictions on item level, the best old world enchants are highly sought after.

+15 agility to weapon requires 4 essence of airs
+25 agility to 2h weapon requires 8 essence of airs

And since Silithus is far away from many of the hub cities most people no longer bother farming these. So if you're looking to make some easy money then farming these is a nice way to do so. Theres even more money in it if you perform the enchants to vellums and sell them on the AH!

FYI other popular heirloom enchants are +30 SP to weapon, Crusader, and +4 stats to chest.

I expect with the release of Cata to be even higher demand for heirloom enchants with Gobbos and Worgen running around.

Commento di Dreadmight

Just spent about an hour killing Dust Stormers in Silithus farming for this stuff. After 208 confirmed kills I had-

11 Essence of Air
15 Breath of Wind
20 Elemental Air

So, I averaged out at around a 5% drop rate from these mobs, and slightly higher for the other drops.

Side note- with the Shattering happening, there's lots of Thorium Ore spawns in Silithus, comparable to Un'goro Crater. Just sticking in the area where the stormers were at I netted around 6 stacks, plus almost a full stack of truesilver.

Commento di 695039

After patch 4.0.3, my result shows an extremely low drop rate, only 4 essence of air out of 269 kills. about 1.5% drop rate.

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/7126/123etp.jpg

Commento di 166755

182 kills and only 2 Essence of Air. This is bad...real bad for the game.

Commento di nirv

Contrary to the comments here, I just got 8 Essence of Air by killing the 32,27 and 32,16 locations of Dust Stormers twice and it took less than 20 minutes. I could make a video proving it, but I'm hoping you'll just take my word on it. The drop rate is fine.

Commento di 712169

/agree
This place DEFINITELY got nerfed for Essences of Air...good for Elemental Airs and Breath of Winds though I noticed

Commento di Shashos

Have been ripping through the elementals in Silithus for over an hour now and not a single Essence of Air has dropped. It would appear that Essence of Water has also had its drop rate nerfed as I had similar luck with it.

Commento di 769593

I needed two of the 15 agility enchants and decided to try northern Silithus for the Dust Stormers. Last night I spent about 30 minutes farming with no luck for Essence of Air. I got annoyed and logged out to come back later. I spent another 30 minutes tonight and had the opposite luck. The first night I got 0 essence, 1 Breath of Wind and about 4 Elemental Air. Tonight I got 7 Essence of Air, 13 Elemental Air and 12 Breath of Wind. So I think it is still pretty random. Some times you get lucky, sometimes you dont. I came out with 96 Inert Elemental Shard and 46 Inert Elemental Pieces (both trash items that drop 1 at a time if none of the other items). So after about an hour combined farming I came away with

7 Essence of Air
13 Breath of Wind
17 Elemental Air
96 Inert Elemental Shard
46 Inert Elemental Piece

Assuming only 1 item drops per kill thats around 179 kills.

These were all from Dust Stormers. I found the easiest place would be NW Silithus, south and east of The Crystal Vale. As an 85 hunter I easily 1 shotted everything and could track elementals. I cleared the east then went to south and repeated. The respawn is high, so staying in those 2 places I never ran out of mobs. In conclusion, it all seems to be based on luck on whether you get alot of drops or no drops so stick with it and eventually you will get what you need.

Commento di 540341

Yes.. seems really to have gone down. I had farmed this area many times before. I don't have the exact numbers but I had farmed this area at lot before cata to make the 2H agility enchant. I used to get 10 or more in 30 min or so, make a few enchants and sell the left overs for 10g each. Tonight I was farming for an hour and got one. 10 Elemental air, 4 breath of wind, and one essence of air. Darn. AH has 2 listed at 100g each so it seems we are having some troubles, Houston.

Commento di 773535

+1 its been nerfed, easiest way to see it is in the prices on AH. pre change I drew my line around 20g, now I see them posted for 250g. I search frequently to find the guy that has no clue that posts for 20g still, its getting very rare.

good news, that the vanilla agility enchants can bear a much larger markup. unfortunate that people have to pay 1500-3000g for an heirloom enchant though.

Commento di Doomgrip

I went to Silithus to grind some essence of air. I moved around the mountain and killed all dust stormers but did not loot any essences in the process. I did another round and this time I looted no less than 9 essences. I think that this more than anything proves how random randomness can be. I don't know if the drop rate stated on Wowhead is wrong, but I would think that it is a pretty good approximation given how it is computed. Good luck farming and don't let the comments from unlucky players put you down. It might be your lucky day today.

Commento di LoreMooster

I think 5% is about right. I'm estimating about 120 kills and I have 4 essence of air and 17 elemental airs. The only green drop came from a rare elemental named after the word Hurricane.

Commento di 649149

My experience at the two locations nirv mention was not the same as he had. The drop rate for me was not great as you can see below.

After killing 43 Dust Stormers the following dropped:

29 Inert Elemental Shards
14 Inert Elemental Pieces
1 Breath of Wind
4 Elemental Air

and... 1 Essence of Air

Commento di JRocksMyLyfe

Not sure if maybe this patch has increased the drop rate or that I'm extremely lucky, but I somehow managed to get 11 EoA within 40 minutes, approximately. Seeing as I probably took two little 3 minute breaks.
I can only hope the drop rate stays this good, seeing as I need about 9 more. Haha.

Commento di 239616

After killing 125 of the Dust Stormers in Silithus this is what i looted,

86 Inert Elemental Shards
39 Inert Elemental Pieces
10 Elemental Air
7 Breath of Wind
1 Essence of Air

So no I would not say the drop rate was increased with patch 4.0.6.

Commento di dbrogue

Just got done farming for these for 2 agi weap enchants. Chose the mobs in Silithus, like most folks. Spent about 1 hour 20 mins farming, luckily I was the only one there this time. I killed 132 Dust Stormers, level 54 and 55, for a total of 8 drops, or about 6% drop rate.

Interestingly, the drop rate on airs form level 54 stormers was double that of the 55s. I tended to get eternal airs and breaths of wind from the 55s, but the 54s dropped more essences. Maybe their loot tables are different, not sure. The level 54s actually had a 10% drop rate, according to MobInfo2.

With random farming and mining, netted about 6 stacks of thorium plus the 8 airs I was farming for.

8 Essence of Airs
6 Eternal Airs
6 Breath of Winds
95 Inert Elemental Shards
25 Inert Elemental Piece

Not a great rate, but doable if you are patient. They're selling for 150g a pop on my server.

Edit: had to remove the greens I farmed, those were from nearby Cultist.

Commento di elstohn

I too farmed the stormers for about 20 min and got 8 airs. (farming on a lvl 80 aff warlock; target dotdot, target dotdot etc... kill all on one side in about 3 min .. loot all.. move to other side. rinse and repeat, this will allow a full clear of both sides in about 7 min or so) I wont say the drop rate is "Fine" .. but its about typical for what it was back when. I still miss the old days when the storms spawned and I could farm 40 in the same amount of time.. as it is now.. airs sell on my server for 70-150g EACH (and the +15agi enchants sell for about 550g ea). so this IS a good money maker.

Commento di 351360

I just killed 114 mobs - got 9 essences of air.

the funny thing is - after killing 105 mobs i only got 6 essences and then killing another 9 mobs got me another 3 essences!

so this is all about luck ;)

i would say approximately u will get at least 1 essence every 10 kills!

those essences go for 180g on my server - good money( if u need money )

i needed it for enchants for my alt ;)

Commento di 562685

58minutes of farming dust stormers:
~410 kills
20 essence of air
34 elemental air
19 breath of wind
7 random greens
~80g vendor trash

I also got ahead of the spawn timer a couple of times and went looking for the twilight prophet, killed her and her entourage three times for a total of 30 twilight texts, which i sold for 40g per stack of 10.

Commento di clavarnway

Echoing the sentiments posted after patch 4.0.6, it seems like the drop rate on these was corrected, after about 40 minutes I got 9 Essence of Air's.

Commento di 790454

I needed 6 of these, so I began my farm on the storms at the top left of Slithius like everyone else. By running around with Cheetah at 85 1shotting all of them in sight, it took me a total of 152 kills(Count the shard drops) to get 6 essences of air. How long was it? About an hour total, but I took out for BG pops so I can't be sure. Math wise, 152/6 makes an average of 1 essence per 25 kills. Another way to say it is a 1 in 25 chance drop rate. But 2 of them I got very close together in kill count, so it's pure luck in the end. Some commenters report 1 per 10 kills after wards, so I wasn't so lucky, apparently.

Got them to enchant my future rogue's heirlooms with +15 agi each.(Already had 2 essences, so thus I only farmed 6) So if you want the enchants, go get it. It won't take more than an hour or two at the most if you're an 85 1 shotting all the mobs.(I had Cheetah though:) )

Commento di Tebo78

Nothing really new to report but thought I'd share my results from same spot in Silithus as everyone else:

40mins killing Dust Stormers (didn't count how many, just killed as fast as they could spawn)

10 Elemental Air
8 Breath of Wind
4 Essence of Air

about 21g worth of gray item vendor trash

lvl 85 Death Knight - Took this toon cause of the previously stated Thorium node increase (Miner)

Mined 82 Thorium Ore in just that area so if your going to farm the Essences take a miner, makes it a little more worth your time.

Happy hunting :)

Commento di 243489

Just to contribute to the change in drop rate since the Shattering, prices on these have skyrocketed. Not unusual to see these going for 100g each.

Commento di 195663

March 11, 2011.

Farmed the Dust Stormers for ~30 mins, got 8 Essences that I needed for my heirlooms. Not as bad as I was expecting.

Commento di 660395

As far as I could tell (after having to farm 8 of them), the upper left corner of Silithus is still the best place. However, I definitely wasn't seeing the drop rates described. I killed the Dust Stormers and I killed a whole lot of them. The key to farming them efficiently is mobility and high burst damage. Anyone who is 85 should not have issues with the burst damage, but mobility is a different story. I tried doing it on my DK who even has glyphed Bone Shield (15% faster movement speed) and I almost went crazy. Switched it up to my Druid and just spammed Moonfire and shifted to Flight Form to get around. The problem is that there is a fairly large area to cover and the mobs are pretty spread out. I found that with the Druid I could farm pretty quickly. I'd put my drop rate at around 1/15. After getting the 8 I needed I figured I'd kill a few more and ended up getting 3 real quick. Sold on my realm for around 145g a piece. So yes, it is worth farming and not paying the AH price so long as you got mobility.

Commento di 745273

Honestly, I have to think that the people getting super low drop rates are just very unlucky. The Agility enchant scrolls sell for 800-900g, so I've been farming them. Over two days, I've gotten between 6-10% drops every time I've visited. On my most recent two farming excursions, I've been 9/109 and 14/177. On the earlier trips, I didn't count, but I did end up with 8-9 per half hour.

Commento di alynx

well guys...killed a100 of the Dust guys in Silithus...no Essence of Air now..or at least a very very bad drop rate...elemnetal air and breath of wind...yes...Essence of Air zero

Commento di cherme

Used to be the Breath of Wind was the hard drop to get. I'd farm them for making the Phantom Blade. Now I get tons of that but NO essence of air. Of course the Phantom Blade plans no longer exist. Go figure....

Commento di ArthurianKnight

I don't think they nerfed the drop rates i think the drop rates nerfed themselves up without blizzard knowing it.

a good exemple of this is how hard it is to get illusion dust compared to greater eternal essence.
the whole of the low level profession mats have been having low drop rates suddently after the shattering.
at this point i'm thinking the level difference from 60 to 85 is now too huge and something is making the drop rates go horribly wrong for max level people. because it seems people lower levels gets better drop rates.

a friend told me he was near 70 and got everything in amatter of minutes, while after an hour i had next to nothing.

Commento di 105167

Not sure why the above comment was rated down he was correct in the past 20 mins i have gotten 8 essence of air from Dust stormers. I think the drop rate was increased to 10% maybe higher.

Edit: i made mistake didn't notice there was another whole page my bad.

Commento di ToolPackinMama

Today, my level 85 hunter farmed dust howlers for ten minutes and got 4 essence of air, three breath of wind, 6 elemental air, and about 15 G worth of trash.

Commento di Nepipen

After making 3 loops of the mountain I have:

17x Breath of Wind
12x Elemental Air
and 4x Essence of Air..

False data from everyone else? I think so... Greedy bastards saving the precious elementals for themselves so no one else farms them..

Ponkey *73 Dwarf Death-Knight--- The Underbog*

Commento di 816197

just realized something! i really dont know if it has anything to do with the drop rate. after 30 min i looked in my bags and remembered i bought i put it on and thats when the drop rate increased...lol...idk try it out :) i bought it cause im farming ..no luck there :(

Commento di 59784

These are still commonly used for the agility weapon enchants for heirlooms, but their drop rate has made the enchant prohibitively expensive. It is rare for me to see the essences priced below 250g per on the AH since 4.1, and even rarer to see more than 2 or 3 posted at a time. This makes the enchant scrolls worth more than 1000g each just in raw mats.

Then, you have to consider that not everyone has that particular recipe, and not everyone who has it is regularly crafting it, so enchanters would be well justified to take a large percentage profit on those. Don't be surprised if you see Agility and 2H Agility going for 1500g-2000g because that's what they're worth in this current economy.

Commento di Durruti

Starting to think that the drop rate has been buffed since 4.1. I'd search for essence of air daily, and be lucky to get 1 in a day. There are currently 29 on our AH, from a dozen different sellers and Enchant Weapon - Agility has plumeted from selling at 2000g a scroll to 680g. I haven't seen this much essence of air since before the drop rate was nerfed in 4.0.1. Not quite sure what's going on atm, if the drop rate was buffed or several people are just liquidating old stockpiles simultaneously or what...

Commento di 231758

If you have some data to back up your "easy farming" post it. otherwise im downrating your post for being not useful.

Commento di 689177

65 kills for my four airs vs around 400 for eight the last time I visited Dust Stormers. (In 4.0.3)

Commento di 832689

I believe in 4.1the drop rate has been increased. I farmed for about 20 minutes while waiting for Tol Barad to pop and came up with about 6 Essence of air. The drops are still not as frequent as the days of old, but it doesn't seem to be excruciating anymore

Commento di 832899

Spent roughly around an hour and 20 or so farming the Dust Stormers, started around 2 AM server time.

420 Kills -
x16
x33
x17
x230
x97
x2

As well a lots of junk armor good for vendors.

Only set out to farm 4 lol, but seeing as how they sell for roughly around 300-400g a piece on my server I just kept wanting to farm them and get more.

Not to hard if your 85 and have 310% flying, I'm a rogue and made good time, mainly used my throwing knife on them and kept moving.

Happy farming! :)

Commento di Banba

Farming in Silithus - less than 3 min and 'bout 25-30 kills, 5 Essence of Airs.
Don't know if it's matter of luck or ...

Why downrate it, if it's true?:O)

Commento di 88677

Confirmed. On Thrall US at present these are around 110g. Going by how long it takes me to farm these things myself, that puts the price at around 500% of value. One thing is to exploit all the lazy people (hey I've done that myself), another is to be a complete moron and grossly overcharging.

The grey items that drop along with these items more than pay for the cost of actual farming them. That cost being what it costs you to get there, and the repair for wearing on your gear. I know a lot of people skip the greys just because they're grey. Yeah they take up space, but a couple stacks of grey ends up being a lot of gold in the end. Typically the same people I see not picking up greys are the same that sit around Org begging for 5g to buy some water.

Commento di Martika

Farmed 20 minutes in Silithus on Nesingwary server, got ONE of these - and Hurricanius even spawned (he didn't drop it.)

Commento di peegee77

Just to add my data to the collection:

Killed 97 Dust Stormers in the NW corner of Silithus

21g worth of vendor trash
2 greens
11 elemental air
9 breath of wind
3 essence of air

And Hurricanian obligingly showed up and dropped the 4th one I needed

Commento di 734533

Gonna have to say that RNG is RNG. I'm about to level a hunter so i wanted to farm 8 of these for the agi enchants. I cleared the whole spawn in silithus 1.5 times on my first try and didn't even get one. I went back to bgs, and farmed for the few minutes between AV queues(since I'm approaching the Bloodthirsty title). There was probably about 2-4minutes between each queue. In one of them I got 3 essences, others I got none. Within a few hours I got my 8.

Just do something in between if you're having $%^&ty luck.

Commento di Sentan

Today I just went to get 8 of these, I wasn't aware the droprate decreased, though it took me only 20 minutes to get them (lucky?), which was 95 kills, with a little thorium mining mixed in.

Commento di 288474

The drop rate seems to be abysmally low now for Dust Stormers in Silithus. I spent an hour and a half just trying to get four of them for an enchant. Resulting loot-

60g of vendor trash
3 greens ranging from level 48 to 52
1 World Drop Enchant Formula
18 Elemental Air
8 Breath of Wind
4 Essences of Air

It took half an hour between the first and second drops, and another half hour between the third and fourth. Honestly, it was a nightmare and was a complete waste of time.

This may just be bad luck, but that's some REALLY awful luck if it is.

Commento di 37692

Killed 150 Dust Stormers last night, and got 1x Essence of Air.

Went back today and killed 35, and got 4x Essence of Air to drop.

Random loot is random.

Commento di Albinfame

I was farming for the 15Agility weapon enchant i farmed for 17.53 mins accroding to my stopwatch and i got 5 essence of air as i needed! Really recommend this farming place to EVERYBODY that needs this reagent.

Commento di 433468

ok, im farming these for the +15 agi on weapons (x2)

5 min: 3 Essence of air
6 min: 4 Essence of air
7 min: 5 Essence of air
8 min: 5 Essence of air
9 min: 5 Essence of air
10 min: 6 Essence of air
11 min: 7 Essence of air
12 min: 7 Essence of air
13 min: 7 Essence of air
13 min 45 sec: 8 Essence of air

Commento di error10

Something is thoroughly weird about the drop rate for this item from Dust Stormers in Silithus.

Based on comments above I went to go farm them. I made one pass, clearing every Dust Stormer that was up, and got one Breath of Wind, six Elemental Air, and seven Essence of Air. Seven!

Then a strange thing happened. Huricanian popped. Since I have a strict policy of killing every rare mob I come across, I killed him too, and settled in to wait for all the elementals to respawn.

After respawn, I made another pass and cleared all the Dust Stormers. Instead of Essence of Air, they dropped nothing but Breath of Wind! I got seven more of those. Just to be sure, I waited for respawn again and made a third pass. This time, I got two Elemental Air and four Breath of Wind. No Essence of Air.

I don't know exactly what that was, but if it's random, it's a highly unlikely random.

I also noticed a couple of leveling players enter the area when I was on my second and third pass, though they left the Dust Stormers alone.

I'm going to go back in a few hours and investigate whether the drop rate is different when no other players are in the area, and again next Tuesday to find out if it differs after a server restart.

EDIT: If you're going to downrate for no good reason, then maybe I'll just keep the secret to myself. As soon as I figure out what it is...

Commento di 858235

I thought the drop rate must have been buffed again, it took me 66 kills to get the 8 essence of air I needed from the dust stormers, but then I killed another 60 (can tell from rep), and didn't get any, so perhaps I was just lucky initially.

Commento di fluker1

Went almost 2 hours without seeing any essences then got 2 consecutive drops right as I was calling it quits.

Dust Stormer
Loots: 67
Elemental Air - 7
Breath of Wind - 3
Essence of Air - 1
2 green drops

Dust Stormer
Loots: 48
Elemental Air - 3
Breath of Wind - 2
Essence of Air - 1

Very random.

Commento di 855704

Dust stormers in Silithus also drop this but you will need to kill quite a few to get it.

As for me I killed 550 mobs like in 1 hour or so and got:

a. 24 Essence of Air
b. 43 Elemental air
c. 35 Breath of wind

I hope I can sell these for a good price. Good luck farming.

Commento di blaqkmagick

So I didn't count how many mobs i killed but I cleared each side of the mountain twice (because the Dust Stormers only spawn on either side of the mountain pretty much). Took about 15-20 minutes.
Maybe I was just lucky with RNG but I found the results quite good.

Essence of Air - 3
Breath of Wind - 7
Elemental Air - 10
Inert Elemental Piece - 31
Inert Elemental Shard - 41

So it seems like maybe the drop rate wasn't so bad after all. Essence of Air sells on my server for about 200g, so thats a very good haul.

Commento di 146005

cant belive how much these are selling for i have a alt with Stacks and Stacks of them. farmed along time ago. tryed to farm more but they are not dropping as much as they used to.

Commento di mewmewface

killed maybe 100 and got zero.

Commento di 265840

I had good drop rate too - was at it for about 45 minutes and got 11 Essences (85 mage).

Commento di 465220

My drop rate off the dust stormers seemed to be higher now also, I got the 8 I needed for 2 agi enchants in about a half hour! Perhaps the rate has been adjusted again.

Commento di Reason83

As a level 85 Enhancement Shaman in Lupo Spettrale form, I could run from one Assaltatore della Polvere to another and kill them in one shot using ghost wolf's melee attack. It made for quicker farming than running, or time spent mounting up to fly a few yards to the next one.

Commento di MrCake

Just farmed up for 4 took 140 kills

2.8%

Commento di 892972

As a level 85 balance druid i once killed 2x both sides of where the mobs spawn and dropped about 12 essences. In the second time i got there i killed only once both sides and found 7. The drop rate must be around 4-5 % as is stated here.

Its a good way to farm when waiting for random dungeon even on low population servers. In my server sells around 50-55g but if you are doing it constantly you can take the monopoly and raise the prices more.

Commento di 780876

35 mins of farming fun! (lvl85 paladin w/ Mining)
5 Essence of air
15 Breath of Wind
22 Elemental Air
1 Core of Earth
4 Runecloth
2 GREENS(lvl55-57)
mining:
121 Dense Stone
89 Thorium ore
4 Arcane Crystal
1 Azerothian Diamond
1 Large Opal
1 Black Vitirol
not to shabby.... helps listening to Clubberry.fm on itunes :)

Commento di 780876

10 mins of uber fun! (lvl85 dk) @ 9:20pm server time ysondre
4 Essence of Air
3 Elemental Air
10 Breath of Wind
1 GREEN(lvl54)

Commento di TheCrazyScot

I needed these for the agility enchants for heirloom weapons and checked the AH (Bonechewer, horde) for them. 200g+ for 1. After 15 minutes in Silithus I had 5 of them. I might just keep farming for a few days and sell them.

Commento di 362523

Just thinking out loud here, but I wonder if this is tied to the transmogrificator.

I've noticed other Classic/BC/WotLK armor and weapon recipe item drops have become rare.

Commento di jaxsonbateman

Seems like a pretty good item to farm. 15 agi and 25 agi weapon enchants both use 4 Essence of Air each, and are the best enchants for rogues, druids (if they go feral, which they probably should while levelling), shammies (same deal as druids) and hunters. So a lot of heirloom weapons want the enchant, but because it's not maximum level stuff people don't pay too much attention to it.

It's probably not as efficient ($/hr wise) as farming maximum level stuff that you can get in on, but it seems like a decent money rate that you can probably corner the market in.

Commento di 916355

Ah this sucks i cant even get 1 :( and i want 4.

Commento di 878978

(December 4th 2011) **5.4% Drop Rate**

8 drops from 148 mobs.

I used a lvl 85 pally with maxed mining.

Total Loot: (AH worthy)

1x Azerothian Diamond
1x Huge Emerald
58x Thorium Ore
12x Truesilver Ore
57x Dense Stone
11x Breathe of Wind
14x Rune Cloth
14x Encrypted Twilight Text
4x Random Greens

Happy Hunting!

~Mook~

Commento di 878978

Commento di johanponken

4.3 farming info:
Did 4 clears of The Crystal Vale: 112 Dust Stormers killed.
Got 7 of each Air: Elemental, Breath and Essence.
Variations: each clear (El/Br/Es): 3/3/0, 2/1/3, 1/1/2, 1/2/2.
(just so you don't despair if the first clear doesn't get you any Essences)
Each clear takes about 5 minutes
There really is no need to bring a fast runner, as the re-spawn rate is slower than the runaround time, even with just normal run speed.

I did also did try a fly-around in the zone for the Warriors, but a 10 minute trip netted only 17 mobs, and 3 Breaths, 2 Elementals. Of course the drop rates are much more unreliable for just 17 mobs, but just the travelling time makes it not worth it.

All-in-all: drop rate about 5% is still valid, the high prices on the enchants - are worth it!

(please rate up, so the latest info gets attention)

Commento di Martika

As of 4.3 this is still one of the highest earning items to be fairly easily farmed by lower level players.

The item is virtually useless, EXCEPT that it is highly sought after for the +15 agility enchantment - the best agility weapon enchantment that can be used on heirloom weapons.

On the Nesingwary server, these routinely sell for 100-150g each. There are rarely more than one or two on the auction house at a time, and because people spend very little time in the areas where they drop, they are snapped up very quickly.

Today I farmed the air elementals in Silithus for about 15 minutes. I killed around 40 mobs and got the four I needed along with a bunch of other junk. Also managed to catch the rare mob Hurricanus, which again isn't surprising as no one goes to this area regularly.

Commento di seahen

Level 55 Dust Stormers seem to drop these a lot more often than Level 54 ones.

Commento di 877459

Killed 237 Dust Stormers:

ended up with 8 essence of air for a drop rate of 3.3%. The highest drop rate I've seen with over 200 kills has been 5.1%.

Just face it, it's a grind to get these. :(

Commento di 195606

The feeling you get when after hours of farming, one of these little bastards actually drops...

Glorious.

Commento di SkyLynx4

Just did some farming of those for heirloom +15 agil enchants in Silithus on my Ret Paladin.

Place: area around the mountain at 32,21

Killed Assaltatore della Polvere x ~160

Results:
Essenza d'Aria x 9
Soffio di Vento x 9
Aria Elementale x 14

Took about an hour of flying around that mountain. NOTE: don't bother killing the rocky elems there, they don't drop this. Maybe I was lucky, but the results are actually accurate to the listed drop chance. May be a nice income source especially if you have Enchanting and Agilità - sells 800g per enchant on my server. Essenza d'Aria alone sells 80g per piece.

Commento di Joschka

after farming all elementals for 4 times rough I got 2 essences, very annoying, seems as though the droprate (for me) is roughly 1%

Commento di Fist

......................................................TRANSMUTES AND THEIR SOURCES...............................................
........................Lokhtos Darkbargainer......A,H: Hasana, Lightspark, Breechlock..........................................
.....3xHeart of Fire ------------------> Fire <--------------------- Air...........................................................................
....................................................\.............................:...........................................................................
...Plugger Spazzring........................\.............................\..........................................................................
.......................................................\.............................\..........Fedryen Swiftspear...................................
.......................................................Y.............................\.......................................................................
.......................Life <--------- ---------> Earth -------------------> Water <---------- ----------> Undeath...........................
......................EtoL:DROP.....LtoE:DROP.......Meilosh........UtoW:DROP.........WtoU:DROP..........................

............................................WORLD DROP-driven recipies:.................................
Life to Earth
Earth to Life

Undeath to Water
Water to Undeath

...........................................REPUTATION / LEVEL-dependent recipies:.................................
Elemental Fire
Air to Fire
Fire to Earth
Water to Air

Commento di LiriusMagi

So I farmed on a level 55 Shadow priest.

In about in hour, I killed about 95 Dust Stormers in Sithilus. The biggest slow down I had was stopping to drink mana. Loot wise I got:
Essence of Airx4
Breath of Windx2
Green lootx2
Inert Elemental Shardsx65 (6g vendor vaule per stack of 20)
Intert Elemental Piecex24 (1g vendor value per stack of 20)

Again, level 55 (With heirloom Shoulders, chest, head and 38 equipped iL) I got 412 experience for the level 54 npcs, and 448 for the level 55s (not rested).

There wasn't a lot of damage taken on me, and they died relatively quickly.

1 Essence of Air = 19 Total Dust Stormers killed
(Breath of Wind dropped)
2 Essence of Air = 74 Total Dust Stormers killed
(Breath of Wind dropped)
3 Essence of Air = 91 Total Dust Stormers killed
4 Essence of Air = 95 Total Dust Stormers killed (about)

Commento di 319414

After about 45 minutes, approximately 80-100 dusters, I was able to find 8. I think the drop rate has either increased a bit or I'm just really lucky.

Commento di restopresto

Drop rate is around 2% to be more accurate. Nice thing is that you can pick up a lot of other nice items while farming

Commento di Edeadda

People are always needing this for Agilità ive farmed alot of them silithus is by far the best place plus u get the Breathe of wind and elemental airs. that being said if u are too lazy to farm and dont wanna fork up 150-300g a pop, find Essence of waters : Trasmutazione: Acqua in Aria
this is a very simple inexpensive way to get them plain and simple waters are 3-10g a piece on the servers ive seen
the recipe can be found just outside Scholomance there is a guy in the the building jus before the entrance around the area of the Rare spawn, he sells a few recipes that i can never seem to find people with
this is him http://www.wowhead.com/npc=11278#

Commento di 351360

Just farmed 8 essenses - took me about 30 min on my 85 mage. I killed total of approximately 130 mobs

(130/100)*8= 10.4% of drop rate, not bad. Those essenes sell for 200g each on my server! but i hate grinding lol

Tichondrius
Mazaxist 85 undead mage

Commento di 695025

My RNG seems to be terrible compared to the other commenters... 50-60+ stormers, still only 1 Essence of Air. :/ Maybe it got decreased.

Commento di Chardryn

As of patch 4.3, the drop rate is still quite rare. I needed 8 of those for the agility enchant for my 2 heirloom daggers, so I took my time to get them all.

Started: 7:22 AM server (Shadow Council), 3:22 PM Middle European Time
Ended: 8:34 AM server, 4:34 PM MET

281 Dust Stormers and 1 Huricanian

22 Elemental Air
21 Breath of Wind
8 Essence of Air

If you are going to farm this, start from the west side of the Crystal Vale, because there are more mobs there with slightly quicker spawning time than the east side. From west, go in a semicircle toward the east. On both sides, there are 2 "sets" of creature spawns. As an 85, your kills should be quick enough to kill both sets before going to the other side.

Those Essence of Airs were rare, but if you're also hoping for a few green drops for maybe disenchanting, don't be so fruitful about it because only 2 greens dropped for me. Lots and lots of elemental shards and pieces though, so pick it up to make some money. A stack of shards can sell for 6 gold, and pieces, 1 gold.

Happy hunting!

Destroyed Jenkins, 85 DK, Shadow Council

Commento di TiberX

Also a great way to make money, i farmed 4 of these in 15 minutes and the sell for 120G each on Sylvanas Alliance

Commento di 1001882

North western silithus is the best place for these. I suggest you make paths for quickest looting and killing.

Example: I farm on my druid for flight form looting. I do a circle around both the east and west spawn areas. I DoT everything, and loot after its dead. And cycle from east to west.

Also, on a side note, if there is other people farming, it doesn't hurt to ask if they want to take one spawn area, and you take the other. For example, They stay at east and you stay at west. This sometimes helps so you aren't both fighting for kills.

If you do these for cash, i personally found turning them into agility enchants is alot more profitable and easier to sell.

Commento di 1001988

i went NW silithus for these too... First out of desperation for agility enchants, secondly cos i wanted the moula.

First time was... tough. first 6 came easy, bout 20mins, 70ish kills... next two were a real grind. took another 180 kills to get number 7 and 8... 252 kills for bout 20 breath of air, 20 elemental air, 8 essence of air, the rest shards and pieces which i just sold for a few g...

second time i went back, farmed while doing random BGs as well as was much more pleasant - broke up the boredom... plus the drop rate seemed higher: 8 in 82 kills. wondering if it's limited by how many can drop per hour or something?

Still, with my server prices, netted me a neat grands worth of essence, and some honor to boot...

Commento di 999794

Farmed for these in northern Silithus for around 45 minutes and had 9 drop for me. Not a bad grind at all.

Commento di 1011123

well nw of silithus worked for me craet had 8 in about 15 min just go for the wind ones not the stone and you be fine on finding them

Commento di Solon22

Farming these can be quite frustrating. While some people point to getting 5-10 in just 30 minutes of farming, I have yet to get a single one and I've done 4 laps now netting over 100 kills. So this grind is very susceptible to RNG. Primal Airs might be a better choice since the mote -> primal conversion is more preferable (imo) to relying on a 5% drop rate.

Commento di Lyva

Around 25 mins in NW Silithus, killing Dust Stormers. 9 Essences, 12 elemental airs, two bs recipes and a world epic boe mace.

Commento di 1016714

about 1 hour farming: Elemental Air x23, Essence of Air x 11, Breath of Wind x 17, 4 green items and grays worth 54g. I was farming in Silithus with lvl 85 mage.

Commento di 476600

1 Hour:

Essence of Air x 21

Elemental Air x 28

Breath of Wind x 23

(Junk items not included, made roughly 75g off of junk items)

Commento di 300827

At least I'm exalted with Hydraxian waterlords now....

Commento di Sokksi

Area: NW Silithus (SE and SW of The Crystal Vale)
Farming time: 1 Hour
Number of Essenza d'Aria: 8
Profit from grey loot: 74g 55s 29c

Notes: Don't bother killing Rumblers unless you need Essenza di Terra. The mobs that drop Airs are the Stormers and they spawn quickly at the two noted areas. The mobs have about 3.5k HP and their bodies can be mined. There are a few Thorium veins in the farming area, as well. Taking a character with 215+ in Mining and high enough level to one-shot these mobs would be the most beneficial in farming these Airs. RNG didn't drop a single Essence of Air for me until 30 minutes into farming, then in the last 10 minutes there were 4 drops.

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Total mobs killed: 340

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All other loot:
01 x Corpse Harvester
01 x Heroic Bracers
01 x Widow Blade
06 x Essenza di Terra
01 x Zaino del Viaggiatore
22 x Aria Elementale
09 x Terra Elementale
10 x Nucleo di Terra
01 x Fine Longsword
01 x Smooth Leather Bracers
01 x Light Plate Chestpiece
01 x Crested Buckler
03 x Light Plate Bracers
01 x Bulky Maul
01 x Smooth Leather Belt
01 x Stout War Staff
01 x Primed Musket
01 x Smooth Leather Armor
68 x Pezzo Elementale Inerte
205 x Scheggia Elementale Inerte

Commento di dsnineteen

I was chasing eight of these for the much-desired +15 agi 1H enchants. Decided to farm them up on my 85 gnome hpriest, perhaps not the most efficient toon for it but I had a decent level of success dropping SW:P on the air elementals in Silithus and collecting 6-12 at a time.

After 33 minutes (according to my buff countdowns) I'd got the 8 I needed plus a bonus one (I was on 6, when I collected 3 in a row?). My total loot list was:

77x Inert Elemental Air
36x Inert Elemental Piece
14x Breath of Wind
10x Elemental Air
1x Light Plate Bracers
1x Lofty Breastplate of Power
1x Siege Bow of Spirit
1x Formula: Enchant Boots - Spirit

and of course
9x Essence of Air

My first kill put me at neutral with Hydraxian Waterlords and my rep at finished was 803/3000 so factoring in the guild rep bonus my killcount was estimated at 146.

Stats: Bonus round!
4.4 kills per minute
3.6 minutes per Essence drop
16.2 kills per drop
6.16% drop rate

Writing off the 3-in-a-row drop as a stupidly lucky outlier (0.000125% chance of occurring), these results seem consistent with already recorded data.

All the best in your farming, may you be as lucky as I was (Unless you're on Jubei'Thos-A, in which case, stay off my Auction House!)

Commento di Ruhig

In anticipation of the 5.04 patch, I set a goal of farming a dozen of these today. It took me an hour farming Assaltatore della Polveres, during which time I also picked up:

7 stacks of Minerale di Torio
10 stacks of Pietra Densa
20 (2 stacks) of Aria Elementale
13 Minerale di Verargento
6 Soffio di Vento
lots of gems including one Diamante Azerotiano

And a handful of green items. Also had plenty of junk which vendored for a couple gold. For an hour's worth of tedium, you net a pretty good haul!

Commento di 1025164

Farmed the Dust Stormers for these and litterally got 3 Essence of Air from my first 3 kills. The fourth drop took another 20 kills. Not as bad as people made it sound.

Commento di Lolia

Hello everyone! <3

Not sure if anyone has said this yet (and I apologize if someone has!) But I was farming these the usual way last night and wasn't anything exciting at all and managed to get 4 Essenza d'Aria in the time I was here.

Today I thought I'd farm some more to do some extra Enchants (and sell them >:3 Muwahaha... ).

Well long story short, someone was inviting me to group up with them so they could enter the AQ raid, and I obliged them. Then it occured to me! While you are in party, the drop rate of rare items increases!

I managed to get an Essenza d'Aria a lot quicker than I was doing it outside a group *happy face ^~^ <3

So! Group up with someone far away, while farming, this could increase your chances greatly :3

It's also really handy as the Essenza d'Aria pops up in a little roll window and makes you even more excited when finding one :P.

Moonfire spamming is great! (^o^)y

Happy Farming! xoxox <3

Commento di Samander

Cross-realm zoning just made these infinitely harder to farm. My advice: if you're able, start going at off-peak hours, just like in the days of vanilla. I could farm these before and never see a soul; in the last couple of days, there have been at least a dozen people doing various things, including farming these with me. Be prepared to fight for your tags against both factions.

Commento di 1035663

Since 5.0.4 this is one of the hardest (or maybe just time-consuming) pre-BC mats to farm/obtain now that cross-realm zones have brought farmers from multiple servers into one spot, and since the alchemy transmute for essence of air still has a daily cooldown. While transmutes such as Titansteel and Truegold had these cooldowns removed while still relevant to end-game as crafting materials, elemental transmutes are still limited to 1 per day.

Commento di Nyassae

Since MoP with cross realm zone's. IMO I've been there farming alone at off peak hours, (had the place to myself) and found the drop rate to be considerably lower, as I was doing all the kills.. However when I was "frustrated" trying to get "my fair share" when the place was Hopping (aka busy).. I found the drop rate to be higher.1 Hour alone net's me 2 essence of air, 1 hour when it's busy,, got me 7 essence of air, I admit that may be higher than normal, but it is a considerable difference
. I use these for Agil. chant's like eveyone else. My plan is to find the sweet spot and camping the 3-4 I can get when they spawn. In closing, drop rate depends on area kills/hour.

Commento di 119239

Killed 465 dust stormers and netted 28 essence of air, in about an hour and half. So 6% drop rate still stands in patch 5.0.5.

Commento di 1013194

Killed 210 dust stormers got 10 essence of air, in about an hour with a 54 horde hunter farming at the same time. lil more then a 5% drop rate. 30 secs after posting this a got 2 more in 3 kills, luck?

Commento di RabbleRouser

In a 20 minute farm session I killed 112 Assaltatore della Polvere and collected the following:

Essence of Air drop rate: 7.14% per kill or 0.4 per minute

I also managed to mine:

Edited for formatting.

Commento di Holycanole

Just killed 30-40 without getting any and then i literally got 3 in a row, gotta love RNG...

Commento di aryon

Let me break it down for you so that maybe you can save yourself a bit of time:

You look for these on AH, see the prices, and say: "Forget that, I'm going to farm them myself".
You spend a fair while farming them and only get one or two.
You realise that you'd be better off spending your time earning the gold from your primary profession and buying the things off AH.
You buy them off AH.
You don't bother to earn the gold.

Commento di mistadabolina

Either they have increased drop rate at 5.1 or the bots have found this? My AH is flooded with cheap (~50g/each) airs now. used to be a few at 200-300g in the past

Commento di Thepoison

I don't see this stated anywhere above, so let me add this. - The Transmutes are a cheap, easy way to get the Airs, but can only be transmuted ONCE A DAY, per Alchemist. The Patterns themselves are also Rare, and are almost never all found on a single Alchemist, not including the select few "Extreme" collectors. After spending a nice chunk of Gold on the AH hoping to make myself a nice profit, I found this out the hard way. I hope this prevents others from doing so aswell!

Commento di 417282

Sept 7, 2013:

Looted 8 essences in about 25 min of farming.

~120 kills (15% drop)

Also looted:
84 Inert Elemental Shards
14 Breath of Wind
15 Essence of Air
01 Primed Musket
01 Smooth Leather Belt
01 Twill Belt
01 Jadefire Pants of the Eagle

There were also a couple mobs that didn't drop anything, not even trash.

Just want to add to the data collection. :)

Commento di Binary

12/5/13 - 5.4

Farmed as a PvP discipline priest with 6 grievous pieces.
I had to kill 265 Dust Stormers +/- 30, to get 8 Essence of Air. I consider myself very unlucky with this trip.

Total loot:

8 Essence of Air
10 Breath of Wind
22 Elemental Air
17 Breath of Wind
58 Inert Elemental Shard
9 Inert Elemental Piece

Other items:

Vanguard Pauldrons
Celestial Cape of Intellect
Pattern: Chimeric Bootsm

Commento di 1071064

I have a very unremarkable lvl 90DK that I do all my farming with. The area in the NW corner of Silithus is the best. There are 40-50 Dust Stormers. If you run along and kill them, don't mount you will have a continuous respawn. After 5 loops around the area, which was 250 or so kills. I had 13 Essence of Air, 18 Elemental air, 22 Breath of Wind, and 3 green lvl items to send to my chanter to DE. The lower lvl toons in the area need a few of these for a quests. It's best to let them play through and get what they need. If you kill them it will cause a commotion and when they call for help it will just slow you down.

Commento di yisurhp0

It really is a matter of luck, didnt get some for a bit then all of a sudden 3 in a row i40.tinypic.com/169g9dt.png

then another just after i made the pic

Commento di SirBroose

I just farmed the NW corner of Silithis. By my count, there were roughly 25-30 dust stormers. I had no competition, so I was able to keep an accurate tally. There were exactly 27 on my first clear. It varied after that. I would clear the entire area in a matter of moments (ilvl 550 warrior charging, heroic leaping and running about), have to wait about a minute or two, then they would start to respawn.

I was farming 10 essences of air, and stopped once I got the 10th. It took 137 kills and about 40 minutes. (I use a reputation tracker and as a human I received 6 Hydraxian Waterlord rep for each kill, and I had 822 exp gained.)

In addition to the 10 essences, I bagged 68 inert elemental shards, 38 inert elemental pieces, 14 elemental air, 7 breath of wind, one green and 4 grey vendor drops. I vendored the shards, pieces, green and greys for roughly 30g.

Commento di 1252871

Took two passes in northwest Silitus killing Assaltatore della Polveres. You know how they are split up with all those Elementale Tellurico del Desertos in the Crystal Vale? I killed all of them on each side of the mountain, I suppose that's around 20 on each side totaling 40 stormers/pass. So for a total of 80 Assaltatore della Polvere kills, I got 1 Essenza d'Aria. Not that going there is a waste of time, but I would agree with some of those who say it's luck or it's when you get there.

Guess I am going to have to pay a little gold to make my Disco Elettroreattivo because if my luck continues, I am going to have to kill 480 more Stormers for the other 6 essences I still need.

Commento di subby

Farmed this mob for 30 minutes, here is an idea of what you'll get post 6.2 WOD patch

Mob farmed Assaltatore della Polvere I killed roughly 70 in about 30 minutes in Silithus, north by northwest, in other words the top left corner.

11 x Acqua Elementale
7 x Essenza d'Acqua
5 x Essenza d'Aria
7 x Soffio di Vento
8 x Aria Elementale

Commento di Snikmord

I found that the most effective way of farming these is to use a rogue with the Nightstalker and Cloak and Dagger talents, Glyph of Stealth and just Ambush from one Dust Stormer to the other.

Commento di Madr

I was in Darkshore farming Mageroyal and when I saw the Frenzied Cyclones I decided to farm them for awhile to see what I might get. After 45 minutes of farming (higher level toon, one-shotting them), I looted 11 Aria Elementale, 8 Soffio di Vento, and 4 Essenza d'Aria. Even if I got lucky it suggests the drop rate on these materials from this mob is far better than the 0.3%-1.1% rate currently listed by Wowhead. I think the drop rate may be skewed because most players are killing the Ciclone Furioso for the quest item Bracciali del Ciclone Furioso, and maybe the elemental materials don't tend to drop from the same kill as the quest item. Once a player gets all the quest items they need, they tend to stop killing this mob, so the drop rates on Wowhead don't accurately represent that the Ciclone Furioso is a good source for those elemental crafting materials.

Commento di KiraOHara

Went farming this from the Assaltatore della Polvere in Silitus. Once again reiterating that drop rate is not what is reflected on the percentages. I lost track of how many I actually killed or how many times I had to hop back and forth between the sides of the big rock, but I will say that after clearing one side the other had completely respawned so there was no downtime. I stopped when I reached the 10 Essenza d'Aria I needed for a craft, probably around 2 hours of farming. The mobs always dropped one of something, but not always something useful.

Items Received:
10 x Essenza d'Aria
37 x Aria Elementale
21 x Soffio di Vento
199 x Cristalli Crepitanti
53 x Frammenti Scintillanti
8 x misc. grey gear
12 x misc. green gear
1 x blue gear
1 x purple gear

Plus there were a bunch of nodes of Foglia Onirica, Sansam Dorato, Ramargento Montano, Minerale di Torio, and Minerale di Verargento all through the farming area. Made 70g18s35c in total from vendoring the grey items, probably will make a bit more for the greens. Not a terrible haul, but definitely time-consuming!

Commento di Bissick

I have started to farm Dust Stormers with Cataclysm Timewalking activated in Silithus. Mobs were appearing without switching Silithus time, but most of them had no loot at all. After farming several hundreds I had only a few grey and green armor drops, but no Essence Of Air (or anything else).

Then I tried to switch Chromie to present time and went back to Silithus. I had to change Silithus time to see the elementals. Doing so I have started to find loots from the Dust Stormers. Always got some Inert Elemental Grain or Flake drops, sometimes grey and green armors and I got 56 x Elemental Air. But still no Essence of Air (after around 3 hours of farming). I was killing so many elementals that I reached honored reputation with Hydraxian Waterlords (each mob gives 5 reputation points).

Anyone has any idea why there is no Essence Of Air?
I guess it cannot be only a bad drop rate (compared to the looted 56 x Elemental Air).

Update:
After several days of farming and killing a few thousand of elementals in Silithus, Darkshore and Nagrand finally I could collect 4 Essence of Airs. All of them were collected in Nagrand. Additionally I got 71 x Elemental Air and 147 x Mote of Air.

Commento di Tigerram

165 Dust stormers to get 8 essence. Also got 9 elemental air and 8 Breath of Wind.
Took approximately 25 minutes. Lvl 62 mage. Old Silithus - Zidormi reversed time.

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Massima Pila: 1000

Prezzo di vendita: 4

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