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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. Undeath is particularly easy to come by so it may be a way to get more rare essences that you need.

Life

Commento di 16549

Can be farmed solo by level 70s, probably of all class's (i mean if i can do it with a prot warrior :P) just go to Stratholme and kill elites and they all pretty much have a 3% ish drop rate.

Commento di Zurik

not all the guys must be elite or rare to drop essence of undeath, http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=17878 drpo it too, however its a very very low drop.... if u're realy needing this better try the auction house

Commento di 64664

As for the latest patch 2.5 these materials will drop now from random Eastern Plagueland mobs as well. (not just the instance mobs).

Commento di 84183

I've only been killing the undead near Lights Hope Chapel in the Eastern Plaguelands for about 10 minutes, and I've already gotten 5. The drop rate seems to have been raised.

Commento di 127599

Stratholme is a great place to farm this plus you also get money from the various greens and blues.

Commento di 290407

I just did undead Stratholme and received zero Essence of Undeath

I suggest farming by Light's Hope Chapel they have far better drop rate

Commento di hellohello

The absolute best place to farm this is Zul'Marash in EPL, but you need good AoE. Get on your mount and "trip" all the mounds of dirt and AOE all the zombie trolls that rise. I get around 6-8 essences on average.

Commento di 231758

If you are leveling Enchanting skill around 300 and need these AND your not a 70+ toon, then i must say that the infected mossflayers at the dirt pile are not nearly worth the effort off all the knockdowns and silences for the slightly higher percentage drop. As a 66 holy pally i did fine killing them but, I got zero essence on a couple rounds and the respawn was a little too long.

If you go right down the hill as mentioned above. the "scourge siege engineers" are about a 6% drop rate and they are just pathetically simple to kill in large groups.

there are 20 mobs in the basic area (including patrols but not beasts) and the whole thing respawns in 6 mins or less. At a very slow pace (screwing around in guild chat) i could clear them all in 4-5 mins and then sit to wait on respawn. Sometimes i would get zero essence on a clear but never more than 2 clears in a row and most clears would net 2-4 essence along with an impossible amount of "invader scouge stones" and rune cloth.

when i finally started counting, one round/20 mobs netted me:

12 Invader stones
12 runecloth
2 essence of undeath
1 ichor of undeath
silver i did not count (probably about 1.5g worth)
random green lvl 55 armor (barely ever drops greens)

by the time i stopped and decided to count the mobs and drops for this post i had 31 essences, 21 ichors of undeath, 124 invader scourgestones, 229 runecloth, and i kept 3 greys that were worth over a gold ea (i destroy any greys not worth at least a gold)

So it's not great drop rates but it's so much easier than runing all around near strat to find the specific gaurds that drop higher and also dealing with any silencing effects from the trolls up the hill. with a respawn of 6 min and a kill time of 4 you can do this 6 times per hour if you are really screwing off, and faster if you pay attention. and at lvl 66 i was getting very good Argent Dawn rep and even a little bit of xp.

Hope this helps the players still leveling with no 80 alts to help out :)

final note: coords are- 57/16 and this area is needed for an Argent Dawn quest so occasionally a player will show up that needs the kills, i was polite and let them kill a round and just requested their undeaths because that's what i was here for. they pretty much always gave them to me out of courtesy for letting them kill the respawns.

Commento di Kathulu2

spent 45 mins farming Zul'Marrash and got nothing. Ended up spending 50+ gold on the AH just to get what i needed.

LIERS!

Commento di sn1p3rz

Just did a pull here today. (65,12 in EPL) Ran over all of the graves. Kill all of the undead thingys using Consecrate. Careful, they do a knockback. I had 4 Essence of Undeath drop for me. Good spot. Got the job done. Thanks

Edit: Waited for graves to respawn and did it another time. Apparently I was lucky. 0 drops this time

Commento di 628862

BY far zul marash its so much easier and better to get these then scourge champions

Commento di mooklepticon

I farmed the entire Zul Marash twice, but no Essences. 11/29/2010

Commento di seitori

This is difficult to find after the Shattering patch, as there aren't any level 55+ undead any more, which was the target for this drop.

If I had to guess, I'd say that Stratholme would be the best place to get this, but I imagine it's still not as common a drop as it used to be.

Commento di Greken

i can aggre on this problem NO ONE seams to be droping this anymore since its a 55+ regent for some stuff.

anyway i have tryed 4-5 scholos and 2-3 stratholm runs and i have also checked plenty of undeads around in the plaguelands but 0 after a few hours of farming so its intresting to see if these will come back on some npcs loot table or if thay are out of the game aswell

Commento di 661547

I picked up one of these in Scholomance last night while farming loot drops to level my enchanting, but I'm not exactly sure what it dropped from (I know that's not very helpful).

I just wanted to mention it so that people know it's still in the game, it just appears that the drop rate is abysmally low at this point, since I've cleared Scholomance three or four times and only got one drop.

I hadn't even realized that I picked it up (AoE farming and grabbing everything) until I got back to civilization and was cleaning out my bags.
I think Blizz still has some tuning to do to the drop rates for old-world materials.

Commento di 686630

As of January 7th 2011, it is dropping in Dire Maul West in the Court of the Highborne, off of the various Eldreth mobs.

Commento di Shashos

Two back to back full clears of Strat yielded no Essences of Undeath. Huge drop in the rate since pre-Shattering. Simply huge.

Haven't had a chance to try the Highbourne side of DM yet. Guess that's next on my list. :)

It's possible that Blizzard may be trying to make heirloom enchants more valuable, but it might just be the drops need to be retuned a tad.

Edit: another full clear of both sides. Got 4 Righteous Orbs, no essences.

Unless the Highborne ghosts in Winterspring or Silithus drop it now, I can't even imagine where to get it at this point.

Commento di 755244

Greeting's all
I've had trouble finding this item. I went through the the beginning of scholomance and found one essence of undead. I actually found it from a zhoul ( the one's that walk around randomly)

I then went outside to farm but had no luck. Its seems that the drop rate has significantly change since cataclysm. :-(

Commento di 780355

Alright, so I've been looking for Essence of Undeath all day, and my best luck was in Strat. I was getting one every other run off of the Banshee boss, Baroness Anastari. I got 2 from her only out of the whole instance, after 4 runs. Hope that helps. :)

Commento di Greken

Ay after much runing around in higher end classic places trying to get these to drop was a pain. The only thing that is actualy decent to do is farm the banshe boss in strat or just do strat overall since in about 10 runs i have got 3 essence so its LOW drop rate but hell atlest thay aint removed ;P

Commento di 733706

The essence of undeath is one of the ingredients in the lifestealing weapon enchant, one of the more popular enchants.

Following some of the previous suggestions, I ran Strat three times with an 82 DK and got none. Following other suggestions, I ran the back entrance straight to Baroness Anastari, dragging every mob from the gate to her stairs (which was fun-looked like a madhouse with my army of the dead running around). I reset the instance each time and ran it until I got the message "You have entered too many instances recently", which I believe was four runs. No essences dropped.

The next day I decided to try Scholomance as others had suggested. Got one right away from a spectral tutor in the main study area. Got one from one of the reanimated corpses that inhabit the area where Janice Barov is. I got another from the big boss Lord Alexi Barov. Got one from a Risen Bonewarder in the room where Lady Barov is. Looks like Scholo will be my place to farm these.

Commento di 800684

Just did a full run of Scholomance and it didn't drop a single Essence. I want to try Strat but i don't want not sure if i have the patience to run it today. I might try another day.

Commento di 354647

As far as I can tell this no longer drops as of at least 4.0.6, I cleared Strat twice and Scholo twice and got no drops, flew around EPL looking for any undead in the 50 - 60 range, and didn't find any, then killed 100 of the undead in Sholazar (70+) and not a single EoU.

That being said, if you can find a source of Essence of Water (some fishing pools) I expect that an Alchemist could xmute water to undeath. For now these are selling for 250 - 300 g each on the server.

Commento di 723589

I had 2 drop from trash about 6 mobs in at Stramholme(march 26th, patch 4.06). I went there after Scholomance, which I ran the whole dungeon without any drop. Try Stratholme first imo,

Commento di pardis

Hey guys just wanted to let you all know that a similar problem has risen with Felcloth. I saw a couple of comments mentioning that they filed a ticket for this in game and that the GM forwarded it to development. Maybe we can do the same thing for this? I for one am going to file a ticket right now. Maybe if enough people do it we can have the drop rate back to normal again.

Commento di tapehands

Just cleared up to the second boss on the undead side of strat and finally had my first essence drop from one of the level 49 banshees. Prior to this, I tried farming Zul'Mashar for about 10 minutes with zero drops. As is pretty obvious by now, drop rates on this item have been terribly nerfed, making leveling to 300 jewelcrafting a huge pain. :|

Haven't tried farming for powerful mojo yet, but the comment threads there seem just as dire as here. At this point, sucking it up and taking the chance that I won't get a skill up from one of the yellow recipes almost seems like a better use of my time.

edit: cleared everything on the run mentioned above and ended up with 3 essences of undeath, all dropped off of trash. definitely not worth the time I had to sink in to it..

Commento di cherme

I cleared both Scholo and Strat 2x each today and only came away with one essence. I had previously put in a ticket in-game about a similar problem since the mob levels have changed and there are none left to drop these 50+ mats for leveling profs or doing enchants like lifesteal. I was told to make a suggestion in the appropriate WoW forum and I am encouraging you all to do the same so that Blizzard can tweak these random drops to the new npc levels.

Commento di 354647

I've now seen two drop off the Putrid Gargoyles in EPL (these are randomly about the zone)

Commento di seitori

It would seem at some point (perhaps with the 4.1 patch), Blizzard has repopulated this drop. My guild and I have seen a few of these drop from NPCs that did not drop them before. One example is from a Dread Weaver in EPL.

Prices and supply should come down soon, JC's rejoice!

Commento di Karla

Just did the quests in Tyr's Hand....had 4 drop. Also had another one drop in the Noxious Glade, which is north of Light's Hope.

I hope this helps.

Commento di cefm

Lots of out-of-date posts on Strat and Scholo, looks like. The "drops from" tab seems more current, indicating it drops from undead in Eastern Plaguelands.

Commento di 841618

Hey guys, I think I might have found a solution to finding Essence of Undeath. While I couldn't get any off of the Dread Weavers in The Noxious Glade, I was able to get quite a few off of the Diseased Flayers there. Worth looking into. I got 3 within about 15 minutes of farming them. Took about 30 flayers before a drop. I got the 3 drops. So I'm guessing it's a 10% drop or so off of them.

Commento di kyttyn

I've gathered a couple from the Scourge Champions in EPL (35, 45), though it seems to be a rather low drop. I also picked up one off a Spectral Tutor in Scholomance.

Commento di Wilfrid

These things drop like mad from Tyr's Hand Scarlet guys. An hour of farming for the Crusader enchant netted 16 Undeath.

Commento di 118272

well, I am just in Strat now with a 73 belf sp who needs to level her tail/ench and is after cloth and Essence of Undeath - so far 4 groups of mobs killed and got:
12 mageweave
4 Ichor of undeath
Numerous health and mana pots
Aquamarine
some greys that sell for over a gold each

....but no Essence of Undeath...yet!
Will keep you posted

Commento di Eclipsegirl

I was soloing low level classic dungeons yesterday and I found this is my bags when I started vendoring the loot.
I believe it came from Dire Maul.
I wish I could say what it dropped from and which of the three dungeons it was in, but I didn't know it was in my bags.

Commento di Bowserkills7

The Scouge Champions seem the best for me.
After about 30 minutes of farming, I had:

8 Essence of Undeath
44 Silk Cloth
27 Mageweave Cloth
1 Steel Lockbox
1 Green

And while farming I got my Mr Grubbs from the Hidden Pouches.

Commento di 857663

i Try Stratholme and did the entire run ( I have the bone fragments to prove it LOL ) and this item DID NOT drop one time :( Thats BS

Commento di 857663

ANYONE GETS ONE OF THESE SELL IT AT THE AH FOR 100KGOLD

Commento di 857663

Because of the low drop rate. I did get about 5 but it was a huge pain. Sold 2 for 20g's. I said 100k as a joke

Commento di 892069

I cleared Corin's Crossing 4 times and got 3 Essence of Undeath.

Commento di 903208

I got one essence of undeath from a steel lockbox looted in Corin's Crossing. First I tried Plague wood and the Noxious Glade with no success, then I went into the servants entrance of Stratholme. My inventory got crammed, so I then went to Light's Shield to unload. I kept on farming at CC but didn't get any more after clearing the town out and opening three more lockboxes. It's too bad because I would ve sold on the AH for 5-12 gold each (but I won't buy at those prices).

Commento di 857663

Im now seeing a really great drop rate for this item in Eastern Plaguelands. The Scourge Champion guys are dropping a good amount.

Commento di 918016

Patch 4.3, I found that killing:
Anguished Highborne
Suffering Highborne
Wretched Spectre
Wretched Spirit
All in the area SW of Everlook (Winterspring) was by far the easiest way to farm Essence of Undeath.

With less than 2k health, these die easily and droprate averaged out around 2 essences per run. I rarely had to wait a full minute for respawns when circling the area.

Just avoid killing the blood elf ghosts, as they do not drop essences.

Essence of Undeath is still required by some professions to grind up tradeskilling, so alongside the cloth and coin found in this area, could be a good spot to farm some easy coin for lower levels.

Commento di Curunirtb

its a very low drop rate, but i got mine from mobs in stratholm, but only about one pr run

Commento di 70814

I was looking for stuff myself and just now I killed like maybe 20 things but in EPL Plaguewood (all over) so far I have gotten 4 in about 20 minutes, and 3 of them in the last 5 minutes in Plaguewood by killing Overstuffed Golem, Cursed Mage and Scourge Soldier. The are low level non-elites but so far I am very happy w/ the drop rate....hope it keeps up.

Edit: It is all undead mobs in Plaguewood, just confirmed bats and cannibal ghoul, and the drop rate is staying good too. I have 10 essence now so yeah, skip all the other stuff and just farm Plaguewood undead mobs.

Edit again: Oh yeah this is 4.3 patch

Commento di Luxion

Patch 4.3:

Farmed Zul'Mashar (EPL), Stratholme (UD) but not the slaughter house, but had best luck in Winterspring - Lake Kel'theril. Also can't say for sure, but seemed to be better to single target & loot mobs vs AoE, could just be my perception of a better drop rate that way.

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 trevor557

Corrins Crossing. Farmed 9 in an hour. the first 5 i got within about 5 minutes of eachother, which was apparently luck because the last 4 took the remaining 55 minutes.

Commento di Captianleaf

I got 4 of them in just under 40 minutes at Lake Kel'Theril, just went around in a circle killing everything but the undead bloodelfs, those guy don't drop any. Good luck :D

Commento di 981437

1st run: Nothing
2nd run: Nothing
3rd run: Nothing

Did they nerf the drop rate or something?

Commento di 637668

Hello there! as of 15/1/13, i think Corin's Crossing in EPL is the best place for farming the delectable Esscence of Undead! I had previously tried to farm in winterspring a recived a big fat nothing for my troubles. So looking at the mobs that drop these i decided to try at Corin's crossing even though those mobs have been removed and replaced with similar ones. Cant hurt to try my luck. Within the hour, i had recived the 7 i was needing (plus a couple of greens and 2 stacks of mageweave) and a nice added bonus in that some of the mobs (the ghouls and the Stitched Horrrors i think, if someone can confirm) give 7/8 Argent Crusade rep which is pretty sweet if your not exalted with them as your killing two birds with the proverbial one stone. (or you could invest in the Gnomish Bird Eradicating Machine in all good shops now)
You need not kill the Cult of the Damned dudes wandering about as they dont drop the goods. They do drop some funny runes tho, but meh.
So yes, Corin's Crossing, EPL, go make the dead.. deader.
Cheers!

Commento di 229488

Did a quick ~30-minute farm of Campione del Flagello and got really excited with an essence drop off the 2nd mob. 4 full clears later, less excited. By the 5th or 6th round I picked up my 2nd, which is all I needed after picking up the rest on the AH. After writing this I got a 3rd on the last clear. Respawn rate is decent (more of a problem in WoW's past); they spawn fast enough that killing the mages in the area is unnecessary, although it is not AOE friendly.

Also, if you have completed the quest for Amuleto Fortunato di Fiona, you can simultaneously farm Scorte Nascoste for a chance at Ser Vermino (high chance). I already had mine, so the bags are pretty useless thereafter. That goes for anywhere in EPL.

Given the lack of reliable farm areas, you should be willing to purchase them for up to 10-15g on the AH. It is a completely reasonable price given the current time investment requirements.

Commento di 1090589

Went to Corin's Crossing and grinded through about three rezzes of the mobs there for a grand total of ONE essence. Either I am very unlucky today or the drop rate is lower now.

Commento di Eviloverlord

In WoD era, I would suggest going to Tyr's Hand in Eastern Plaguelands for this.
The Scarlet mobs have a decent 4-5% droprate, they're a bit spread out but there's several groups of two and the respawn is good.
I tried farming in Lake Kel'Theril in Winterspring, Noxious Glade and Corrin's Crossing in EPL, ended up with 2 TOTAL for half an hour each in all 3 spots.
This spot gave me 15-20 in 1.5 hours.

The downside is you can only farm there if you haven't done the quests for the area. Otherwise the Scarlet Crusade undead are chased out and you're stuck with friendly mobs...

Commento di Synflame

I've been farming these in preparation for legion illusions. By far the best places i've found was tyr's hand and corin's crossing. Not very aoe friendly in either area.

After less than an hour I was able to pull in 8 essences.
I recommend just staying at corin's crossing because the respawn/drop rate is really good.

Commento di Stormeey

In preparation for and stocking up on this item for Legion, I have been trying the various locations recommended here. They may very well be good locations, however i found them highly populated and camped which in effect is not good for farming.

I decided to try Stratholme. From the main entrance I got an Essence of Undeath from one of my first pulls. Got excited and full cleared that entire Main Entrance area. Only the one.

After 25 clears, I only ever got 1 per run and it was always in the first small area of the zone. So I pared down my clears to cover from the entrance to the first gate you see on your right, then turning and clearing to the left down to a fountain. Somewhere in those mobs 1 essence drops. This is a very small area that takes 1 minute to clear, loot and leave.

In 25 short clears (1 minute turn around) I got 22 Essence of Undeath.

So it IS possible to not get one, and since this is just a small sampling I'm not sure what the real percentage will work out to be.

Just as a note, I did try the Service Entrance Area 10x thinking it would be a great place for farming since there are more mobs, and for many would do double duty if they don't have the Baron Rivendare Mount yet. But I got zero Essence from this section of Stratholme from my sampling.

So for me, it does seem the the small area I described above from the Main Entrance of Stratholme may be the quickest, and the most consistent reproducible farming of this item that I have found so far.

On the plus side no mob sharing, no respawn waiting, and consistent reproducible results.
On the negative side, the instance cap for an hour will slow you down.

The mageweave you get here may likely have more value in Legion since it is a requirement in making some of the tailoring cloaks that people may want for Transmog. Additionally there is a smattering of BoE that drop in the first area.

Happy Hunting and I look forward to feedback on this location.

Note: I thought i would add a section about getting to Stratholme which unless you are a DK is a total pain.
Alliance: If you have not completed the quest "The Battle for Andorhal" you can fly to Booty Bay and speak to NPC War-Mage Earlier (on the platform directly under Alliance FP) He will open a portal to Western Plaguelands. From there you can fly to The Plaguewood Tower FP in Eastern Plaguelands and from there go to Stratholme. Make sure to abandon this quest and it is repeatable indefinitely.
If you have completed the above quest, a long a** flight to Plaguewood Tower FP is in your future. (Eastern Kingdoms)

Commento di Arugadh

Colin's Crossing in Eastern Plaguelands (57, 64) is another OK farm area: lots of undead & fast respawns in a fairly small area. I got about 5 in roughly 20 minutes. Keep in mind: the drop rate on these things is abysmally low, so you'll be killing lots of mobs before they drop.

Commento di Grashka

Has this been removed? I ran the Stratholme method (inside, to the left to fountain) 5 times and not a single one dropped. I can't have THIS bad of luck. Anyone else?

Commento di Eziair

3 Full runs of Strat.
20mins at Colin's Crossing
= 0 Essence of Undeath (but did get 12 Ichor of Undeath).

So off to Lake Kel'Theril in Winterspring I went.
3mins of being there and about the 13th kill ... one drops.

Now just 4 more to go.

EDIT: 20mins and I have 4 (this incs helping out lower lvl doing quests and waiting for respawns).
Also now have 2 'Formula: Enchant Weapon - Icy Chill'

Commento di Yotingo

The Ruins of Kel'Theril in Winterspring is a good place to farm these, just a run away from the Frostwhisper Gorge, which also conveniently happens to be an excellent place to farm Essenza d'Acqua.

All of the ghosts here except the Guardaboschi Traditos (high elf ghosts) drop these.

Commento di NailsSpike

The Ruins of Kel'Theril in Winterspring is a good place to farm these.

Anguished Highborne Alta Nobile Angosciata
Wretched Spectre Spettro Miserabile
Suffering Highborne Alto Nobile Sofferente
Wretched Spirit Spirito Miserabile

All drop them since the zone still see players leveling my suggestion is to help them with the quests. Let the other player tag the mob then kill the mob for them. Sure for opposite faction you don't get the drops but the faster there done with there quest the fast you can get back to farming,

I farmed in 2 hours over 20 Essence of Undeath Essenza di Non Morte

Just don't bother killing any Betrayed Ranger Guardaboschi Tradito since they don't drop any Essence of Undeath Essenza di Non Morte

Commento di 2245526

AoE clearing and resetting the first area in Stratholme (before gates) seems to be the best option -- you get fast stable results (0-2 per 1 minute run), some greens + some Mageweave Cloth.

Commento di skusz

Just thought I'd share my farming efforts on these in 9.1.5

After 4 runs through the first part of Stratholme, as suggested, I got exactly ZERO.

Went to Lake Kel,Theril in Winterspring (just SW of Everlook) killing
Anguished Highborne
Suffering Highborne
Wretched Spectre
Wretched Spirit
They are spread out a little, so only one kill at a time, but after 4 laps (maybe 5-6mins a lap) I had 5 essences.

Not sure what the go is with Stratholme, whether I was just completely unlucky, or it's been completely nerfed, but for me, Winterspring is the place to farm these.

Commento di Wolfenstein3000

Stratholme full run x 2 = 1 per run
Scholomance full run = 0
Lake Keltheril in Winterspring (Anguished Highborne, Suffering Highborne, Wretched Spectre, Wretched Spirit) = 5 in 20 minutes

The Alchemy transmute is Water to Undeath, but I note the Essence of Water drops from elementals around Purespring in Swamp of Sorrows has also been seriously nerfed

Commento di Ojoie

As of August 18, 2023. The essence of undeath can drop from the Hate Shrieker mobs at Corin's Crossing in Eastern Plaguelands. I farmed for about a half hour and got 8 of them<Shu'Halo>.
They seem to drop best in the area of the forge on the main drag of the town. /way 54.25, 62.85 in Eastern Plagulands.

After farming some more, they also dropped off of other mobs in the area.

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