Essence of Undeath

1000

• Essence of Undeath
• Crafting Reagent
• Sell Price: 10

Essence of Undeath is an elemental building block of many crafting recipes. It adds the virtues of death and darkness to any item.

Source

This item drops from undead mobs in Dire Maul, Eastern Plaguelands, Naxxramas, Scholomance, Stratholme, Western Plaguelands, and Zul'Gurub.

This item can also be transmuted using Alchemy (275); taught by  [Recipe: Transmute Water to Undeath].

Materials required:

1x [Essence of Water]

As an ingredient

Alchemy

• Transmute: Undeath To Water

Blacksmithing

•  [Corruption]
•  [Annihilator]
•  [Persuader]

Cooking

•  [Haunted Herring] (Essence of Undeath is the only uncommon item used as a cooking ingredient)

Enchanting

• Enchant Weapon - Unholy Weapon
•  [Shadow Power]
•  [Lifestealing]

Engineering

•  [Gnomish Death Ray]
•  [Ultra-Flash Shadow Reflector]

Tailoring

•  [Robe of Winter Night]
•  [Felcloth Gloves]
•  [Robe of the Void]

Jewelcrafting

•  [Sapphire Pendant of Winter Night]
•  [Ring of Bitter Shadows]

Notes

• For a place to farm them see: Places to farm.

Patch changes

• Patch 10.0.2 (2022-11-15): Stacks to 1000, up from 200.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Stacks to 200, up from 10.
  
• Patch 1.4.0 (2005-04-19): The drop rate of Essence of Undeath has been lowered.
  
• Patch 1.3.0 (2005-03-07): Changed to good quality (green) to indicate their value and so that they are distributed properly by group loot.
  
• Patch 1.1.0 (2004-11-07): Drops decreased.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB