Essence of Earth

• Essence of Earth
• Item Level 55
  Disenchants into:
  Not disenchantable
• 
• Sell Price: 4

Essence of Earth is an elemental building block of many crafting recipes. It adds the virtues of strength and endurance to any item.

Source

This item drops off of Anubisaths, Earth Elementals, Golems, Infernals, Obsidian Destroyers.

It is also sometimes found in Small Obsidian Chunks and Large Obsidian Chunks in Ahn'Qiraj.

This item can also be transmuted using Alchemy (275); taught by [Recipe: Transmute Fire to Earth] or [Recipe: Transmute Life to Earth].

Materials required

1x [Essence of Fire]

or

Materials required

1x [Living Essence]

As An Ingredient

Alchemy

• [Transmute: Earth to Life]
• [Transmute: Earth to Water]

Blacksmithing

•  [Thorium Shield Spike]
•  [Heavy Timbermaw Belt]
•  [Enchanted Thorium Breastplate]
•  [Enchanted Thorium Helm]
•  [Hammer of the Titans]
•  [Heavy Obsidian Belt]
•  [Heavy Timbermaw Boots]
•  [Masterwork Stormhammer]
•  [Stronghold Gauntlets]
•  [Thick Obsidian Breastplate]
•  [Titanic Leggings]
•  [Jagged Obsidian Shield]

Engineering

•  [Biznicks 247x128 Accurascope]
•  [Flawless Arcanite Rifle]
•  [Force Reactive Disk]

Jewelcrafting

•  [Onslaught Ring]

Leatherworking

•  [Volcanic Breastplate]
•  [Molten Belt]
•  [Volcanic Shoulders]

Tailoring

•  [Wisdom of the Timbermaw]
•  [Mantle of the Timbermaw]
•  [Robe of the Archmage]

Enchanting

• [Enchant Weapon - Strength]

Notes

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

Patch changes

• Patch 2.1.0 (22-May-2007): Essences (Earth, Fire, Air, Water, Living) have had their drop rates significantly increased. Also Outland creatures that dropped motes will now have a chance of dropping essences as well.
  
• Patch 1.3.0 (07-Mar-2005): Changed to good quality (green) to indicate their value and so that they are distributed properly by group loot.
  

External links

• Battle.net (EU)
• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• WoWDB

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