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Comment by 396

Another very good place to find theses are the two lakes in the eastern plaguelands. Each is populated by 4 or 5 water elementals that seems to have a 3-5% chance to drop one of these. Just run from one lake to the other and you should never run out of respawns to kill.

Comment by evoker

Or if you are in a hurry you can get an alchemist to transmute Essence of Undeath or Earth to Water, since earth and undeath are easier to find and are sold cheap at the Auction House.

Comment by 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

Comment by 17923

The absolute easiest, and fastest, place to grind these is from Toxic Horrors in Felwood.

https://www.wowhead.com/cata/npc=7132

They have among the best drop rate, they're plentiful (not many people grind them now) and they very easy to kill for a 60+.

Comment by Liioe

Update for patch 2.1

These now drop from Shimmerscale eels (62, low hp) in the lake northeast of Shattrath City, in Terokkar Forest. I got about 8 in the span of an hour, roughly 120ish kills.

Comment by 57156

drops like hell in outland by elements that can drop mote of water
dont know why blizzard add this (trash) to loottables :-?

Comment by 118059

To farm these in EPL, start at either lake (I chose southern so I will begin my route description there). You can farm these rather easily. 60 UD Affliction Loc is what i farmed with along with VW tank.

Starting at southern I killed all 4 spawns, note the horrors fear you, after killing go towards the dry riverbed, shown as a dark brown swath on the map. Mount up follow that bed to the road, follow the road till your just about directly south of the other lake and the road starts to turn west. Once there leave the road and head north, you can kill the ghoul type monsters on your way for https://www.wowhead.com/cata/quest=5282. Fight the 4 that spawn at this northern lake then retrace your path and your other 4 should have respawned.

I collected 10 in about 25 minutes following this path and killing the ghoul types aswell.

Comment by 91657

By daflop
drops like hell in outland by elements that can drop mote of water
dont know why blizzard add this (trash) to loottables :-?

19 or 29 twink 100hp chest enchant requires 4 of these, among many other things.

Comment by 172754

Can these be tracked using the "find fish" ability?

Not 2 minutes after I posted this question, I found a blip on my minimap which confirmed that "Patch of Elemental Water" in Azshara can be tracked using "find fish".

Comment by valschic

Any "reliable" spot in outlands to farm these? Or is it just a low chance to drop from the same type of mobs that drop motes of water?

Just trying to find a spot more easily accessible than EPL or Azshara.

Comment by 287666

Felwood is a great place to get these. Go north and kill some Toxic Horrors. I needed 4 for a pre bc enchant for my twink and I got all 4 in under 5 minutes. No joke or exaggeration.

Comment by sharpyx1

If you are going for these, i recommend to farm them from mobs - i have been fishing for about 1-2 hours now following the rotation listed and i am getting rather frustrated with the low spawn rate of these fishing nodes.

I have got 3 in about 1h 25m, just a heads up.

Comment by 165328

I killed the elementals in Eastern Plaguelands. 7 kills, 3 drops. Fine and dandy

Comment by 340244

go to Felwood and kill Toxic Horrors i got 6 in 35min!

Comment by Acetylcholine

If it helps any, I made a circuit between the southern lake to Lake Blackwood, I think it's called. (It's the lake just to the northwest of Corin's Crossing, near the center of the map.) The southern lake was quite nice, with a high amount of Plague Ravagers, probably at least 10-15. When I exhausted that source, I headed to the central lake, killed the four or so Blighted Horror, then returned to the southern lake.

All in all, it took me about 15-20 minutes to get 10 Essence of Waters, not to mention 3 Globe of Waters.

Edit: It should be noted that this was done at level 80, so I was pretty much one-shotting the mobs. Plus, I wasn't aggroing anything else.

Comment by 370300

I'll quess that it would be easies to farm in Eastern Plaguelands. the drop rate is 20-22%

Comment by tr00

Lake Mereldar (Eastern Plaguelands, ~56.72) is the best place to farm.

Comment by vardebedian

Since Cataclysm hit you can't get these from EPL and Felwood any more. I've found that Ice Avatars in Frostwhisper Gorge in Winterspring drop them, but the rate is pretty lousy.

Comment by 358254

Try the Steaming Fury's in Un'Goro Golakka springs. I wasn't really farming there, but I got two off them in about 5 kills. Their level is almost the same as the iLvl of the essence too, I suppose that may help.

Comment by kirzan

As of The Shattering / Cataclysm:

Steaming Fury seem to be the new Toxic Horrors (Removed from the Game). Now there is a catch! It's not a high drop rate that makes them ideal, it's the respawn time. They respawn incredibly fast. One-shotting them I have not been able to wait. If none is close to you, go to the other side of the pool and they most likely will all be respawned.

Now as for the drop rate. You need to understand it is all based on luck. So you might get 3 within your 10 first kills as you will only get 1 after 20 kills. I cannot number crunch this much, but in my experience, I cleared the spot about 7 times (around 10-15 mobs per clear) and I ended up with 6 Essences of Water.

I recommend this spot if you are 70+ and can mostly 1 shot them (obviously). Hope this helps, have fun saving on a few Rugged Leathers because I know I will.

Edit: Also an average source of Globe of Water and Elemental Water .

Comment by 697870

Here are the results I ended up with after farming for "Essence of Water" at the following locations.
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SUMMARY:

PureSpring Elemental at Swamp of Sorrows respawn quickly and had the highest drop rate for Essence of Water;
and as a bonus the PureSpring Elementals also had a higher drop rate for Globe of Water and Elemental Water (than the alternate sites).

a. Purespring Elemental ..... at and around “(Swamp of Sorrows) 20, 56”: ..... {8.06% drop rate, 30/hour}
b. Steaming Fury ................ at and around “(Un’Goro Crater) 35, 53”: ........... {5.7% drop rate, 18/hour}
c. Ice Avatar ....................... at and around "(Winterspring) 57, 81": ................ {1.81% drop rate, 6/hour}

Note: Toxic Horror use to have the highest drop rate but as of patch 4.0.3 they have been removed from the game.
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DATA:
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10 minutes farming PureSpring Elemental at and around (Swamp of Sorrows) 20, 56;
killed 62 “Purespring Elemental” (1 hit each with lvl 84 DK) and ended up with 5 “Essence of Water” (and a few other things listed below),
for a rate of 5/10 minutes or extroplated 30/hour.

1. 5 Essence of Water (5/62 * 100 = 8.06% drop rate) (5/10 minutes = 0.5/minute. Extrapolated = 30/hour)
2. 6 Globe of Water
3. 8 Elemental Water
4. 16 Inert Elemental Piece
5. 45 Inert Elemental Shard
6. 1 Arcane Sash
7. 1 Crusader’s Pauldron’s of the Wolf
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10 minutes farming Steaming Fury at and around (Un’Goro Crater) 35, 53;
killed 52 “Steaming Fury” (1 hit each with lvl 84 DK) and ended up with 3 “Essence of Water” (and a few other things listed below),
for a rate of 3/10 minutes or extroplated 18/hour.

1. 3 Essence of Water (3/52 * 100 = 5.7% drop rate) (3/10 minutes = 0.3/minute. Extrapolated = 18/hour)
2. 3 Globe of Water
3. 4 Elemental Water
4. 18 Inert Elemental Piece
5. 24 Inert Elemental Shard
6. 1 Dark Espadon of the Whale
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10 minutes of farming Ice Avatar at and around (Winterspring) 57, 81;
killed 55 “Ice Avatar” (1 hit each with lvl 84 DK) and eneded up with only 1 “Essence of Water” (and a few other things listed below),
for a rate of 1/10 minutes or extrapolated 6/hour.

1. 1 Essence of Water (1/55 * 100 = 1.81% drop rate) (1/10 minutes = 0.1/minute. Extrapolated = 6/hour)
2. 4 Globe of Water
3. 6 Elemental Water
4. 17 Inert Elemental Piece
5. 27 Inert Elemental Shard
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Comment by Tampap

I was farming the Steaming Fury mobs in Un'Goro for Essence of Waters and about my 30th kill Glowing Brightwood Staff drops. This makes my second epic world drop in a week. I also got Shadowblade from BRD.

Also, the Patch of Elemental Waters in Azshara are no longer in the zone. I flew around with Track Fish on and only saw Oily Blackmouth School. I assume since The Shattering and Azshara becoming a much lower level area they have been removed.

Comment by 477449

It should be noted that since the Cataclysm, these can no longer be fished in the Bay of Storms in Azshara, so elementals are your only viable source to get these besides recruiting an alchemist to transmute them.

Comment by Moulders

I was just farming Purespring Elementals in the swamp of sorrows where these seem to have a great drop rate After 35 minutes
I had looted:

Essence of Water -11
Globe of Water -15
Elemental Water - 20

this was as of 4.3

Comment by 1007837

Confirmed.

Swamp of Sorrows returns highest drops in all 3 water items.
Time spent (fire Mage) : 30 minutes
Total kills : 149
Inert elementals 119
Green drop : 1
Aquamarine : 1
Essence of Water : 6
Globe of Water : 7
Elemental Water : 15

Also mobs are closer together and respawn faster.

Comment by Ankhara

I farmed up 10 essence of waters in about 40mins on the Purespring Elementals in Swamp of Sorrows. I had previously been farming the waters in Wintersprings and the drop rate wasnt even close. Also the mobs respawn so fast I didnt even have to stop and wait for respawns. Will definitely be hitting up Swamp of Sorrows for these essences.

Comment by Thottbot

They still drop from toxic horrors in felwood! Just looted one

Comment by Thottbot

So the 9 something percent drop rate for these off of Toxic Horrors is being screwed up by the high probablity of these mobs dropping nothing when killed. I killed about 30 last night and got loot only 3 times. So... if that extends out at all, loot of 10%, Essence of 10%... that's only a 1% drop rate for these things... certainly different than the 9% or so listed.

Comment by Thottbot

As at patch 1.7, I believe an undocumented change was the removal of the drop from mobs in the Eastern Plaguelands. Please post if you do get a drop from these mobs.

As others have pointed out, this only leaves Felwood. Which is camped to buggery by farmers with Hunters. Prices start at 5g for one essence on the AH (Earthen Ring realm).

I'd be looking to get an Alchemist to transmute Essence of Undeath to these. It's probably easier now.

Comment by Thottbot

They do still drop off mobs in Eastern Plaguelands. I came across them yesterday night while coming from Darrowshire on my way to Light's Hope Chapel, just south of Corin's Crossing. Was trying to make some Stormshroud gear, and decided to try my luck. Went one round of the pond, killing maybe 15-20 mobs, got my first drop. That motivated me to do another, so I did, and got another drop. One round took maybe 15 minutes, and I did 5, with the total result of 4 Essences of Water, 3 Globes of Water and a few random greens.

Haven't tried Felwood purely because it's just a dozen times slower what with all the farming and farm-related ganking.

Comment by Thottbot

Reguarding farming elementals: roll a warlock.
- Voidwalker on 1 - then use CoA and Corr (do this twice)
- Doom one, then use rank 2 then rank 1 banish, make sure to tag it first using a wand or dagger.
- Fear Dot kite one.

thats 3 possibly 4 per minute.

Comment by Thottbot

The "Recipe: Water to Air" is sold of a "invisable" vendor outside Scholo... You need to do a questline of 3 quest inside Scholo to get a trinket that makes you see him

He also sells "Recipe: Major Mana Potion"

Comment by Thottbot

If you have a high fishing level, you can fish these in Azshara! In the coast, some whirlpools like the sagefish/tastyfish pools form up,called Patch of Elemental Water. As you can guess, these could yield elemental water, but also globe of water and essence of water!However, these things only appear like 3 at a time all along the coast, so finding them becomes quite tedious, but it sure beats killing mobs all day...

Comment by Thottbot

There are three verified spots to fish essence of water (thotbot has map) BUT the catch is, they aren't there all the time. So you spend half an hour finding one spot, get four casts in (2 globes of water, 2 essence of water), and then the pool is gone.

AND DOESN'T REAPPEAR ANYWHERE!

so the pools appear only, oh, once a day, and when you fish from that spot, they're gone for that day. a long haul to save a few gold.

Comment by Thottbot

also a pool at 79,53

update: ... i've caught 7 essences tonight ... 3 of them were in a row (at spot 3) ... sometimes you get lucky may 15

Comment by Thottbot

vell, dont not muck time, but as 55rogue i killed 80of em and got 7essence =)

Comment by Thottbot

grinded 1hour in felwood now... didnt drop ANY essence.... then i walked to EPL and saw some water elementals, which gave me 2 essences out of the first 5 mobs i killed... woohaa

Comment by Thottbot

In patch 1.9, Blizz added special fishing pools, or as I sometimes call them, swirls, that contain specific items. They vary some, depending on the zone. There is a very good thread on the WoW forums that details some of the things available and the locations, thanks to Pleather on the Stormreaver server for collecting the information. These pools include the new Sagefish and Greater Sagefish, as well as Firefin Snapper, Oily Blackmouth, Deviate Fish, and floating debris piles where you can get (unlocked) trunks that contain crafting materials and equipment.

Also, in one zone, Azshara, there are swirls called 'Patch of Elemental Water', where you can fish up elemental water items: Globe of Water, Elemental Water, and Essence of Water. Located mostly in the Bay of Storms there, these are arguably the highest level, and most profitable, fishing spots in the game. I've spent some time collecting data on the locations of these pools, and this page is dedicated to detailing this information.

First, in order to fish in the Bay of Storms, you need a ridiculous level of fishing skill. A total of 420 is needed to guarantee landing what you catch, though you can make the attempt to fish with as low as 350 (I believe), though you will rarely land a fish with that skill level. Use lures and equipment to raise your skill if needed. The best fishing items can be gotten at the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza contest, so you may want to try that...with the items there, you can get your skill to 350, there is a +2 enchant for gloves, and lures give up to 100 bonus as well. In my observation, if you can get your skill to 420 with some combination of the above, you won't miss many fish at all. I regularly fish at 415, and only miss a very few.

The pools that contain the elemental items (called a 'Patch of Elemental Water') are spread through the zone in the coastal area known as the Bay of Storms. The area is patrolled by mid-50 level elite giants (as well as a few other mobs), but they're mostly easily avoided if you aren't too low a level. These pools are in set locations around the bay, and it appears that only one (at most) pool is active at a time. There are possibly 7 locations we've discovered, and the locations are shown on the map I've made (full size map)
http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ethalen/wow/swirl_small.jpg

Notes:

Location 1 is slightly outside the 'Bay of Storms' itself, and requires a lower fishing level
Location 2 is at Hetaera's Clutch
Location 3 is at Scalebeard's cave
Locations 4-6 will probably be renumbered when/if the 'unverified' spot is verified (by me anyway)
I'll include more information as it comes up, and feel free to contact me if you want to contribute to the cause...I can be reached in-game (Thalenia on Uther), or drop me a note at thalen (at) earthlink.net.

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Here's a couple pictures of what the swirls in Azshara look like...one from above, one from below (the latter is from about as far away as the swirl would show up, just to give you an idea at what range you could see them...subject to your graphics settings of course)

Also, in that same area is something called a 'swirling maelstrom' - part of a quest line somewhere, here are a couple links to what that looks like.

Comment by Thottbot

The droprate in Winterspring is way higher than in felwood, I'd grind there.

Comment by Thottbot

major pain to farm. grinded on water eles in epl for 2 hours and didn't get a single drop. after 4 days of continuous farming, i only have 9.

Comment by Thottbot

i only tried Felwood..got 8 Essences in 6-7 hours :)

Comment by Thottbot

you can get 200g a month or even more depending on the server you are, thats why the recipe is soo expensive. :P

Comment by Thottbot

You are probably farming the wrong elementals. Go North to Irontree Woods.

Happy Hunting

Comment by Thottbot

....Felwood. Grinded for an hour from 10:15pm till 11:15pm on the Boulderfist server. 6 essences 10 Core of Elements 1 Globe of Water 1 Elemental Water 2 greens and many Enchanted Waters (wich I immediately tossed) from the Toxic Horrors. Strangely they mostly dropped during the first 30 minutes of grinding. Will have to try this out again some other day to see if the higher drop rate is because of the time.

Comment by Thottbot

few toxic horrors spawn and you have to run, jump and swim alot to get to them
I'll try the others spots now
winterspring didn't have a single water elemental -.-
eastern plaguelangs has a good spot at the lake in the west, but that spots supports only 1 person either, then theres two small lakes to the east. with only 4 and 5 spawns

Comment by Thottbot

farmed for 3 hours in epl and not 1 drop in both lakes! what has blizzard done to the droprates for these? this is crazy!

Comment by Thottbot

I got 10 essences in 2.5 hours from the Toxic Horrors in Felwood...was expecting a worse drop rate, actually. Now on to the other essences to make my Robe of the Archmage :)

Comment by Thottbot

If you want Essence of Water go to Felwood, the lake in the northeast section of the map. The elementals there drop them like crazy, got 4 in 1 1/2 hrs. Looking to buy Water to Air Transmutes on the Shadowmoon Server, horde side. Have a BE Pally, Acrimony. Drop me a line if you can help :)

Comment by Thottbot

They loot well in eastern plaguelands was there one hour got 12 essences of water and 3 globes of water and 60 enchanted water.
its in the lake where the mobs are

Comment by Thottbot

(55 Rogue) Thought I'd try out Felwood at the Irontree Woods. Went in a big lap around the pond killing all the toxics, here's my results for Essences:

1st lap: 2
2nd lap: 0
3rd lap: 3
4th lap: 3

Also got 3 elementals and 4 globes. Took about 45min of straight killing to get the 8 I needed to make the 3 Stormshroud items I can craft. Dunno if I got lucky, but it definitely seems like a great spot to farm them (provided there's no competition).

Comment by Thottbot

Everyone's like "Ijust got 3 essences in an hour! YAY! I was in the Irontree hill for 5 minutes, got 4 in 11 kills. Seem pretty common to me.

Comment by Thottbot

Okay, make that 6 in 8 minutes. Seem pretty common.

Comment by Allakhazam

toxic horrors in felwood gives these too fast

Comment by Allakhazam

The drop for essence of water is more like 2% than 6%. I killed 67 and got 1 (and got lots of globe of waters too)

Comment by Allakhazam

Can any fisherman fish in "Patch of Elemental Water" or do you have to have 200+ in fishing?

Comment by Allakhazam

Has anyone seen the Patches of Elemental Water since patch 1.11? It would seem that blizzard has once again reverted Fishing to being useless. :(

Comment by Allakhazam

First of whartanto Im not flaming you, just some constructive critism.

Plz look at how many toxic horrors it took to compile the 6.84% drop rate - 196,528!

You killed 67... great foundation to base your personal 2% drop rate on.

What your doing is like a man you gets a 4 of a kind in poker at Vegas after 4 hands and decides the chance for a royal flush is 25%

From personal exp these drop MUCH MUCH MUCH better than airs drop in Silithus which is a posted 2% drop - so the drop rate listed here sounds reasonable and accurate.

Comment by Allakhazam

1.9: just fished this out of "Patch of Elemental Water" near duke hydraxis in Azshara :o

Comment by Allakhazam

got 6 essences of 5 patches in 45 min :D

edit: fishing at 385
Arcanite Fishing Pole Thu May 25 04:47:18 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

3 kills 2 Essence of Water] 1 Globe of Water]
All in about 2 min

Comment by Allakhazam

Spent the weekend grinding exp at the lake in the Eastern Plaguelands. Run around the lake, kill the elementals that are there, and loot an Essence of Water every 7-8 kill.

Comment by Allakhazam

i was looking for them from about 2AM to 3AM and found nothing. Guess it's pure luck to find them after all : \

Comment by Allakhazam

Edited, Fri Apr 28 21:54:32 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

I got 3 in a row this morning doing the Toxic Horrors quest and had no idea how much they were worth. I'm pumped.

Comment by Allakhazam

I don't get it.

Comment by Allakhazam

Killed a ton of Elementals in EPL... Watched by using my Arcane Intellect as a timer:
Half-Hour 1&2: nothing
Half-Hour 3: 3 Essenses.
H-H 4: nothing right up till the last 5 minutes, found last one I needed xD

Comment by Allakhazam

Its useful for tailors to get some easy skill ups at around 260 when Making Frostweave Gloves for just 3 bolts, thread and one of these.

Comment by Allakhazam

i got 12 of them in 3 hrs :P dont know if thats good or bad

Comment by Allakhazam

Fished a couple of pools in Azshara yesterday called "Patch of Elemental Water". Got a total of 4 Essences out of the deal. After I fished out the first one (maybe 5 casts?) I went swimming around the zone for about 10 minutes, looking for more, and found one, and fished that one out, too. 4 Essence in about 15 minutes total, on top of the usual Stonescale/Winter Squid/Lobsters/Mightfish.

I'd be interested to know if the pools only spawn at night, or if there's a limited #/day. Makes me want a cottage in Azshara.

Comment by Allakhazam

I just got 4 essences out of 2 patches of water, 1 from 1 and 3 from another all in l5 minutes, great money. I'm just gonna log out and log bak in once they have respawned and do it all again and hopefully by then the 3rd one i go to has respawned aswell at this rate i could get like 5+ an hour which isnt too bad - i think. Apart from azshara does anyone know another good place that has a few elemental patches?

Edited, Apr 26th 2007 7:36am by Zecandyman

Comment by Allakhazam

5.89% chance to drop. (18085 in 307046)

seems quite "true" ?

after all, there is luck and bad luck.

Comment by Allakhazam

any tips on how to find these patches or at least how they look like? I've been swimming around bay of storms for a while and haven't seen anything that looks like it

Comment by Allakhazam

Spawn loc for the patch of elemental water is around:
66.68
54.39
75.71
79.54
59.40
55.50
I think they seem to spawn only once per hour for each loc.
I dont know if there is more of them.
As a shaman i can say that it's very very easy money...

Edit: Oh, forgot to mention that you have to fish from one of them then another will spawn or something like that.
I'm not 100% shure about the spawn time.

Edited, Tue Feb 7 13:45:44 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

For the first hour I didn't get any of these at all. Then got 2 in 10 mins. Needed to go afk, couple of hours later got another 3 in 30-40 mins. So I'm pretty happy about the drop rate I got =)
I was killing them considerably fast non-stop though w/my rogue, so got quite a bit of 'em down :P

Edit: oh, and that was at south lake in EPL, if anyone cares. would've gone to Felwood, but there is too much competition there.

Edited, Sun Nov 13 20:37:44 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

Why are these things dropping in outland now? As far as I can see, they are totally useless to anything higher than lvl 60. Doesn't seem to interfere with mote drops, but still, kinda pointless.

Comment by Allakhazam

I have been camping azshara for these just to see what the deal is for a few days now. Finally found one. I wasn't sure if they would be easy to spot, thought I might have missed them, but once you see one you can't miss it. They are blue and glowing, really obvious. 342 was not enough to catch anything in a pool, so I had to use a +75 lure to get up to 417 to be able to fish it.

Coords:
79.54-southern corner of the ruins that stuck up out of water. This is the first island on the map, just south of Temple of Arkkoran. Got 2 Elemental Water before the pool dried up. Got this one again the next day for 3 Globes of water and 1 Essence of Water.

Edited, Thu Mar 2 13:17:17 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

Farming these from the Elementals in WP can take ages, killed 70 Elementals and got 2 essences.

Edited, Nov 29th 2006 12:06am by Malhelo

Edited, Nov 29th 2006 12:07am by Malhelo

Comment by Allakhazam

for sure check out the Toxic Horrors in Felwood they dropped me 6 in 35min WAY better than the Blasted Lands!

Comment by Allakhazam

I gathered 10 essence of water in about 30 minutes in EP. The drop rate seemed to be around 25%. Perhaps I was just lucky, but it was a really easy gathering session.

Comment by Allakhazam

They have lowered the drop rate for these, most likely to the same rate of the airs to prevent people from using the water-air transmute as a way around spending days upon days in Silithus.

Comment by Allakhazam

drop rate is pretty good, good 3 in like 30 mins.

Comment by Allakhazam

the drop rate at the southern lake in EPL is at this point I believe to be one drop per year, or so it feels. I killed for about an hour yesterday and got one, been at it for about an hour today and none.

If you need more than one of these things, I recommend giving up, and get a 300 herbalist. Spend your time gathering herbs. I can sell enough herbs to buy 10 essences off AH probably in the time it takes to farm 3 or 4 essences.

Comment by Allakhazam

dunno how many mobs i killed but in less then 25mins i had 3 of these essences. but that was in the middle of the night so i was alone there so it was a non stop killing spree, no waiting for respawns.

Comment by Allakhazam

I went to Epl with three men party. killed over 100 of them and didnt get one .. not even one..
talk about bad luck?

Comment by Allakhazam

Farming for these things is the biggest fall back of elemental leatherworking... -_-

Comment by Allakhazam

I cant find em either, i checked by scalebeards cave and by the hydraxian waterlord. all around 10 pm sever time. perhaps these come out later?

Comment by Acann

Classic WoW.

Lake Mereldar, Eastern Plaguelands (just south of Corin's Crossing).

Blighted Surge and Plague Ravager.

Two per hour.

Comment by PaoC

Classic WoW

Farmed at Felwood from Toxic Horrors during the quiet hours (around 3am)

I used 5x Bobbing Apples as a measure of time (15min x 5pieces = 75minutes)

Essence of Water dropped: 7 (4%)

Toxic Horrors Killed: 104

Comment by j0llyr0ger

Fishing these from pools in Azshara - you get 2-4 casts per pool:

~50% of the time I get zero essences per pool
~35% of the time I get one essence per pool
~10% of the time I get two essences per pool
~4.99% of the time I get three essences per pool
~0.01% of the time I get four essences per pool (this literally just happened to me - I've fished hundreds of essences and it's the first time it's happened!)

Comment by smellypickle

ok so everyone is saying to go to feralas and sure if you want to take forever I go to epl at lake mereldar 63:84 and I made 4 rounds of the lake killing all the surgers there...I wound up with 19 essences in about 38 minutes...so keep going to feralas and leave my money pit alone!

Comment by denimpowell

Expanding on TomTomsons correct information for classic, with TomTom wps:

/way Azshara 54 39
/way Azshara 59 40
/way Azshara 55 50
/way Azshara 66 68
/way Azshara 75 71
/way Azshara 79 53

Comment by Rothia

The following quests can be picked up from Craftsman Wilhelm at the Light's Hope Chapel in the Eastern Plaguelands by completing Omarion's Handbook which you get from Master Craftsman Omarion.
He's trapped in a cage in the first room of trash in the Deathknight Wing inside Naxxramas.
With a skill of 300 and high enough reputation, you will be able to choose from a total of 13 different patterns depending on your professions: Tailoring (4), Leatherworking (6) or Blacksmithing (3).

Patterns / Plans doesn't exists, all of them are taught by Master Craftsman Omarion in Naxxramas

FROST RESISTANCE CLOTH ARMOR: →

----- cloak

--- vest

--- wrists

--- gloves

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--- cloak tailoring

Item / Tailoring	Quest / Pattern	Frozen Rune	Bolt of Runecloth	Essence of Water	Ironweb Spider Silk	Gold	Argent Dawn
Glacial Vest	Glacial Vest	8	8	6	4	300	Exalted
Glacial Wrists	Glacial Wrists	4	2	2	2	200	Neutral
Glacial Gloves	Glacial Gloves	5	4	4	2	200	Neutral
Glacial Cloak	Glacial Cloak	5	4	2	4	200	Exalted
Glacial Vest	Pattern: Glacial Vest	7	8	6	8	Free	Revered
Glacial Wrists	Pattern: Glacial Wrists	4	2	2	4	Free	Revered
Glacial Gloves	Pattern: Glacial Gloves	5	4	4	4	Free	Revered
Glacial Cloak	Pattern: Glacial Cloak	5	4	2	4	Free	Revered

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FROST RESISTANCE LEATHER ARMOR: →

--- vest

---bracers

--- vest

--- wrists

--- gloves

Item / Leatherworking	Quest / Pattern	Frozen Rune	Enchanted Leather	Essence of Water	Cured Rugged Hide	Ironweb Spider Silk	Gold	Argent Dawn
Polar Tunic	Polar Tunic	8	16	5	5	❌	300	Exalted
Polar Bracers	Polar Bracers	4	12	3	3	❌	200	Neutral
Polar Gloves	Polar Gloves	5	12	3	3	❌	200	Neutral
Polar Tunic	Pattern: Polar Tunic	7	16	2	4	4	Free	Exalted
Polar Bracers	Pattern: Polar Bracers	4	12	2	2	4	Free	Revered
Polar Gloves	Pattern: Polar Gloves	5	12	2	3	4	Free	Revered

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FROST RESISTANCE MAIL ARMOR: →

----- vest

----- wrist

----- gloves

--- vest

--- wrists

--- gloves

Item / Leatherworking	Quest / Pattern	Frozen Rune	Heavy Scorpid Scale	Essence of Water	Cured Rugged Hide	Ironweb Spider Silk	Gold	Argent Dawn
Icy Scale Breastplate	Icy Scale Breastplate	8	24	7	5	❌	300	Exalted
Icy Scale Bracers	Icy Scale Bracers	4	16	5	3	❌	200	Neutral
Icy Scale Gauntlets	Icy Scale Gauntlets	5	16	5	3	❌	200	Neutral
Icy Scale Breastplate	Pattern: Icy Scale Breastplate	7	24	2	4	4	Free	Exalted
Icy Scale Bracers	Pattern: Icy Scale Bracers	4	16	2	2	4	Free	Revered
Icy Scale Gauntlets	Pattern: Icy Scale Gauntlets	5	16	2	3	4	Free	Revered

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FROST RESISTANCE PLATE ARMOR: →

--- vest

---bracers

gauntles

--- chest

--- bracers

--- gloves

Item / Blacksmithing	Quest / Plans	Frozen Rune	Thorium Bar	Arcanite Bar	Essence of Water	Gold	Argent Dawn
Icebane Breastplate	Icebane Breastplate	8	16	2	4	300	Exalted
Icebane Bracers	Icebane Bracers	4	12	2	2	200	Neutral
Icebane Gauntlets	Icebane Gauntlets	5	12	2	2	200	Neutral
Icebane Breastplate	Plans: Icebane Breastplate	7	16	2	4	Free	Exalted
Icebane Bracers	Plans: Icebane Bracers	4	12	2	2	Free	Revered
Icebane Gauntlets	Plans: Icebane Gauntlets	5	12	2	2	Free	Revered

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ALL CLASSES

----- glacial legs

----- polar legs

----- icy scale legs

----- icebane legs

Reward	Quest	Frozen Rune	Essence of Water	Blue Sapphire	Gold	Argent Dawn
Glacial Leggings	The Only Song I Know...	2	2	2	30	Neutral
Polar Leggings	The Only Song I Know...	2	2	2	30	Neutral
Icy Scale Leggings	The Only Song I Know...	2	2	2	30	Neutral
Icebane Leggings	The Only Song I Know...	2	2	2	30	Neutral

--- head

--- shoulders

--- head

--- head

--- head

--- shoulders

--- head

--- head

DROP	BOSS	WOWHEAD DROP RATE: 2021-01-29

Glacial Headdress	Gothik the Harvester	22,44 %
Glacial Mantle	Grobbulus	19,35 %

Polar Helmet	Gothik the Harvester	20,51 %
Polar Shoulder Pads	Grand Widow Faerlina	20,26 %

Icy Scale Coif	Heigan the Unclean	22,59 %
Icy Scale Spaulders	Grobbulus	21,51 %

Icebane Helmet	Heigan the Unclean	17,47 %
Icebane Pauldrons	Grand Widow Faerlina	19,83 %

Comment by Stock3r

As stated by many, this can be fished in Patch of Elemental Water.

Fishing of 420 is required to not miss a cast. This can achieved as easily as an Aquadynamic Fish Attractor + Big Iron Fishing Pole. The rod is acquired by opening "Lobster Cages" in the water along the coast of Shadowprey Village in Desolace. You could also check your server's auction house.

Enjoy!

Comment by Theradiel

Past Cataclysm, these now drop from the little Vile Splash at the Jagged Reef.

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