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Comment by Drewskie

Are there any official announcements on what all drops wakening essences. Mostly I’m curious if they will drop from Tomb of Sargeras or only Antorus.I have been looking for the information for a while can’t seem to find it any help would be greatly appreciated.

Comment by lovelywaz

These do NOT drop from Paragon Rep Chests that you get after every 20,000 rep past exalted like Farondis Chest or Warden's Supply Kit.

I was holding onto two paragon rep quests turn in just to make sure and as expected those chests didn't contain these essence.

Comment by destruktoid1

Got 5x of these from Emissary cache. Need 50x of these for quest 'A Titanic Effort' which gives Awoken Titan Essence.

Edit: You can also get these as a reward for doing a Random Legion Heroic in group finder

Comment by mshep02

Got 20 from the weekly mythic chest and 5 from the first daily random heroic.

Comment by Gnomegurl

I just received 7 from my Highmountain Emissary. So do those WQs folks!

Comment by Ceffoo

I was saving 3 faction reputations from being 10,000 before the launch of Antorus so I had most of them at 9,900 and did a WQ or two for those said reps and got the Paragon chests today unlike the others who already hoarded their chests. I got no Wakening Essence from the Paragon Chests.

Comment by chaosloc81

Here's where to get them:

Weekly M+ chest from +1 all the way to +15 = 20 essence.
First random heroic = 5 essence
Daily emissary cache = 4-10 essence (was averaging 6 between 7 characters) **edited thanks to Jimijet
Have not tested bosses from Antorus as it's still early, but I'm assuming each one will drop a range of essence.

Here's what does NOT work:

Mythic0 bosses do not drop essence.
Heroic bosses do not drop essence.
LFR (ToS and before) do not drop essence
Paragon chests from exceeding rep at exalted do not.
Mythic+ chest per dungeon do not drop essences.
Chests on Broken shore do not drop essences
Chests on Argus do not drop them either
Rare spawns on Broken shore and Argus do not drop them (even when they are a WQ on Argus)
Invasion points on Argus (greater and lesser) do not drop essences.

Hope this helps.

Comment by nerdyjesikah

Wakening Essence should be obtainable from:
Weekly Mythic+ Chest
Antorus the Burning Throne bosses Lootable once per week per boss, regardless of the difficulty
Emissary caches
First daily Legion heroic dungeon
Weekly PvP rewards Awarded on the first 3 Rated Battlegrounds wins and 10 Rated Arena wins

Comment by Xanaduzu

8.0 UPDATE: players now receive essence from world quests, individual mythic plus runs, and certain order hall missions. Some essence values were also adjusted (reflected below)

UPDATE: in patch 7.3.5 players have the ability to purchase Purified Titan Essence. This item costs 1000 essence. The values below are also multiplied by SIX (shown already)

As of January 9th, 2018, players no longer need to have access to A Titanic Effort to acquire essence.
Wakening essences can drop from sources similar to Writhing Essence. This means that you can obtain Wakening Essence from the following:

NEW IN 8.0; Individual mythic plus runs (~75 from a +15 or higher).
Weekly Mythic plus chest (~~120~~ 250, highest level cleared doesn't matter).
NEW IN 8.0; Broken Isles world quests (5-35 per quest, with "harder" world quests offering more).
NEW IN 8.0; Order hall missions (10-20 per mission. Elite Strike mission provided by the Command Center gives 250).
LFR/Normal/Heroic/Mythic Antorus bosses (18-36 per boss, per week, regardless of lockout)
Emissary caches (24-60). Emissaries saved from before the quest do count, unopened boxes do not.
Daily Legion Heroic dungeon (30)
Weekly PvP rewards, ie: earn 1500 honor in 2s, 3s, and rated battlegrounds (50 from each)
First random battleground win of the day (30) There is an additional 30 essence a day from your first win during PvP brawl weeks

Assuming seven emissaries, a full clear of Antorus, one mythic plus for your cache, seven daily heroics, seven daily battleground wins, and all three PvP weeklies, you should be able to earn about 1275 essence per week on average. Add an additional 210 essence if it's a PvP brawl week. If doing every possible world quest, this total could at least double in size.
However, if PvP is not for you, then your average will drop to only 914 essence per week before world quests/order hall missions are accounted.

As a bonus to those that will ask, here's what will NOT grant essence:

Paragon reputation caches
Mythic dungeons/individual mythic plus runs
Emissary caches received before the day Antorus opened (caches before 7.3.5 will have 1/6th the essence)
Previous raid bosses
Order hall missions
Rares, chests, invasion points, and world bosses

For those with twenty or more legendaries to upgrade, I wish you the best of luck, and remember to prioritize the ones you'll actually be wearing first.

Comment by shamrise

does these items drop from any raid bosses other than in the new raid?

Comment by Blunttman

4-10 per emissary is ridiculous, why wouldn't they just make it a flat number instead of ^&*!ing someone over that gets unlucky meaning someone else can get their upgrade 2x+ faster than someone else. just because of RNG, *!@#ing pathetic blizzard as usual.

Comment by brekthegreat

I got 2 legendaries that i use for raids. Not a mythic raider so there's no hurry for me to upgrade those. So yeah i expect to upgrade one this week and one after the reset next week.

Comment by Menelvagor

Watch this video for a summary of where to find essence across Azeroth and Argus.

https://youtu.be/r-vmMC4c04o

Comment by Eillesthis

Cursed Shard > The Cursed Shard (optional) > A Titanic Effort > this currency > Awoken Titan Essence > repeat with A Titanic Effort

It seems you can start collecting these before you get to A Titanic Effort - I already had four.

Comment by Mabh

I see a lot of comments on how to acquire these, but I am curious as to where/how they can be used to upgrade your legendaries.

Any insights?

Thank you.

Comment by Yogilaw

Just to clarify for those looking to gather these items from WQ runs. Only the Emissary caches reward Wakening Essence. Completing Q's that take you up to/over the 10k rep, which rewards Supplies, does NOT drop this item. So gathering 50 of these beauties from questing alone is gonna take some time.
Actually, I struggle to see what great value these items really are. After all you can only equip 2 at a time (why? Surely 3 would make more sense?) & once you have got a couple that give you the best stat boost, what's the point of changing?

Comment by oozie

looks like all the writhing essences my chars were building up to upgrade my 940s to 970s have all disappeared and I gotta start at 0 again with these new ones - sigh!

Comment by Tharox

I upgraded a legendary before my guild run of Antorus normal on Thursday. Logged out immediately after raid, had a day off Friday, then did a daily HC and emissary sweep on Saturday with a friend. When he went to upgrade his second legendary I checked how far off I was an only had 1 essence. This had been left over after my first upgrade. I had not picked up the quest again after my first hand in to keep more space in my log since I knew there'd be raid quests. I'll be sending a ticket in to see if it's intentional that you don't get essence without the quest active.
But for now I suggest you always take the quest, just to be on the safe side!

I say this because the last upgrade system I never took the quest but still got the essences there, so I just presumed it'd be the same this time around. Also there's been several people in my guild telling me either they don't take the quest and get them, or that they even got some before they got the quest for the first time...if it had just been me then I'd have definitely thought I was just dumb for not taking the quest.

Edit: Got a ticket response:
So the issue here is that there is the repeatable quest and the first time quest. Before you do the quest for the first time the developers made it so that you can't miss out on any Essences.

However once you are on the repeatable quest if you choose not to pick the quest up again then the items will not drop for you, you need to be on the quest after the first hand in because the items change to currency, and the currency won't drop if the game doesn't see the quest.

So this is intentional and behaves like any of the previous quests, so make sure you have it for getting more essences in the coming days.

So there you have it! Before accepting and completing the initial quest you CAN get the Essences, but once you've completed it you must have it in your log to be able to loot more essences.

Comment by norge

TL:DR - so how do you USE them?

Comment by oozie

Looks like all the writhing essences my many chars were building up to upgrade their 940s to 970s have all disappeared and I gotta start at 0 again with these new ones - sigh - cant see why the writhing ones couldn't have run alongside - just to upgrade 940 to 970. Feel a bit cheated . . .

Comment by Arbaxas

With 175 of this currency being used to purchase a legendary in 7.3.5, is there a way for a fresh 110 character to begin this quest and start collecting Essences? All of my legendaries are 1000 already, so I haven't found a way to start the quest.

Comment by Prunes

Just a cautionary tale: As my bank is filled with WoW memorabilia, I had to find a spot to put all of the other legendaries that I have, so I put them all in void storage. If you do this and do NOT have an under 1000 legendary in your bank/packs, then the quest will not repeat. I found this out the hard way after upgrading the best two, and then getting nada. The minute I pulled one out, the quest popped.

Comment by Inarius84

I don't know if someone already noticed it, but since I haven't find anywhere I will post this info.

I just tried to copy one of my lvl 110 alts, a Paladin. Never had a legendary. I checked LFD tab and I saw that now the daily heroic dungeon rewards her the 5 Wakening Essences like my main that already has legendaries. She also went to Arcanomancer Vridiel who offered her a breadcrumb quest titled "Titanic innovation" (You can see it in the screenshot).
Said quest rewarded her 5 Wakening Essences.

I suppose there won't be need to already have legendaries in 7.3.5 to farm WE.

Comment by Monomatapa

Wakening Essences will be acquired 6x as fast in 7.3.5
You can save up 1000 of them and use them to get a Purified Titan Essence.
If you have all legendaries for your class, you will get a BoA legendary token for another class.

Comment by oresteia

So I need to collect all legendary items as a druid for all specs that I don't use.

Comment by jt1841

Sources for these as of 7.3.5

Let me know if I'm missing any here and I'll update the comment

1. Argus raid bosses (18-36) (Once per boss kill not per difficulty? Not confirmed yet)
2. Daily Heroic (30)
3. First random battleground win (30)
4. Emissary quest turn in (28-40)
5. Weekly Mythic+ chest (120)
6. Weekly rated arena/battleground rating (40?) (Not confirmed this yet)

Weekly Total 1118 on average:

1. 297
2. 210
3. 210
4. 238
5. 120
6. 40

So you can get about 1 lego per week if you do everything and have average luck

Comment by Peter4730

19-JAN- 2018. Arcanomancer Vridiel (Blacksmith hall in Dalaran) no longer regards collecting these as a quest. Instead, you can use Wakening Essences to BUY the high-end Essences from him, just as if he were any other vendor.

Currently, his pricing is

a) 300x Wakening Essence for 1x Awoken Titan Essence (raises a Legion Legendary item to iLevel 1000) Kewl

b) 1000x Wakening Essence for 1x Purified Titan Essence which "Synthesizes a L Legendary item appropriate for your loot spec" ........ whatever that means.

Comment by klwest1113

You only need 300 to get Awoken Titan Essence and upgrade a Legendary that you already have. You need 1,000 to get a new Legendary with Purified Titan Essence.

Comment by KissxMint

I had about 960 wakening essence. So I did two wings of ABT in LFR hoping to get 40 for a new legendary. After the first 3 bosses, I had 980 essences. The next three didn't give me any essence. I was not locked out so I don't know what happen.

Comment by ChickenNoodles4U

The Wakening Essence is only lootable once per boss whatever the difficulty is.

So if you do every boss on LFR and get Essence, then you wont be able to get Essence if you do the bosses on Normal, Heroic and so on untill after the reset

Comment by Giroone

Im just asking:
So..with my Pally i have almost all legendaries (For all 3 talents. I'm missing 3 total:Prot Trinket+Holy Head lego+Amanthul Ofc...)
Now i heard that somewhere,that if u have all legendaries for all 3 talents on 1char (crafted lego, quest lego and Amanthul doesnt counts in this), then u can get a legendary containing (accbound)Chace/Box (or whatever),that u can send to an alt, so u can open it and get a legendary for that alt for its actual spec/talent. Is that Chace/Box only another extremely rare drop, or will this work with Purified Titan Essence too? i mean having all legos will make me able to buy Purified Titan Essence like accbound and can i send it to alts?or the grind stays for the rare Chace/Box drop?... in a few week i get the answer by playing aniway but if it wont be an accbound thing and someone got some stable info about its working or not, then i wont run forit to get the last 2legos :D

Comment by jjanchan

Below are the number of essences you can obtain from various activities:

Activity	Amount of Essences	Essences per Week
Antorus, the Burning Throne Raid Bosses	18-36 Wakening Essence per boss	198-396 Wakening Essence
Weekly Mythic Keystone Cache	120 Wakening Essence	120 Wakening Essence
Emissary Caches	24-42 Wakening Essence	168-294 Wakening Essence
First Random Daily Heroic Dungeon each day	30 Wakening Essence	210 Wakening Essence
First Random Daily Battleground win each day	30 Wakening Essence	210 Wakening Essence
First Daily PvP Brawl win each day	30 Wakening Essence	210 Wakening Essence
PvP Weekly Quests: Three quests are available each week (can be seen by mousing over the blue star on each bracket in the "Rated" PvP window): 3 Rated BG wins 10 2v2 arena wins 10 3v3 arena wins	42 Wakening Essence per bracket	126 Wakening Essence

Further notes:

Wakening Essence drops in all difficulties of Antorus, the Burning Throne, LFR included.
There is a per-boss lockout for this currency in the Antorus raid - as such, if looted from a specific boss on a particular difficulty, it cannot be looted from that boss on any other difficulty.
This means clearing the raid on multiple difficulties will not provide any more Wakening Essences than clearing it once a week.

The Wakening Essence you earn from the first PvP Brawl win each day is in addition to those you earn from the first Random Battleground win each day.

Certain Brawls, like Shado-Pan Showdown do not grant the 30 Wakening Essence, as they count as Arena matches.

If you participate in ALL of the above listed activities every week, you can obtain between 1,032 and 1,566 Wakening Essences per week (average 1,299). This will allow you to upgrade a maximum of 3-4 legendaries per week, or obtain roughly 1 new legendary per week.

The rate of obtaining Wakening Essences is slightly higher in Patch 7.3.5, due to the addition of 30 essences for the first battleground win of the day and for the first PvP Brawl win of the day.
If only participating in PvE activities, the maximum amount earnable each week is 696 to 1,020 per week.

Comment by Aireka

Just confirmed. Once you have all you legendary items for your character's class specs. You will start to get legendaries for other classes. Sadly, you may not have a character of the class the legendary is for. I don't have a warlock, but I did get an account bound warlock legendary item.

Comment by Vyncent1982

Recommend that there be an update on this listing. The listing shows 'Contained In', however, all that is listed are several pieces of Dauntless Tokens and one piece of Hunter/Shaman token, which all is gear, not containers and would not be something to open an obtain the Essences from.

Comment by Cowbello

Daily random battleground no longer rewards wakening essence for me or other guild members, as of a couple of days ago. There has been no hotfix notice.
I'll submit a ticket and see if I can get any info, will post here if I do.

Edit: I submitted a ticket, answer was polite but unhelpful, indicating only that the writer hadn't read my message. I replied asking again but the response again only indicated that they hadn't even scanned my brief mail.

Wakening essence still not being rewarded.

Comment by lankybrit

Lots of World Quests now give Wakening Essence as of 8.0.1.

Also, lots of class hall Missions now give Wakening Essence too.

Oh, and you can get a specific Legendary for 1000 now too.

Comment by perculia

In Patch 8.0, you can now buy specific legendaries for 1000 Wakening Essence.

Many sources which rewarded AP now reward Essences, including the following:

Source	Quantity
World Quests	5~ 5 Wakening Essence per
Class Hall Missions	10~ 0 Wakening Essence per
Elite Strike: Lost Temple	0 Wakening Essence
Weekly Mythic+ Cache	0 Wakening Essence
Special Weekly Mythic+ Cache	0 Wakening Essence

Comment by Tiefflieger

Arcanomancer Vridiel is the vendor selling stuff for Wakening Essence

Comment by Zugetz

The blacksmith now has new items which say: "Use: Identify a <class> legendary item". So does this mean that we can buy legendaries for an alt? Or does that mean something else?

Comment by Viserate

I trust they will be adding items to purchase with these items? If not, for those who have acquired all the legendaries for their spec, there is no real push to do any world quests, right? Or the invasions, correct? Seems a tad short sighted if the only items these will purchase are legendary armor pieces.

Comment by Imthree

Does anyone know the status of this currency and the legendary items you can purchase with them post-launch of BfA?

I have been very disappointed that you are limited to only purchasing the BoA random tokens for the same class as the toon that has the essences.

For Example:

I main a hunter.
I have had all my legendary items for long enough to have generated 3 random tokens as drops.
2 Shaman and 1 Warrior.
I'm not going to re-roll a hunter for BfA.
So, what the heck am I supposed to do with the 2k+ essences I have on my main?

Will they open this up to allow you to purchase the BoA random tokens for ANY class after BfA?

Can we still get Wakening Essences after BfA launch?

Comment by crysnine

I hope that someone can help me understand the value of this currency and how the Legion legendary armor works. Every time that I try to equip a piece of legendary armor onto a character who already has one piece equipped, I get a message that I can only have one piece equipped at a time. That being the case, why would I want to buy more pieces and what do I need all of this currency for? I seem to be missing some critical point here, but I can't seem to find what it is, though I've searched everywhere that I know of for answers. Any help in understanding this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Comment by Ploxius

in BFA i really wish we could turn these in for seal of broken fate or order resources, and being 120 i wish my bonus roll on old raids would not give me these "Wakening Essences" Like really....i rather have gold for my bonus roll -_-

Comment by dkcyw

v8.3
Is this trash? I understand no purpose of upgrading Legion legendary items.

Comment by Zyrane

Do these still have a purpose now that 9.0.1 has released?

Since Legion legendaries no longer have their powers, is there a still a reason for these to exist?

Comment by rebrauzer

In reference to if this currency is relevant any more. Here's what I found when viewing with a Level 45 character:

Upgrade iLvl to 59 for 300 Wakening Essence
Buy for your Class a specific Legendary item with iLvl 59 for 1000 Wakening Essence
Buy for another Class a random Legendary item with iLvl 56 for 1000 Wakening Essence

Takeaways:

iLvl 59 is still nice for its stats.
Level 40 required for all Legendary items.
Level 45 required for Awoken Titan Essence and is BOP.
Your class specific Legendary items are BOP.
Other Class random Legendary items are BOA.

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Wakening Essence

Used by Arcanomancer Vridiel in Dalaran above the Broken Isles to create or upgrade Legion Legendary items.

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