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

Contents 1 Source 2 Essence of Undeath as an Ingredient 2.1 Alchemy 2.2 Blacksmithing 2.3 Enchanting 2.4 Engineering 2.5 Tailoring 2.6 Jewelcrafting 2.7 Cooking 3 Notes 4 Patch changes 5 External links

Source

Essence of Undeath drops off of 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]

Essence of Undeath as an Ingredient

Essence of Undeath is used in the following recipes:

Alchemy

• [Transmute: Undeath To Water]

Blacksmithing

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

Enchanting

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

Cooking

•  [Haunted Herring]

Notes

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

Patch changes

• Patch 1.4.0 (2005-05-05): The drop rate of Essence of Undeath has been lowered. 
  
• 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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