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Spell shadow shadetruesight
  • Essence of Undeath
  • Item Level 55Disenchants into:
    Not disenchantable
  • Sell Price: 4s

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

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
Spell nature acid 01
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 (Sword)
  • 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 (patch date:2005-05-05): The drop rate of Essence of Undeath has been lowered. 
  • Patch 1.3.0 (patch date:2005-03-07): Changed to good quality (green) to indicate their value and so that they are distributed properly by group loot. 

External links[]


Template:Elemental ingredient

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