El's Extreme Anglin' - World of Warcraft Fishing Guide // Fish Finder // Essence of Fire

This page summarises how to catch Essence of Fire.

About Essence of Fire

• Use:
  • Alchemy: Transmute: Fire to Earth.
  • Used in many high-end pre-Burning Crusade profession recipes.
• Value:
  • Vendor: 4s
  • Auction: 3g
• Other Tomes: Wowhead, MMO Champion, Wowpedia, Battle.net

Catching Essence of Fire

• Notes: Essence of Fire can rarely be caught by fishing certain areas of lava. Catch rates from fishing are lower than killing fire elemental creatures at Fire Plume Ridge (Un'Goro Crater).
• History: 3.1: First catch reported.

Learn More

• 3.1 Changes - Patch 3.1's changes to fishing, including new fishing poles and Wintergrasp.

Comments about Essence of Fire

Below are readers' comments about "Essence of Fire":

Lava outside BRD, Burning Steppes

1. Arthonias, April 2009:

   A friend of mine just fished up Essence of Fire, I've never heard of this. Just wanted to share it. :)

2. el, April 2009:

   Thanks. The lava in the Burning Steppes mostly contains Old Skull and Coal - just like Fire Plume Ridge in Un'Goro Crater. It is possible Essence of Fire is a rare catch [update] just caught it. I suspect this is a recent change. Perhaps other areas are fishable now to? [update] Blackrock Mountain's lava is fishable (same catches). Change may be related to removing fish from the forge in Ironforge.

3. Gummo, April 2009:

   Noor noticed the new(ish) trinket High-powered Flashlight and decided to make one (just so she can make a free Elune spotlight once an hour) and decided to fish up the 6 essence of fire needed behind Blackrock Stronghold. Here's the catch:

   109 Old Skulls
   47 Coal
   6 Essence of FIre

1. el, April 2009:

   I noticed Wowhead lists Essence of Fire as fishable in The Obsidian Sanctum - which almost makes sense. Perhaps this means dungeons like Molten Core are now fishable to? Although, I tried the Maw of Neltharion (in Dragonblight) and while the lava there is fishable, it contains regular Dragonblight inland open-water catches. Bonescale Snapper are evidently rather resilient!

2. Gummo, April 2009:

   Blackrock Depths lava is not fishable (at least the area near the Black Forge), I get the "no fish here" message and can't even cast.

   However, Molten Core lava is fishable, and is the same as Burning Steppes:
   29 old skulls
   18 coal
   1 essence of fire

   pic here

3. Moth, December 2010:

   Just was in the cave on east side of Dreadmaul Rock to try for Bloated Salmon but caught only skulls, coal and essence of fire from the waters inside.

4. el, December 2010:

   Good find, Moth. The cave has been renamed to "The Skull Warren", and in spite of containing water, the catch is the same as lava.

5. Marlburo, August 2011:

   Just noticed that you didnt have The Great Divide (On the border of North/South Barrens) as a fishable open lava spot.....just fished a few minutes but pretty much the same old skull/coal as everywhere else

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