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

This page summarises how to catch Essence of Water. For a more detailed guide, see Fishing Elemental Water.

About Essence of Water

• Use:
  • Used in many high-end pre-Burning Crusade profession recipes - particularly frost-related gear.
  • Alchemy: Transmute to Essence of Air or Essence of Undeath.
• Value:
  • Vendor: 4s
  • Auction: 6g (prices vary)

Catching Essence of Water

Detailed mapping of hard to find areas is shown below.

Notes: One of the six pool spawning locations, on the north-west side, is outside of the Bay of Storms area, so can be fished effectively at lower skill.

Commentary: Overall average of one Essence of Water per Patch of Elemental Water fished.

Detailed Guide: Fishing Elemental Water - How to fish Patches of Elemental Water, found in Azshara.

• [*] % of Catch is the approximate proportion of all catches in this area/water, that are the named fish.

Detailed Mapping

Other Tomes

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• Wowhead
• Allakhazam
• WoWWiki
• US Armory
• EU Armory

Learn More

• Valuable Fish - Details the most valuable fish, and how to catch them.
• Pools and Wreckage - Describes how to fish pools such as schools or floating debris, where to find pools, and how to efficiently fish them.
• Fishing Elemental Water - How to fish Patches of Elemental Water, found in Azshara.
• The Role of Skill (Revised) - Considers the role skill plays in fishing, including how skill changes the proportion of junk items caught. Revised for patch 3.1.
• Zone Base Fishing Skill - Detailed analysis that attempts to answer the question, what fishing skill will I need to fish in a certain zone?
• Thalen's WoW Guide - Elemental Fishing Pools - Details of Azshara pools, including a map of unconfirmed locations and pictures of the curious Swirling Maelstrom.