For Essence of Air farming in WoW Forever, the best spot is northern Silithus, where Dust Stormers drop it more often than the Whirling Invaders in the western part, and the Desert Rumblers nearby drop Essence of Earth. WoW Forever keeps Classic’s mob spawns in the original zones, so the Silithus spots below work in both WoW Forever and WoW Classic. Blizzard hasn’t announced changes to these elementals or their drops. Forever changes the demand instead: its new Venomspew Tailoring patterns take Essence of Air, and the beta client’s Alchemist’s Stone needs Essence of Air and Earth.
Updated November 3, 2026: now covers WoW Forever, which keeps Classic’s mob spawns.
Elemental Farming in Silithus
- Gold per Hour (Classic, 2019): 40-60 gold
- Competition: medium to high
- Requirements: none
Prices & Drop Rates
| Item | Price (Classic, 2019) | Drop Rate |
| Essence of Air | 10-15g | 3% |
| Elemental Air | ~0.5g | 5% |
| Breath of Wind | ~1g | 5% |
| Essence of Earth | ~2-3g | 3% |
| Elemental Earth | 2-3g | 5% |
| Core of Earth | ~0.5g | 5% |
Farming Essence of Air in Silithus
The red area in the map below is where you can find the Air Elementals. This spot should have enough mobs for 2 people to be farming Essence of Air here. You should prefer the northern part, though, since the Dust Stormers only spawn there, the western part has Whirling Invaders. The Dust Stormers have a much higher chance to drop Essence of Air, 12%. The Invaders only have a chance of 7%. Elemental Air and Breath of Wind drops at around the same chance for both. These aren’t usually worth a lot, so try to focus on the Dust Stormers.
Essence of Earth Farming
If the Air Elementals are too over farmed, you have two options:
You can either switch over to the Desert Rumblers in the Yellow area, who drop Essence of Earth, Elemental Earth and Core of Earth. The drop rates for these mobs are not as good, but you can switch over pretty much instantly.
Or you can switch to farming Runecloth in one of the Twilight Hammer camps. They are very close, too and the spot also has quite good gold per hour.
Essence of Air and Earth in WoW Forever
Silithus in WoW Forever has the same elemental camps as in Classic, since Forever keeps Classic’s mob spawns in the original zones. Blizzard hasn’t announced changes to the air and earth elementals or their loot, so the drop rates above are Classic’s. What Forever adds:
- Tailoring demand: Forever’s new Venomspew Cord and Venomspew Footpads patterns use Essence of Air; leveling Tailoring from 290 to 300 with them takes about 50 (see our WoW Forever tailoring leveling guide; where the patterns come from is unknown).
- Alchemist’s Stone: the beta client’s recipe needs 8 Essence of Air and 8 Essence of Earth, plus Fire, Water and Living Essence. Where alchemists learn it is unknown.
- Dedicated Study: a Legacy perk that gives 2 to 4 random Elemental Essences a day once a character has both primary professions and all three secondary skills at 300 (beta data); which essences it picks is unknown.
- Sealed Writs: enemies in WoW Forever can also drop Sealed Writs, which ask for specific crafted items and can be traded.
Our WoW Forever professions guide covers the crafting changes behind this demand and how crafters can make gold from writs.
This spot is so badly nerfed its ridiculous. Killed over 70 Dust stormers and 60 Desert Rumblers all i got was 2 elemental earths and 2 elemental airs. Not a single essence. Thanks Blizzard. Who should really have to spend 8 hours farming for 3 or 4 Essence looool.
you’re better off farming something like mara for that amount of time and just buying them with plenty of gold left over for other things.
From one Chris to another- nothing has been nerfed. The low drop rate has always been the reality with these mobs all the way back to Vanilla. You seem to have been a bit unlucky, but luck evens out over the long run. The alternative is to farm something else and simply buy out these essences if it’s too much for you.
I suspect the reason people incorrectly think the essence of air drop rate is 10% instead of being exactly the same as essence of earth (3%) is because they were using a broken tracker to figure it out. Dust stormers usually don’t drop anything, while Desert Rumblers almost always drop something. I’m betting whichever addon originally created these numbers didn’t list count the dropless kills as kills.
From the third Chris, to the other two. Get out of my spawn!
1,5 hours of farming, 0 essences dropped
The actual drop rates of these items is 2% and you wanna hope someone else doesn’t get the drop
Dust stormer 210 now and zero essence
Wow, that’s super unlucky!
21 essence of air for about 5h
21*17g=357g only on air
very good spot