On Recipe: Transmute Water to Undeath's most active realm, the lowest Auction House listing has typically been around 23,415 gold11 silver over the last 30 days, ranging from 10,000 gold to 124,998 gold, a wide spread for a 30-day window.
Taints Essence of Water turning it into Undeath.
Spell effects bound to this item, from first-party game data.
Creates 
Essence of Undeath
Using Recipe: Transmute Water to Undeath teaches this recipe. The Classic Alchemy recipe Transmute: Water to Undeath takes 1 Essence of Water.
Read from the World of Warcraft client build files.
Recipe: Transmute Water to Undeath teaches the Classic Alchemy recipe Transmute: Water to Undeath, which makes Essence of Undeath. At the lowest EU listings, the reagents for one craft cost 99g 79s. Essence of Undeath lists from 89g each, so one craft sold at that price returns 15g 24s less than its reagents cost, after the 5% auction cut. It turns yellow at Classic Alchemy skill 275 and grey at 290.
| Reagent | Needed | Lowest listed | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
 Essence of Water | 1 | 99 gold79 silver | 99 gold79 silver |
| Reagents for one craft | 99 gold79 silver | ||
| Essence of Undeath at its lowest listing | 89 gold | ||
| Return after the 5% auction cut | −15 gold24 silver | ||
Prices are the lowest listed prices in the latest EU Auction House snapshot, not sales. Recipes, reagents, yields and skill levels come from the World of Warcraft client build files.
The 10 recipes nearest to Recipe: Transmute Water to Undeath in required skill among Recipe > Alchemy, all from Classic like Recipe: Transmute Water to Undeath.
| Item | Creates | Required Skill | Lowest Listed Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recipe: Transmute Water to Undeath (this item) | Essence of Undeath | 275 | Not listed |
| Recipe: Transmute Undeath to Water | Essence of Water | 275 | Not listed |
| Recipe: Transmute Life to Earth |  Essence of Earth | 275 | Not listed |
| Recipe: Transmute Earth to Life |  Living Essence | 275 | Not listed |
 Recipe: Transmute Arcanite |  Arcanite Bar | 275 | Not listed |
| Recipe: Greater Stoneshield Potion |  Greater Stoneshield Potion | 280 | Not listed |
| Recipe: Elixir of the Mongoose |  Elixir of the Mongoose | 280 | Not listed |
| Recipe: Greater Fire Protection Potion |  Greater Fire Protection Potion | 290 | Not listed |
| Recipe: Greater Frost Protection Potion |  Greater Frost Protection Potion | 290 | Not listed |
| Recipe: Greater Nature Protection Potion |  Greater Nature Protection Potion | 290 | Not listed |
| Recipe: Greater Shadow Protection Potion |  Greater Shadow Protection Potion | 290 | Not listed |
Built from the World of Warcraft client build files and recorded Auction House snapshots.
Recipe: Transmute Water to Undeath is in the Classic Era game data, the era World of Warcraft: Forever is built on. Blizzard describes Forever as vanilla World of Warcraft plussed up: its story sits in year one, characters level to 60 and stay there, and it launches November 4, 2026. Blizzard has not said which vanilla items appear in Forever, so nothing here is a Forever claim; it is the Classic Era record for Recipe: Transmute Water to Undeath next to the live retail market on this page.
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