Azerite Essence
- For similarly-named articles, see Essence (disambiguation).
[Heart of Azeroth] interface with essences.Azerite Essences (or simply Essences) are [Heart of Azeroth] powers added in patch 8.2 that can be gained after completing a questline[1][2] at level 50 once a character establishes a hub in Nazjatar. The Heart Forge lets players infuse their Heart of Azeroth with Essences to grant new combat-related powers.
Which Essences a character can use is based on their class role.
System
Once you've collected a new Essence—obtained by participating in a wide variety of content—you'll head to the Heart Forge to infuse your Heart of Azeroth with it, “learning” the Essence and permanently adding it to your collection. Much like Talents, once you've learned an Essence, you'll be able to apply it or swap it out through a new Heart of Azeroth interface within rest areas, cities, or when using items such as the Tome of Quiet Mind.
Each Essence has both Major (generally active) and Minor (passive) abilities. Upon completing the initial quest from Magni, you'll open a single Major slot in the Heart of Azeroth. Placing an Essence in the Major slot grants you that Essence's Major active ability, which is added to your Spellbook. You'll also gain the benefit of any Minor passive abilities from the Essence.
There are also two additional Minor slots in the Heart of Azeroth that will activate the Minor (passive) abilities of any Essences added to them. The first Minor slot will become available at Heart of Azeroth level 55, and the second Minor slot will become available at Heart of Azeroth level 65.
Each Essence has four ranks that provide new effects. Rank 1 provides a unique ability based on your role (damage dealer, tank, or healer), while rank 2 and rank 3 provide enhancements to both the Essence's Major and Minor effects. Rank 4 adds a flashier cosmetic effect to the spell, providing a unique visual that will make you stand out from the crowd.[3]
Ranks
Essences come in four different qualities:
- Uncommon: Provides a unique ability based on the class role.
- Rare: Upgrades for the major and minor powers, making them provide more damage, stats and additional gains such as buffs and charges.
- Epic: Same as Rare.
- Legendary: Provides a cosmetic change that has a unique visual.
List of Essences
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Patch changes
Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17):
- Level squish: Essences are now unlockable at level 50 (was 120).
- Rank 4 Essences are no longer obtainable.
Hotfix (2020-03-20): Restrictions on acquiring role-specific Azerite Essences from MOTHER have been lifted. Rank 3 tanking, healing, and damage-specific Essences are now grouped together and can be purchased with 
[Echoes of Ny'alotha] when at least one is unlocked on a character.
- Developers' note: This update to the new Echoes of Ny'alotha system is intended to make Essences much more available to your characters whose specializations put them in different roles (tanking, healing, damage). A side-effect of this change is that even a single character now has a way to obtain these off-role Essences, and can either use Echoes to purchase them from MOTHER or use the original means of acquisition.
- Developers' note: This update to the new Echoes of Ny'alotha system is intended to make Essences much more available to your characters whose specializations put them in different roles (tanking, healing, damage). A side-effect of this change is that even a single character now has a way to obtain these off-role Essences, and can either use Echoes to purchase them from MOTHER or use the original means of acquisition.
- Patch 8.3.0 (2020-01-14): Several new Essences added.
- Patch 8.2.0 (2019-06-25): Added.
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