Where to get Ancient Essence
Every acquisition path we know of for this item, pulled from the NPC vendor mirror, the player market and the sotawiki bestiary — the same data recipe pages and the crafting planner draw their ingredient costs from.
can be obtained by the following methods: * Salvaging Artifacts on the appropriate crafting table (see Artifact for details about salvaging artifacts for ancient essences). * Ancient Essences also rarely drop as loot from Ghosts.
Player market
Last avg. price4,341.97 gold
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Best mobs to farm
Ranked by drop quantity against the monster's hp/difficulty — the wiki doesn't publish reliable drop rates, so this shows where to farm, not a fabricated gold/hour.