Where do they come from?

Why are they here?

Who sent them?

Can Engineers extract motes from them?

Arcane Vortex - Netherstorm

I found this cloud-like thing in Netherstorm when I was farming for Mote of Mana for my Primal Mooncloth cloth transmute - I thought initially it was just another mote-extraction cloud waiting to be captured, but it behaved differently than the ones I’ve seen in Nagrand - this one would recharge my mana in little bits when I was close to it - multiple times a second, too.

So, I hung around it and had my pet do the scouting out of the Phase Hunters I was downing.

The cloud stayed there as long as I did (about an hour), and while it seemed to move a little bit, it never really did move very far, which made me wonder if it had spawned there instead of wandering there as I had originally suspected it had.

I’d never seen this kind of cloud in this place, and haven’t seen it again. Does anyone know if it’s one of those Mote Extraction clouds waiting to be extracted, or not? :)

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