Item Set
Necrotic Boneplate Armor
A 15-piece Plate item set, with 2-piece, 4-piece bonuses. Data from the current retail game data.
This page is the stat set: its pieces share set bonuses. The matching appearance collection is Necrotic Boneplate Armor, Necrotic Boneplate Armor, Necrotic Boneplate Armor under transmog sets.
Necrotic Boneplate Armor
Plate · Bonuses at 2 pieces, 4 pieces
A 15-piece Plate item set, with 2-piece, 4-piece bonuses.
Necrotic Boneplate Armor (0/5)
- Necrotic Boneplate Chestguard
- Necrotic Boneplate Faceguard
- Necrotic Boneplate Handguards
- Necrotic Boneplate Legguards
- Necrotic Boneplate Shoulderguards
- (2) Set: When an attack drops your health below 35%, one of your Blood Runes will immediately activate and convert into a Death Rune for the next. This effect cannot occur more than once every 45 sec.
- (4) Set: Your Vampiric Blood ability also affects all party and raid members for 50% of the effect it has on you.
Set Facts
- Pieces
- 15
- Item level
- 37 to 38
- Quality
- Epic
- Bonus tiers
- 2 pieces, 4 pieces
- Binding
- Binds when picked up
Set Bonuses
Set Pieces (15)
Necrotic Boneplate ChestguardChestItem level 388 Strength or Intellect12 Stamina8 Mastery8 Dodge
Necrotic Boneplate FaceguardHeadItem level 386 Strength or Intellect12 Stamina12 Parry6 Dodge
Necrotic Boneplate HandguardsHandsItem level 385 Strength or Intellect9 Stamina5 Critical Strike9 Mastery
Necrotic Boneplate LegguardsLegsItem level 388 Strength or Intellect12 Stamina8 Parry9 Mastery
Necrotic Boneplate ShoulderguardsShoulderItem level 385 Strength or Intellect9 Stamina9 Mastery5 Critical Strike
Necrotic Boneplate ChestguardChestItem level 378 Strength or Intellect12 Stamina8 Mastery8 Dodge
Necrotic Boneplate ChestguardChestItem level 378 Strength or Intellect12 Stamina8 Mastery8 Dodge
Necrotic Boneplate FaceguardHeadItem level 376 Strength or Intellect12 Stamina12 Parry6 Dodge
Necrotic Boneplate FaceguardHeadItem level 376 Strength or Intellect12 Stamina12 Parry6 Dodge
Necrotic Boneplate HandguardsHandsItem level 375 Strength or Intellect9 Stamina5 Critical Strike9 Mastery
Necrotic Boneplate HandguardsHandsItem level 375 Strength or Intellect9 Stamina5 Critical Strike9 Mastery
Necrotic Boneplate LegguardsLegsItem level 378 Strength or Intellect12 Stamina7 Parry8 Mastery
Necrotic Boneplate LegguardsLegsItem level 378 Strength or Intellect12 Stamina7 Parry8 Mastery
Necrotic Boneplate ShoulderguardsShoulderItem level 375 Strength or Intellect9 Stamina9 Mastery5 Critical Strike
Necrotic Boneplate ShoulderguardsShoulderItem level 375 Strength or Intellect9 Stamina9 Mastery5 Critical Strike
What the full set adds
Worn together the 5 pieces of Necrotic Boneplate Armor add 32 Strength or Intellect, 54 Stamina, 35 Mastery and 20 Parry. It also carries Dodge and Critical Strike. The current build records 15 item versions of those 5 pieces, one per difficulty, and the totals here take the highest item level version of each slot.
- Strength or Intellect
- 32 on 5 pieces
- Stamina
- 54 on 5 pieces
- Mastery
- 35 on 4 pieces
- Parry
- 20 on 2 pieces
- Dodge
- 14 on 2 pieces
- Critical Strike
- 10 on 2 pieces
Strength or Intellect is the primary stat on every piece that carries one. Of the secondary ratings Mastery is the heaviest at 35 across 4 pieces, ahead of Parry, Dodge and Critical Strike.
Armor, slots and requirements
Necrotic Boneplate Armor is a plate armor set covering Head, Shoulder, Chest, Hands and Legs, recorded in the current build as 15 items across those 5 pieces.
That leaves Neck, Back, Wrist, Waist, Feet, Finger and Trinket to be filled from outside the set, 7 of the twelve armor slots.
The pieces run from item level 37 to 38, and each one needs character level 32.
5 of the 5 pieces carry sockets, 11 in total.
Only a Death Knight can equip these pieces.
Every piece binds when it is picked up, so no part of this set can be traded or bought from another player.
The client files the set under Cataclysm.
Sold to a vendor those 5 pieces return 81g, and the single piece worth most at a vendor is Necrotic Boneplate Chestguard at 20g.
Wearing the set
The bonuses come in at 2 and 4 pieces, out of the 5 pieces this set can put on a character at once.
Every bonus is live once 4 pieces are on, which leaves 1 slot free for gear from outside the set without losing anything.
- 12.1.0.69497 2-piece bonus: none → Item - Death Knight T13 Blood 2P Bonus
- 12.1.0.69497 4-piece bonus: none → Item - Death Knight T13 Blood 4P Bonus