Of its 14 pieces, 13 drop from bosses and 1 is a world drop. Every piece is Plate armor. Wearing them requires level 40. The set was added in patch 6.0.1.
Drops from Brackenspore in Highmaul (Normal, Heroic, Mythic).
Source is the collection journal’s own source for each appearance, read from the current retail build; bosses, quests, recipes, prices and requirements come from the game’s item, journal and quest records.
What This Set Covers
This is a complete head-to-toe outfit - it fills 8 armor slots, so it can be worn as a full look with nothing borrowed from another set. 12 of 14 pieces are Bind on Pickup.
Pieces
14
Slots covered
Head x2, Shoulder x2, Chest x2, Wrist, Hands x2, Waist x2, Legs x2, Feet
Binding
Bind on Pickup (12), Bind on Equip (2)
Expansion
Warlords of Draenor
Set type
Normal
Slot and binding read from the current retail build’s item records for this set’s own pieces.
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Where These Pieces Drop
13 of this set's 14 pieces drop from 12 encounters in Blackrock Foundry and Highmaul. The rest come from vendors, quests, crafting or world drops, which the dungeon journal does not record.
Drop chances are not stored in the client data we mine, so none are shown here.
Where to Farm This Set
12 bosses in Blackrock Foundry and Highmaul drop pieces of this set. Each instance below carries its Adventure Guide entry, where its entrance is, and what each boss drops.
This foundry was the ancestral home of the Blackrock orcs, wherein master smiths smelted and worked the impossibly hard ore that is the clan's namesake. Now, massive giants captured and broken by the Thunderlord heat the great forges, flamebenders of the Burning Blade imbue the ore with an inner fire, and engineers shape the slag according to otherworldly schematics. Warlord Blackhand's foundry is the center of the Iron Horde's military might, churning out the weaponry that will be used to raze Azeroth.
The entrance is in Gorgrond at 51.6, 27.1 (/way #543 51.6 27.1).
Blackrock Foundry entrance
Hans'gar and Franzok drops 1 piece of this set (Head) on Normal, Heroic and Mythic. Adventure Guide map pin: 47.4, 76.7 on the Blackrock Foundry map. Hans'gar and Franzok are twin brothers raised and trained as masterful brawlers of their clan. Both carved paths of glory as warriors, but destiny had other plans. The brothers, each unwilling to slay the other in the rite of mak'gora, were banished from their clan and left for dead. They survived as outcasts in the savage wilds of Draenor, and when the Iron Horde called, these powerful warriors found a new home in the massive war machine.
Gruul drops 1 piece of this set (Wrist) on Normal, Heroic and Mythic. Adventure Guide map pin: 39.3, 20.6 on the Blackrock Foundry map. Garrosh knew that the surest path to breaking the gronn lay in subjugating their great father, Gruul. Known in another time as the Dragonkiller, here Gruul has been reduced to the role of menial laborer. In a cruel mockery of the Shattered Hand's warrior tradition, his hand has been replaced with a hook to enable him to more easily haul pallets of fuel to the furnace.
Flamebender Ka'graz drops 1 piece of this set (Chest) on Normal, Heroic and Mythic. Adventure Guide map pin: 19.5, 76.9 on the Blackrock Foundry map. Under the banner of the Iron Horde, Blackhand has enlisted Flamebender Ka'graz of the Burning Blade to imbue the Blackrock-forged armaments with the essence of flame. Along with her assistant Aknor Steelbringer, Ka'graz toils before an everburning forge in support of the Iron Horde's conquest of Draenor.
Operator Thogar drops 1 piece of this set (Shoulder) on Normal, Heroic and Mythic. Adventure Guide map pin: 46.1, 22.0 on the Blackrock Foundry map. Known more for his cruelty and cleverness than for brute strength, Thogar oversees the operation of the Grimrail. From the Foundry's depot, he coordinates the ongoing ground battle against the draenei in Talador, with entire batallions of troops and artillery at his beck and call.
The Blast Furnace drops 1 piece of this set (Legs) on Normal, Heroic and Mythic. Adventure Guide map pin: 46.0, 53.5 on the Blackrock Foundry map. The Blackrock clan's unique ability to smelt the black ore, a substance so dense that ordinary flame does not even soften it, has always been their most closely-guarded secret. Deep within the Foundry, their furnace contains a primal force as old as Draenor itself, raging within the confines of its prison as it emanates a preternatural heat.
Kromog drops 1 piece of this set (Head) on Normal, Heroic and Mythic. Adventure Guide map pin: 33.2, 43.1 on the Blackrock Foundry map. The magnaron are mysterious in their ways, ancient and inscrutable. Miners excavating an expansion to the Foundry, in support of the Iron Horde's massive production needs, were horrified to unearth a chamber containing a living magnaron. To their astonishment, Kromog began to assist in their endeavors, and now uses his massive stone fists to hammer out the gigantic plates needed for the Iron Horde's dreadnaughts and siege machinery.
The Iron Maidens drops 2 pieces of this set (Waist, Hands) on Normal, Heroic and Mythic. Adventure Guide map pin: 82.3, 28.4 on the Blackrock Foundry map. With little opportunity to exercise her tactical brilliance under the ancient social structure of the orc clans, Gar'an was thrilled to be one of the first warriors to volunteer for naval duty under the Iron Horde. Instantly successful in battle, she was named Admiral of the Iron Horde fleet and selected Marak and Sorka as her lieutenants. Together, they are called the Iron Maidens, and have crushed any who have dared face them in battle.
Blackhand drops 1 piece of this set (Shoulder) on Normal, Heroic and Mythic. Adventure Guide map pin: 48.5, 34.5 on the Blackrock Foundry map. A ruthless tyrant and fierce warrior, Blackhand is Warlord of the Blackrock clan, second only to Grommash in stature within the Iron Horde. Bathed in sweltering heat that few other mortals could withstand, Blackhand oversees the operations of his Foundry from atop its Crucible, wielding his smoldering slag hammer to forge weapons of peerless quality.
Highmaul is the seat of power for the Gorian Empire, the ogre civilization that ruled Draenor for generations, until the arrival of the draenei. A massive city that belies the ogre reputation for brutish stupidity, Highmaul is full of bustling markets, wealthy nobles, and the roar of the Coliseum crowd echoing through the streets of the slums. Visible from everywhere within the city's walls, Imperator Mar'gok's citadel casts a long shadow, a reminder of his watchful eye and iron grip.
The entrance is in Nagrand at 32.8, 38.4 (/way #550 32.8 38.4).
Highmaul entrance
The Butcher drops 1 piece of this set (Hands) on Normal, Heroic and Mythic. Adventure Guide map pin: 57.8, 55.1 on the Highmaul map. Born in the fetid Underbelly of Highmaul, this ogre may have once had a proper name, but it is long forgotten. Abused and beaten from his earliest days, the hardship only strengthened his body even as it broke his mind. Now there is not an ogre in Highmaul who will not give him a wide berth as he hacks away at slaughtered carcasses to pass his days.
Tectus drops 1 piece of this set (Legs) on Normal, Heroic and Mythic. Adventure Guide map pin: 37.0, 74.8 on the Highmaul map. An ancient embodiment of the chaotic forces that shaped the terrain of Draenor, Tectus has been twisted and enslaved by the maddened Pale Orcs - who themselves barely maintain control over this imposing force of nature.
Brackenspore drops 1 piece of this set (Feet) on Normal, Heroic and Mythic. Adventure Guide map pin: 50.9, 16.4 on the Highmaul map. The Iron Horde juggernaut moored in the waters beside Highmaul drew the attention of Brackenspore, ancient walker of the deep. The aquatic giant spreads fungal growth and moss in his wake, and is driven by primal instinct to eradicate any traces of civilization on Draenor.
Twin Ogron drops 1 piece of this set (Chest) on Normal, Heroic and Mythic. Adventure Guide map pin: 55.1, 36.4 on the Highmaul map. Guarding the entrance to the Gorthenon atop Highmaul, Pol and Phemos are the personal guard of Imperator Mar'gok. Peerless in strength and determination, what these ogron brothers lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer size and brute force.
Set Bonus
5 pieces of this appearance set also belong to the item set Battlegear of Guiding Light, which carries these bonuses in the game files:
2 pieces (Protection): When you use Avenger's Shield, your block chance is increased by 12% for 5 sec.
4 pieces (Protection): When you block a physical attack, you have a chance to increase your shield block value by 20% for 8 sec.
(Approximately.2 procs per minute)
4 pieces (Retribution): Your Judgment causes your next Templar's Verdict or Divine Storm to refund 1 Holy Power.
Versions and Companion Sets
The game links 2 other versions to Battlegear of Guiding Light, each labelled the way the collection journal labels it. This page is the Normal version.
1 other set reuses the 3D models of Battlegear of Guiding Light’s head, shoulder and waist, most shared models first:
Fel-Automaton Exoplate (Warlords of Draenor, 8 pieces): the same head, shoulder and waist models, recoloured.
Matched in the game files: each piece’s ItemDisplayInfo names its 3D model and texture. The same model with another texture is a recolour. Only pieces with a 3D model of their own (helms, shoulders, cloaks, weapons, shields, off-hands and some belts and robes) can be compared this way; pieces drawn from textures alone are left out.
Buying the Tradeable Pieces
2 pieces of Battlegear of Guiding Light can be listed on the Auction House (they do not bind on pickup); 2 have a listing on US connected realms in our latest scan.
Lowest listed price on any US connected realm in our recorded Auction House scan, per piece; transmog gear is priced per realm, so the realm named is where that price was seen.
Other Versions of This Set
The game data carries 3 separate set records under the name Battlegear of Guiding Light - one per class or armor weight, plus the per-slot recolours the appearance was built from. This page is the one we index for the name; the others are listed here so nothing is lost.
TheWoWDB
Blackrock Foundry entrance
