Of its 50 pieces, 21 are sold by vendors, 15 drop from bosses, 3 are world drops and 2 are made by professions. Every piece is Plate armor. Wearing them requires level 35. The set was added in patch 5.2.0.
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. 48 of 50 pieces are Bind on Pickup.
Pieces
50
Slots covered
Head x6, Shoulder x6, Chest x8, Wrist x5, Hands x9, Waist x5, Legs x7, Feet x4
Binding
Bind on Pickup (48), Bind on Equip (2)
Expansion
Mists of Pandaria
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
21 of this set's 50 pieces drop from 11 encounters in Pandaria and Throne of Thunder. The rest come from vendors, quests, crafting or world drops, which the dungeon journal does not record.
Nalak, The Storm Lord - Pandaria - 6 pieces from this set
11 bosses in Pandaria and Throne of Thunder drop pieces of this set. Each instance below carries its Adventure Guide entry, where its entrance is, and what each boss drops.
Shrouded in mists since the world was sundered ten thousand years ago, the ancient realm of Pandaria has remained unspoiled by war. Its lush forests and cloud-ringed mountains are home to a complex ecosystem of indigenous races and exotic creatures. It is the homeland of the enigmatic pandaren, a race that celebrates life to the fullest even while under siege by an ancient menace.
The entrance is in The Veiled Stair at 48.1, 61.0 (/way #433 48.1 61.0).
Pandaria entrance
Nalak, The Storm Lord drops 6 pieces of this set (Hands, Legs). Adventure Guide map pin: 60.6, 37.3 on the Isle of Thunder map. When Lei Shen discovered a rare clutch of thundering cloud serpents, he was awed, and set to subjugating them. The largest hatchling fiercely resisted, and when Lei Shen visited the handling pens, he laughed mightily at the charred mogu that lined the walls. He took the hatchling for his own, and for its obedience, granted it power over the storms and the sky. For thousands of years following the death of the Thunder King, Nalak has guarded the walls of his hidden citadel, awaiting his return.
Oondasta drops 3 pieces of this set (Chest, Waist, Hands). Adventure Guide map pin: 50.0, 54.1 on the Isle of Giants map. As the war against Lei Shen's island citadel began, Alliance and Horde scouts made an effort to intercept missives between the major Zandalari camps. One such exchange seemed to revolve around an unfamiliar Zandalari word, always surrounded by terms of conquest and power: Oondasta. Somewhere in Pandaria, the Zandalari Beast Ward raises their mighty beasts as engines of war, and is putting the finishing touches on this Loa-infused monstrosity. The exact location, however, remains unknown...
When Pandaria separated from Kalimdor many thousands of years ago, a veil of mist kept outsiders from discovering the newly-formed continent. The mists also hid a reminder of an ancient evil: Lei Shen's Throne of Thunder. During his rule, this fortress was the seat of the Thunder King's power. Even after his death, great swathes of corrupted energy lingered, and now, the resurrected Thunder King and the Zandalari trolls intend to harness that energy to establish the reign of Lei Shen once again.
The entrance is in Isle of Thunder at 63.8, 32.1 (/way #504 63.8 32.1).
Throne of Thunder entrance
Jin'rokh the Breaker drops 1 piece of this set (Chest) on 10 Player and 25 Player. Adventure Guide map pin: 59.5, 25.6 on the Throne of Thunder map. When the Thunder King awoke, he rewarded the most loyal and ambitious Zandalari trolls with power beyond their wildest dreams. The berserker Jin'rokh was one of the first to receive the King's blessing, and even though Lei Shen's gifts nearly tore his body apart, the troll is now capable of calling the fury of the storm in battle.
Horridon drops 1 piece of this set (Wrist) on 10 Player and 25 Player. Adventure Guide map pin: 26.8, 78.7 on the Throne of Thunder map. The Zandalari brought powerful creatures with them to the Isle of the Thunder King to use as engines of war. Led by the War-God Jalak, the dinomancers of the Zandalari Beast Ward use ancient tribal magics to strengthen the great beasts and command obedience. The horns of Horridon, the fabled mount of Jalak himself, can tear through the stone walls of a keep as a blade cuts silk.
Tortos drops 2 pieces of this set (Waist, Hands) on 10 Player and 25 Player. Adventure Guide map pin: 31.6, 82.1 on the Throne of Thunder map. Over the millennia, small amounts of mogu flesh-shaping magic seeped into the caverns below the Thunder King's citadel. The dark energies warped one of the chamber's native dragon turtles, melding it to the surrounding crystalline walls. Known as Tortos, this amalgamation of flesh and stone has since feasted on the cave's rich mineral deposits and grown to a colossal size.
Megaera drops 1 piece of this set (Feet) on 10 Player and 25 Player. Adventure Guide map pin: 71.7, 25.2 on the Throne of Thunder map. Even the most callous among the mogu quaver at the thought of the dark experiments performed at the Thunder King's behest. Long ago, a young cloud serpent was twisted into a multi-headed hydra and left to languish beneath Lei Shen's throne. Now the twisted creature lurks deep in the Forgotten Depths, awaiting the moment it may finally inflict its terrible agony upon others.
Ji-Kun drops 1 piece of this set (Head) on 10 Player and 25 Player. Adventure Guide map pin: 49.4, 41.6 on the Throne of Thunder map. Mogu flesh-shapers discarded their failed creations in an abyssal shaft beneath Lei Shen's keep. The reek of decay lured many scavengers to the refuse pit, including the great Ji-Kun. Ruthless and cunning, the monstrous bird devoured her rivals one-by-one until she held sole dominion over the shadowy tunnel.
Durumu the Forgotten drops 2 pieces of this set (Hands, Legs) on 10 Player and 25 Player. Adventure Guide map pin: 71.1, 34.0 on the Throne of Thunder map. Lei Shen commanded his sorcerers to mold an aberration that could peer into the hearts of his followers and detect betrayal. From this decree, Durumu was given life. The clever entity stubbornly obeyed its masters until the Thunder King's death, at which time it disappeared into the citadel's labyrinthine corridors. Only recently has Durumu, all but forgotten by the mogu, emerged from hiding.
Primordius drops 2 pieces of this set (Shoulder, Wrist) on 10 Player and 25 Player. Adventure Guide map pin: 57.3, 78.3 on the Throne of Thunder map. Deep within the bowels of Lei Shen's island citadel, mogu flesh-shapers formed the saurok out of a magical substance of unknown origin. When the citadel was abandoned, some experiments languished in the dark pools for far too long....
Dark Animus drops 1 piece of this set (Legs) on 10 Player and 25 Player. Adventure Guide map pin: 42.7, 57.6 on the Throne of Thunder map. During his reign, Lei Shen labored to build a mechanical servant that would defend his citadel without fear. When his first attempt failed, rage took hold of the Thunder King. He poured this negative emotion into his next, and most successful, creation: the Dark Animus. To this day, the ornate construct observes its duty, empowered by the mysterious substance at the heart of all mogu flesh-shaping experiments.
Lei Shen drops 1 piece of this set (Chest) on 10 Player and 25 Player. Adventure Guide map pin: 50.8, 51.0 on the Throne of Thunder map. Tyrant. Dictator. Conqueror. Emperor. These titles of the Thunder King were earned by bringing absolute misery to every race of Pandaria. Resurrected into a world where his people no longer rule, Lei Shen is bent on ending the farce and bringing the land under his heel once more.
Set Bonus
5 pieces of this appearance set also belong to the item set Battlegear of the Lightning Emperor, which carries these bonuses in the game files:
2 pieces: Your Exorcism causes your target to take 6% increased Holy damage from your attacks for 6 sec.
4 pieces: Your Crusader Strike has a 40% chance to make your next Templar's Verdict deal all Holy damage.
Versions and Companion Sets
The game links 2 other versions to Battlegear of the Lightning Emperor, each labelled the way the collection journal labels it. This page is the Normal version.
2 pieces of Battlegear of the Lightning Emperor 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.
The game data carries 3 separate set records under the name Battlegear of the Lightning Emperor - 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
Pandaria entrance
