Of its 30 pieces, 15 are sold by vendors, 10 drop from bosses, 2 are made by professions and 1 is a world drop. Every piece is Plate armor. Wearing them requires level 32. The set was added in patch 4.3.0.
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. 25 of 30 pieces are Bind on Pickup.
Pieces
30
Slots covered
Head x4, Shoulder x3, Chest x4, Wrist x4, Hands x5, Waist x4, Legs x4, Feet x2
Binding
Bind on Pickup (25), Bind on Equip (5)
Expansion
Cataclysm
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
10 of this set's 30 pieces drop from 5 encounters in Baradin Hold and Dragon Soul. The rest come from vendors, quests, crafting or world drops, which the dungeon journal does not record.
Alizabal, Mistress of Hate - Baradin Hold - 6 pieces from this set
Drop chances are not stored in the client data we mine, so none are shown here.
Where to Farm This Set
5 bosses in Baradin Hold and Dragon Soul drop pieces of this set. Each instance below carries its Adventure Guide entry, where its entrance is, and what each boss drops.
Following the Second War, the ruined fortress of Baradin Hold on the remote island of Tol Barad was converted into a prison for some of the most dangerous forces on Azeroth. Yet with the devastation wrought by the Cataclysm, the prison's integrity has been compromised. Now as the Horde and Alliance vie for supremacy on the island, the liberation of its forgotten horrors may be at hand.
The entrance is in Tol Barad at 47.7, 53.1 (/way #244 47.7 53.1).
Baradin Hold entrance
Alizabal, Mistress of Hate drops 6 pieces of this set (Hands, Legs). Adventure Guide map pin: 47.9, 18.0 on the Baradin Hold map. The Kirin Tor imprisoned Alizabal in their formidable Violet Hold not long after corrupt magi summoned the shivarra into Azeroth. Despite arcane wards restricting her powers, the demon's malicious influence alone caused her guards to murder one another in sudden fits of rage. Her transfer to Baradin Hold prior to the Cataclysm has only aggravated the ruined prison's increasingly dire conditions.
Forged by Deathwing during the War of the Ancients, the Dragon Soul harnessed the combined power of the dragonflights until it was ultimately destroyed. Through the Caverns of Time, Thrall and the remaining dragonflights were able to recover the powerful artifact before its destruction. Now they have rallied at Wyrmrest Temple in a desperate attempt to use the might of the Dragon Soul against Deathwing himself.
The entrance is in Tanaris at 61.7, 51.8 (/way #71 61.7 51.8).
Dragon Soul entrance
Morchok drops 1 piece of this set (Feet) on Normal, Heroic, 10 Player and 25 Player. Adventure Guide map pin: 50.4, 69.3 on the Dragon Soul map. The most powerful elemental still under Deathwing's sway, Morchok-once a passive guardian-is now convinced that his only respite will come with Azeroth's demise. Morchok rages against the foundation of Wyrmrest Temple, Azeroth's last beacon of hope in the Hour of Twilight.
Yor'sahj the Unsleeping drops 1 piece of this set (Wrist) on Normal, Heroic, 10 Player and 25 Player. Adventure Guide map pin: 46.8, 49.9 on the Dragon Soul map. Since the fall of the Bastion of Twilight, Yor'sahj the Unsleeping has eagerly assisted Deathwing, providing the Destroyer with the means to release more faceless ones from their prisons deep beneath the earth. Their numbers are endless and their power is beyond reckoning, and Yor'sahj intends to reap a grim reward for his faithful service.
Ultraxion drops 1 piece of this set (Waist) on Normal, Heroic, 10 Player and 25 Player. Adventure Guide map pin: 50.0, 45.8 on the Dragon Soul map. More an abomination of dark energy than a dragon, Ultraxion has spent his short life absorbing the essence of captured nether dragons. Ultraxion is the only twilight dragon Deathwing has praised, and his arrogance is overshadowed only by the crackling energies surging through his twisted form. Loyal to his master, Ultraxion swears to bring about the fall of Wyrmrest Temple.
Spine of Deathwing drops 1 piece of this set (Hands) on Normal, Heroic, 10 Player and 25 Player. Adventure Guide map pin: 33.2, 85.3 on the Dragon Soul map. When Deathwing first channeled the Dragon Soul's power against the other flights, the massive energies that were unleashed threatened to break apart his very body. Rather than forgo this weapon, he had adamantium plates fused to his scales to hold his body together. Later reinforced with elementium, these plates are now his weakness--the sole vulnerability to Deathwing's lethal presence.
Set Bonus
5 pieces of this appearance set also belong to the item set Regalia of Radiant Glory, which carries these bonuses in the game files:
2 pieces: After using Avenging Wrath, the mana cost of your healing spells is reduced by 25% for 15 sec.
4 pieces: Increases the healing done by your Holy Radiance spell by 5%.
Versions and Companion Sets
The game links 2 other versions to Battleplate of Radiant Glory, each labelled the way the collection journal labels it. This page is the Normal version.
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
5 pieces of Battleplate of Radiant Glory can be listed on the Auction House (they do not bind on pickup); 5 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 Battleplate of Radiant Glory - 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.
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Baradin Hold entrance
