Of its 25 pieces, 18 drop from bosses and 5 are sold by vendors. Every piece is Plate armor. Wearing them requires level 30. The set was added in patch 3.0.1.
Drops from Anub'Rekhan in Naxxramas (25 Player), and 1 other encounter.
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. 22 of 25 pieces are Bind on Pickup.
Pieces
25
Slots covered
Head x2, Shoulder x2, Chest x2, Wrist x4, Hands x2, Waist x4, Legs x2, Feet x7
Binding
Bind on Pickup (22), Bind on Equip (3)
Expansion
Wrath of the Lich King
Set type
25 Player (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
18 of this set's 25 pieces drop from 11 encounters in Naxxramas and Vault of Archavon. The rest come from vendors, quests, crafting or world drops, which the dungeon journal does not record.
Archavon the Stone Watcher - Vault of Archavon - 6 pieces from this set25 Player
Drop chances are not stored in the client data we mine, so none are shown here.
Where to Farm This Set
11 bosses in Naxxramas and Vault of Archavon drop pieces of this set. Each instance below carries its Adventure Guide entry, where its entrance is, and what each boss drops.
The entrance is in Wintergrasp at 50.1, 11.2 (/way #123 50.1 11.2).
Vault of Archavon entrance
Archavon the Stone Watcher drops 6 pieces of this set (Chest, Hands, Legs) on 25 Player. Adventure Guide map pin: 49.3, 16.9 on the Vault of Archavon map.
Set Bonus
5 pieces of this appearance set also belong to the item set Dreadnaught Plate, which carries these bonuses in the game files:
2 pieces: Increases the damage of your Shield Slam by 10%.
4 pieces: Increases the duration of your Shield Wall by s1 seconds.
Versions and Companion Sets
The game links 1 other version to Valorous Dreadnaught Battlegear, each labelled the way the collection journal labels it. This page is the 25 Player (Normal) version.
3 pieces of Valorous Dreadnaught Battlegear 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.
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Naxxramas entrance
