Of its 29 pieces, 11 are sold by vendors, 8 are made by professions, 6 are world drops and 4 drop from bosses. Every piece is Plate armor. Wearing them requires level 35. The set was added in patch 5.0.3.
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. 21 of 29 pieces are Bind on Pickup.
Pieces
29
Slots covered
Head x3, Shoulder x3, Chest x3, Wrist x4, Hands x4, Waist x4, Legs x4, Feet x4
Binding
Bind on Pickup (21), Bind on Equip (8)
Expansion
Mists of Pandaria
Set type
Gladiator
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
4 of this set's 29 pieces drop from 1 encounter in Pandaria. 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.
The Ensemble
Ensemble: Malevolent Gladiator's Dreadplate Armor is a single item whose use effect learns all of Malevolent Gladiator's Dreadplate Armor at once. It is Bind on Pickup. Using it requires level 35.
Where to Farm This Set
1 boss in Pandaria 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
Sha of Anger drops 4 pieces of this set (Feet, Hands, Waist, Wrist). Adventure Guide map pin: 54.4, 63.2 on the Kun-Lai Summit map. The Sha of Anger, the physical manifestation of rage, has escaped from the Shado-pan Monastery in Kun-Lai Summit. Amid the brutal conflicts gripping Pandaria, the dark entity has grown ever more powerful. Recently, the sha has been seen wandering Kun-Lai, using negative energies to corrupt everything the being encounters.
Set Bonus
15 pieces of this appearance set also belong to the item set Gladiator's Desecration, which carries these bonuses in the game files:
2 pieces: Whenever you are struck by a movement-impairing effect, you will generate 61258s1 Runic Power every 1 sec for 5 sec.
4 pieces: For 3 sec after casting Death Grip, you may cast the spell a second time without regard for its cooldown.
Versions and Companion Sets
The game links 2 other versions to Malevolent Gladiator's Dreadplate Armor, each labelled the way the collection journal labels it. This page is the Gladiator version.
8 pieces of Malevolent Gladiator's Dreadplate Armor can be listed on the Auction House (they do not bind on pickup); 8 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 2 separate set records under the name Malevolent Gladiator's Dreadplate Armor - 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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Pandaria entrance