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. Every piece is Bind on Pickup, so the appearances have to be earned rather than bought.
Pieces
32
Slots covered
Head x4, Shoulder x4, Chest x4, Wrist x4, Hands x4, Waist x4, Legs x4, Feet x4
Binding
Bind on Pickup (32)
Expansion
Cataclysm
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
10 of this set's 32 pieces drop from 1 encounter in Baradin Hold. The rest come from vendors, quests, crafting or world drops, which the dungeon journal does not record.
Occu'thar - Baradin Hold - 10 pieces from this setNormalHeroic10 Player25 Player10 Player (Heroic)25 Player (Heroic)
Drop chances are not stored in the client data we mine, so none are shown here.
The Ensemble
Ensemble: Ruthless Gladiator's Scaled Armor is a single item whose use effect learns all of Ruthless Gladiator's Scaled Armor at once. It is Bind on Pickup. Using it requires level 32.
Where to Farm This Set
1 boss in Baradin Hold 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
Occu'thar drops 10 pieces of this set (Hands, Legs, Waist, Feet, Wrist) on Normal, Heroic, 10 Player, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic) and 25 Player (Heroic). Adventure Guide map pin: 15.6, 63.2 on the Baradin Hold map. This ravenous demon broke free of its cage and gained access to the western wing of the prison, devouring all of the inmates held there. Occu'thar's gluttony resulted in a body too bloated to escape its environs, effectively turning the prison wing into its new holding cell.
Set Bonus
10 pieces of this appearance set also belong to the item set Gladiator's Vindication, which carries these bonuses in the game files:
2 pieces: Increases Strength by 5.
4 pieces: Increases the range of your Judgment by 10 yards.
4 pieces: Increases Strength by 6.
Versions and Companion Sets
The game links 1 other version to Ruthless Gladiator's Scaled Armor, each labelled the way the collection journal labels it. This page is the Gladiator version.
The game data carries 2 separate set records under the name Ruthless Gladiator's Scaled 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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Baradin Hold entrance