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 9 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.
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
1 of this set's 10 pieces drop from 1 encounter in Vault of the Incarnates. 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.
Where to Farm This Set
1 boss in Vault of the Incarnates drop pieces of this set. Each instance below carries its Adventure Guide entry, where its entrance is, and what each boss drops.
The Primalists breached the Titan prison used to hold the Incarnates for millennia. Within, Raszageth performs a foul ritual to unleash her siblings, so together they can purge the world of the Titans' influence. The champions of Azeroth must assault this impregnable fortress and break their defenses to end this threat. While many could fall, defeat condemns all the realms to the Incarnates' reign of fire and blood.
The entrance is in Thaldraszus at 73.2, 55.6 (/way #2025 73.2 55.6).
Vault of the Incarnates entrance
Kurog Grimtotem drops 1 piece of this set (Waist). Adventure Guide map pin: 51.4, 50.9 on the Vault of the Incarnates map. Once a prized pupil of Magatha Grimtotem, this master of the primal elements is preparing to unleash his most devastating creations. If Kurog is not stopped, his entities of storm, fire, ice, and earth will wreak havoc across the whole of Azeroth.
Set Bonus
5 pieces of this appearance set also belong to the item set Scalesworn Cultist's Habit, which carries these bonuses in the game files:
2 pieces (Affliction): When Agony grants you a Soul Shard, you have a chance to gain Cruel Inspiration, increasing your haste by 12% for 6 sec.
2 pieces (Demonology): Demonbolt and Felstorm damage increased by 20%.
2 pieces (Destruction): Consuming Soul Shards has a chance to grant you Chaos Maelstrom, increasing your critical strike chance by 15% for 10 sec.
4 pieces (Affliction): Cruel Inspiration also grants 2 charges of Cruel Epiphany, up to 5 charges. Each charge of Cruel Epiphany increases the damage of your next Malefic Rapture or Seed of Corruption by 40%.
4 pieces (Demonology): Demonbolt has a chance to make your next Hand of Gul'dan instant and deal 150% increased damage.
4 pieces (Destruction): Your critical strikes deal 212% damage instead of the usual 200%.
Versions and Companion Sets
The game links 1 other version to Scalesworn Cultist's Habit, each labelled the way the collection journal labels it. This page is the Heroic version.
1 other set reuses the 3D models of Scalesworn Cultist's Habit’s head, shoulder, waist, legs, hands and chest, most shared models first:
Crimson Gladiator's Silk Armor (Dragonflight, 19 pieces): the same head, shoulder, waist, legs, hands and chest models, recoloured.
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.
Other Versions of This Set
Scalesworn Cultist's Habit exists as 4 set records in the game data. The version we index for this name is set 2612; this page covers one of the other records.
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Vault of the Incarnates entrance