Of its 16 pieces, 11 are sold by vendors and 5 drop from bosses. Every piece is Plate armor. Wearing them requires level 35. 16 pieces can only be used by Horde characters. The set was added in patch 5.1.0.
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. Every piece is Bind on Pickup, so the appearances have to be earned rather than bought.
Pieces
16
Slots covered
Head x2, Shoulder x2, Chest x2, Wrist x2, Hands x2, Waist x2, Legs x2, Feet x2
Binding
Bind on Pickup (16)
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
5 of this set's 16 pieces drop from 1 encounter in Pandaria. The rest come from vendors, quests, crafting or world drops, which the dungeon journal does not record.
Nalak, The Storm Lord - Pandaria - 5 pieces from this set
Drop chances are not stored in the client data we mine, so none are shown here.
The Ensemble
Ensemble: Tyrannical Gladiator's Plate Armor is a single item whose use effect learns all of Tyrannical Gladiator's Plate 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
Nalak, The Storm Lord drops 5 pieces of this set (Hands, Feet, Wrist, Waist, Legs). Adventure Guide map pin: 60.6, 37.3 on the Isle of Thunder map. When Lei Shen discovered a rare clutch of thundering cloud serpents, he was awed, and set to subjugating them. The largest hatchling fiercely resisted, and when Lei Shen visited the handling pens, he laughed mightily at the charred mogu that lined the walls. He took the hatchling for his own, and for its obedience, granted it power over the storms and the sky. For thousands of years following the death of the Thunder King, Nalak has guarded the walls of his hidden citadel, awaiting his return.
Set Bonus
10 pieces of this appearance set also belong to the item set Gladiator's Battlegear, which carries these bonuses in the game files:
2 pieces: Increases all damage you deal by 4%.
4 pieces: Haste increased by 5%.
Versions and Companion Sets
16 companion sets shipped in the Season 13 group alongside it:
The game data carries 4 separate set records under the name Tyrannical Gladiator's Plate 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