Armor Type: Leather
Level Req.: 40 for Cadaverous items/55 with extras
Source: BoP instance drops
Availability: Time consuming to piece together
About the set:
All of the Cadaverous armor pieces are approximately 3% chance drops from the six penultimate bosses in the final wing of Scholomance; Doctor Theolen Krastinov, Lord Alexei Barov, Instructor Malicia, Lady Illucia Barov, The Ravenian and Lorekeeper Polkelt.
Chest – Cadaverous Armor
Hands – Cadaverous Gloves
Waist – Cadaverous Belt
Legs – Cadaverous Leggings
Feet – Cadaverous Walkers
Extras:
Shoulders – Demonic Runed Spaulders (BoP drop from Shadow Hunter Vosh’gajin in Lower Blackrock Spire, at a 23% drop rate)
Shirt – Wound Dressing (Vendor purchase from Angelique Butler in Dalaran, at the cost of 25 gold)
Dual-Wield Daggers – Blade of the New Moon (BoP drop from Immol’thar in Dire Maul West, at a 20% drop rate)
I found that http://www.wowhead.com/item=35369 makes for a very good looking set of shoulders for this.
http://puu.sh/r9jU
http://puu.sh/r9jW
The red trim on the shoulders flow very well unto http://www.wowhead.com/item=29382 as well.
A note on probabilities for those wondering how long it may take to farm the set:
3% for 6 bosses is roughly equivalent to a 12% chance (not 18%) for any given item to drop in a run – which isn’t much different from a typical drop rate for a boss item.
There’s roughly a 65% chance that you’ll have gotten the item after 8 clears of the 6 bosses, and in fact I got 4 of the 5 in 10 clears. Unfortunately that last item still hasn’t dropped for me after 20 clears. Not outside the realm of probability, but still a little unlucky.
But the clears are fast (and I always need to take a break because I get the “too many instances” message), and I figure most people will have gotten all five pieces with no more than 90 minutes time invested, which is pretty good compared to some of the other sets I’ve worked on.
Apologies on not showing my math but I swear you can trust me
Had to have run it at least 40 times and still haven’t gotten my last piece… Worst luck.
For those looking to farm these pieces, a note regarding Scholo:
You can skip all prior bosses and still access these six; doing so won’t get Darkmaster Gandling to spawn, but if you don’t care for anything he drops there’s no need for him to spawn anyway. If you have stealth (and you probably do) almost all of the trash can be avoided as well. A run in and out takes less than 10 minutes this way.
Some additional info:
From the bridge entrance, if you jump diagonally from the gap in the railing to the right, you will land pretty close to the door to the “Viewing Area”, this will bypass a ton of trash. Granted, you have to go through them on the way back, but it’s faster to the bosses.
For the top level bosses, I recommend saving the north one (I believe it’s Lorekeeper Polkelt) for last. There’s too much trash in there to avoid, and it’s full of potential reanimated corpses. As a Rogue, I Fan of Knives the adds down and then Vanish to reset aggro and go back into stealth. The other bosses you can pretty much avoid the trash, or they’re of the non-reanimating kind.
Regarding weapons, I prefer the idea of “Combat Knife”-style dagger than the one suggested. Broad-bladed Knife (http://www.wowhead.com/item=12247) and its lookalikes are the best bet, and look to be easily obtainable.
Finally, a comment regarding the “Antiseptic-Soaked Dressing”: I actually believe the picture displays the Wound Dressing (http://www.wowhead.com/item=44693) sold by the same vendor; the key difference is that the Antiseptic has soaked-through blood stains, while the Wound Dressing does not. Either works, it’s probably just a matter of personal preference.
Penultimate does not mean what you apparently think it does. Please dust off the ole’ dictionary or visit a dictionary web site.
According to Dictionary.com, “pe·nul·ti·mate [pi-nuhl-tuh-mit] adjective 1.next to the last“
Being that Doctor Theolen Krastinov, Lord Alexei Barov, Instructor Malicia, Lady Illucia Barov, The Ravenian and Lorekeeper Polkelt are all interchangeable options as the second-to-last encounter in Scholomance, Darkmaster Gandling being ‘the ultimate’, I’d say that my use of the term was quite apt.
So, what’s your interpretation, Anna?
It should be noted that one does not necessarily need to be lv80 to use all the extras–55 should be the minimum required for this full set, seeing as the shirt, though obtained in Dalaran, does not soulbind. Anyone can access it either through a mage portal or having an alt, friend or guildmate buy and mail it.
Thanks for the comment, I’ve fixed the error now. The level 80 requirement was actually not intended for the shirt at all, but rather for a pair of daggers we originally included. Unfortunately said daggers appear bugged in WoW Model Viewer, so we switched them out at the last minute, but apparently I forgot to update the level requirement.
I’m glad you picked up on the error, even if for a different reason than the real one!