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Comment by 63198

i dont do any arena, but the gloves to this set seem better off than the other warlock season 2, how often is one casting searing pain?

Comment by starshot

link to set on PTR server: look alot more like T5 just colour location swap (bit silly but hey it still looks cool)
www.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2007/june/a2_warlock.jpg

Comment by Hyperstalker

Cost for the set:
Helmet - 1630
Chest - 1630
Legs - 1630
Shoulders - 1304
Gloves - 978

Total = 7172

Comment by 58347

For those after cosmetics; its looks like the Tier5 set with very slightly altered colours (ie very very slightly)

Comment by 47076

well.. this is gear for des or demo better?

Comment by 64783

With the enormous amount of resilience people can now stack up (2 piece set boneus from season 1 and 2....) Warlocks are going to become extremely effective due to the simple fact that DoTs cannot crit, thus we dont rely on crit chance as much as warriors/ mages/ rogues do for example.

This set is designed to be for affliction locks because it has NO crit on it. Unless you want to take my first paragraph extrememly seriously and go for MAX +spelldamage instead of relying on bug crits to decide a close battle.

Comment by 67547

If you are planning to buy 5 arena pieces I will recommand this:

Instead of buying a complete set, its better to buy 2 of each set(This will give u 35+resilience).
Then u choose the gloves with the bonus which matches ur build the best. My strongest advice as affl/demon lock:

Buy 3 pieces of the dreadweave, and 2 of felweave(where dreadweave gloves is a must).
Here you can see what parts that's best to keep, and which ones to change.

Dreadweave compared to Felweave in basestats with resilience and spelldmg:

Shoulders - 1sta 0int 2res 0spell = 3
Head - 6sta 9int 0res 4spell = 19
Legging - 9sta 7int 3res 4spell = 23
Robe - 12sta 6int -2res 9spell = 25

As the numbers says: as dreadweave, the shoulders and head are the one thats best to change if u going 3+2/5.

I will also recommand you to add stamina or the new resilience gems in to the sockets.

Comment by 62635

Iv a slight problem with this set, besides the gloves there is almost nothing good about them, i find on my warlock *70* that has almost ALL green 68-70 shadow damage gear(somthing from bout 60-80 damage on each item) that this set is pretty much crap, get a frozen shadowweave set and a bunch of green +shadow and stand back. As an affliction i can stand behind almost any class and do twice the damage of someone kitted out in arena/pvp gear. Locks are slightly OP il give ya that but none the less, the lack of +spell damage is a HUGE dent in damage. sure you need stam to survive but who cares if you die when you do twice the damage of other locks even when you are dead!

Comment by 40847

I wonder how Season 3 Set will be...
And why they don't change Set Bonuses?
I mean Res. is good but "reduce the casting time of your Immolate spell by 0.2 sec." Omg! "plz change it"!!
Etc u can reduce Searing pain by 0.2 sec. --> more useful in PvP.

Comment by 70459

So in the patch notes for 2.2, they are changing the 4 piece bonus from reducing cast time of immolate by 0.2 seconds to reducing cast time of fear by 0.2 seconds. With this change happening, I am going to keep my one piece of felweave (the shoulders) and get the rest in dreadweave. Thank you Blizzard for making a smart change!

Comment by 59953

With the up and coming change to resilience in 2.2 (As it now effects DoT's) the set is even less appealing when compering it to Felshroud.
So dont even think about going for Dreadgear

Comment by EvilElpay

Resilience will hurt affliction as well as crits. 40 resilience = 1% less crit 2% less damage from dots and crits. Most pvpers have around 200 resilience few will have 400 being 10% less crit and 20% less damage from dots and crit. Major damage reduction. Best way to bypass this damage reduction is to not focus on crit or dots but just pure direct damage by boosting bonus spell damage. Dreadgear is the best option when bypassing resilience.

.02 secs off a fear is better than immolate, but I would advise to go for double set bonuses for 70 resilience especially against rouges which is the favored enemy of a warlock.

Comment by 74805

I am personally going to go for 4 pieces of the dreadweave and get the felweave hood. All the dreadweave pieces have more SD than all the felweave except for the 1 felweave hood which has 42 SD to the dreadweaves 36. Just trying to max out on that....

Comment by frmorrison

The resilience change affects all periodic damage effects, so that includes Drain Life and Bleed effects.

Anyway, the set has changed again (the change is shown here), the current 2.1 version has 1882 armor, so if you had a full set you would lose 500 armor and you gain 20 int :(.

Comment by EvilElpay

Drain life is not a periodic effect, it is a channeled effect. Dots and bleed effects are not channeled and are not capable of crit. Thus, those who rely on these abilities to bypass resilience won't be able to as effectively.

However, you can bypass resilience by focusing on direct damage or channeling spells without focusing on crit, but instead by focusing on bonus spell damage and haste rating. This is also why combat spec rouges are becoming much more popular as they don't focus on crit as much as they do on haste rating and attack power.

Comment by asole

Doesn't matter if u are affilication or destruction build. Felweave better than Dreadgear. Why? Yes, Dreadgear has 25 stamina 27 int and 7 sdmg more than Felweave BUT Dreadgear has 110 crit rating which is equal to %5 crit rating. You should be low crit rating if u are aff build. Your enemies already have lots of resilliance and prolly u'll crit rare. I know dot's cant crit but shadow bolt or searing pain can (I dont think an aff build pass nightfall).

There tons of gems and some non set honor epics which u can do somethink about that 25 sta and 27 int. But u cant do anythink about 110 crit rate. Also bonus from Hands equal now (patch 2.2).

Comment by 82837

wait, so with my current pvp spec of 27/34/0 you're saying i should go with the merciless gladiator dreadweave for everything except the head and shoulders?

Comment by Annoroth

In case anyone is curious, the armor value is displayed in green because itemization points are spent improving the armor value.

Comment by Pingone

It's very common for warlocks to use 2-3 parts of this Dreadweave set and 2-3 of the Felweave set to get a double +35 setbonus.

Comment by 43546

Merciless Gladiator's Head 1630Arena point
Merciless Gladiator's Shoulders 1304Arena point
Merciless Gladiator's Chest 1630Arena point
Merciless Gladiator's Hands 978Arena point
Merciless Gladiator's Legs 1630Arena point

Comment by beforememory

Costs a total of 7172 arena points as of 2.3

Comment by Liseda

Season 2 - Honor Price
Warlock Affliction Set
Will be introduced when S4 comes.

Merciless Gladiator's Dreadweave Gloves

10500 Honor
20 Alterac Valley Marks

Merciless Gladiator's Dreadweave Hood

14500 Honor
30 Alterac Valley Marks

Merciless Gladiator's Dreadweave Leggings

14500 Honor
30 Warsong Gulch Marks

Merciless Gladiator's Dreadweave Mantle

11250 Honor
20 Arathi Basin Marks

Merciless Gladiator's Dreadweave Robe

14500 Honor
30 Arathi Basin Marks

Total:

65250 Honor
50 Arathi Basin Marks
50 Alterac Valley Marks
30 Warsong Gulch Marks

Comment by 157005

Since it is common for people to mix the Dreadgear and the Felshroud in order to get the 2 +35 resilience bonuses, I thought I would compare the items by slot to help people decide how to mix them.

Shoulders
Felweave: +1 Stamina, +14 Spell Crit, +2 resilience
Dreadweave: +13 Spell Hit

I would go with the Dreadweave here. It is generally accepted that even for crit builds, spell hit is still better, Also keep in mind that the shoulders offer the least amount of spell crit out of the Felshroud, so since you need to give up 2 pieces this particular slot will cost you the least.

Hands
Felweave: +1 Stamina, +19 Spell Crit, +2 resilience
Dreadweave: +10 Intellect

This one seems like a no brainer to me, the Felweave is just flat out better regardless of your build. Even if you are for some reason attached to the 0.2 second Fear bonus, you can still grab these and have 4 Dreadweave.

Chest (includes socket bonus)
Felweave: +34 Spell Crit
Dreadweave: +12 Stamina, +6 Intellect, +2 Resilience, +9 Spell Damage

Given the huge difference in stamina and spell damage, I would select the Dreadweave robe. Yes, 34 is a lot of Spell Crit, but if you can't give that up you should just get the entire Felshroud rather than mix.

Legs
Felweave: +29 Spell Crit
Dreadweave: +9 Stamina, +7 Intellect, +3 Resilience, +4 Spell Damage

Head
Felweave: +18 Spell Crit, +6 Spell Damage
Dreadweave: +6 Stamina, +9 Intellect

Since so far we have 2 pieces from the Dreadgear and only 1 piece from the Felshroud, at least one of these two MUST be Felweave. If you are heavy crit, you might consider making both of these Felweave. If crit is less important to you, I would suggest the Dreadweave legs and the Felweave head piece. This way you give up less stamina and gain spell damage.

So with our mixed set, we come to these numbers:

Armor: 1837
Stamina: 289
Intellect: 81
Spell Damage: 211
Resilience: 134
Spell Crit: 37
Spell Hit: 13

These numbers do not include socket bonuses (for easier comparison, since Wowhead does not), and most importantly do not include the 2 +35 resilience bonuses. Altogether, you come to a total of 215 resilience for the mixed set.

Given the drastically higher resilience, higher spell damage than either set alone, and only slightly less stamina than the Dreadgear set, I feel this mixed set is the way to go unless you are a high crit build.

Comment by 147680

There is one thing that is not right though. dreadweave gear is better than felweave. felweave got crit chance instead of spell hit whick dreadweave gets. that will make dreadweave best. but to make it more balanced. only felweave has increased armor (if it is increased armor it will stand with a green text). check the pvp shops. i think Blizzard made that for it to be more fair.

Comment by 430005

Is this still available as of 3.1?

Comment by 575377

I've been the prince of darkness since 1979.

Comment by Narkano

AVAILABLE Kezzik the Striker

Comment by SnakeFizz

This set is purchased from Kezzik the Striker in Netherstorm for a total of 4500 Honor. If you want this set for transmog, you can buy it without the legs for 3500 Honor. It will still look the same.

The belt Veteran's Dreadweave Belt and boots Veteran's Dreadweave Stalkers are purchased from Kayri for 208 Justice Points each.

A matching, easy to get cloak is Blood Knight War Cloak, sold by G'eras for 130 Justice Points.

These staves will match as well: Silvery Sylvan Stave, Staff of Justified Sins, Zhar'doom, Greatstaff of the Devourer, and Damnation.

Comment by 849346

I have every single set for my lock...but this is by far the best one...IMO.

Comment by 1008295

I'd suggest the boots, Infernoweave Boots. I like the way they look more than the suggested, but it's up to you. Also, if you're sportin a 1h and oh, i'd suggest the Voodoo Shaker as your oh, and for added looks, Carved Witch Doctor's Stick for your want. ;) GL guys, and have fun.

Comment by 1009146

I use the dagger Tracker's Blade and the boots Boots of Persuasion. The cloak i use is Cloak of Subjugated Power.

Comment by niffboy

It's been said before that Tempest of Chaos is a perfect fit for this set if you happen to be using a sword, but also, Serilas, Blood Blade of Invar One-Arm looks really nice too.

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Merciless Gladiator's Dreadgear

Merciless Gladiator's Dreadgear is the Arena Season 2 Set. It contains 5 pieces. Has a set bonus at 4 pieces.

	Merciless Gladiator's Dreadweave Gloves (1)
	Merciless Gladiator's Dreadweave Hood (1)
	Merciless Gladiator's Dreadweave Leggings (1)
	Merciless Gladiator's Dreadweave Mantle (1)
	Merciless Gladiator's Dreadweave Robe (1)

Merciless Gladiator's Dreadgear

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