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A hidden set bonus turns Druids into a snake

The Embrace of the Viper set from Wailing Caverns hides a bonus that its own tooltip does not mention. A Druid wearing all five pieces turns into a snake. Players found it on the beta, and a Blizzard designer confirmed it goes further than that.

The set drops in Wailing Caverns, five pieces in total, each from a different creature in the dungeon. Wearing more of them unlocks the ordinary stat bonuses, which are listed. The five-piece effect is not.

Who found it

The player Noah posted the discovery, writes Wowhead.

Zirene, Senior Game Designer at Blizzard, added that the snake colour changes for every Druid race and that the form carries its own stealth animation for Prowl and Stealth, writes Wowhead.

Why this is more than a joke

Blizzard said repeatedly at BlizzCon that Forever aims at horizontal progression: reasons to keep playing that are not a higher item level. A cosmetic effect at the end of a low-level dungeon set is exactly that. The set is a real power gain while levelling, and the snake is a reason to go back for the last piece long after the gear stops mattering.

Whether other sets hide something similar, nobody has said.

Source: Wowhead