WoW Midnight Skinning Boost

WoW Midnight has streamlined the gear system, but the sheer amount of information can still be overwhelming. What are these items for? Where do they come from? And how can you improve them?

To help you understand the best gear setups, let’s break down what changed in WoW Midnight and how to acquire the best gear.

Gear System Simplification

First, Midnight has made some adjustments to the gearing system as part of its streamlining process. They’ve reduced the number of gear qualities from six to five.

• Adventurer
• Veteran
• Champion
• Hero
• Mythic

Each quality of gear can be upgraded within a specific item level range. The final few item levels of one quality overlap with the beginning of the next, which allows for a smoother power transition for players.

However, even if two pieces of gear have the same item level, they can be very different if they are of different qualities. When swapping equipment, it’s generally better to prioritize a higher quality piece over one with a slightly higher item level.

Upgrading Gear

There’s a quest chain in Dornogal that guides you through the upgrade process. Each upgrade requires a certain number of Crests and some WoW Midnight gold. The exact number of Crests needed has changed about three times in recent months, but the important thing to remember is that you can benefit from two types of discounts:

Discount for Already-Achieved Item Levels If you want to upgrade a piece of gear to an item level you’ve already reached on another item, that upgrade will cost zero Crests. For example, if you have a 250 item level Veteran piece but get a new 246 item level Champion piece, upgrading that Champion item to 250 will require no Crests (though the gold cost remains).

Warband Discount Once your main character reaches specific item level thresholds, your entire warband will enjoy a 50% discount on Crests for upgrades. This requires obtaining the corresponding achievements, which are:

• Adventurer of the Dawn: 237 item level
• Veteran of the Dawn: 250 item level
• Champion of the Dawn: 263 item level
• Hero of the Dawn: 276 item level
• Mythic of the Dawn: 285 item level

These achievements are tied to the item level ranges and Crest requirements for each quality. Once your item level hits 237, it means you’ve moved beyond the need for Adventurer Crests, and all your alts will only need half the usual Adventurer Crests to upgrade their Adventurer gear. Therefore, it’s wise to get your main character to these item level milestones first before investing many Crests in your alts.

An even smarter approach is to first push your main to 237 item level to unlock the achievement, then start upgrading your alts’ Adventurer gear. Next, bring your main up to 250 item level before you start upgrading your alts’ Veteran gear. This maximizes your Crest usage, and remember, Crest acquisition has a weekly cap. The number you can earn each week is limited, which in turn limits how many upgrades you can perform.

How to Get Gear?

Regarding gear acquisition, if you’re not considering PvP, there are four main types of PvE content you’ll engage with at max level.

Open World

In the open world, you can participate in World Quests, Pinnacle Events, and World Bosses.

These quests reward Adventurer quality gear, and their item level will dynamically increase with your current equipment. Pinnacle Events reward a Pinnacle Chest containing Veteran quality gear, Crests, and gold.

World Bosses become available at the start of Season 1 and typically reward Champion quality gear from a small loot table. They appear alongside a world quest, so they’re hard to miss.

Prey

• Normal Prey: Rewards Adventurer Gear
• Hard Prey: Rewards Veteran Gear
• Nightmare Prey: Rewards Champion Gear

Each difficulty Prey can yield gear twice per week. Even if you only get two pieces of Adventurer Gear from Normal Prey each week, as long as you complete all Normal Adventures that week, three Veteran-quality options will appear in your Great Vault. Completing Nightmare Prey will upgrade your Great Vault rewards from Champion to Heroic quality.

Delves

Bountiful Delves are marked with a colored icon on the map, and their final chests provide the gear you’re aiming for. To open one, you need a Bountiful Key, which you can get from Great Vault.

Sometimes, from world quests or other content, you’ll find Coffer Key Shards. Collecting 100 of them while inside a Delve will combine them into a Bountiful Key. Shards can even drop within Delves themselves, so the whole system is interconnected.

Maps have a chance to drop randomly. Using one gives you a buff that, on your next Delve, will spawn an additional chest containing a better piece of gear.

Bountiful Delves Rewards:

• Tiers 1-4: Adventurer gear
• Tiers 5-6: Veteran gear
• Tier 7+: Champion gear

Trove Hunter Rewards (from using a Map):

• Tiers 4-5: Veteran gear
• Tiers 6-7: Champion gear
• Tier 8+: Hero quality gear

Great Vault (from any non-Bountiful Delves)

• Tiers 1-4: Veteran gear
• Tiers 5-7: Champion gear
• Tier 8+: Hero gear

Completing the highest difficulty Delves also has a small chance to drop Mythic Upgrade Quests, which can eventually help you transition to the game’s most powerful equipment.

Dungeons

• Heroic Dungeons: Drop Adventurer gear, Vault rewards Veteran gear.
• Mythic 0 Dungeons: Drop Champion gear, Vault rewards Champion gear at max level for that track.
• Mythic+ Dungeons: Levels 2-5 drop Champion gear, Level 6+ drop Hero gear.

Starting from Mythic+ 10, your Great Vault will offer Mythic quality items. However, note that the dungeons themselves never directly drop Mythic quality gear. So, ideally, your goal is to fill your Vault with enough level 10 runs to get access to Mythic items.

Raids

Great Vault rewards for raiding match the quality of gear that drops from the raid itself, and completing raid encounters also drops gear of various qualities.

• Raid Finder (LFR): Veteran gear
• Normal: Champion gear
• Heroic: Hero gear
• Mythic: Mythic gear

Crafted Gear

Crafted gear doesn’t follow the same quality system, but its item level depends on the materials used, specifically Crests. You can use Crests as crafting materials to increase an item’s level, which combines with the crafter’s skill.

Typically, items made with Crests will end up 1-2 item levels below the equivalent quality gear upgraded with the same tier of Crests. The advantage of crafted gear is that you can choose the perfect stats for your spec and sometimes add Embellishments for extra effects.

Season 1 has now begun, and if you’re still figuring out your gear, the information above should help you get equipped quickly.

After a long two-week wait, WoW Midnight Season 1 is finally poised to make its official debut, bringing with it a massive amount of brand-new playable content!

This season introduces three brand-new raids, alongside seasonal updates and mechanical tweaks for other standard game modes.

Crucially, this content will be released in phases; this ensures you won't feel overwhelmed while guaranteeing there is always something new for you to play.

Below, we present a comprehensive overview of all the new content in Midnight Season 1, based on the official release schedule.

WoW Midnight Season 1 schedule

The season officially launches on March 17, 2026. From that date until April 7, new content will be released in weekly increments. The specific schedule is as follows:

March 17:

• Voidspire Raid (Finder Wing 1; Normal and Heroic difficulties)
• Dreamrift Raid (Finder Wing 1; Normal and Heroic difficulties)
• Season 1 Dungeons (Heroic and Mythic 0 difficulties)
• PvP Season 1
• New Delves Season

March 24:

• Voidspire Raid (Finder Wing 2; Story Mode and Mythic difficulties)
• Dreamrift Raid (Mythic Difficulty)
• Mythic+ Season 1

March 31:

• March on Quel'Danas Raid (Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulties)
• Voidspire Raid (Finder Wing 3)

April 7:

• March on Quel'Danas Raid (Finder and Story Mode difficulties)

Voidspire Raid

Located at the heart of Voidstorm zone, this raid features a total of six bosses. To alleviate the pressure of clearing the raid across various difficulty levels, WoW Midnight releases Finder Wings in phases.

This system divides the entire raid into several smaller sections, each containing just 2 to 4 bosses, allowing you to complete specific portions of the raid content in a shorter timeframe using Raid Finder tool. All Voidspire Raid bosses and their primary abilities include:

• Imperator Averzian: Shadow's Advance, Abyssal Voidshaper, Cosmic Eruption
• Vorasius: Void Breath, Parasite Expulsion, Smashing Frenzy
• Fallen-King Salhadaar: Desperate Measures, Concentrated Void, Cosmic Unraveling
• Vaelgor & Ezzorak: Dread Breath, Nullbeam, Vaelwing
• Lightblinded Vanguard: Spirit of the Mender, Aura of Wrath, Execution Sentence
• Crown of the Cosmos: Silverstrike Arrow, Grasp of Emptiness, Void Expulsion

Dreamrift Raid

To enter this raid, you must first complete The Root Cause quest to unlock the portal from Silvermoon City to Harandar. The specific coordinates for the raid entrance are /way 2413 61.7 62.3.

Although this raid features only one boss, Chimaerus, the encounter is divided into two distinct stages, each containing several mini-bosses.

• Stage One: Insatiable Hunger
• Stage Two: To The Skies

March on Quel'Danas Raid

The entrance to this raid is located in the southern part of Isle of Quel'Danas; the specific coordinates are /way 2424 52.6 87.5. There are a total of two bosses:

• Belo'ren, Child of Al'ar: Voidlight Convergence, Embers of Belo'ren, Void Ember
• Midnight Falls: Death's Dirge, Safeguard Prism, Disintegration

After April 7th, all difficulty levels for all Season 1 raids will become unlocked, with Mythic being the most dangerous among them. The increase in difficulty is primarily reflected in changes to boss abilities and mechanics; approach these challenges with extreme caution.

Season 1 Dungeons

All playable dungeons are available in Normal, Heroic, Mythic 0, and Mythic+ difficulties. While the first three difficulty levels typically involve straightforward encounters with dungeon bosses, Mythic+ is fundamentally different.

This difficulty tier requires your 5-player dungeon group to complete specific objectives within a strict time limit, while also contending with additional affixes that further increase the challenge.

Furthermore, the specific difficulty level of a Mythic+ dungeon is determined by a Keystone, with the first affix appearing at Keystone Level 2. All Mythic+ affixes include:

• Keystone Level 2 - Lindormi's Guidance
• Keystone Level 4 - Xal'atath's Bargain
• Keystone Level 7 - Fortified and Tyrannical
• Keystone Level 10 - Fortified and Tyrannical (again)
• Keystone Level 12 - Xal'atath's Guile

All loot within a dungeon is awarded collectively only upon the dungeon's completion. Furthermore, the specific Mythic+ dungeons available for challenge, along with their associated rewards, vary from season to season and can only be experienced before the current season concludes.

Each character also possesses a unique Mythic+ rating for every season, serving to continuously track and record your performance in Mythic+ dungeons throughout that season.

There are eight Mythic+ dungeons available in Season 1, categorized into two groups:

Midnight Dungeons:

• Magisters' Terrace
• Maisara Caverns
• Nexus-Point Xenas
• Windrunner Spire

Legacy Dungeons:

• Algeth'ar Academy
• The Seat of the Triumvirate
• Skyreach
• Pit of Saron

What is Great Vault?

Starting in Season 1, if you consistently complete a certain amount of Raids, Mythic+ dungeons, or other content each week, a new reward item will be added to your Great Vault.

Once the weekly routine maintenance concludes and the servers come back online, you can open your Great Vault to select one item from the rewards you deposited during the previous week as your final prize.

New Delves Season

Delves are a special type of short-form dungeon found in Midnight; they can be explored either solo or in a group, with a maximum group size of 5 players.

Each Delve run lasts between 10 and 20 minutes. During this time, the system assigns an NPC to serve as your ally; you, or your group leader if you are in a party, can then customize this NPC to fulfill the specific combat role required for your needs.

Every Delve features a unique scenic layout and backstory, though the specific map structure and enemy compositions remain fixed.

Much like raids and standard dungeons, a significant portion of the content within Delves will be updated and refreshed with the arrival of each new season. In Season 1, your NPC companion is Blood Elf Rogue, Valeera Sanguinar. The playable Delves include:

• The Darkway
• Twilight Crypts
• Atal'Aman
• The Grudge Pit
• The Gulf of Memory
• Parhelion Plaza
• Collegiate Calamity
• The Shadow Enclave
• Den of Echoes
• Shadowguard Point
• Sunkiller Sanctum
• Torment's Rise

The above serves as a general overview of the key details regarding the new content coming soon in WoW Midnight Season 1. If you managed to complete your leveling, your journey through the new season is bound to be much smoother than everyone else's! Have fun!

Regardless of your current progress, if you want to accelerate your advancement once Season 1 goes live, especially when it comes to clearing raids, it is highly recommended that you buy WoW Midnight gold at IGGM right now!

Having more gold not only saves you valuable farming time but also grants you greater trading flexibility, allowing you to acquire the gear or consumables you desire whenever you need them and effortlessly lead your team to victory!