Midnight 12.1.5 Update: New Raid and All Changes

Update 12.1.5 launches on October 14, 2026 in Europe and October 13 in the Americas. The second season continues in Midnight, bringing the The Unbinding of Kithix raid, the Labyrinth of Kindojan, aqir invasions, and new ways to upgrade your gear. Class talents, dungeon balance, Hunts, housing, and the interface are also changing.

12.1.5 continues the second season. The new raid and Labyrinth expand the activities and reward sources available, while seasonal upgrades help you prepare for more difficult keys.

After Ul'atek is defeated, the bonds holding Kithix weaken. The ancient enemy of the Amani becomes a new threat to Quel'Thalas and Zul'Aman. The story continues with a united effort against him and a battle alongside Lady Liadrin.

The new campaign begins with a quest from Lor'themar Theron in Silvermoon. Completing the first chapter unlocks participation in aqir invasions.

The raid is designed for characters at level 90 and features one boss: Kithix. Story Mode, Raid Finder, Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulties are available. Mythic's special feature is a flexible group size of 15 to 25 players.

Learn more about the new raid in our article.

The Labyrinth of Kindojan is a large Delve consisting of nine halls that you can explore with Valira Sanguinar. Inside, you will find combat challenges, traps, puzzles, secret rooms, and chests. You can choose the route between the halls.

Learn more about the new Mega-Delve in our article.

The new event takes place in Eversong Woods and Zul'Aman. The active zone changes each week; the location and countdown to the start are shown by the scarab icon on the map.

1. Event objectives appear at the start of every hour.
2. For 10 minutes, players complete as many objectives as possible.
3. A group boss appears afterward. Players have another five minutes to defeat it.

There are six types of scenarios in total: three combat scenarios and three non-combat scenarios. The combat variants have eight additional modifiers:

• An enemy appears and shields the other aqir with a barrier.
• Underground attacks launch nearby players into the air.
• Moving Void orbs that must be avoided.
• Crystal explosions that are dangerous to both aqir and players.
• Numerous small aqir replace the usual enemies.
• A smaller number of empowered enemies replace the usual enemies.
• Infected aqir explode and spread the infection to other creatures.
• Web-spinning enemies appear, and their casts must be interrupted.

Invasion Rewards

Your first boss kill each week rewards an Aqirologist's Satchel containing a piece of gear, Crests, and other resources. Repeat events are useful for reputation and purchasing collectible rewards.

You need 5,000 points to reach the new reputation's maximum rank: completing an invasion objective grants 35, defeating the boss grants 100, and flying through a flying aqir to destroy it grants one. At the maximum rank, you can purchase the Fallen Swarmite for 2,500 Gloomstone Mergel. Pets, toys, decor, and reputation assistance for other Midnight factions are also available.

Additional Voidcore

Start with In the Catalyst's Shadow from Decimus in the Voidstorm, then speak to Orin Wandering Light in Silvermoon and complete Prismatic Potential.

Research requires 10 Elemental Voidcore Shards. They drop from Season 2 raid bosses, Mythic+ dungeons, Bountiful Delves, and Nightmare Mode Hunts. After completing the research, complete Orin's next quest.

This unlocks the purchase of one additional Voidcore per week using one of the following currencies:

You can catch up on missed weekly purchases up to the accumulated overall cap. Voidcores are used for an additional loot roll after an eligible encounter or completion.

Ascendant Voidstones

Orin's next research becomes available on October 14 in Europe. Starting October 21, after completing it and the follow-up quest, you can obtain Ascendant Voidstones.

Sources include:

• Season 2 raid bosses on Heroic and Mythic difficulty.
• +10 and higher Mythic+ dungeons.
• Tier 11 Bountiful Delves.
• Gear chests from Nightmare Mode Hunts.

Use 10 Voidstones at the Catalyst in Silvermoon to further upgrade a weapon, accessory, or necklace. The item must be from Season 2 and fully upgraded at the Hero track or Myth track, or be a max-quality Tidecrafting item.

Items at the higher 344 Myth track cannot be upgraded this way. An item already upgraded with Voidstones cannot be upgraded again.

The Crest acquisition cap is also removed on October 21 in Europe.

The following ability and talent changes include additions to the October 13 patch notes.

The following adjustments take effect with the update on October 14 in Europe.

Altar of Fangs

• Primal Serpent: damage from Piercing Hiss reduced by 25%, cooldown increased by 10%.
• Voracious Offspring: health reduced by 9%.
• Two-Headed Biter: health reduced by 6%.
• "Paralyzing Shots": periodic damage reduced by 20%, duration reduced to 14 seconds from 20.
• Ritual Chieftain: healing absorption from Blood Offering reduced by 12%.
• Rattlescale: health reduced by 6%.
• "Rattle": periodic damage reduced by 25%.
• Grand Evolutionist: Evolution is now more visually noticeable when cast.
• Bloodletter: health reduced by 5%.
• Ascended Serpent: health reduced by 21%.
• Living Poison: health reduced by 25%, Poison Explosion damage reduced by 50%.
• Rav'i: periodic damage from Remains Explosion reduced by 10%.
• Zul'jan: periodic damage from Cleaving Axes reduced by 15%.

Murder Row

• Zaen Mourningblade: Fire Bomb damage reduced by 33%.
• Fixed safe-cover detection in the boss mechanic: the game will no longer designate a barrel as safe cover when the character is not actually standing behind it.

Ruby Life Pools

• Earthwrought Guardian: direct damage from Earthwrought Imprint reduced by 21%.
• Periodic damage from Earthwrought Imprint reduced by 13%.
• Draghar the Defiant: health reduced by 27%.
• Elemental Warrior Ashweaver: Living Bomb can now be dispelled; it does not explode when dispelled.
• Storm Warrior: Thunderous Stomp damage reduced by 18%.
• High Enchantress Rivathi: Raging Storm Shield now absorbs 15% of maximum health instead of 20%.
• Melidrussa Chillworn: charged drakonids use Cold Claws less often.
• Kokia Blazehoof: health of the Raging Inferno reduced by 12.5%.
• Inferno direct damage reduced by 18%, and periodic damage reduced by 14%.

Temple of Sethraliss

• Static Anomaly: Sparkstep damage reduced by 25%.

Blinding Vale

• Sporeblight Belcher: health reduced by 11%.
• Periodic damage from Floral Radiance reduced by 16%.
• Spore Belch damage reduced by 16%; the number of projectiles per cast reduced from five to three.
• Radiant Enchanter: Light Volley damage reduced by 16%.
• Lightwarden Ruyia: periodic damage from Brightlight reduced by 15%.
• Crushing Blows damage reduced by 12%.
• Zikket: Lightborn Lashling health reduced by 10%.
• Lightspore Shot damage reduced by 16%.
• Xylem Slime damage reduced by 16%.
• "Aggressive Recovery" now increases attack speed and damage by 20% instead of 30%.

Voidscar Arena

• Wild Saberon: cooldown of Wild Leap increased by 25%.
• Chitigot: channeling time reduced from 10 to eight seconds.
• Brutal Overseer: damage increase from Brutal Strikes per hit reduced from 10% to 8%.
• Atrox: periodic damage from Toxic Surge reduced by 11%.
• Periodic damage from Toxic Aura reduced by 20%.
• Charon: periodic damage from Concentrated Mass reduced by 20%.

Spiral Altar

Mythic difficulty

• The initial number of Poisonous Deluge orbs in Phase One has been reduced from 10 to eight.
• Four Infectious Mutagens now appear in Phase One instead of five.
• March of Horror now targets three players instead of four.

Other encounter changes

• The radius of Infectious Mutagen and Mutagenic Poison has been reduced from eight to six yards.
• Manifestations of Horror immediately show a red glow around their selected target.
• If the focus target dies, the manifestation disappears instead of switching to another player.
• The detection and stun angle of manifestations has been increased by 10 degrees.
• Eternal Midnight lasts two seconds longer.

The last four changes apply on all difficulties.

• The Midnight Keystone Hero: Season 2 achievement has been added for reaching 3,600 rating. Rewards include the Poisoned Challenger title and an item that lets you choose a mount from the corresponding selection.
• Eyes of the Serpent, Serpent Eater, and Sleep, Sweet Prince are no longer required for War Hero's Glory.
• The Labyrinth now has achievements for exploration, completing it, defeating Kindojan solo, and completing it without dying.

• Hunts grant 4,000 progress points up to Rank 4—enough for a full rank.
• This bonus takes priority and does not consume the reward for your first four weekly hunts.
• From Rank 4 through Rank 9, your first four hunts each week grant 2,000 points each.
• Soul items for the associated system must be used between hunts; they cannot be used while a hunt is active.

• In house-layout editing mode, you can switch floors with Page Up and Page Down. Key bindings can be changed.
• You can open the blueprint collection directly using the blueprint management button in your house or on your plot.
• Neighborhoods will no longer receive the same endeavor twice in a row.
• Exporting a stairwell now includes all stairwell rooms connected to it vertically.
• An imported stairwell block can be attached to an existing room from either the floor below or above, as long as it does not intersect other rooms.
• A blueprint's materials list now counts only the dyes that will actually be consumed. Decor that is already dyed appropriately no longer adds unnecessary requirements.
• The decorating-mode tooltip now identifies which dye item is being used.
• The blueprint collection now includes more explanations and tips.
• Material costs have been reduced for profession-crafted decor from expansions through Midnight.
• The chance of obtaining recipes in Delves has been increased.

• Character coordinates now appear below the minimap. You can turn them off or choose to display whole or fractional numbers.
• Raid frames can show a moving dashed outline when your character has an effect that you can dispel.
• A pulsing highlight for dispellable effects on raid frames has been added.
• Macro signals now display information from #showtooltip.
• Sound assistance now includes a repeating alert when your health falls below a selected threshold. The lower your health, the more insistent the sound becomes.
• Trading Post item preview settings, including combat animations, are saved when switching between items.

Reputations from the Legion and Battle for Azeroth expansions are now shared across your Warband. This makes it easier for your alts to access the rewards associated with them.

The Sporebearer Fungal Strider, a ground mount with two customizable companions, arrives with the update.

• The mount costs 5,000,000 gold.
• Basic services include mail and a repair vendor.
• Unlocking the transmogrifier costs 500,000 gold.
• Unlocking the auction house costs 1,500,000 gold.
• The complete package costs 7,000,000 gold and includes two companions at once.
• The mount itself is available for purchase only during the Midnight expansion. Additional services and customization will remain available afterward.

The mount and upgrades are sold by Showena in The Den, Harandar. The nearby Hoshena changes the companion lineup.