WoW Mythic+ Guide (Midnight Season 2): Dungeons, Loot & Rating

Midnight S2 opened on the week of 18 August 2026 in NA and 19 August on EU. That is 1 week after Patch 12.1 Curse of Ula'tek went live on 11 August. Season 1 closed at that 11 August maintenance. Rated PvP Season 1 had already ended the night before.

The Season 2 Mythic+ track is the live ladder now. A timed +10 still unlocks the dungeon portal for that instance. End-of-dungeon item level and the Great Vault both jump at +10. The 1st full Season 2 Great Vault paid out at the 25 August reset. By the 27 October reset in NA, 10 full weeks of keys had run on this pool.

Blizzard printed the Season 2 title track on the same announcement. 1500 rating awards the title the Venomous. 2000 awards Breath of Blight and is the Keystone Master line. 3000 awards Breath of Ruin and is the Keystone Legend line. The Keystone Myth title on this season is the Venomous Contender. Percentile titles Venomous Champion and Venomous Hero sit above the score track.

Blizzard has shown a Season 3 dungeon pool and named Eclipse as the last major Midnight update. Blizzard has not printed a Season 3 calendar day. Treat Season 2 as the live season until that day exists. Portals, Keystone Master, Keystone Hero, Keystone Legend, and Keystone Myth stay on this ladder until then. Full Season 2 raid and delve notes live on the Midnight Season 2 guide.

What this season kept from Season 1: the +2 to +12 affix ladder, Lindormi's Guidance on low keys, and a weekly Bargain at +5. What this season replaced: the 8-dungeon pool, the crest names, and the item-level numbers on every key. Dawncrests are gone. Mistcrests sit on the Season 2 upgrade track. A timed +10 is still the gear cap for the weekly vault. Keys above +10 raise rating, crests, and portals.

Patch 12.1.5 is the mid-season update. It went live on 13 October in NA and 14 October on EU. Keystone Myth came back with a 3600 rating line. The week of 20 October unlocked Ascendant Venomstones and removed the weekly cap on Mistcrests. Orin Straylight in Silvermoon City starts the Venomstone quest chain. Only characters that finished the quest Ascending with Venomstones collect them.

The live pool is 8 dungeons. Altar of Fangs is brand new this season. Murder Row, Den of Nalorakk, Blinding Vale, and Voidscar Arena are Midnight instances that sat out Season 1. King's Rest and Temple of Sethraliss return from Battle for Azeroth. Ruby Life Pools returns from Dragonflight. Timers below are the Season 2 keystone clocks.

Dungeon	Origin	Timer	Why groups pick it
Altar of Fangs	new, 12.1	30:00	3-boss route. Shortest new-instance timer. Most groups learn this key on night 1.
Murder Row	S2 debut	34:00	Longest clock in the pool. Pack density punishes sloppy pulls more than the timer does.
Den of Nalorakk	S2 debut	32:00	Amu'dar / troll dungeon. Boss scripts are the week-1 wipe source. Trash is the easier half.
Blinding Vale	S2 debut	31:00	Light-and-bloom route. Line and cone tells are the new visual set Blizzard shipped for S2.
Voidscar Arena	S2 debut	30:00	Arena layout. Tight rooms. Interrupt order decides whether a +10 stays inside the clock.
King's Rest	BFA 8.x	33:00	Legacy return. Most players have a route in muscle memory. Still a 4-boss dungeon.
Temple of Sethraliss	BFA 8.x	33:00	Legacy return. The gauntlet and last boss still eat unprepared healers.
Ruby Life Pools	DF 10.x	28:00	Shortest timer in the pool. Fastest weekly +10 once the group knows the 2-wing split.

Altar of Fangs, Murder Row, Den of Nalorakk, Blinding Vale, and Voidscar Arena had no live keystone weeks before 18 August. That is why these 5 keys took groups the longest to learn. King's Rest, Temple of Sethraliss, and Ruby Life Pools are the 3 keys a returning player can time on night 1. Use those 3 to fill the weekly vault while the group learns the 5 new routes.

Blizzard's Season 2 notes also changed how the dungeons play. Cone and line abilities now show the same precast look as the swirlies from The War Within. Creature health is higher, so target priority and damage checks matter more than they did in Season 1. Roleplay events were shortened. Enemy-forces contribution now sits on each mob tooltip. Read the tooltip before you skip a pack you think is optional.

A timed +10 on each of the 8 dungeons unlocks that dungeon's portal. Old-expansion portals you already earned stay on the character. The 5 new portals are the ones most players are still missing. Book the missing +10s before you spend the week on rating keys above the item-level cap.

Season 2 item level sits about 46 levels above the Season 1 track. The end chest and the Great Vault both scale with key level through +10. From +10 upward the chest stays 311 Hero 3/6 and the vault stays 318 Myth 1/6. Keys above +10 still pay Myth crests and rating. Their chest and vault item level does not climb again.

Since the week of 20 October, keys at +10 and higher also drop Ascendant Venomstones. Heroic and Mythic raid bosses, Tier 11 Bountiful Delves, and Nightmare Prey hunt chests drop them too. 10 Venomstones raise 1 fully upgraded Hero or Myth weapon, trinket, or necklace from Season 2. A Myth 6/6 piece goes from 334 to 341. Max-quality Tidal crafted pieces in those slots qualify too. Orin Straylight does the upgrade at the Catalyst in Silvermoon City.

The +9 row is the cheapest Myth-crest farm. The chest and vault on a +9 still pay Hero-track gear. A timed +10 is the 1st key that puts Myth 1/6 in the weekly vault. Most vault hunters stop the gearing keys there and spend leftover nights on rating.

+6 is the 1st key that puts Hero-track gear in the end chest. Push to +6 in week 1 if your ilvl is still Champion-track. Then hold +10 as the weekly vault key for the rest of the season. Crest upgrades from Champion to Hero to Myth use the Mistcrest currencies on this table. Crest counts per key have not been printed as a public number. Plan around the track. A crest-per-run count is a guess. Since the week of 20 October there is no weekly cap on Mistcrests, so extra keys in a week still pay crests.

The Great Vault still asks for 1, 4, and 8 timed keys in the week. 1 timed +10 already unlocks the Myth slot. 4 and 8 timed keys add choices. They do not raise the item-level cap above 318. If you only have 2 nights, spend both on timed +10s you can finish. A depleted +12 that misses the clock still drops the end chest. It does not score as a timed key for rating.

Affixes still stack by key level. The names are the same ladder Season 1 used. The weekly Bargain rotation is what changes each reset.

Lindormi stands near The Timeways portal in Silvermoon City and at the end of a key. Speak to her after +6 if your tank still wants pack highlights. The Group Finder Mythic+ tab shows which of Fortified or Tyrannical is up this week.

Ascendant spawns orbs that you interrupt for Haste and speed. Missed orbs buff the pack. Voidbound spawns a shielded emissary. Break the shield for Versatility and cooldown rate. Pulsar tethers orbs to every player for 15 seconds. Walk into a teammate's orb for Mastery and Leech. Devour is the 4th Bargain. Soak or dispel the devour pools so the pack does not get the damage buff. All 4 Bargains last 30 seconds on a success and 20 seconds on a fail for the enemy buff.

A +12 is also the floor for Resilient Keystones. Time every dungeon in the pool at +12 or higher and that keystone will not drop below 12 on a deplete. There is a matching achievement at every level above 12. You can still lower a key by talking to Lindormi. Push past +12 for rating and resilient floors. The gear track has already capped.

Rating reset to 0 when Season 2 opened. Each timed key writes a score for that dungeon and affix pair. Your season rating is the sum of those best scores across the 8-dungeon pool. A higher key on the same dungeon replaces the old score. A deplete does not.

Dungeon portals unlock per dungeon at a timed +10. Rating plays no part in that unlock. A 2000-rating character can still be missing 2 portals. Finish the missing +10s. Then spend nights on the dungeons that still have a low score.

Venomous Champion and Venomous Hero are percentile titles. They sit on the live ladder above the score titles. They move as the region cutoff moves. Do not treat an old screenshot as the live cutoff. Ask in chat for the live cutoff if that title is the buy.

A clean Keystone Master plan on this pool is 8 timed keys around +10. That is 1 timed +10 per dungeon, plus a few repeats on the keys you already route. Keystone Legend wants the same pool at a higher key. Keystone Myth is the 3600 line and is sold as its own package.

The season entered week 11 on 27 October in NA and 28 October on EU. The 12.1.5 tuning on 13 October (NA) and 14 October (EU) made 6 of the 8 keys easier. Altar of Fangs got the most: Piercing Hiss hits 25% softer, Living Venom has 25% less health, and its Venom Burst hits 50% softer. In Ruby Life Pools, Living Bomb can now be dispelled, and Defier Draghar has 27% less health. Blinding Vale and Voidscar Arena took health and damage cuts too. Murder Row (Fire Bomb) and Temple of Sethraliss (Spark Step) got 1 change each. Den of Nalorakk and King's Rest kept their numbers. The 23 October hotfixes fixed 2 bugs. Nalorakk's Echoing Maul no longer lands in the wrong spot in Den of Nalorakk. In Murder Row, Nibbles' Fel Spray no longer hits players outside its area. Groups know Altar of Fangs and Ruby Life Pools. Murder Row and Temple of Sethraliss still eat pugs on Tyrannical weeks. Pick the key you can time, then pick the key that fills a hole in your score.

Vault night: time a +10. Any dungeon you can finish inside the clock. That +10 also pays Ascendant Venomstones toward a weapon, trinket, or necklace upgrade. Crest night: time +9s if you still need Myth Mistcrests and your group is not ready for both Fortified and Tyrannical. Portal night: the 5 new dungeons, 1 timed +10 each. Rating night: repeat the dungeon whose current score is your lowest. Raise that key 1 or 2 levels.

Skip Bargain entirely by running +12. Guile's 15s death penalty is the trade. If your group dies more than twice, a +10 with Bargain is the cheaper vault key. If your group never dies, +12 is the cleaner night and starts the resilient floor.

Spec meta on this pool is a starting prior. Retunes and the 5 new instances have already moved it. Read the live Midnight tier list for the current S / A / B rows. Bring the spec you play well on this week's Bargain. A mid-row Augmentation Evoker who knows Murder Row will time a +10 faster than an S-row pickup who does not.

Tanks who still want pack highlights after +6 should take Lindormi's Glow. Healers should expect higher creature health than Season 1. DPS should kick the Bargain orbs and the emissary shield before the next pack pull. That habit separates timed +10s from depleted +10s.

Live LFCarry from-prices, read from the Midnight Mythic+ mega packages. These are the numbers checkout charges on the default configuration.

Service	Live from-price	What it is for
Timed +10	$12.96	318 Myth vault slot, 311 chest, portal on that dungeon
Timed +12	$15.96	Same gear cap. Guile instead of Bargain. Resilient floor starts here
Timed +14 / +15	$59.96 / $75.96	Rating keys above the item-level cap
Keystone Master (2000)	$76	Breath of Blight. The usual season program
Keystone Hero	$240	2500-rating step
Keystone Legend (3000+)	$399	Breath of Ruin
Keystone Myth (3600)	$429	the Venomous Contender title and the Timelost Saddle

Self-play puts you in the group. A PRO team plays around you. Zero account sharing. Piloted puts a vetted PRO on your character. The session is streamed start to finish. Rating, loot, crests, and portals stay on your character either way. Pick self-play when you want the route. Pick piloted when you want the weekly lock done on a night you cannot sit.

Quotes from July or mid-August are out of date. Open the Mythic+ builder and read the live package price. Custom key bundles and the catalog row WoW Midnight Mythic+ Boost: Season 2 keys from +2 to +12 sit on the same ladder. End-of-season spikes are normal. Book the season track while Season 2 is the live ladder.