World of Warcraft Midnight Endgame Checklist

What to Do in World of Warcraft: Midnight – Your Endgame Checklist

Okay, so you just hit level 90 in World of Warcraft: Midnight. First, congratulations – that’s always a rush. But now what? The game has evolved so much over the years that trying to keep track of every available activity, especially at the start of a new expansion, feels like a full-time job. The in-game adventure journal barely scratches the surface, and new systems often get buried under mountains of content.

Sure, the simple answer is “do everything,” or the meta answer is “only do things that give your character power.” But regardless of your chosen path, you’re still staring down a huge list. We’ve broken it down into a more practical checklist, covering the essentials and some often-overlooked parts of Midnight’s initial endgame, all from the perspective of someone who’s actually been through this dance many times before.

Campaigns and Core Unlocks: Don’t Skip the Narrative (Mostly)

The most obvious first step is to finish the main story campaign. We’re talking about those big, special exclamation mark quest chains that kick off in each zone. It might sound like a given, but you’d be surprised how many players rush to the level cap and then wonder why certain core systems aren’t available.

For example, completing the Arator’s campaign is how you unlock the Arcan’tina, a neat little endgame activity focused on more immersion and storytelling. You’ll also notice the Void Storm campaign generally isn’t active until you’ve cleared the others. The good news? For your alts, you can typically skip these major campaign lines once you’ve done them on your main. Usually, this means a quick chat with Liadrin in your main capital or finding Sauridormi in Silvermoon.

On a related note, the Hand of Ragnaros campaign is essential if you want to unlock the titular allied race as a playable option. And if you’re still pushing through the story, Silvermoon has a unique questline centered around the demon hunter Belath Dawnblade. Assisting him in the dungeon can even net you his war glaives as a cosmetic appearance. These drop separately from the dungeon’s regular loot table, so don’t expect them from a boss. If you’re planning to farm them specifically via Mythic+, you’ll likely need to wait until Season 2 for that option.

Lastly, if you’re not quite level 90 yet, keep an eye out for any active XP bonuses. The Darkmoon Faire’s merry-go-round buff is a classic, giving you 10% bonus XP that you can refresh. Beyond that, events like the “Winds of Mysterious Fortune” pre-patch buff or Time Walking dungeons (especially with a pre-made group that can blast through them) remain the fastest ways to hit max level. Don’t waste time grinding if there’s an active XP event on the calendar.

Weekly Chores: Your Essential Reset Grind

Every week, new weekly quests pop up, and you’ll want to clear these on your characters as soon as you can. Some rewards, like Renown, are often only lootable once per Warband, but the gold and other consumables are usually fair game for all your characters. You can typically pick and choose which activities you want to do from the weekly list, as the core rewards tend to be the same.

These weeklies are also your primary source for acquiring the sparks needed to craft gear pieces early in the season. Crafting is a decent way to circumvent the early gearing limitations, especially if your raid drops are terrible for the first few resets. A veteran’s tip: if you can, save your crests. They’re a capped commodity, especially early on, and you don’t want to waste them on gear you’ll quickly replace. Burning through all your crests on mediocre items feels awful when you finally get that perfect crafted piece or a solid vault option.

Until the season truly kicks off and you have a clearer idea of your BiS list, just focus on completing these weekly quests quickly. It’s a fundamental part of the progression loop, and falling behind here means falling behind in gear and resources.

Beyond Max Level: Achievements, Treasures, and the Grind

If you’ve hit level 90 and still have side quests lingering, make sure to push for zone completion. This usually means completing all “Soldier” and “Treasure” achievements for each zone. While the treasure hunts often reward cool cosmetics like mounts, mogs, toys, and pets, there’s a deeper reason to clear them.

Zone Completion and Treasures: More Than Just Cosmetics

Take the Honored Warrior’s Cache in Zul’Aman, for instance. It’s a significant treasure, often hidden behind collecting specific trophies across the map. You find urns, fight a ghostly warrior, loot a trophy. Do that four times, and you might bag yourself another Amani War Bear mount (the orange one this time). Similarly, in Harandar, those moths drop Luminous Dust, which can be exchanged for another mount and other goodies.

Many players, myself included, ended up getting multiple mounts from just clearing the Harandar treasures and “So Journeyman” achievements. One mount from a specific treasure, another from the achievement itself, and a third from the Luminous Dust collected along the way. While Midnight doesn’t currently have a “campsite” unlock like The War Within’s “All That Jazz” achievement, it’s highly probable that a similar meta-achievement requiring 100% zone completion will be introduced in a later patch. Having to revisit these zones and quests in, say, patch 12.2, purely for a meta-achievement, feels like a massive waste of time when you could have done them now.

Rare Hunting and Gear Farming: The Pugging Reality

Part of clearing those “So Journeyman” achievements is that they often lead you directly to rares and treasures. Rare farming has been a consistent source of reputation and now, more importantly, gear. Midnight allows you to trade rare drops with party members, which is a significant quality-of-life improvement. This helps everyone graduate from questing gear into something suitable for Heroics or even Mythic Zero dungeons.

Many of the “Core” resources (often used for crafting or upgrades) are also rewarded from rare and treasure collecting. If you’re going to group up for this, try to form parties with diverse armor types. Loot RNG is still a thing, and ending up with a plate chest on your mage with no plate wearers in the group just feels like a kick in the teeth. Combining rare routes with your “So Journeyman” and treasure farming makes the grind far more efficient. Knocking out multiple objectives at once is the smart way to approach it.

World Quests: The Smart Approach to Item Level

Don’t forget about World Quests, but approach them strategically. If you can, try to hold off on turning in certain World Quests until later in the week or until your item level is higher. The item level of the rewards often scales with your current gear, and by delaying, you can snag higher iLvl pieces that save you valuable upgrade crests. Crests are a capped resource, especially early in the season, and you don’t want to waste them on gear you’ll quickly replace. However, don’t let world quests time out entirely; aim to squeeze out an extra rank or two until you can reliably move into “Champion” track gear without needing too many upgrades.

Prays and Delves: Endgame Fundamentals

These two systems are core to Midnight’s personal progression, offering a flexible way to gear up outside of raids and Mythic+. Getting them dialed in early is crucial.

Prays: Timing and Rewards

The “Pray” system integrates nicely with everything else on this list. I recommend heading to Astalor, picking a Pray in a zone you’re already farming for quests, rares, or treasures, and letting it progress naturally. Your Pray meter fills up as you do pretty much anything in that zone, which happens quite often. You’ll likely unlock the Pray system before hitting level 90, and after that, alts can engage with it from level 80. However, I absolutely do not recommend doing Prays on lower-level characters.

Prays are locked to main chest rewards only twice per week per difficulty. If you complete them at a lower level, your reward will scale to that level, leaving you with a sad sack of compensatory gold once you reach max level. Instead, wait until your characters are level 90. Completing two Prays for each difficulty at max level not only helps you advance that Renown track for sweet goodies but also rewards a decent amount of gold and an item based on the Pray’s difficulty. This is incredibly useful until you can reliably farm Mythic raid bosses and Mythic +10 vaults for that top-tier gear.

Delves: Pushing for Mythic Crests

Similar to Prays, Delves should be something you prioritize pushing to Tier 8 as soon as possible. Ideally, you never want to open a bountiful Delve chest if it’s not Tier 8 or higher. Tier 8 Delves are where the bountiful chest will start giving you Mythic crests, and crucially, they also unlock Hero gear in your weekly Great Vault. Higher tiers are even better; at Tier 11, you’ll get additional Mythic crests up to a small weekly cap.

The beauty of Delves is that you don’t strictly need a group or a meta class. You just need enough damage and survivability to make it to the end. This system is all about accumulating those Mythic track crests (or the highest tier you can get) and funneling them into crafted gear as quickly as possible. These high tiers and crests aren’t fully available until the season starts, but realistically, you probably won’t be farming Tier 11s in current questing gear anyway. The same logic applies to Nightmare Prays; while they’ll become trivial later in the season, right now, simply getting the content ready to be grinded is your best bet. Even if you can’t push the highest tiers, clearing the highest you *can* for the best possible gear is always better than just waiting around and missing out on weekly rewards.

Dungeons: The Unavoidable Gear Grind

Dungeons are a staple of WoW gearing, and Midnight is no different. Depending on your skill level and how many reliable friends you have, you’ll want to run these at the highest difficulty possible. A few tried-and-true strategies for dungeons include stacking armor types and, if possible, even specific classes to narrow down the loot table and exert some control over the RNG. This is particularly true for Mythic Zeroes, where you’re limited to one run per dungeon per week.

If you can’t quite hit Mythics yet, Heroics are perfectly fine. You can spam queue them or even walk directly inside like a Mythic dungeon if your item level isn’t high enough for the queue. They are surprisingly easy to clear with just campaign gear, provided you have a decent grasp of your class mechanics. A lot of guilds use Heroics as a stepping stone to get everyone up to speed, but often, individual players just need to bite the bullet and grind them out alone or with pugs.

Midnight Endgame Events: Weekly Faction Play

Before the season fully ramps up, Midnight’s weekly events will reward Adventurer gear and crests, which often upgrade to Veteran later on. You’ll want to complete each of the four weekly events once per week. Each event is tied to a specific zone, and thankfully, they’re generally a big improvement in terms of fun compared to some past expansion events. The initial “Endgame Quest World Tour” questline will guide you through all of them the first time, explaining the mechanics.

Everbloom: Southrille Soiree and Faction Rep

In Everbloom, you’ll participate in the Southrille Soiree, setting up a party for the nobles. This involves inviting the four primary factions of Silvermoon: the Magisters (mages), the Farstriders (hunters), the Blood Knights (paladins), and even the Traitors (the cooler Murder Row Rogues). Each faction has a vendor offering unique cosmetics that require high reputation with them. Each week, you choose which faction to favor, getting a bonus if you pick the one Southrille prefers. These favors unlock weekly quests, and the more favor you put into a faction, the more quests you unlock for more reputation. You’ll likely want to max all of them eventually, a system not unlike the Ash’Kahet reputation style from The War Within. Just remember: when you choose one, you lose some reputation with the others, though you typically gain more than you lose, so you’ll eventually max them all out.

Harandor: Legends Event and Lore

Over in Harandor, you have the Legends event. Here, you pick a legendary weapon and complete a quick scenario related to it, unlocking more story and lore about Harandor. It’s a bit like the Disc collection from Dornogal, offering deeper insights into how Harandor came to be and how its factions split from the surface cultures that eventually became trolls and night elves.

Zul’Aman: Abundance Challenge

Zul’Aman hosts the Abundance event, a timed challenge where you loot as much treasure as you can to feed it to Dundun, who then “juices you up.” You keep doing this until you collect 20,000 points to receive your weekly reward. It’s a quick, frantic burst of activity.

Void Storm: Storm Marian Assault (The AFK Special)

Lastly, the Void Storm zone features the Storm Marian Assault, a tower defense scenario. It’s conceptually cute, but honestly, it often devolves into a lot of AFK downtime for many players. You build walls, set up turrets, protect the centerpiece, and then loot your weekly chest. Done. Many groups just want to get through it for the weekly.

Beyond the specific rewards for each event, remember that by doing all this, you’re constantly farming reputation and renown with each faction. These can award higher pieces of gear. For instance, the Void Storm faction can give you a Champion Track trinket at a relatively low rank, like rank eight. It’s easy to get without even noticing, which is a nice bonus.

Final Takeaways

Midnight, like any new expansion, throws a lot at you. The key is to prioritize what matters most for your progression without burning out. Campaigns are crucial for unlocking core systems, so knock those out first. Weeklies are non-negotiable for crests and sparks, even if they feel like a chore. Treasures and achievements might seem like minor side content, but they can pay off big in the long run with mounts and potential meta-achievements.

Be smart with World Quests and dungeon farming; timing your rewards can save valuable resources. And for the new Pray and Delve systems, wait until max level to capitalize on their full reward potential. Don’t fall into the trap of doing them on low-level alts for meager returns. Finally, make sure to engage with the weekly events; some are more engaging than others, but the faction reputation and gear rewards are always worth the effort.

Ultimately, Midnight’s early endgame is about finding your rhythm. There will be frustrating pug groups, inconsistent raid attendance, and weeks where RNG just isn’t on your side. Focus on what you can control, leverage these systems efficiently, and don’t let the sheer volume of content overwhelm you. Good luck out there, and try not to let the inevitable loot drama get to you.