Max Level Guide for Midnight: Top Priorities & Activities

Exploring Max-Level Content in Midnight Expansion

With the Midnight expansion now live, reaching level 90 opens up a myriad of compelling max-level content. Whether you've breezed through dungeons or embraced every side quest to reach this milestone, there are essential steps to embark upon before diving deep into Midnight's endgame.

Finishing the Campaign

Achieving level 90 should prompt you to complete the story campaign if you haven't already. Completing the campaign is crucial, as it unlocks several aspects of the game, including:

• World Quests
• Adventure Mode on alts
• The Prey System

Ensure you've progressed the main story quests up to the "Daylight is Breaking" quest in Silver Moon. This will prepare you to take full advantage of endgame activities and keep the narrative going.

Gearing Up for Endgame

Once the campaign is complete, the focus shifts to improving your gear. Midnight expansion introduces a streamlined gear progression system with five distinct tracks:

1. Adventurer
2. Veteran
3. Champion
4. Hero
5. Myth

   Each gear track corresponds to specific crests used for upgrades, making it easier to navigate and select appropriate content to match your current item level. The absence of valor stones simplifies the gear upgrade process, reducing it to crests and a bit of gold.

Maximizing Weekly Rewards

Engaging in weekly activities is an effective method to boost your gear and collect valuable resources. Here's a prioritized list of tasks:

1. Unity Against the Void Quest: Gain a pinnacle cache and sparks of radiance, crucial for crafting high-level gear.
2. Midnight World Tour: Complete events in each zone, rewarding you with sparks of radiance.
3. Zone-Specific Weekly Events: Pick up and complete quests in different zones for extra pinnacle caches.

   These pinnacle caches provide veteran gear and other valuable currencies, facilitating a smoother preparation for upcoming seasons.

Weekly Activity Breakdown

Here's a simple table to quickly review where key weekly tasks can be found:

These tasks ensure you’ll efficiently gather the required gear and resources, setting you up for a successful journey through Midnight’s endgame. Engaging in these activities will prepare your characters and maximize your readiness for future content.

Gearing Up Through World Quests

World quests are a central feature to consider as you journey through Midnight’s endgame. Each week, you can uncover two special assignment world quests on your map. To unlock them, you must complete three other world quests within the same zone. These special assignments reward you with a pinnacle cache, substantially enhancing your gear collection. Here are some key points about what world quests offer:

• Adventurer gear and crests
• Extra currency, renown, and reputation
• Various other rewards that might be beneficial early in your gearing journey

Checking your world quests every couple of days ensures you're always aware of potential upgrades.

Unlocking and Completing Prey Hunts

To further bolster your character’s strength, unlock the prey system by visiting Aelor Bloodsworn in Silver Moon. Completing his quests will permit you to engage in normal prey hunts from the bounty map, offering adventurer gear and crests. Progress further to unlock:

1. Normal Prey Hunts: Initial stage for adventurer gear.
2. Hard Mode Prey Targets: Available after returning to Aster, rewards include veteran gear.
3. Nightmare Mode: Unlocked by reaching renown rank four; offers champion gear and crests.

   Each week, complete four prey hunts to maximize journey progress, making future content more accessible.

Delve Adventures

Participate in delves, which are akin to "The War Within." Currently, there are eight delves available with two more arriving mid-season. Delves reward you with:

• Adventurer crests
• Various currencies and gear
• Delve companion bonuses

Completing higher-level delves brings better rewards, especially once bountiful delves are active in the new season. Prepare by aiming for tier eight delves to receive the top gear and vault rewards once the season is in full swing.

Dungeon Experiences

Dungeon exploration is suited for group activities, offering several options:

• Normal Dungeons: Provide item level 214 gear, though these cannot be upgraded.
• Heroic Dungeons: Offer item level 224 adventurer gear, upgradable with acquired crests.
• Mythic Zero Dungeons: Deliver item level 240 veteran gear, among the highest available before the season starts.

Facilitating quite a few upgrade opportunities, these dungeons require organizing groups through the pre-made group finder, especially useful for Mythic Zero.

Building Renown with Factions

Another vital activity is increasing your renown with Midnight’s four key factions: the Ammani Tribe, the Singularity, the Harati, and Silver Moon Corp. Each faction offers a host of rewards such as:

• New quests and content
• Cosmetics like transmog and mounts
• Profession recipes and gear

To increase renown, accumulate 2,500 points per level through:

• Story quests and side missions
• World quests and events
• Killing rares and opening treasures

Utilize contracts for a slight reputation boost while completing world quests to capitalize on every opportunity presented. Additionally, items marked by a magnifying glass or banner on your map signify easy-to-collect reputation bonuses.

Professions and Crafting

Consider honing your professions, as they provide diverse gear upgrades and significant gold-making potential. Focus can be on:

• Gathering materials for auction sales
• Crafting personal gear
• Becoming an alchemist for potion production

Professions offer a robust avenue for character improvement as your Midnight journey progresses.

Maximizing Your Midnight Experience

Professions and Gear Crafting

Professions in Midnight offer a unique way to enhance your gameplay by allowing you to level them up, expand specialization trees, and create significant gear upgrades. Initially, crafted items start at a modest 200 item level, but by using adventurer or veteran crests, you can elevate these items to 237 or even 246 item levels. Although costly—up to 80 crests per item—this method provides a viable path for those rich in crests without other immediate demands.

If you're ready to dive into crafting, visit the crafting order clerks in Silver Moon. Here, you'll receive a quest rewarding you with a selection of materials, perfect for kickstarting your crafting, whether to keep or sell for a profit. This quest can be repeated across all level 80 alts, allowing for a substantial accumulation of materials.

Engaging in the crafting system allows:

1. Crafting personal high-item level gear
2. Specializing in unique recipes for epic crafts
3. Utilizing sparks of radiance for top-tier equipment

   For players not interested in developing professions, the crafting order system remains a valuable alternative.

Story and Exploration

Beyond gearing, Midnight offers rich story elements. Weekly quests in the Arcantina reward players with unique décor items for housing, appealing to those intrigued by narrative elements and personalization. Additionally, exploration achievements such as the Midnight Pathfinder grant rewards like steady flying, offering precise control in difficult-to-reach areas.

Engage in exploration to:

• Gain new mounts like the Crimson Dragon Hawk through Midnight Glyph Hunter achievements
• Unlock steady flying, ideal for treasure hunting

Building an Alt Army

As the content progresses, diversifying your roster with max-level alts can be highly beneficial. Alternate characters allow participation across various quests and expedite resource gathering. Players can level up through campaign quests, side missions, or delves, with efficiency increasing as you unlock experience bonuses.

To further optimize leveling:

• Use different class specializations for variety
• Level multiple professions for versatility
• Keep an eye on bonus events like the Dark Moon Fair for experience boosts

Upcoming Events

Staying updated with in-game events is crucial for making the most out of Midnight's opportunities. Events like:

• Dark Moon Fair: Provides a 10% experience boost
• Time Walking Event: Offers new gearing opportunities, starting March 31st
• Midnight Dungeon Event: Unlocks heroic raid gear

These events can significantly enhance your progression and provide a fresh challenge, maintaining the excitement and engagement with the new expansion. With these strategies and insights in mind, the opportunities within Midnight are abundant, offering a fulfilling and diverse gameplay experience.