Mythic Plus Dungeons in WoW: Midnight Season 2 Guide

Mythic+ is the timed five-player dungeon mode of World of Warcraft. You put a keystone into the font at the entrance, and your group has to kill every boss and enough trash before the timer runs out, so the dungeon gets harder each time you beat it. This guide is up to date for Midnight Season 2 and patch 12.1.5. It covers the eight dungeons in the rotation, how keys go up and down, the affixes, the loot and crest tables, the Great Vault and the rating rewards up to Keystone Myth.

The Season 2 dungeon pool

Season 2 started in the week of August 18 in the Americas and August 19 in Europe. Altar of Fangs is the new dungeon of patch 12.1, four more come from Midnight, and three return from Battle for Azeroth and Dragonflight.

Timers come from the game files of patch 12.1.5. A hotfix can change them, so the in-game timer is the one that counts.

The October 13 tuning pass made most of the pool easier, and Altar of Fangs got the biggest cuts: several of its trash packs and the Primal Serpent hit for less, and some enemies have less health. Ruby Life Pools, The Blinding Vale, Voidscar Arena, Murder Row and Temple of Sethraliss got cuts as well, while Den of Nalorakk and Kings’ Rest weren’t on the list.

How a keystone works

Every key starts at +2. When your group finishes in time, the key goes up by one level, or by two or three when you beat the timer by a wide margin. When you run out of time you can still finish the dungeon and get loot, but the key drops one level. You can also lower your key by hand when you want an easier week.

Mythic 0 has no keystone and no timer. It now resets daily and drops item level 292, so it’s the usual way to get ready for your first keys.

Once you have timed all eight dungeons at +12, your key gets Resilient protection and can’t fall below +12 when you fail. The same works for every higher level you time in all eight dungeons, so a bad run no longer costs you a week of climbing.

Affixes by key level

Older guides put the end of Lindormi’s Guidance at +4. The table follows the newer Season 2 guides, which agree on +6.

Loot and Great Vault item levels

Gear drops at these item levels, and you raise it later with Mistcrests. Above +10 the item level stops growing, so higher keys pay out in crests, rating and achievements.

Blizzard hasn’t published a full item level table for Season 2. These values are where the current Wowhead and Icy Veins guides agree.

A timed run drops two items for the group, and repeating a dungeon has no weekly lockout, though nobody is promised an item from any single run. For the Great Vault, 1, 4 and 8 dungeons a week each open one more choice. The vault looks at your highest, fourth highest and eighth highest key of the week, so you can run the same dungeon eight times if you like.

Mistcrests and Venomstones

Mistcrests upgrade your gear along its track. Higher keys give more of them, so each upgrade needs fewer runs.

The amounts come from current guides, and Blizzard hasn’t published its own table. How many crests an over-time run gives in Midnight is still unknown.

Patch 12.1.5 removed the weekly crest cap in the week of October 21 in Europe, so you can now upgrade as fast as you can run keys. From the same week, after a short quest chain, every key at +10 or higher drops an Ascendant Venomstone. Ten of them push a fully upgraded Hero item to 328 and a Myth weapon, trinket or necklace to 340. Since higher keys don’t drop more stones, +10 gives the most for your time.

Rating rewards

Every timed key gives your character Mythic+ rating, and higher keys give more. These are the Season 2 goals:

Keystone Myth came with patch 12.1.5 as a goal for the second half of the season. Its Timelost Saddle can be traded once per warband with Lindormi in Silvermoon for a Keystone Master or Keystone Legend mount from an earlier season. Timing a dungeon at +10 or higher also gives you a permanent teleport to its entrance, and the top 0.1% cut-off moves all season, so it isn’t a fixed rating.

How to start Mythic+ this season

1. Run each dungeon on Mythic 0 once. You get item level 292 gear and learn the routes without a timer.
2. Start at +2 in the Premade Group Finder and push your own key up, because timed keys give more rating than the same level done over time.
3. Aim for eight runs a week to fill all three Great Vault slots, then move to +10 once your group times +7 to +9 without trouble.
4. Spend Myth crests on the items you keep longest, such as your weapon and trinkets, and save Venomstones for the slots that reach 340.

If you’d rather skip the weekly grind, a WoW Mythic+ boost runs your keys at the level you choose for the Great Vault, crests, rating or a Keystone mount.

Frequently asked questions

Change Log

• November 2, 2026: rewritten for Midnight Season 2 and patch 12.1.5 with the real dungeon pool, affixes, loot, crest and rating tables.
• April 7, 2026: guide published.