Blizzard has released the Patch 12.1 PTR Development Notes, which include a huge amount of class changes for Midnight Season 2!

Midnight: Curse of Ula’tek 12.1 PTR Development Notes

NEW CAMPAIGN CHAPTERS

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Continue the story of Zul’jan as the fog lifts from the island off the east coast of Zul’Aman. We’ll join Zul’jarra as she pursues him to bring her brother and others home to Zul’Aman. We’ll delve into a long-buried history of the Coiled Isle, learn more about what is locked away, and who was left behind.

THE COILED ISLE

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Within the mountain on the Coiled Isle, you’ll undertake a variety of new activities as you explore this corrupted eco-system filled with poisonous waters and venomous foes.

Plunge into the Vaults of Atal’Utek primed for challenging group content and rotating public events. Taking part in these public events will ultimately build up to a boss fight.

While in the zone players will have access to a custom talent tree that will provide different perks of player power along with quality-of-life perks. Ex: Reduce the potency of the venom in the zone.

As you adventure through the zone, you’ll come across Curse Surges which will regularly spawn rare elites at five rotating locations throughout the isle. Killing a rare elite unlocks Cursed Fishing in that location.

You’ll also discover a Local story with a tortollan sea captain named Tokka, gain reputation with his crew, and learn to fish in more cursed waters around the isle.

INTRODUCING LAIRS

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Lairs are an evolution on world bosses located in instanced encounters with scaling difficulty up to flexible Mythic with 15-25 players. These will be found in specific locations similar to Delves and will come complete with a summoning stone outside the lair.

The goal is to make it easier for players to gather and take on these bosses by encountering them at specific locations where you can choose your difficulty and use the summoning stone to bring others to you.

The Lair will be available for testing in a later PTR build.

NEW RAID: THE VENOMOUS ABYSS

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Arriving with the start of Midnight Season 2, players will face Ula’tek herself in the Venomous Abyss. An ancient powerful creature of hatred, corruption, and venom, Ula’tek has been unleashed by Zul’jan’s actions. This new raid dungeon will feature eight new boss encounters and you’ll ultimately face off against Ula’tek as the final boss.

Raid testing schedule can be found here: The Venomous Abyss Raid Testing Schedule

NEW DUNGEON: ALTAR OF FANGS

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This new three boss dungeon will be available up to Heroic difficulty at the launch of the content update and will join the Mythic+ rotation once Midnight Season 2 begins a week after the launch.

The Altar of Fangs dungeon will be available for testing in a later PTR build.

DELVES

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Take on three new Delves with one of these Delves as a new Nemesis Delve. You’ll step into The Ring of Glory, Gnarldor Isle, and the Venomfall Deeps Nemesis Delve for new rewards (and a little glory). With the start of Midnight Season 2, Bountiful Delves will become available and players will be able to push into the upper tiers to challenge themselves beyond Tier 7 and face the new Nemesis boss.

You’ll also begin encountering new snake and venom variants in existing Midnight Delves.

SEASON 2

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One week after the content update goes live the new season will begin, bringing with it a new dungeon rotation for Mythic+, a new raid, new PvP Season, more Prey, and Bountiful Delves and keys become available.

Mythic+ Dungeon Rotation

New Dungeon: Altar of Fangs

Murder Row

Den of Nalorakk

The Blinding Vale

Voidscar Arena

Returning Dungeons

King’s Rest

Ruby Life Pools

Temple of Sethraliss

The Season 2 dungeons will be available for testing in a later PTR build.

PREY

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Season 2 brings about new Affixes, new targets, and some new hunts on the Coiled Isle in Prey.

Astalor also has a few new voice lines to deliver to you and new Arcantina Quests are ahead.

The new Prey season will be available for testing in a later PTR build.

HOUSING

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Neighborhoods and player houses will become available in next week’s build.

BLUEPRINTS

Blueprints let players save their housing creations to swap between or share them with other players!

Blueprint codes can be shared cross-region (excluding China) with other players for them to import as well.

Blueprints operate on the entire house (both inside and out), the interior only, the exterior only, or a single room.

When importing, a list of all required rooms and decor will be shown, including the budget needed, what’s missing, and so on so players know what’s about to happen or what they need.

Importing will also try to do the “right” thing for dyed items (using correctly dyed items, potentially dyeing items, but NOT replacing already dyed items, etc).

Players can have up to 50 “save slots” for their different layouts, as well as 10 additional ones for “auto-saves”.

Auto-saves are automatically created when importing a Blueprint so players can easily revert.

Players now have an additional house permission called “Export” that defaults to no one. Other players visiting a house where they pass this permission can choose to import into their own save slots.
Blueprint codes can be linked in chat and inspected there as well.
Blueprints can be reported.
A Reset button has also been added that will reset the whole house or just the interior or exterior if someone wants to start over from scratch.

PETS

Pet Beds allow players to show off their pets both in and outside their house.

Players can place up to 10 beds inside and up to 5 beds outside. Once a bed is placed, players can select a pet to make its home there.

Indoor pets can be set to either Stationary or Roaming while pets placed outdoors are only Stationary for the time being.

A small number of pets are unavailable to be placed for a variety of reasons.

ENDEAVORS

There are 4 new Endeavors:

Knock-off Amani(this is the featured Endeavor with the release of Curse of Ula’tek)

Griftah and his travelling troupe of traders would like to visit the neighborhood to trade their “traditional Amani goods”. It’s fairly obvious that these are not original Amani items, however the neighborhood residents are interested nonetheless.

Every Bakar Has Its Day

Residents of the neighborhood love their pets, but they could use some help training them. The centaurs of the Ohn’ahran Plains have very strong bonds with their bakar and they may be willing to pass on some training tips.

Candle Culture

Strange wax deposits have started to appear in the neighborhood. Who better to find a use than the Kobolds of the Ringing Deeps? Seek their counsel on illumination.

Vacation Season

The Tortollans are a worldly folk. So worldly, in fact, that they need no introduction to your neighborhood–they’ve been vacationing here long before you put down your roots! Share in their recreational wisdom.

Players may notice new things in their Neighborhood based on the Endeavors that have been completed, both old and new.

DYE UPDATES

Dye crafting has been streamlined, considerably freeing up bag space taken up by dyes.

New dye colors have been added, including those that replicate the darker appearances from before 12.0.5.

More information can be found in the I Bet You’re Dyeing to Hear About This thread.

HOUSES

Houses can now reach level 12, unlocking increased limits, large exteriors, and more.

Players can now move the entry room anywhere in the house, including other floors! Finally, basement dreams can be realized!

Two new categories have been added for decor:

Vines and Hanging Plants

Pet Beds

Removed an extra pop-up when deleting a room with no Decor in it.

DISCORD

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It won’t be long before you’ll be able to speak with your guildmates both in and out of the game by connecting your Battle.net and Discord accounts to chat with your guild no matter where they are. Whether you’re coordinating your next raid run, looking for more to join you in game for PvP, or just hanging out in your neighborhoods together, you’ll be able to send messages between the two quickly and easily.

This new feature will be available to test on the PTR next week. We’ll let you know when the feature is live and ready for testing!

More details can be found in our article.

CONTINUE THE HUNT FOR XAL’ATATH WITH ARATOR
We’ll also get an update on Arator as he deals with the fallout from the Voidspire and we’ll also investigate the resurgence of the Twilight’s Blade with him as we continue the hunt for Xal’atath.

DUMMY DOME ON THE PTR
Season 2’s PTR includes the DUMMY DOME!, a new test zone full of combat dummies and 50,000 pounds of MUD MUD MUD that you can reach by speaking to Nexus-Lord Donjon Rade IX in major cities. In this high-octane training arena, you can initiate fights against 1, 2, 3, or 5 dummies that have the same armor as Season 2 raid bosses and whose health decreases steadily over 5-minute encounters for maximum Execution Accuracy. Adrenaline junkies can also spawn a Hazardous Dummy that deals ramping steady damage that will literally kill you and your friends if you don’t heal through it. So rev your engines and cause some CARNAGE!

CLASSES

Player health and creature damage has been increased by 25% at max level. Health consumable values have been adjusted to match new health values.

Developers’ notes: In Curse of Ula’tek, we’ve decided to increase player health and enemy damage by 25% for max level players. We’ve made similar adjustments at the start of Midnight and also in early Dragonflight. Our intent is for damage to be less spiky and for he...

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