[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":343},["ShallowReactive",2],{"site-settings":3,"article:\u002Fresources\u002Fbriefings\u002Fmidnight-1215-live-keystone-myth-labyrinth":16,"article-surround:\u002Fresources\u002Fbriefings\u002Fmidnight-1215-live-keystone-myth-labyrinth":332},{"id":4,"description":5,"email":6,"extension":7,"footerNote":8,"legalNotice":9,"locale":10,"meta":11,"name":12,"stem":13,"url":14,"__hash__":15},"settings\u002Fsettings.yml","Compare World of Warcraft realms by expansion, region, population and play style.","listings@realmlist.org","yml","An independent realm directory.","Not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment.","en",{},"RealmList","settings","https:\u002F\u002Frealmlist.org","QXaYspLUSxnrVumL6oFir6PInhNsRw-yJchxEYSe1AU",{"id":17,"title":18,"author":19,"body":20,"category":295,"description":296,"draft":297,"extension":298,"featured":297,"meta":299,"navigation":300,"path":301,"publishedAt":302,"seo":303,"sitemap":304,"sources":307,"stem":323,"tags":324,"updatedAt":330,"__hash__":331},"articles\u002Fresources\u002Fbriefings\u002Fmidnight-1215-live-keystone-myth-labyrinth.md","Midnight 12.1.5 Is Live: Keystone Myth Returns at a 3,600 Rating and the Labyrinth Is the Real Headline","RealmList Editorial",{"type":21,"value":22,"toc":285},"minimark",[23,44,47,52,141,155,159,178,184,187,191,210,213,220,224,234,237,241,247,253,259,265,269,279],[24,25,26,27,31,32,35,36,39,40,43],"p",{},"Midnight's ",[28,29,30],"strong",{},"12.1.5"," content update is live. North American realms came back after an ",[28,33,34],{},"eight-hour maintenance window"," on Tuesday, October 13; European realms follow with their own reset on ",[28,37,38],{},"October 14",", and Chinese realms are reported for ",[28,41,42],{},"October 15",". Only Midnight was affected — WoW Classic, Season of Discovery, Hardcore, Mists of Pandaria Classic and the Burning Crusade Anniversary realms all came back after the standard hour.",[24,45,46],{},"The patch is the second half of Season 2, not a new season, and the shape of it says so: new content to play today, a power system that stays locked for another week, and one returning feature that is really a measuring stick for players who have already finished everything else.",[48,49,51],"h2",{"id":50},"what-is-live-now-and-what-is-not","What is live now, and what is not",[53,54,55,68],"table",{},[56,57,58],"thead",{},[59,60,61,65],"tr",{},[62,63,64],"th",{},"Feature",[62,66,67],{},"Status on October 13–14",[69,70,71,80,88,95,102,109,116,123,133],"tbody",{},[59,72,73,77],{},[74,75,76],"td",{},"The Promise of Tomorrow campaign chapter",[74,78,79],{},"Live",[59,81,82,85],{},[74,83,84],{},"The Unbinding of Kith'ix, one-boss raid",[74,86,87],{},"Live — Story, Raid Finder, Normal, Heroic, Mythic",[59,89,90,93],{},[74,91,92],{},"Labyrinth of Kindo'jan",[74,94,79],{},[59,96,97,100],{},[74,98,99],{},"Aqir Invasions (hourly, 10 minutes)",[74,101,79],{},[59,103,104,107],{},[74,105,106],{},"Midnight Keystone Myth: Season 2 achievement",[74,108,79],{},[59,110,111,114],{},[74,112,113],{},"Prey catch-up changes",[74,115,79],{},[59,117,118,121],{},[74,119,120],{},"Warbind-wide Legion and Battle for Azeroth reputations",[74,122,79],{},[59,124,125,128],{},[74,126,127],{},"Ascendant Venomstones and uncapped crests",[74,129,130],{},[28,131,132],{},"Week of October 20",[59,134,135,138],{},[74,136,137],{},"The extra Nebulous Voidcore per week from Orin Straylight",[74,139,140],{},"Live — claim it if you have not",[24,142,143,144,148,149,154],{},"That last line is the one with a deadline attached. The weekly bonus roll became available the week ",[145,146,147],"em",{},"before"," the patch and is granted per week, so a player who only returns on patch day has already forfeited rolls. This is the catch-up chain we ",[150,151,153],"a",{"href":152},"\u002Fresources\u002Fbriefings\u002Fmidnight-1215-release-date-october-13","walked through when Blizzard dated the patch",": one step per reset, gated behind the previous one, with Ascendant Venomstones landing on October 20.",[48,156,158],{"id":157},"keystone-myth-is-back-and-it-wants-a-3600-rating","Keystone Myth is back, and it wants a 3,600 rating",[24,160,161,162,165,166,169,170,173,174,177],{},"The mid-season rating gate returns as ",[28,163,164],{},"Midnight Keystone Myth: Season 2",", requiring a ",[28,167,168],{},"Mythic+ rating of at least 3,600",". It pays a title — ",[28,171,172],{},"\"the Venomous Contender\""," — and a ",[28,175,176],{},"Timelost Saddle",", alongside targeted dungeon tuning.",[24,179,180,181,183],{},"Blizzard's stated purpose is to give the players who have already outgrown ordinary Keystone progression something to aim at during the back half of a season, rather than letting them drift until Season 3. What makes the number interesting is the order of operations: the new raid, the Labyrinth's reward track, Venomstones and uncapped crests all add power in the same window, and all of it lands ",[145,182,147],{}," the rating push. Keystone Myth is therefore not an isolated achievement; it is the end of a mid-season power ramp that Blizzard is releasing in stages.",[24,185,186],{},"The practical read for anyone chasing it: you cannot buy the weeks back. Rating is a weekly accumulation problem as much as a skill problem, and starting on October 20 with the crest cap lifted is materially worse than starting on October 13.",[48,188,190],{"id":189},"the-labyrinth-is-the-part-worth-your-time","The Labyrinth is the part worth your time",[24,192,193,194,197,198,201,202,205,206,209],{},"Blizzard's first ",[28,195,196],{},"Labyrinth"," — a mega-delve version of the Delve system — is the Labyrinth of Kindo'jan, an ancient Amani funeral complex sealed for centuries and now reopened to looters and Vilebranch trolls alike. It has ",[28,199,200],{},"nine full wings",", and it can be cleared a wing at a time or run whole for a \"far richer treasure room.\" The delve's Nemesis boss, ",[28,203,204],{},"Kindo'Jan himself",", waits at the end, and the reward track is pitched at a scale Delves have not reached before — including ",[28,207,208],{},"1\u002F6 Myth-track items",".",[24,211,212],{},"That reward line is the actual story. Delves have always been the game's solo-viable progression path with a ceiling below group content; a Labyrinth that hands out Myth-track gear is Blizzard testing how far up that path can go without undermining raids. If it holds, it is the most generous solo progression the game has shipped. If it does not, it will be tuned down in a hotfix, and the players who cleared it in week one will have banked the difference.",[24,214,215,216,219],{},"Alongside it, ",[28,217,218],{},"Aqir Invasions"," run for ten minutes every hour in Eversong Woods or Zul'Aman, ending in a boss fight — the repeatable, no-group-required content on the patch's list, and the thing to do if you only have one hour a week.",[48,221,223],{"id":222},"the-raid-briefly","The raid, briefly",[24,225,226,229,230,233],{},[28,227,228],{},"The Unbinding of Kith'ix"," is a single-boss raid beneath the Vaults of Atal'Utek on the Coiled Isle, with Lady Liadrin fighting beside you. It runs the full difficulty ladder from Story Mode to Mythic, and ",[28,231,232],{},"Mythic is flexible at 15–25 players"," — the same structure seen on Rotmire. Loot starts at 285 item level in Raid Finder, 298 on Normal, 311 on Heroic and 324 on Mythic, including cantrip armour, weapons and trinkets, with cosmetic extras such as Liadrin's paladin wings from Mythic.",[24,235,236],{},"It is a single encounter rather than a wing because it closes the Quel'Thalas and Zul'Aman storyline Ula'tek opened — the C'Thraxxi general that the serpent, apparently, had been keeping contained. Blizzard is presenting 12.1.5 as the dramatic conclusion of that arc, which is why the patch's features reinforce one another: the campaign wakes Kith'ix, the raid sends you at him, the invasions show his forces reaching the surface, and the Labyrinth opens another piece of the same region's history underneath.",[48,238,240],{"id":239},"smaller-changes-that-affect-returning-players","Smaller changes that affect returning players",[24,242,243,246],{},[28,244,245],{},"Prey catch-up."," Characters below Journey Rank 4 now receive an entire rank's worth of Journey progress from a single hunt, and players between Ranks 4 and 9 get accelerated progress from their first four weekly hunts. Blizzard's stated goal is that a returning player should not feel the system is already out of reach.",[24,248,249,252],{},[28,250,251],{},"Housing."," Floorplan editing gains keybinds for moving between floors, the Blueprint Collection opens directly from the housing controls, and multi-level stairwells now export together. Public Neighbourhoods can no longer receive the same Endeavor twice in a row.",[24,254,255,258],{},[28,256,257],{},"Reputations."," Legion and Battle for Azeroth reputations are now Warband-wide — a small change that retroactively pays out for anyone who ground them on a character they no longer play.",[24,260,261,264],{},[28,262,263],{},"Achievements."," A new Mythic+ achievement, Midnight Keystone Myth: Season 2, joins the list, and Snake Eyes, Snake Eater and Good Night, Sweet Prince are no longer required for Glory of the Wartorn Hero.",[48,266,268],{"id":267},"also-this-week-elsewhere-in-wow","Also this week, elsewhere in WoW",[24,270,271,272,275,276,209],{},"The Burning Crusade Anniversary realms are scheduled to move to ",[28,273,274],{},"Phase 3.5 and Zul'Aman on October 22",", a week behind the Midnight update, with the possibility of extra maintenance on the Tuesday before. And the Forever beta continues on its own Thursday maintenance cadence until it closes on ",[28,277,278],{},"October 21",[280,281,282],"note",{},[24,283,284],{},"Accurate as of October 14, 2026, within about 24 hours of the North American launch. The October 13\u002F14 rollout and maintenance windows come from Blizzard Watch and MMORPG Network; the Keystone Myth rating, Prey catch-up values, Labyrinth structure and item-level figures come from Icy Veins' 12.1.5 guide and IDCGames' launch write-up, and the Chinese rollout date is from Chinese-language coverage we have not verified against an official notice. RealmList has not played 12.1.5 and cannot confirm drop rates, Labyrinth tuning, item levels or the live difficulty of Kith'ix — item levels and tuning described here are from pre-launch sources and are routinely adjusted by hotfix after launch. Verify current values in game or on Blizzard's own patch notes before planning around any of it.",{"title":286,"searchDepth":287,"depth":287,"links":288},"",2,[289,290,291,292,293,294],{"id":50,"depth":287,"text":51},{"id":157,"depth":287,"text":158},{"id":189,"depth":287,"text":190},{"id":222,"depth":287,"text":223},{"id":239,"depth":287,"text":240},{"id":267,"depth":287,"text":268},"briefings","The mid-season update went live October 13 in North America and October 14 in Europe after an eight-hour maintenance. 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