What is the Voidforge?
The Voidforge is located in Voidstorm and maintained by Decimus. By talking to Decimus, players pick up the quest, Building the Voidforge which requires players to collect Elementary Voidcore Shard from raids, dungeons and bountiful delves.
The rewards from this quest are Transmute Elemental Voidcore and there's also a notification that this quest line unlocks The Voidforge which grants "new ways to collect and upgrade powerful items in Midnight Season 1."
After completing the quest chain, which seems to be 6 quests long, you unlock the Voidforge.
Speculation on the Voidforge
While we know the details of the quest chain to unlock the Voidforge, not much is actually known about what the Voidforge actually does. Below, we speculate on what the Voidforge does based on various datamining clues, but this is unconfirmed.
Unlocking the Voidforge
In order to unlock the Voidforge, you need to complete the quest chain. We speculate that this is a 6 week quest chain due to Transmute Elemental Voidcore which mentions:
The Voidforge requires 6 Elemental Voidcores for its completion.
The big unknown question is if the quest chain unlocks right away with Season 1, or will it unlock midway through the season like a Turbo Boost?
What is Midnight's Turbo Boost?
Based on a hidden currency that we've datamined, this seems to be the new Turbo Boost of Midnight. 12.0 Midseason - Voidforge Unlock - Turn-In Tracker has been datamined which links the 12.0 Midseason to the Voidforge. This follows the last two Turbo Boosts which also had hidden currencies clearly linking the Midseason to the Turbo Boost, 11.1.5 Midseason - Turbo-Boost Quest Turn-In Tracker and 11.2.5 Midseason - Turbo-Boost Quest Turn-In Tracker.
From this, it seems reasonable to suspect that the Voidforge will be a Midseason boost, the question is exactly how?
Upgrading Items in Midnight
What exactly does unlocking the Voidforge do? The answer is, unfortunately, we can't find any indication of how this would work from datamining. All we have to go off of is the tooltip of the Voidforge:
Gain access to the Voidforge, granting you new ways to collect and upgrade powerful items in Midnight Season 1.
Because this is a forge, it's entirely possible that you will get to "craft" gear or upgrades on your gear. From a "collect" standpoint, the system could be:
Similar to Valor Points from Wrath, where you get currency from bosses and spend it on gear.
Craft wanted gear from unwanted gear (trade 3 unused trinkets for 1 wanted trinket).
Similar to the Dinar or Puzzling Cartel Chip systems
From an upgrade standpoint, possible speculations include:
Crafting additional upgrade tracks on your items
Upgrading a piece into the next tier (turning a Hero piece into a Myth piece)
Crafting an omni-track onto an upgrade similar to Dragonflight Season 4
But until the Voidforge is unlocked on live servers or the Beta, this is just speculation. What do you want to see from the Voidforge?
