Season 2 Overview
Gearing Changes in Season 2
Blizzard recently announced many gearing changes for Midnight Season 2. This includes changes to the Catalyst, the value of raid rewards, and some changes to the Nebulous Voidcore.
Focusing on the Bonus Roll acquisition changes:
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However, the resulting pace of gearing in Midnight Season 1 was a bit quicker than we initially intended due to a combination of the unlock timing and the number of Voidcore rolls per week, and the increased relative value of Mythic+ dungeon rewards was particularly detrimental to Heroic raiding.
Heading into Season 2, Nebulous Voidcores will be available as a Great Vault reward option from the beginning of the season directly from the Great Vault UI. Decimus has decided to pursue other projects but has generously offered to train Orin Straylight in the basics of weaving Nebulous Voidcores from void energy. Orin has relocated to the Catalyst in Silvermoon to continue his work. Once players have helped Orin kick off his research at the start of the season, he will require eight weeks before being able to provide players with one Nebulous Voidcore each week. Orin is significantly more independent than Decimus and will not require additional weekly quest effort from the player during his research.
This immediate access to Nebulous Voidcores as a Great Vault reward is intended to allow players to begin progressing towards their desired items from the start of the season in a way that offsets the reduced quantity and later timing of supplemental Voidcores.
New Requirement
The change to the Great Vault now appears to have been added to on the Patch 12.1 PTR. A new button has been added to the Great Vault UI, which allows players to directly buy Nebulous Voidcore easily if the gear options aren't looking good. However, there is a requirement to purchase the Bonus Roll from the Great Vault -- Players must have unlocked 3 or more Raid, Dungeon or World Rewards in a single Vault.
This means that you can't do the bare minimum of 2 Tier 1 Delves every week and then get a Nebulous Voidcore every 3 weeks. A common strategy at the start of the tier will still be to stock up on bonus rolls until you can do spend them efficiently, but it'll probably require a little more work every week -- 1 Heroic / Mythic 0 dungeon, and then 4 Tier 1 Delves.
