What's Next for Midnight's Story?
Story-Relevant Mythic+ Dungeons
In recent seasons, Blizzard has chosen some dungeons for the Mythic+ rotation that match thematically with the main story of the patch.
Midnight Season 1 features Seat of the Triumvirate in the Mythic+ rotation, where its final boss, L'ura, was featured as the final raid boss for the March on Quel'Danas raid. We've also seen this previously in The War Within Season 2, where THE MOTHERLODE!! was featured in Undermine(d), the Patch all about goblins! While it may not happen all of the time, Blizzard tries to include relevant dungeons where possible.
Potential Midnight Season 2 Mythic+ Dungeons
Midnight Season 2 Mythic+ will likely feature the other four expansion dungeons, a brand-new Midnight dungeon that was teased on the roadmap, and three legacy dungeons.
Den of Nalorakk
Murder Row
The Blinding Vale
Voidscar Arena
New Midnight Dungeon
Legacy Dungeon #1
Legacy Dungeon #2
Legacy Dungeon #3
Recently, we covered the future direction of the Midnight story, and where we can expect to be headed zone-wise and story-wise. Based on early datamining, Patch 12.1 points us towards Atal'Utek, an island off the coast of Zul'Aman, briefly teased by Zul'jan at the end of the Zul'Aman story campaign. Further datamining revealed a set of tier set icons named RaidWarlockUlatek. Ula-Tek was a massive serpent goddess worshipped by the Amani forest trolls, with her temple as the original capital of Zul'Aman.
Based on this, it's clear our story focus is going to be surrounding the Amani Trolls, which points to a few potential dungeon options for Mythic+. Not every returning dungeon will be Troll-based, but based on how Blizzard has previously chosen dungeons, it's possible we could see one of the following dungeons return:
De Other Side - A dungeon from Shadowlands where Bwonsomdi hid several souls in his dungeon to keep his troll followers same.
King's Rest - A dungeon in BfA where the past conquerors of the Zandalari empire are laid to rest.
Zul'Aman - Fittingly, this Cataclysm dungeon features the Zandalar trolls, looking to bring Zul'jin's plans to fruition.
Zul'Gurub - Like Zul'Aman, this raid instance was updated to a dungeon in Cataclysm, where the Zandalar and Gurubashi trolls unite to form an established troll empire.
Zul'Farrak - Home of the sand trolls located in northwestern Tanaris.
Gundrak - Capital of the Ice Trolls from Wrath of the Lich King.
Zul'Aman is also a Cataclysm dungeon before receiving zone updates in Midnight.
Zul'Aman and Zul'Gurub both used to be raid instances that were revamped into dungeons in Cataclysm, while Zul'Farrak was a vanilla Classic dungeon. If these dungeons were to be featured in Mythic+, they would likely need updates to bring them up to speed with more modern-day dungeon gameplay. With Pit of Saron available in the Midnight Season 1 rotation, it's possible that we could see dungeons all the way back to Wrath of the Lich King which means that Gundrak could be possible!
