Patch 12.1.5: what is new

A big delve of nine rooms, with the boss Kindo'jan at the end. New in patch 12.1.5. Valeera comes with you, as in every delve.

Getting in

• The entrance is in Eversong Woods: The Labyrinth of Kindo'jan (62.99, 72.18). There are 11 tiers; guides say you pick one at the door.

You do not have to finish it

• Every 3 rooms give 2 Heavy Trunks, 1 Bountiful Coffer and Great Vault credit, and you may stop there. Crests from Heavy Trunks count double.
• 3 rooms on a tier unlock the next tier.
• It opens normal delves too: 3 rooms on Labyrinth tier 1 to 8 unlock the next Delve tier for this season: Labyrinth tier 7 gives Delve tier 8. In the test-realm game data, tiers 9, 10 and 11 unlock the same Delve tier, not the next; that may still change at launch.

Kindo'jan

• From tier 8 he gives Great Vault credit once a week per character.
• Three of his attacks are known: Crushing Blow (step out of the impact; an Amani Juggernaut appears), Hash'ey's Command (4 Amani Headhunters appear) and Disgraceful Display, which stacks: at 3 stacks the loa find you unworthy. The game has no journal page for him.

Help along the way

• Four Loa-Spirit Conduits: click one for a strong boon for the whole group.
• Bountiful Coffers from tier 8 hold a Heroic Soul Fragment; three make a random Hero-track piece.
• A weekly questline of six steps, one new step each week, ends in two Myth-track armour pieces of your choice.

Not known yet: whether the coffers need a Restored Coffer Key, and how room credit and Kindo'jan's credit add up. Look at the Great Vault window rather than at a guide.

The achievement Midnight Keystone Myth: Season 2 returns with patch 12.1.5.

• Reach a Mythic+ rating of 3600 this season (Season 1 asked 3400).
• Reward: the title the Venomous Contender and the Timelost Saddle.
• Blizzard also tunes a few dungeons that were much easier or harder than the rest. Which ones, they did not say.
• In the test-realm game data the achievement still said "[PH]" instead of 3600. Check the number in your own Achievements window.

The Unbinding of Kith'ix is a raid with one boss, the C'Thraxxi general Kith'ix. Lady Liadrin fights beside you. Story, Raid Finder, Normal, Heroic and Mythic (Mythic takes 15 to 25 players).

• Entrance: under the Venomous Abyss, in The Underbelly: The Unbinding of Kith'ix (74.27, 5.91). Worked out from game data; not yet seen on screen.

Everyone

• Kill the adds before Suffocating Darkness. Whatever still lives then goes into a frenzy.
• During Suffocating Darkness, stand in Liadrin's Refulgent Bulwark. Outside it you suffocate.
• Before Extinguish, pick up Light's Embrace. It cuts the damage a lot.
• Dodge Twisted Appendage.

Healers — remove the Abyssal Grasp heal-absorb fast, or that player is dragged into the dark.

Tanks — Dark Devastation makes you take much more damage, so swap. Pull the aqir away from the boss: near him they take far less damage.

Phase 2 — Stygian Howl stuns the raid. Liadrin saves you with Last Light and gives you a burst window. From there it is a race.

Venomstones lift a fully upgraded piece above its normal maximum. Ten Ascendant Venomstones raise the item level of one Season 2 weapon, trinket or neck that is fully upgraded on the Hero or Myth track, or Tidal Crafted at top quality. You do it at the Catalyst in Silvermoon City, with Orin Straylight's help.

It opens over three weeks, with quests from Orin in Silvermoon:

• Week of 6 Oct — Umbral Blessings of the Catalyst: one extra Nebulous Voidcore a week.
• Week of 13 Oct — Ancient Depths, Ancient Venom: Orin starts his research.
• Week of 20 Oct — Ascending with Venomstones: the stones start to drop.
• His earlier quests (In the Catalyst's Shadow, Prismatic Potential) come first.

Where they drop — every Heroic and Mythic raid boss, Mythic+ from +10, Tier 11 Bountiful Delves, and the Champion gear chests of Nightmare Prey hunts.

• In the week of 20 Oct the crest cap goes away too.

Guides say a piece that is already Ascendant cannot go higher.

An outdoor event in Eversong Woods or Zul'Aman, 10 minutes every hour. The whole zone does public tasks together, and then a boss comes.

• Six scenarios: Disrupt Aqir, Aid Defenders!, Aqir Nesting Grounds, Whack the Aqir, Aerial Assault and Reinforce Defenses. Three are fights; those get one of eight affixes.
• From Blizzard's notes: interrupt the Webweaver and kill the Voidweaver first.
• The reward track is Aqir Research Enclave, a warband reputation up to Exalted. Its people are in Silvermoon: Aqir Researchers (39.20, 80.03).
• Achievements: all six scenarios (No Hives Left Standing), ten invasions (Driving Back the Swarm), Exalted (Aqir Research Associate).
• Guides say the zone changes every week and is never the zone of that week's Void Assault. We have not seen that ourselves yet.