If you’re playing World of Warcraft: Midnight in patch 12.0.5 and wondering how to fast‑track Myth-track weapons and trinkets, the answer is simple: unlock the Voidforge with domanaar Decimus in Howling Ridge, then funnel Nebulous Voidcores into +10 or higher Mythic+ dungeons while saving Ascendant Voidcores for your best fully upgraded weapons and trinkets. For most players who live in Mythic+ and raid every week, Voidforge becomes your main way to both target specific drops and push them beyond normal item level caps.
Weekly Voidforge Plan for Fast Myth Gear
Here’s a simple weekly loop you can follow that lines up well with Mythic+ and raid nights.
This guide is written for endgame players in Midnight Season 1 who are already doing Mythic+, raids, and delves on PC and want to gear mains and alts as efficiently as possible, without wasting limited Voidcore currencies. If you’re casually dabbling in keys below +10 or only pugging Normal raids, you can still benefit from Voidforge, but the biggest payoff is for players who can consistently reach at least +10 keys and targeted raid bosses.
Quick steps to start using Voidforge
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Go to Howling Ridge in the Voidstorm and talk to domanaar Decimus to pick up “Building the Voidforge”.
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Run Midnight Season 1 raid bosses, Mythic+ dungeons, and Bountiful Delves to collect Elemental Voidcore Shards, then turn in six Elemental Voidcores to finish construction.
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Once the Voidforge is built, talk to Decimus to start transmuting Nebulous Voidcores and unlock the bonus‑roll style system.
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Use Nebulous Voidcores after raid bosses, Mythic+ completions, Bountiful Delves, or Nightmare Prey Hunts to get guaranteed loot based on your loot spec, with built‑in bad luck protection.
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Continue Decimus’ story to craft the Ascendant Nilhammer, which unlocks Ascendant Voidcore drops from endgame content.
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Spend Ascendant Voidcores on fully upgraded Hero, Myth, or max Radiance‑crafted weapons and trinkets to push them to roughly item level 298.
How Voidforge Works in Patch 12.0.5
Voidforge is the new Midnight Season 1 gearing system that sits on top of raids, Mythic+ dungeons, Bountiful Delves, and Nightmare Prey Hunts. You help Decimus build a literal Voidforge in Howling Ridge, then use it to transmute two new currencies: Nebulous Voidcores for targeted drops and Ascendant Voidcores for ultra‑high item level upgrades.
Blizzard frame this as the spiritual successor to earlier “Turbo Boost” events, but tuned to give you more control over what you get rather than just showering you in raw power. The main difference this time is the strong integration with loot specialization, per‑difficulty loot pools, and warband‑wide progression.
Expert insight: In practice, Voidforge feels like having a smart, targeted bonus roll system that remembers what you’ve already looted. Once you start seeing duplicate‑prone slots fall off the pool, the odds of finally hitting that stubborn trinket go up in a way you can actually feel over a few weeks.
How to Unlock the Voidforge and Nebulous Voidcores
The Voidforge unlock is simple, but it’s easy to ignore if you’re just chain‑queuing keys.
Building the Voidforge with Decimus
You start by meeting domanaar Decimus at the main hub in Howling Ridge, inside the Voidstorm, and picking up the quest “Building the Voidforge”.
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Decimus asks you to gather Elemental Voidcore Shards from Midnight Season 1 raid bosses, Bountiful Delves, and Mythic+ dungeons.
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Shards combine into Elemental Voidcores, and you need six Elemental Voidcores to complete the construction.
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Progress is tracked per warband, so you can contribute on multiple characters and push the project forward faster on your account.
Once you hand in the sixth Elemental Voidcore, the Voidforge becomes active in Howling Ridge, and Decimus starts offering Nebulous Voidcores in exchange for resources like gold, Voidlight Marl, and Veteran Dawncrests.
Nebulous Voidcores: Your New Guaranteed “Bonus Rolls”
Nebulous Voidcores are the heart of the system if you care about Myth-track gear.
What Nebulous Voidcores actually do
Nebulous Voidcores are a warband‑aware currency that you spend at the end of eligible content to receive a random item appropriate to your loot specialization from that activity’s loot pool. The crucial details:
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Every time you get an item with a Nebulous Voidcore, that item is removed from future Nebulous rolls on that difficulty until you’ve acquired all eligible items.
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There is no “gold only” failure like old bonus rolls; spending a Nebulous Voidcore always returns an item.
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The total number of Nebulous Voidcores you can earn per character increases by two every week for the rest of the season, so latecomers still ramp up over time.
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Raid boss rolls cost two Nebulous Voidcores, while Mythic+, Bountiful Delves, and Nightmare Prey Hunts cost one.
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You can also buy one extra Nebulous Voidcore per week from Vaultkeeper Elysa for six Thalassian Tokens of Merit, similar to how sockets worked in earlier seasons, and that purchased core does not count toward your weekly increase.
In practice, this turns Nebulous Voidcores into a way to clean out an activity’s loot table over time, heavily skewing your later rolls toward the few pieces you still need.
Where to spend Nebulous Voidcores for Myth gear
For Myth-track gearing, Mythic+ is the standout option.
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In Mythic+ dungeons, Nebulous Voidcore rewards scale with keystone level, matching the Great Vault item level for that key level.
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A +10 or higher key is where you start seeing Myth-track rewards from Nebulous rolls, making those keys the ideal place to spend your weekly cores.
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Raids are still worth spending cores on, but the two‑core cost per boss means you should reserve that for very specific trinkets or weapons that don’t exist in dungeons.
If you mostly spam keys, your best pattern is:
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Spend your baseline Nebulous Voidcores on +10 or higher keys that drop your target trinkets and weapons.
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Use Tokens of Merit to buy an extra Nebulous Voidcore, then drop that on a raid boss with a unique BIS drop if you’re actively progressing it.
Ascendant Voidcores: Pushing Weapons and Trinkets to 298
Once the basic Voidforge is up, Decimus sends you on a second, warband‑wide questline to forge the Ascendant Nilhammer. Completing this unlocks Ascendant Voidcores as rare drops from your usual endgame loop.
How Ascendant Voidcores work
Ascendant Voidcores are account‑wide drops from Midnight Season 1 raids, Mythic+ dungeons, Bountiful Delves, and Nightmare Prey Hunts after you finish the Nilhammer story. They come with tight restrictions:
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They only work on fully upgraded Hero, Myth, or maximum quality Radiance‑crafted weapons and trinkets.
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When consumed, an Ascendant Voidcore infuses the item with more item level beyond the normal cap, pushing it into the high 290s.
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Blizzard and multiple community breakdowns confirm that Ascendant‑Voidforged pieces can reach item level 298 when maxed.
We don’t have an official hard number on drop rates or weekly caps, but early coverage and Blizzard’s wording make it clear these are meant to feel rare and impactful rather than something you spam on every alt.
Best items to use Ascendant Voidcores on
You should treat every Ascendant Voidcore like a long‑term investment.
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Prioritize weapons with strong primary stat and weapon damage scaling, such as two‑handers or high‑speed dual‑wield setups for specs that scale well with raw DPS.
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After that, look at trinkets whose procs or on‑use effects scale aggressively with item level, especially ones that are BIS in both raids and Mythic+ for your class.
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Because Ascendant Voidcores are warband‑wide, you can farm them on alts but still funnel them into your main once you’ve secured reliable BIS items there.
If you’re torn between two items, ask which one will still be in your loadout a month from now. That’s the one you Ascend.
