Midnight patch 12.0.5 Ritual Sites guide: New Season 1 activity
Learn more about the new Midnight patch 12.0.5 activity – Ritual Sites. Our Ritual Sites guide will help you track all rewards, achievements, and more!
Key takeaways
- Flexible difficulty system: Choose your Tier and scale the challenge to match your skill and goals.
- Player-driven modifiers: Customize each run with Challenges to increase difficulty and rewards.
- Reward-focused gameplay: Earn valuable currencies, gear, and collectibles through efficient runs.
Table of Contents
Ritual Sites are a new overworld activity in Midnight, offering a flexible mix of challenge and rewards. With rotating locations, scalable difficulty, and player-driven modifiers, they add a fresh layer of progression for both solo players and groups.
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What are Ritual Sites in Midnight
Ritual Sites are newly introduced in Midnight patch 12.0.5 instanced scenarios found in Eversong Woods and Zul’Aman. They work similarly to Delves, but offer more depth and player control. Only one Ritual Site is active each week. To enter, interact with the active Curious Obelisk, either solo or in a group of up to five players. From there, you can select your Tier and, if available, add Challenges. In a group, the leader handles these settings.
Curious Obelisks act as the entry point for Ritual Sites. You’ll find them at the currently active location in either Eversong Woods or Zul’Aman. This is where you set your difficulty, enable Challenges, and start the run. Each run includes objectives, a final boss, and a Ritual Chest at the end.
Enemies inside Ritual Sites drop Spoils. The more you collect during the run, the better your final rewards from the Ritual Chest. Deaths reduce your total Spoils. The first two deaths have no penalty, but every death after that reduces your final Spoils by 5%, up to a maximum of 50%.
Once all objectives are complete, you can open the Ritual Chest. It contains Field Accolades, Coffer Key Shards, Voidlight Marl, and Dawncrests. Field Accolades are awarded at roughly a 1:10 ratio to Spoils, rounded down. For example, 330 Spoils gives 32 Field Accolades, while 507 Spoils gives 50.
Note
Dawncrest rewards depend on the Tier. Tiers 1–3 grant 5, 10, and 15 Champion Dawncrests. Tiers 4–5 instead reward 10 and 15 Hero Dawncrests.
Ritual Sites challenges
Challenges act like Mythic+ affixes, increasing difficulty in exchange for better rewards. However, you choose which ones to activate, similar to Horrific Visions. Challenges unlock at Tier 3, and higher Tiers require a minimum number of active Challenges:
- Tier 3: at least 1 Challenge
- Tier 4: at least 2 Challenges
- Tier 5: at least 4 Challenges
You can also select all Challenges if you wish for maximum Spoil modifier.
|
Challenge |
Description |
Unlock |
Spoils Modifier |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Tendrils |
Grasping Tendrils spawn as swirling green circles. Step out before they detonate. |
Found in Ritual Spoils (Ritual Site Challenge Report: Tendrils) |
10% |
|
Manifestations |
Spirit adds spawn and must be interrupted to remove them. |
Complete a Tier 3 Ritual Site, then speak with Ranger Captain Lilatha in Silvermoon City. Required Tier reduces weekly (Manifested Density) |
15% |
|
Magical Alarm Bells |
Disruptions summon enemy forces to your location. Bigger disruptions bring stronger waves. |
Complete a Tier 4 Ritual Site, then speak with Lady Darkglen in Silvermoon City. Required Tier reduces weekly (Raising Magical Alarms) |
10% |
|
Malevolent Boons |
Enemies are empowered by dark obelisks. Disable them or fight buffed enemies. |
Complete a Tier 2 Ritual Site, then speak with Lady Darkglen in Silvermoon City. Required Tier reduces weekly (Dark Obelisk Investigation) |
15% |
|
Tainted Corpses |
Slain enemies leave behind pools of deadly magic. |
Found in a Tainted Bone Pile inside a Ritual Site (Tainted Sample) |
10% |
|
Reinforced |
Additional enemies are present throughout the site. |
Complete a Tier 2 Ritual Site, then speak with Ranger Captain Lilatha in Silvermoon City. Required Tier reduces weekly (Thin Their Ranks) |
25% |
|
Patrols |
Powerful patrols roam the area. Avoid them if possible. |
Procure unique treasures from Tier 3+ Ritual Sites. Required Tier reduces weekly (Misappropriated Treasures) |
10% |
|
Embers |
Embers of power empower nearby enemies and the final boss. |
Find Embers of Power in a Tier 4 Ritual Site. Required Tier reduces weekly (Questionable Power) |
15% |
Ritual Sites location
Currently, there are 2 Ritual Sites across Midnight zones. One in Eversong Woods [/way 34.9 65.4] and the other in Zul’Aman [/way 29.7 78.2].
Ritual Sites rewards
You can locate all Field Accolade vendors in Silvermoon [/way #2393 48.2 49.6]. The rewards from Ritual Sites in Midnight include:
Gear pieces
|
Item |
Type |
Cost |
|---|---|---|
|
Cache of Void-Touched Armaments |
Random Champion Gear |
|
|
Cache of Void-Touched Armaments |
Random Hero Gear |
500 Field Accolade |
|
Field Accolade Pouch |
Currency |
100 Dark Particle |
Note
Dark Particle is a currency that drops throughout the event and can be traded for more valuable Field Accolades.
Tier 2 recolor cosmetic pieces
|
Item |
Type |
Cost |
|---|---|---|
|
Cache of Void-Touched Weapons |
Weapon |
10 Field Accolade; 200 Voidlight Marl |
|
Cache of Void-Touched Headgear |
Helm |
5 Field Accolade; 150 Voidlight Marl |
|
Cache of Void-Touched Shoulderwear |
Shoulder |
5 Field Accolade; 150 Voidlight Marl |
|
Cache of Void-Touched Cloaks |
Cloak |
5 Field Accolade; 150 Voidlight Marl |
|
Cache of Void-Touched Chestpieces |
Chest |
5 Field Accolade; 150 Voidlight Marl |
|
Cache of Void-Touched Bracers |
Wrist |
5 Field Accolade; 150 Voidlight Marl |
|
Cache of Void-Touched Gloves |
Gloves |
5 Field Accolade; 150 Voidlight Marl |
|
Cache of Void-Touched Belts |
Belt |
5 Field Accolade; 150 Voidlight Marl |
|
Cache of Void-Touched Legwear |
Legs |
5 Field Accolade; 150 Voidlight Marl |
|
Cache of Void-Touched Boots |
Boots |
5 Field Accolade; 150 Voidlight Marl |
Mounts and pets
|
Item |
Type |
Unlock Requirement |
Cost (Voidlight Marl) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Unbound Manawyrm |
Mount |
Void Response Team + Ritual Site Disruptor (requires achievements from both systems) |
6000 |
|
Void-Touched Hawkstrider |
Mount |
Renown 8 |
4500 |
|
Void-Infused Mindbreaker Fry |
Pet |
Renown 6 |
1800 |
|
Void-Touched Dragonhawk Egg |
Pet |
Renown 6 |
1800 |
Decor
|
Decor |
Unlock |
Cost |
|---|---|---|
|
Void Elf Scribe’s Desk |
Renown 3 |
250 |
|
Void Elf Floating Desk |
Renown 3 |
150 |
|
Runic Parchment |
Renown 3 |
150 |
|
Void Flame Candle |
Renown 3 |
150 |
|
Void Inkwell |
Renown 3 |
150 |
|
Dark Obelisk |
Renown 7 |
500 |
Ritual Sites also feature rewards that can randomly drop or require specific actions to be done during the event, the list goes:
|
Item |
Reward |
Type |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Void-Corrupted Hex Eagle |
Mount |
Bring Misplaced Ritual Candle to Ritual Circle in Broken Throne (Tier 2+) |
|
|
Witherbark Warbear Mother |
Mount |
Use 5 Practically Pork at meat piles to summon Chubs → Angry Amani Warbear (Tier 2+) |
|
|
Void-Touched Snapdragon |
Mount |
Click Washed Up Kelp in Daggerspine Point for spawn chance (Tier 2+) |
|
|
Lost Bear Cub |
Chubs |
Pet |
Bring 1 Practically Pork to stealthed cub in Broken Throne (Tier 2+); required for mount |
|
Rope Lynx Harness |
Leatherworking Pattern |
Drops from Treasures and Rare Spoils; used for Void-Corrupted Lynx mount |
|
|
n/a |
Crafting Material |
Bind on Pickup; required to craft Void-Corrupted Lynx mount |
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