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The roads

Returning Player

By Ludven. Version 2, weekly pace, 5 stages, 15 steps.

For a character back in Midnight after a break, from a few months to a few years. Retail shows you dozens of quests at once; this road keeps three on the table each week: the story to level 90, enough gear for group content, and your first Great Vault. Everything else can wait. Five short stages, then pick your next road.

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You see three steps at a time. When a stage is done, the next one opens at the next weekly reset. For now you tick each step by hand; your progress stays in your browser.

  1. Stage 1

    Clear the noise

    • Pick one character and one spec for this season; your alts can wait

    • Untrack every side quest, so only the campaign shows on your screen

    • Finish the Eversong Woods story (Eversong In Reprise)

      Achievement · Wowhead

  2. Stage 2

    The road to 90

    • Finish the Zul'Aman story (For Zul'Aman!)

      Achievement · Wowhead

    • Finish the Harandar story (One Does Not Simply Walk Into Harandar)

      Achievement · Wowhead

    • Finish the Voidstorm story (Breaching the Voidstorm)

      Achievement · Wowhead

  3. Stage 3

    First gear

    • Finish the whole Midnight story, Arator's chapters too (Midnight)

      Achievement · Wowhead

    • Finish your first delve (Midnight Delves: Tier 1)

      Achievement · Wowhead

    • Reach item level 266, enough to queue for Heroic dungeons

      Item level 266

  4. Stage 4

    Your first vault

    • Do two delves, prey hunts or weekly world activities for a Great Vault slot

      Great Vault: 1 world slot, this week

    • Run one Heroic or Mythic dungeon this week for a Great Vault slot

      Great Vault: 1 dungeon slot, this week

    • Hunt your first Prey on Normal (Prey: Normal Mode I)

      Achievement · Wowhead

  5. Stage 5

    Pick your lane

    • Reach item level 286, ready for Normal raids and Mythic 0 dungeons

      Item level 286

    • Move into your first house (Welcome Home)

      Achievement · Wowhead

    • Pick your next road from the gallery: a season, PvP or collecting

Written for Midnight Season 2 (patch 12.1.5); its game ids were checked on 18 October 2026. This road is CC BY 4.0 by Ludven: walk it, share it and change it. A remix names Ludven as its source, and the editor does that for you.