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title: 'The MOST IMPORTANT Things To Do Before Patch 12.0.7 & What To IGNORE'
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date: 2026-06-16
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# The MOST IMPORTANT Things To Do Before Patch 12.0.7 & What To IGNORE

> Source: [The MOST IMPORTANT Things To Do Before Patch 12.0.7 & What To IGNORE](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9sOv-jZX294)

## Summary

Patch 1207 for Midnight approaches, bringing a wealth of new content, currencies, and catch-up mechanics that significantly change the optimal preparation strategies. This video provides a clear guide on what players should prioritise before the patch to maximise their efficiency, as well as what activities are better left entirely until after the patch goes live to avoid wasting time and effort.

### Key Points

- **Save Field Accolades and Dark Particles** [0:47] — These currencies will have significantly more valuable uses in patch 1207, such as buying specific heroic gear slot boxes (750 accolades) and transmog bags, so spending them now is inefficient.
- **Don't Actively Farm Field Accolades** [1:43] — While you should save any accolades you get, don't go out of your way to farm them. The new zones in the patch will reward them so abundantly that pre-farming will feel like a wasted effort.
- **Don't Worry About Gearing Up Before the Patch** [2:52] — If you lack full heroic gear, the current random methods are inefficient. After the patch, you can directly purchase specific pieces with field accolades, making pre-patch gearing a poor use of time.
- **Preview the New Raid: Sporfall** [3:36] — The one-boss raid drops excellent loot (up to iLvl 298 mythic) and has flex mythic difficulty (15-25 players). Reviewing the boss journal on PTR or via Wowhead guides will make first kills smoother, especially for PUGs.
- **Bonus Rolls Are Plentiful in 1207** [4:42] — Don't hoard bonus rolls. The patch introduces new ways to earn them (quests for killing the raid boss and participating in ritual sites), ensuring you'll have plenty even if you start with zero.
- **Wait to Level Alts: Turbulent Timeways Event** [5:40] — Patch 1207 includes 6 weeks of back-to-back timewalking with a stacking 30% experience buff. Major quests (delves, weekly reps, dungeon quests) also get massive experience increases, making post-patch leveling far faster.
- **Prepare for Tier 6 Ritual Sites for Myth Crests** [7:48] — Solo players can now farm myth crests unlimitedly in tier 6 ritual sites, bypassing the prior 20-crest weekly cap. Unlock at least 6 challenges (avoiding 'Malevolent Boons' and 'Embers') to speed runs.
- **Set Up Professions for Self-Crafting 285 Gear** [9:44] — With myth crests more accessible, crafting rank 5 (iLvl 285) gear is huge. Aim for rank 4 and use concentration to boost to rank 5, which is much easier and saves gold long-term. Gather profession knowledge via work orders and treasures.
- **Plan Crafted Gear Around Guaranteed Myth Track Rewards** [11:46] — Kill the new world bosses 4 times for a guaranteed myth track cloak, belt, or bracers. Avoid crafting these same slots for efficiency. Use an addon like Keystone Loot to check catalyst stats before choosing.
- **Unlock Void Forge and Nilhammer (If Missing)** [13:17] — For newer/returning players, these systems provide enormous catch-up power. The Void Forge offers bonus rolls, and the Nilhammer can boost weapons/trinkets. Critical for making 285 crafted weapons into iLvl 295.

### Conclusion

The most strategic approach to the last week of patch 1205 is to save specific currencies, avoid farming gear or leveling alts, and instead prepare by unlocking key features like ritual site challenges and professions. The new patch's extensive catch-up mechanics reward patience and targeted preparation.

## Transcript

Hey folks, this is Kalani. Patch 1207 is
almost here. It goes live on June 16th
and it introduces a bunch of new
content, but you won't be able to jump
into some of it straight away if you've
been ignoring certain features or
systems so far in Midnight. There are
also a few things you can do right now
to speed up your progress in the new
patch and with so many changes coming
our way, there are a lot of things that
will become much easier after the patch
goes live. So, doing any of that right
now could be a big waste of time. So,
let's go over what we would recommend
you do before patch 1207 goes live and
some things that you definitely should
not do if you want to save yourself some
time and effort. Now, before we jump in,
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The first thing I would make sure you do
before the patch goes live is to save
all of your field accolades and your
dark particles. We will have so many
more options for spending these
currencies in the new patch. You can buy
specific hero gear slot boxes for 750
field accolades each, so you can target
the exact items that you still need to
round out your gear sets. You can spend
100 field accolades on warbound champion
gear boxes that you can then send to
your alts to gear them up much faster
and then you can spend dark particles on
bulging bags that contain specific
themed transmog items. So, getting your
hands on those will be so much easier in
the new patch, too. So, I would highly
recommend holding on to both of those
currencies until after the patch goes
live because they're just going to be so
much more valuable.
Now, while I would save any field
accolades and dark particles that you
have or may happen to obtain during the
last week of 1205, I wouldn't actually
go out of your way to farm them
specifically. Sure, you could farm up a
hundreds and hundreds of field accolades
right now and buy the exact pieces of
gear that you want using the new heroic
gear boxes right away on patch day, but
field accolades are the main reward from
the two new zones coming in the patch.
Everything rewards them from completing
world quests to opening treasures. On
heroic world tier, which is now open
immediately for everyone instead of
needing to be unlocked, treasures will
drop eight field accolades each. Killing
a rare or completing a world quest
rewards you with 30, and killing the
world bosses will reward you with over
200. There are plenty of quests for each
zone that reward 25 field accolades
each, and the weekly quest rewards you
with a cache that contains field
accolades and even myth crests. If you
are spending any length of time in these
new zones, you'll be drowning in field
accolades. So much so that any time
spent farming them before the patch goes
live really will feel like a waste. So
definitely save your currencies, but I
wouldn't actively farm them unless you
really love running ritual sites.
Now, if you are still not in full hero
gear, I probably wouldn't worry about
gearing up until the patch hits. Being
able to buy specific pieces of hero gear
would be better than almost anything you
can do right now if you aren't taking
part in mythic plus dungeons or the
raid. And the best sources of field
accolades are going to be in the new
patch. So whether it's the random chance
for hero gear at the end of your delves,
the random hero gear in your weekly
vault, or the random hero gear field
accolade boxes, it's all random. So
there's no guarantee of getting an item
you actually need, and it's all going to
take much longer when compared to
farming field accolades in the new
patch. So I wouldn't worry about gearing
up if you're not already in full hero
gear.
Now, if you have no need for heroic
gear, the field accolade rewards
probably won't interest you too much,
but the loot from the new raid probably
will. The Sporfall one boss raid drops
some of the best loot in the game, up to
item level 298 on mythic, and this raid
actually has flex mythic difficulty, so
you can take 15 to 25 players in and the
fight will adjust like any other
difficulty does. That should make it
easier to kill for more guilds or
players, but especially easier to pug.
So, it's not a bad idea to have a peek
at the boss journal on the PTR to see
what abilities we have to work with and
how the fight plays out. If you don't
want to pop onto the PTR, the Wowhead
guide has all of the ability information
and there are quite a few video previews
if that's more your thing. Having idea
of how the fight works before you step
into it will make things smoother
overall and should lead to some faster
kills. Of course, if you'd rather go in
blind, that's totally fair. I just hope
you have a guild who will stick with it
rather than having to resort to pugs.
Make sure you have a bonus roll
available so you can guarantee a piece
of loot if you do get a kill.
With this new gear being some of the
best available for the rest of the
season, you may be wondering if it's
worth holding onto your bonus rolls
until you can get in there and take down
Rotmier. Each bonus roll guarantees you
a piece of awesome gear, right? Well,
yes, but we will still be able to pick
up two rolls per week throughout patch
1207. There are also new ways to earn
bonus rolls. There's a quest to take
down Rotmier on any difficulty that
rewards one, which means everyone should
be able to grab an extra nebulous void
core even if you only clear the raid on
LFR. And then there's a quest for taking
part in ritual sites that rewards a
bonus roll, too. So, bonus rolls are
actually more plentiful in patch 1207.
So, while you may want to try and roll
on Rotmier every week to get those
souped up rewards, you don't have to
worry about holding onto your bonus
rolls to make that happen. Feel free to
roll on whatever you want. We'll have
plenty of bonus rolls to use in patch
1207 even if you start the patch with
zero.
Now, something I definitely would not
spend any time doing before the new
patch goes live is a leveling up your
alts. Patch 1207 includes the Turbulent
Timeways event, which gives us
back-to-back time walking for 6 weeks.
Time walking dungeons have always been
great for leveling up quickly, but
during the event, you'll also get a
stacking experience buff, which caps out
at 30% bonus experience gains, which by
itself will make leveling so much faster
when the patch goes live. But, another
huge change in 1207 is that several
one-time or weekly quests will see
massive increases to the amount of
experience they reward. Delve one-time
quests were almost doubled up to 140,000
experience each, and weekly rep quests,
prey hunts, and dungeon quests all had
their experience increased by a huge
chunk as well, which will make leveling
so much faster in 1207. So, I would
personally wait for all of these changes
if you still have a few alts to level
up. Now, it is worth noting that all of
these quests can be completed before the
patch goes live, and their experience
rewards will update. So, if you want to
do a bit of prep work for leveling up
your alts, you could knock out all of
the delve one-time quests and some of
the weekly event quests if you wanted
to. And then, when the patch goes live,
you can hand them all in for the
massively increased experience rewards.
It might be worth waiting until you get
the 30% buff from the Turbulent Timeways
event to really rack up those experience
gains, but that's going to be up to you.
So, personally, I would wait to level up
your alts, and the same goes for gearing
up any alts that you do have up at level
90. Patch 1207 offers so many different
ways to catch up on gear, and we'll have
access to so much war-bound gear that
you'll be able to gear up your alts
without even playing them. Rares in the
new zones drop war-bound champion gear,
the world bosses can drop war-bound
heroic gear, and if you still need more
gear, you can buy war-bound champion
pieces using field accolades. The time
walking event weekly quests also get
bumped up during the Turbulent Timeways
event, so that's six heroic caches you
can pick up for every character during
the patch as well. So, save your time
and don't worry too much about gearing
up your alts before next week.
If you're interested in taking advantage
of the new myth crest rewards that will
be available for solo content players,
it's not a bad idea to make sure you're
ready to hop straight into tier six
ritual sites when the patch goes live.
Setting that up is super easy. You just
need to have unlocked at least six
challenges by completing the quests tied
to ritual sites. If you want to make
these as easy as possible, I would
ensure you have these challenges
unlocked. The two you probably want to
avoid are malevolent boons and embers.
They're going to slow down your runs far
more than any other challenge. And if
your main goal is farming myth crests,
you just want to finish the ritual sites
as quickly as possible, ignoring any and
all side objectives. If you've been
taking part in ritual sites already,
this shouldn't take very long. But if
you've been ignoring the feature
entirely, you may have a bit of work to
do. If you haven't done anything with
ritual sites yet, you should be able to
pick up a quest near the field acolyte
vendors in Silvermoon that introduces
you to the system and leads into the
challenge unlock quests.
Now, the main reason why you may be
interested in this new source of myth
crests is because it allows solo content
players to farm enough myth crests to
fully upgrade any spark crafted gear
that you may have made or that you may
have been ignoring up until now. Solo
players were strictly limited to 20 myth
crests per week from the delve system.
That means it would take 4 weeks to get
a single piece of 285 crafted gear.
That's not really ideal, but tier six
ritual sites lets you farm myth crests
as fast as you want to. So, your radiant
sparks are suddenly worth a lot more.
So, it's not a bad idea to catch up with
your radiant spark acquisition if you're
a little bit behind. Every two sparks is
one more piece of 285 crafted gear in
the new patch, which is some of the best
gear you can get your hands on as a solo
content player. You can earn missing
sparks by completing end game content,
which will mostly be limited to delves
if you don't take part in any group
content.
With 285 crafted gear becoming even more
accessible, now is also the perfect time
to set up your own professions if you
haven't already, so you can craft your
very own rank five gear. Setting up
professions really doesn't take too
long, and at this point in the
expansion, it's also very cheap to just
buy most of what you need with gold. For
most gear slots, you just need to get to
around level 50 in your chosen
profession, unlock the appropriate
specializations for whatever you want to
craft, make sure you get as many first
time craft bonuses as you can afford,
pick up all of the one-time treasures
scattered around the midnight zones, but
buy up some of the midnight profession
equipment, preferably the rare or blue
ones if you can afford them, and spend
your profession knowledge points in the
trees that boost your desired craft. You
should also keep an eye on your NPC work
orders page because at this point you'll
have an insane number of catch-up
available to They just take a little bit
of time to refresh, but that can be a
very easy way to earn boatloads of
profession knowledge to reach rank five
crafts quickly. And remember, the goal
here isn't actually to be able to craft
rank five gear straight up. You only
have to reach rank four, which is
significantly easier, and then you can
use concentration to boost your craft up
to rank five. But the best part about
this is that once you've set things up
once, you can craft your own gear for
the rest of the expansion. No more
looking in trade chat for a crafter or
worrying about how much to tip, just get
the new sparks in season two and craft
your own stuff. And then you can do it
again when season three rolls around,
and when it's time for a new expansion,
at least you'll know exactly how it all
works, so you can set things up even
faster next time, assuming they keep the
same profession system in The Last
Titan, anyway. I finally just got around
to sorting my jewel crafting out, so So,
this point I can craft almost any piece
of gear at rank five that my main few
characters could ever want, which is
pretty awesome. So, if you haven't set
up your professions yet, now is a
perfect time, so you can save yourself a
bunch of gold and craft some awesome
gear in 1207.
While we're on the topic of crafted
gear, you might want to plan your pieces
ahead of time due to the new myth track
gear reward from the heroic world tier
difficulty. Every single player will be
able to choose between a cloak, a belt,
and some bracers. To earn this piece of
myth track gear, you just have to kill
the new world bosses four times, so it
may take a few weeks to get this done,
but it's a guaranteed piece of myth
track gear for one of those slots. These
three slots are very popular crafted
gear slots due to their low stat budget
and because they aren't tier gear slots.
But, with sparks still being a somewhat
limited resource, you don't want to
overlap a piece of crafted gear with
this myth track reward. That just
wouldn't be efficient. Now, I imagine
most players would look at these rewards
and focus more on the belt because it's
only item without versatility, but it's
important to remember that you can take
any of these pieces of gear and pop them
in the catalyst to change the stats. The
resulting stats depend entirely on your
class or armor type, but the easiest way
to check this is by using an add-on like
Keystone Loot. On the right-hand side of
the add-on, you can see all of the items
tied to the catalyst, so hover over the
cloak, the bracers, and the belt, and
that will show you what these items look
like if you use them in the catalyst.
So, you need to take both the actual
quest items and the catalyst results
into account when choosing which item
you might want to pick up, and then just
make sure you don't craft that gear slot
by accident. That will give you the
highest possible item level as you head
into season two as a solo content
player.
Now, to round out this video, I've seen
a lot of comments from new or returning
players wanting to catch up on all the
fun, and I've seen some comments
wondering what the heck certain features
are for and how they work. So, let's go
over a few things you definitely want to
get done if you haven't already. The
first one is unlocking the Void Forge.
For most up-to-date players, this might
seem a bit strange, but I've seen a few
comments recently that boil down to
"That doesn't seem worth it. I'm
ignoring it entirely." which is wild to
me.
The Void Forge is just free gear when
you unlock it. You can get two bonus
rolls per week since it was first
enabled, which is an insane amount of
loot at this point in the game. If
you're returning player for the new
patch or you just ignored the Void Forge
for whatever reason, pop by Void Storm,
talk to Decimus, and if he has any
purple important quests for you, make
sure you get them done. You're leaving
free loot on the table if you don't have
the Void Forge set up. The same goes for
the Nilhammer. After you finish those
quests, you can loot items that help you
boost the item level of weapons and
trinkets. The Ascendant Void Cores will
also be more useful for solo content
players because you can now freely
upgrade crafted gear to 285 thanks to
tier six ritual sites. So, that 285
weapon that you can now very easily
craft is actually a 295 weapon if you've
got the Nilhammer unlocked. So, if
Decimus has any important quests for
you, go get those done. Both the Void
Forge and the Nilhammer help you gear up
insanely fast, which will make the new
rewards in patch 1207 even better. But,
that's everything we would recommend you
do before patch 1207 and some things
that you can totally wait on. So, that's
it for this video. What are you going to
be working on in the last week of patch
1205 and what are you most looking
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