Glory of the Midnight Raider - Midnight Season 1 Raid Meta Achievement

As with every new competitive season, Midnight Season 1 introduces a vast array of new achievements, including the new raid meta achievement Glory of the Midnight Raider.

Thanks to the staggered release schedule of the Midnight Season 1 raids, and the fact that this Glory meta requires achievements from each raid, Glory of the Midnight Raider will work slightly differently than those we have seen before.

Read on to learn about the raid release schedule, Glory of the Midnight Raider rewards, and each achievement required to satisfy the meta.

Here is a truncated raid unlock schedule, listing all relevant difficulties for achievement-hunting.

• Week of March 17: Normal, Heroic Voidspire and Dreamrift become available.
• Week of March 24: Mythic Voidspire and Dreamrift become available.
• Week of March 31: Normal, Heroic, and Mythic March on Quel'Danas becomes available.

As Glory of the Midnight Raider requires achievements from all three Season 1 raids to satisfy the meta, it is only possible to earn the full meta the week of March 31 at the very earliest.

While Glory of the Midnight Raider can be completed on Normal difficulty, we would still recommend familiarizing yourself with the fights before attempting it! Often, these meta achievements require raiders to navigate the regular boss mechanics while also interacting with extra mobs or NPCs, moving to new locations, or even playing through additional mechanics altogether.

Prepare for your Glory of the Midnight Raider adventures with boss guides and more for each Season 1 raid in our Season 1 Raid Hub below:

Of course, completing all of the achievements discussed in the below sections will reward you with the Glory of the Midnight Raider achievement. However, the most coveted reward for each raid meta is, of course, the mount.

Midnight Season 1's raid meta rewards players with a vicious new Midnight model, the Tenebrous Harrower.

The Voidspire is the largest raid in Midnight Season 1, with six bosses total. Thus, it contains the bulk of the achievements for Glory of the Midnight Raider.

Nothing to See Here: Get consumed by the Devouring Host in the Voidspire or March on Quel'Danas.

Suspected Strategy: This achievement does not name a particular boss but does name two different raids, both of which deal with Xal'atath's encroaching void army. Xal'atath does call her army the Devouring Host, so this achievement may be as simple as falling off a cliff or otherwise dying to the waiting void maw in some way.

The Only Winning Move Is Not To Play: Defeat Imperator Averzian after causing him to destroy your banners in the Voidspire on Normal difficulty or higher.

Suspected Strategy: Averzian's fight is essentially a game of tic-tac-toe with void adds; this achievement suggests that tanks will have to take their group soaks, Umbral Collapse, to destroy designated banners around the room in addition to managing the adds in the boss arena.

Hungry Hungry Hatchlings: Defeat Vorasius after every player feeds a hatchling enough to put it to sleep in the Voidspire on Normal difficulty or higher.

Suspected Strategy: This achievement will likely require each raider to find their own friendly hatchling mob around the edges of the boss room, and feed it something until it happily falls asleep, all while navigating the various area denial attacks Vorasius employs. Note that the hatchlings are NOT the Blistercreep parasites, which are an active part of the boss fight.

It's Treason Then: Defeat Fallen-King Salhadaar after everyone /kneels to him before the battle starts in the Voidspire on Normal difficulty or higher.

Suspected Strategy: On its face, this sounds like a simple achievement to accomplish: have everyone line up and /kneel to Salhadaar one by one before you start the pull timer. In practice though, sometimes actions like this include a sneaky spell trigger that either buffs the boss or debuffs YOU, so be aware!

Ready, Set, Snap!: Defeat Vaelgor and Ezzorak after all players break each Nullzone's tethers within 3 seconds in the Voidspire on Normal difficulty or higher.

Suspected Strategy: Managing this achievement will require a good deal more coordination than some of the others on the list. Each Nullsnap deals raid damage, so the group will need to run some major healing cooldowns to ensure everyone stays healthy while the whole team snaps their tethers together. Additionally, ensure the group is fairly close together, and plan to make use of group speed boosts like Stampeding Roar and Wind Rush Totem to have everyone break together.

This achievement will only get easier with higher Item Level, which will enable you to push the fight faster and guarantee fewer Nullzones overall.

Aura Farming: Defeat the Lightblinded Vanguard while your entire raid has Maximum Aura in the Voidspire on Normal difficulty or higher.

Suspected Strategy: There is a spell called Maximum Aura in the game files, suggesting that players will need to do or interact with something specific in order to build their Aura stacks before, or even during, the Lightblinded Vanguard fight.

We Will, In Fact, See It Again: Defeat Crown of the Cosmos after slaying a Fleshy Monstrosity and returning all of its meat to The Emptiness in the Voidspire on Normal difficulty or higher.

Suspected Strategy: Interestingly enough, the Scalecommander Sarkareth for the Glory of the Aberrus Raider was Well Never See That Again, Surely, and required players to generate a Lump of Flesh from the void pool before the boss and throw the Flesh into The Emptiness Between Stars during a downstairs phase of the fight.

Crown of the Cosmos was not publicly tested, so we have little information on what the room or fight look like, but clearly we will need to rebuild the Fleshy Monstrosity somehow before disposing of it in the Emptiness...for the last time this time, right?

The Dreamrift is a single boss raid, offering only Chimaerus to contend with.

Falling Between The Quacks: Defeat Chimaerus after plucking all Corrupted Feathers from Sergeant Quackers and rescuing him from the Aln in the Dreamrift on Normal difficulty or higher.

Suspected Strategy: If you are a big achievement hunter, Sergeant Quackers may be a familiar face for you: we recruit him to join our cause for Ducks In A Row and Glory of the Dream Raider, receiving him as a pet.

Chimaerus does have a downstairs phase in the Aln, and groups must take turns heading downstairs to manage adds throughout the fight. Based on the text associated with Corrupted Feathers, it is likely the group will need to find Sergeant Quackers as he panics and waddles around the edge of the Aln arena. When he is freed of all Corrupted Feathers, we will need to interact with him in some way to bring him upstairs to freedom.

March on Quel'Danas, the final raid in the Season 1 trio, is a two-boss raid.

Nothing to See Here: Get consumed by the Devouring Host in the Voidspire or March on Quel'Danas.

Suspected Strategy: You will likely have gotten this from the Voidspire already, but if not, it seems you will have another opportunity in March on Quel'Danas.

Eggsistential Crisis: Defeat Belo'ren, Child of Al'ar after infusing the Sunwell Egg with Light and Void magic in March on Quel'Danas on Normal difficulty or higher.

Suspected Strategy: The game files contain both a Sunwell Egg NPC ID and a Spell ID for holding the Egg, suggesting that the raid group will need to pick up the Egg (which deals ticking fire damage), and possibly stay alive with it until they are able to infuse it with both Void and Light magic. Perhaps players will need to place it in both the Light and Void "pie slices" during Belo'ren's Egg phase.

All the Things She Said: Defeat Midnight Falls after returning 12 Memory of Alleria back to L'ura in March on Quel'Danas on Normal difficulty or higher.

Suspected Strategy: There is not much in terms of strategy yet for this boss, and we are not yet sure what to expect from the boss room or completed boss abilities. However, the Memory of Alleria does have an NPC ID and appears to be an Elite mob, so this seems to be a special add type we will have to spawn and drag to L'ura at certain intervals.