Midnight Prey System Guide for Midnight: How to Unlock, Difficulties, and Rewards

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Prey is an optional hunting system that lets you pursue powerful foes across the Midnight Expansion zones for gear and various cosmetic rewards. This system adds an extra layer to world content that can make it more fun and exciting!

With Season 2 we get four new bosses that are all snake-themed to go with The Curse of Ula'tek patch. There's also the Curse of the Isle mode, that can add a little extra torment to your day to day world content, which also includes a new repeatable boss.

You can also earn additional gear rewards each week with Afflicted Soul and Tormented Soul. Each of these drop from bountiful delves at tier 6 and above once you've unlocked them at Preyhunter's Journey Rank 4 and Rank 9 respectively.

Using one of these items will instantly reveal the location of your next Nightmare Difficulty Prey hunt, and award an additional piece of loot. The Afflicted Souls will award a Champion level piece of loot, and the Tormented Souls will award a Hero level piece of loot.

Curse of the Isle Mode: This is the biggest addition to Prey in Season 2. After a short initial questline from Astalor in Silvermoon, you will be able to take a portal from his sanctum straight to The Coiled Isle. Once you're there you can speak with an Image of Astalor Bloodsworn to toggle on the "Curse of the Isle" debuff, turning on all Nightmare difficulty affixes from a hunt while on The Coiled Isle. Speak with the Image once again to turn the mode off again.

Why turn it on?: Ultimately your goal will be to kill Ral'kala and acquire his rewards, which include Remnants of Anguish, Voidlight Marl, Champion and Hero crests, a new pet, a new toy, and a new mount!

To summon Ral'Kala you must go to a Haunted Brazier which can be found easily from your map, and make an offering with Ossified Relics. These are warband items that spawn across the isle as skull-looking treasures. You can also do a daily quest on the isle, located at 57.1, 33.3, once per character, to get an additional 100 Ossified Relics.

Once 100 relics have been offered to a Haunted Brazier, which can be contributed by any player, it will summon Ral'kala. After about 10-15 seconds of immunity to give players a chance to get to his location, he can be defeated for his rewards. You can kill him multiple times a day to acquire the rewards, and there is even an achievement, Nine, Ten, Never Sleep Again, to defeat him 50 times!

One final note is that you can collect Ossified Relics and fight Ral'kala while you are on a Nightmare Difficulty hunt. Though it is not advised as you can easily be ambushed while fighting an already difficult enemy. Unless, of course, you like the extra challenge!

As mentioned, Prey is an optional feature, which means you must first enable it by visiting Magister Astalor Bloodsworn in Murder Row in Silvermoon City, starting at level 90. You can easily identify Astalor’s location by the Prey icon on your map. After a short questline you can then accept contracts to hunt down prey in each of the Midnight zones.

Once you pick a contract, you can venture out into the zone you selected. Completing any world content, such as World Quests, including the ones that become available once you enable this system, killing rares, interacting with treasures, and participating in Prey activities will help Astalor's magic focus on the location of your prey, furthering your hunt.

Prey activities are new world interactions that define this system and are only available while it is activated. These include defeating your prey, who may ambush you at any time while interacting with world content, disarming traps, which can be used against your prey to instantly make them flee if they ambush you, and defeating Coalesced Anguish, enemies that may be summoned in the area.

After completing enough of these activities, Astalor will locate the position of your prey. You will now be able to summon and fight them, and once defeated, you will be rewarded with:

• Progress toward your season’s Prey journey.
• A chest containing gear with quality based on the difficulty completed.
• Mistcrests, Midnight’s Gear Upgrade System material.
• Restored Coffer Key shards, providing an additional source of keys for Bountiful Delves.
• Progress toward the Great Vault in the World tier slot.

Helpful Tip: After you are ambushed, follow the blood mist trail and take an attack at your prey to further increase your progress.

The Prey system is available in three difficulties. You are limited to one hunt per difficulty, per week, per zone. The exception is The Coiled Isle introduced in patch 12.1, this zone has two Hard hunts and one Nightmare hunt a week.

• Normal Difficulty: On this difficulty, nothing extra occurs, and other players in the open world can help you take down your target.
• Hard Difficulty: Enemies on this difficulty come with a mechanic called Torment. Which will have you increase damage by 2% and stacks as you pursue your prey, ramping up quickly.
• Nightmare Difficulty: This is the hardest difficulty, and the target is extremely challenging to defeat. Torment is active and stronger, increasing damage you take by 4% stacking and increasing by 4% every 60 seconds while no in a rested area. Make sure you pursue your prey with haste! No groups are allowed to take down your foe, so proceed with caution.

Hard and Nightmare difficulty will also have additional affixes during your hunt. Each unique to the season of Prey, Below are the affixes for season 2 of prey.

• Torment: Increased damage and reduced progress of your hunt if you die.
• Pack Ambush: A pack of serpentine scouts will occasionally attack from the shadows while you are in combat.
• Exploding Corpse Snakes: Snakes erupt from enemy corpses, exploding in a spray of venom when killed. Make sure to get out of the large circle when they are defeated.
• Toxic Snare: Envenomed Nets are thrown at your location while in combat, slowing you and inflicting nature damage if triggered. When they start being cast on you, ensure you keep moving until they stop. These nets are very deadly if you are caught by them.

The Prey system grants credit toward the Great Vault based on the difficulty completed, rewarding up to Hero-track loot, similar to Delves.

Additionally, there are Achievements to earn and a wide variety of cosmetics, including new mounts, transmog, and Player Housing decor! These rewards will change from season to season during Midnight. Interested in everything you can earn? Check out our Prey Rewards Guide!

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