All Midnight Season 2 Tier Set Bonuses - More Complex Tier Set Bonuses

Posted 2026/06/18 at 7:02 PM by Squishei

Midnight Season 2 Tier Set Design

Create set bonuses that are more complex than the Season 1 set bonuses.

Create cool, impactful set bonuses that introduce a variety of gameplay in Season 2.

Utilize the Cooldown Manager where it feels correct with these set bonuses. The set bonuses are largely an extension of the spec that you’re currently playing and we should leverage the tools available to us. Note that any Cooldown Manager entry for tier set bonuses are not enabled by default on the Cooldown Manager, so you will have to opt into that.

These set bonuses should increase consistency of damage. Alongside our larger burst damage reduction initiative, we didn’t want to reduce your burst damage and then immediately reintroduce significant burst damage with the new set bonus effects.

Playing with These Bonuses and Providing Feedback

The class and specialization being discussed.

The game content type being referred to (raiding, M+ dungeons, PvP).

When and where you feel like your set bonuses will be the most and least useful.

How bonuses may not have their expected value, given how the class is often played.

How bonuses could have very different value in single target and AOE situations.

How bonuses help or don’t help in specific situations that are relevant to players.

Likely degenerate or unintended impacts on rotations, including:

Using single target abilities in AOE or vice versa.

Being flooded with resources faster than they can be spent.

Being encouraged to use core abilities repetitively, or not at all.

Class Set Bonuses

Blood

2-Set Bonus: Your attack speed is increased by 15%, and Crimson Scourge’s chance to occur is increased by an additional 5%.

4-Set Bonus: Crimson Scourge increases the damage of your next Death and Decay by 100%, and grants 5% critical strike chance for 8 seconds when consumed.

Frost

2-Set Bonus: Each time Remorseless Winter damages at least 1 enemy, gain Freezing Tempest which grants 2% attack speed and 4% increased Icy Death Torrent damage for 5 sec, stacking.

4-Set Bonus: Remorseless Winter deals damage 25% more frequently, and Freezing Tempest lasts 5 seconds longer.

Unholy

2-Set Bonus: Your Magus of the Dead and Lord of the Dead cast a more powerful Necrotic Bolt instead of Frostbolt, and Withering Grasp instead of Shadow Bolt.

4-Set Bonus: Necrotic Bolt’s damage is increased by 130%, and Withering Grasp’s damage is increased by 130%, against enemies below 35% health.

Devourer

2-Set Bonus: Harvesting 4 or more Soul Fragments with Reap has a 20% chance to cause your next Consume to be instant cast and explode in a Soulburst, dealing Cosmic damage to nearby enemies.

4-Set Bonus: Soulburst generates 8 Soul Fragments and grants Moment of Craving. Reap deals 20% increased damage.

Havoc

2-Set Bonus: Blade Dance, Chaos Strike, and Essence Break deal 12% increased damage.

4-Set Bonus: Essence Break now applies and benefits from the effects of Cycle of Hatred, has 25% increased initial strike damage, and has 2 seconds of increased duration.

Vengeance

2-Set Bonus: Sigil of Flame’s damage over time is increased by 50%. Soul Cleave increases the duration of Sigil of Flame on your primary target by 2 seconds.

4-Set Bonus: Immolation Aura and Sigil of Spite deal 100% increased damage against targets affected by your Sigil of Flame.

Balance

2-Set Bonus: Starsurge damage increased by 20%. Starfall also deals Astral damage instantly to all valid enemies in range when cast.

4-Set Bonus: Your damage is increased by 10% while in any Eclipse. This bonus wanes to 2% at the midpoint of the Eclipse, then waxes back to 10% at the end.

Feral

2-Set Bonus: When Berserk or Incarnation ends, you deal 10% increased damage for 1 second for each combo point spent during Berserk or Incarnation.

4-Set Bonus: Berserk and Incarnation last 10 seconds longer.

Guardian

2-Set Bonus: Thrash has a 20% chance to make your next Mangle deal 100% increased damage.

4-Set Bonus: Thrash calls up 3 thorns, each impaling a target for Nature damage and dealing additional Nature damage to up to 5 nearby enemies, and extends the duration of Berserk by 0.5 seconds, up to 5 seconds.

Restoration

2-Set Bonus: Rejuvenation has a 15% chance and Nature’s Swiftness has a 100% chance to grant Genesis, causing all your heal over time effects to heal for 25% more for 8 seconds. Multiple applications may overlap.

4-Set Bonus: Genesis duration is increased by 4 seconds, and gaining Genesis grants Clearcasting.

Augmentation

2-Set Bonus: Upheaval’s cooldown is reduced by 10 seconds.

4-Set Bonus: Upheaval magnifies your Fate Mirror effects for 8 seconds, increasing the amount of damage echoed to 45%.

Devastation

2-Set Bonus: Shattering Star’s damage is increased by 150%, and it always casts as if you had reached maximum empower level.

4-Set Bonus: Causality reduces the remaining cooldown of your empower spells by an additional 0.1 seconds each time the effect occurs. Eternity Surge deals 10% increased damage.

Preservation

2-Set Bonus: Consuming Essence Burst sends forth a Living Flame at your target at 150% effectiveness, or at a nearby injured target if your primary target is at full health.

4-Set Bonus: Green spells restore 5% more health, and Verdant Embrace has a 100% chance to grant Essence Burst.

Beast Mastery

2-Set Bonus: Barbed Shot causes your pets to stomp 1 additional time at 50% effectiveness.

4-Set Bonus: Stomp causes your next Cobra Shot to either benefit from Beast Cleave at 20% effectiveness, or strike your primary target for 30% additional damage, stacking up to 4 times.

Marksmanship

2-Set Bonus: Explosive Shot lasts 1 second longer and deals 20% increased damage.

4-Set Bonus: Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire damage increased by 5%. Each time Explosive Shot causes a burst of damage, the cooldown of Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire is reduced by 0.5 seconds.

Survival

2-Set Bonus: Raptor Strike damage increased by 15%.

4-Set Bonus: Mongoose Fury also increases the damage of Wildfire Bomb by 10%.

Arcane

2-Set Bonus: Arcane Missiles fires 1 additional missile and deals 20% increased damage.

4-Set Bonus: Each wave of Arcane Missiles increases the damage of your next Arcane Blast, Arcane Pulse, or Prismatic Bolt by 5%, up to 40%.

Fire

2-Set Bonus: Pyroclasm causes Flamestrike and Pyroblast to always critically strike.

4-Set Bonus: Pyroclasm reduces the cast time of Flamestrike and Pyroblast by 20% and its damage bonus is increased by 20%.

Frost

2-Set Bonus: Each stack of Freezing Shattered has a 5% chance to generate an Icicle. Glacial Spike damage increased by 25%.

4-Set Bonus: Consuming Glacial Spike has a small chance to grant Glacial Spike. Shatter damage increased by 15%.

Brewmaster

2-Set Bonus: Breath of Fire ignites your next Keg Smash, causing it to explode on contact, dealing additional Flamestrike damage to its primary target and reduced damage to additional targets.

4-Set Bonus: Ignited Keg Smashes cause enemies struck to take 8% increased damage from your Physical abilities, and leave a patch of flames on the ground, dealing Fire damage each second for 5 seconds.

Mistweaver

2-Set Bonus: Rising Sun Kick deals 30% increased damage and Rushing Wind Kick’s healing is increased by 100%.

4-Set Bonus: Rising Sun Kick and Rushing Wind Kick have a chance to cause their next cast to ignore their cooldown and have their mana cost reduced by 100%.

Windwalker

2-Set Bonus: Fists of Fury strikes an additional time at the start of its channel at 50% effectiveness.

4-Set Bonus: Fists of Fury increases the damage of your next Rising Sun Kick by 10% or Spinning Crane Kick by 20% each time it strikes, stacking up to 6 times.

Holy

2-Set Bonus: Infusion of Light increases the healing of Flash of Light by an additional 75% and the absorb from Greater Judgment by an additional 75%.

4-Set Bonus: Judgment now has a 20% chance to grant Infusion of Light. Holy Light now has a 50% chance to grant Infusion of Light.

Protection

2-Set Bonus: Consecration is 30% larger and enemies within your Consecration are illuminated, increasing the chance for your abilities to critically strike them by 5%.

4-Set Bonus: Enemies struck by Judgment or Crusader Strike take 20% additional Holy damage. If they are struck by a critical strike, the additional damage is increased by 200%.

Retribution

2-Set Bonus: Divine Purpose has an additional 10% chance to activate and consuming it grants Divine Power, increasing Holy damage done by 10% for 12 seconds.

4-Set Bonus: Consuming Divine Purpose with Divine Storm causes your next Final Verdict to be free and unleash Divine Arbiter at its target, dealing Holy damage and Holy damage to enemies within 8 yards.

Discipline

2-Set Bonus: Penance damage and healing increased by 20%. Casting Penance reduces the cooldown of Mind Blast by 2 seconds.

4-Set Bonus: After casting Mind Blast, your next Power Word: Shield or Void Shield absorbs 25% more damage.

Holy

2-Set Bonus: Each target affected by your Renew increases your Haste by 2%, up to 6%.

4-Set Bonus: Renew healing increased by 10%. Light’s Resurgence now has a 100% chance to leave a Renew on the first target Prayer of Mending heals.

Shadow

Developers’ notes: The Shadow Priest set will be available PTR week 2.

2-Set Bonus: Tentacle Slam cooldown reduced by 3 seconds and its damage is increased by 100%.

4-Set Bonus: After casting Tentacle Slam, your next Vampiric Touch is instant, generates 4 additional Insanity, and conjures Shadowy Apparitions that deal 200% of normal damage.

Assassination

2-Set Bonus: Envenom damage increased by 10% and it increases your damage dealt by 3%.

4-Set Bonus: Deadly Poison increases your bleed damage on the target by 10%. Auto-attacks against targets with your Amplifying Poison deal 2% increased damage per stack. Wound Poison hits a second time.

Outlaw

2-Set Bonus: Dispatch damage increased by 15%.

4-Set Bonus: Sinister Strike and Ambush have a 12% chance to cause your next Dispatch to be free and deal damage as if you spent the maximum combo points.

Subtlety

2-Set Bonus: Backstab costs 10 less Energy and deals 100% increased damage. Shuriken Storm costs 5 less Energy and deals 60% increased damage.

4-Set Bonus: Lingering Darkness now also benefits Eviscerate and Black Powder at 100% effectiveness.

Elemental

2-Set Bonus: Earth Shock, Elemental Blast, and Earthquake damage increased by 25%.

4-Set Bonus: When Stormkeeper or Ascendance fade, your next 2 Lightning Bolts, Chain Lightnings, or Lava Bursts deal 25% increased damage and cause your next Earthquake, Earth Shock, or Elemental Blast to cost 100% less Maelstrom.

Enhancement

2-Set Bonus: Voltaic Blaze causes your primary target to erupt in a Fire Nova every 2 seconds for 6 seconds. Fire Nova damage is increased by 200% if it only strikes a single target.

4-Set Bonus: Fire Nova reduces the cooldown of Crash Lightning by 2 seconds and increases the damage of your next Crash Lightning by 8%, stacking up to 5 times.

Restoration

2-Set Bonus: Healing Wave and Chain Heal have a chance to create a Healing Rain at the target’s location for 10 seconds.

4-Set Bonus: Every 1 second, 1 ally inside of Healing Rain gains a watery shield that absorbs X damage for 10 seconds.

Affliction

2-Set Bonus: You have a 20% chance to refund a Soul Shard after spending a Soul Shard.

4-Set Bonus: Each active Unstable Affliction increases your damage dealt by your spells and abilities by 2%, up to 6%. Seed of Corruption applies Unstable Affliction at 50% effectiveness to your target.

Demonology

2-Set Bonus: Wild Imp damage increased by 10%. Implosion damage increased by 20%.

4-Set Bonus: When their energy depletes, Wild Imps have a 20% chance to fling themselves at their target and Implode at 150% effectiveness to their main target and 125% effectiveness to other targets.

Destruction

2-Set Bonus: Incinerate damage increased by 25% and Incinerate has a 10% increased chance to evoke an Echo of Sargeras.

4-Set Bonus: Targets damaged by Echo of Sargeras take 6% increased damage from Echo of Sargeras for 6 seconds.

Arms

2-Set Bonus: Mortal Strike damage increased by 10% and when you Slam a target, Slam also deals damage to enemies within 8 yards of it. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

4-Set Bonus: Overpower damage increased by 15%. Mortal Strike and Overpower increase the damage of your next Slam by 10%, stacking up to 3 times.

Fury

2-Set Bonus: Raging Blow damage increased by 15% and during Recklessness, Raging Blow extends the Duration of Recklessness by 2 seconds, up to 6 seconds.

4-Set Bonus: Bloodthirst damage increased by 10% and during Recklessness, Bloodthirst increases the critical strike bonus of Recklessness by 5%, up to 10%.

Protection

2-Set Bonus: Free revenges deal 15% additional damage and cause your next Shield Slam to deal 20% additional damage.

4-Set Bonus: Ravager and your free Revenges cause all targets to bleed for X damage over 12 sec. Ravager’s cooldown is reduced by 30 seconds.

Midnight: Curse of Ula'tek PTR Development Notes

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PTR Development Notes

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Comment by black0niGOD PLEASE LET GO OF THIS GAME DEVS! YOU DON'T HAVE IT!Comment by kyjooostop trying to make Essence Break happenComment by Bwgmon"More complex set bonuses"

Survival: "What if we replaced Wildfire Bomb damage with Raptor Strike damage? And then replaced the other bonus with Wildfire Bomb damage?"Comment by musta1987Havoc forced into Essence Break. Urgh.Comment by JandaarArcane Mage buffs a spell no one uses.Comment by musta1987stop trying to make Essence Break happenComment by DindongUsually at least one set gets me excited to play a specific tank. All of these tank set bonuses might as well not exist, just absolutely horrible. The role itself isnt allowed to be within striking distance of a damage dealer in terms of numbers, yet the bonuses are almost fully damage focused without affecting gameplay in any meaningful way.

This together with no changes dk or dh apex talents has me down when it comes to tanking.Comment by AldwayIt's just so tragic how Blizzard has absolutely zero clue what to do with Holy Priest. Do they even hire a freaking class designer for it or they just throw random !@#$ out without actually knowing how that class fairs. Renew? RENEW? Since when Holy is healing a lot by renew? It's a freaking hot healing and you get those with each serenity cast. 10%? How the heck will this ever be useful?Comment by Faol4n90More complex Set Bonuses they say...
2P: Give one Button something it already does, but make it twice with 50% effectivness...
4P: Give the FILLER-Spell more meaning it should have and that does nearly NO Damage... and then put an "OR"-Statement in there, that 100% will not be bugged for the whole season, where it won't hit the primary target for more damage or won't hit multiple targets if there are... never will this happen... and btw: 4 Set buffing the Spell with LEAST DAMAGE is like no 4-Set Bonus at all...

Blizz, i know and we all have seen in S1 with BM Hunters, that you have NO CLUE what you do with it and don't care... but please... don't tell us things like "more complex boni that may alter the Gameplay" and then give us Boni, that won't change ANYTHING since the are 100% passive and want get played into even a bit! For this to be meaningful there has to be changed more! BM needs more than 3 Buttons in ST (or 4 in AoE ) to press some buttons besides Cobra Shot to even STACK up to 4 times! Also normaly only time you press 2 Barbed shots in sequence is on pull... without this you will normally always use BS => KC => CS => KC => BS => KC and so on... even if second stomp will give an additional stack you will only hit one BS before hitting CS... and therefore it is NOTHING Gameplay changing!
It's 100000% same boring BS (and here i don't mean Barbed Shot) than S1 Bonus is... it's there, we will take it, but it will be forgettable like this season Bonus... and I don't even know what it does, even though I have it since week 2! Yeah nice, i will get Stacks to track, that i won't care for tracking, since it will be so without impact, that i can even uncheck it in CDM and won't miss out a single digit of DPS to it!

And many other Speccs and even whole Classes are the same!Comment by kevincuomoYo these set bonuses are cool and wild asfComment by Setsuna665lmao feral heres 10 sec extra of berserk go nuts. if you look at the sets you can see whos the favorite and who is just filler specsComment by NeylHavoc forced into Essence Break. Urgh.Comment by AtalosThe Sub Rogue 4 piece bonus should be Lingering Shadows instead of Darkness. Otherwise it doesn't make sense and would be Deathstalker Hero Tree exclusive.Comment by milkybunnyThe shadow priest 4p was 100% AI generated or it has got to be a joke, in what scenario are we pressing vampiric touch after tentacle slam? Majority of the fights we dont need that spell BECAUSE of tentacle slam, what use has this in a single target scenario? Even AOE, if we are fighting 12 enemies we have no reason to press vampiric touch, this is utterly useless for majority of PVE contentComment by RykarrONEI'm going to suggest something wild, Blizzard tells their developers the design plan for the new tier set bonuses.

Because I don't see the complexity or variety part of the design being shown off here.Comment by Jahcupwith how many times first season tier set got change since start, is it hard not to know if this is real or not like was it not supposed first not to be a flat %bonus dmg for all in season 1?Comment by Ilanara"4-Set Bonus: Enemies struck by Judgment or Crusader Strike take 20% additional Holy damage. If they are struck by a critical strike, the additional damage is increased by 200%."

This is only for Prot Paladins right?

...........

Right?

If not, Ret gonna be grouping only with Prot Paladins to blow up dungeons.Comment by RaZz0r65More complex Set Bonuses they say...
2P: Give one Button something it already does, but make it twice with 50% effectivness...
4P: Give the FILLER-Spell more meaning it should have and that does nearly NO Damage... and then put an "OR"-Statement in there, that 100% will not be bugged for the whole season, where it won't hit the primary target for more damage or won't hit multiple targets if there are... never will this happen... and btw: 4 Set buffing the Spell with LEAST DAMAGE is like no 4-Set Bonus at all...

Blizz, i know and we all have seen in S1 with BM Hunters, that you have NO CLUE what you do with it and don't care... but please... don't tell us things like "more complex boni that may alter the Gameplay" and then give us Boni, that won't change ANYTHING since the are 100% passive and want get played into even a bit! For this to be meaningful there has to be changed more! BM needs more than 3 Buttons in ST (or 4 in AoE ) to press some buttons besides Cobra Shot to even STACK up to 4 times! Also normaly only time you press 2 Barbed shots in sequence is on pull... without this you will normally always use BS => KC => CS => KC => BS => KC and so on... even if second stomp will give an additional stack you will only hit one BS before hitting CS... and therefore it is NOTHING Gameplay changing!
It's 100000% same boring BS (and here i don't mean Barbed Shot) than S1 Bonus is... it's there, we will take it, but it will be forgettable like this season Bonus... and I don't even know what it does, even though I have it since week 2! Yeah nice, i will get Stacks to track, that i won't care for tracking, since it will be so without impact, that i can even uncheck it in CDM and won't miss out a single digit of DPS to it!

And many other Speccs and even whole Classes are the same!Comment by avenireare the more interesting tier sets in the room with us?Comment by CleryOh no, not Pyroclasm bruh.

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