Midnight Helper

Your gear says "Champion 4/6" and the game never tells you what that means. Your Great Vault has three empty slots and nothing says how to fill them. Your profession window has six numbers on it and no one has ever explained a single one.

Midnight Helper answers those questions in plain language — in your own language — and then takes you there.

It is for you if you have just hit 90, or if you are coming back after a few expansions away and half the game has been renamed. Veterans will know much of it already.

Up to date for patch 12.1 and Season 2, checked in the live game. Free, no ads, open source (MIT), seven languages built in, and no other addons needed.

Getting started

Install it, log in and type /mh. The window opens on This Week, the only page you need on day one. It starts with the most useful thing you can do right now, and a Take me there button sets the route. While you are still levelling, it never suggests endgame content you cannot do yet.

Nothing in your game changes unless you press a button. On a character whose bars have never been set up, the front page offers to do it — once. It shows exactly what will move before anything moves, and one button puts it all back.

Start with these four

• How you play — all 40 specs, each on one short card: the idea in one sentence, your buttons in order, and the most common beginner mistake. Every icon shows the key that spell is on for you right now. Extra tabs cover staying alive, consumables and what you can dispel. Open it with the gold button in the search bar or /mh play.
• Professions 101 — a beginner course that explains every number in your profession window, why the same recipe gives two players different results, and how work orders really work. It opens in its own window beside the game, so you can follow along. Guided mode walks you through learning and levelling any of the 11 professions and ticks off steps as your skill grows (English and Dutch for now).
• Your gear — /mh tracks shows which items have reached their upgrade limit and how to go further, including that the best upgrade crests can be earned solo: no raid group needed. The Great Vault Advisor compares your choices with what you are wearing, right on Blizzard's vault screen. /mh stats explains your stats with your live numbers, and starts with the most important rule: higher item level almost always wins. And two buttons next to your character sheet answer "which items should I wear?" — quick advice on our Armory, or an exact answer from Raidbots, a website that simulates your gear (beta).
• Your key block (new in 4.7) — the same job on the same key, on every character: 1 is your main button, E your interrupt, Z your small defensive, Q your big cooldown. Type /mh block and follow the steps at the top of the window: it puts your spells on bars 5, 6 and 7, arranges them as a block on your screen, and one Undo puts every button and key back. Healers get their heals on 1 to 4, new spells get a place when you learn them, and your play card shows the key behind every spell name.

What else is in it

• Your week — reset countdown, Great Vault status for all your characters, this week's world boss, weekly chores, and Ritual Sites and Void Assaults with one-click routes. Play mostly solo? One switch in the settings hides raids and Mythic+ from the plan.
• All your characters — keys, shards, item level and vault status as rows, or side by side in columns with gold, rested XP, currencies, professions and a gear card per character.
• Delves — all 14 Midnight delves with routes, bosses and 3D previews, plus the avoidable damage in the delve or dungeon you are in, named in your own language.
• Raids and dungeons — beginner steps for every boss, and a Raid Coach that opens by itself when a pull starts. Never done Mythic+? A step-by-step guide explains how to get your first key, where to find a group and what happens during the run. In a group, a small panel shows how many battle resurrections are left, whether Heroism is ready, and who can cast them. Before you pull, a loud warning if your gear is badly worn.
• Maps — floor plans of raids and dungeons with the bosses on them. Click a boss for its tips, or the stairs to change floor. Type /mh map inside to see the floor you are on.
• Getting there — a route arrow with live distance that drives the game's own waypoint. /mh plan lays out the whole trip as clickable steps and takes a portal when one goes your way. If you use TomTom, its arrow takes over; with WaypointUI you get both.
• Collecting — the 20 new Midnight mounts as a checklist with progress and a 3D preview. Rares with weekly tracking, routes, and an alert when one is up nearby. Treasure and lore hunts with checked coordinates.
• Reference — the Midnight Codex handbook, a Role Academy for tank, healer and DPS, macro templates, a Silvermoon City guide, and a search box that takes a word to the page that answers it.

New in patch 12.1

The Coiled Isle: rares, treasures and lore hunts with checked coordinates, and the seven treasures that need something done first now name the step that unlocks them. Altar of Fangs and the two new delves, Gnarldor Isle and The Ring of Glory, in the coach. The Mysterious Mix Master's 10 offerings with their ingredients.

When the game stays silent

Where the game will not tell us something, Midnight Helper says so instead of guessing.

• In combat, 12.1 hides some of your own buffs from addons. Midnight Helper says it cannot see them, instead of telling you a buff is missing.
• Mounts that are pure luck — a rare drop, a puzzle, a hidden chain — get no progress bar, because there is no honest number to show.
• Inside a dungeon or raid the game hides everyone's position, yours included. The maps show the floor plan, not your group.

What this does not replace

It is not a boss mod, a damage meter, a bag addon or a unit-frame replacement, and it does not try to be. If you already run DBM, Details! or HandyNotes, keep them.

More on the website

midnighthelper.com has the guides in seven languages — new at max level · your week and the Great Vault · currencies and crests · all 14 delves · Knowledge Points · the Coiled Isle · Mythic+ from your first key — plus the Armory gear check and Raidbots in seven steps. No account needed.

Got two minutes? Tell us what you use, what you never use and what annoys you.

Languages

English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Português (BR), Italiano and Nederlands; Guided mode is English and Dutch for now. Your client's language is picked up automatically. Choose Dutch with /mh lang nl, since there is no Dutch client. Other languages fall back to English.

Short labels such as stat names, DPS and Bountiful stay English on purpose, because your tooltips do too.

Help and feedback

🌙 Midnight Helper is a one-person project, built in spare time and checked in the live game before every release.

Found a bug, or want to help translate? Come say hi on Discord — beginners very welcome — or use the feedback form. Type /mh report in game first: it writes down what you were doing and where, ready to paste.

Slash commands

/mh opens the window · /mh play how to play your spec · /mh map the map of the dungeon or raid you are in · /mh block your key block · /mh setup bars and keybinds · /mh course the professions course · /mh report a bug report to paste.

About 70 more are listed and explained in the addon, under Tools.

Credits and references

Guide data cross-checked against Wowhead and Icy Veins; boss, spell and item names come from the game's own data. Thanks to everyone who reported something that read wrong.

The screen icons were generated locally with an open image model (Z-Image Turbo) and picked by us; the logo was made with Google Gemini. No Blizzard artwork was used as input for the icons.

Disclaimer

World of Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. This addon is not affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment.