GREYMOOR CHAPTER

New Zone(s) – Western Skyrim/Blackreach
Prepare to embark on a new journey! In this patch, you can travel to the Nord nation of Western Skyrim and uncover the Dark Heart of Skyrim.

• To begin your voyage, you can choose from among the following:
  • Create a new character and play through the new Greymoor tutorial.
  • Enter the zone with an existing character in one of the following ways:
    • Using the Wayshrine on the Solitude Docks
    • Use one of the carts outside of Elden Root, Mournhold or Wayrest
    • Traveling to a friend who is already in Western Skyrim or Blackreach
• After you complete the tutorial, seek out Fennorian just outside Deepwood Vale to get the first quest of the Main Story, or travel to the gates of Solitude and encounter Brondold who can set you on your path.
• Greymoor includes the following activities:
  • Six delves, each with its own Skyshard and associated content
  • Six challenging world bosses, ranging from the terrifying Sea Giant Ysmgar along the northern coast to the powerful Dwarven Colossus deep within the mines of Blackreach
  • Two public dungeons: the ancient tombs of Labyrinthian and the Dwarven stronghold of Nchuthnkarst (bless you!)
  • New set crafting stations
  • Defending the realms of Western Skyrim and Blackreach from powerful Harrowstorms
  • Over thirty hours of quest content, exploration, achievement hunting

Antiquities
The new Antiquities system allows you to scour all of Tamriel for lost relics and treasures. Through the use of two new Skill Lines and the new Antiquarian's Eye Tool, you'll be able to uncover new furnishings, equipment, a mount, and more! 

To begin, visit the Antiquarian Circle, located in the city of Solitude, in Western Skyrim. There, speak with Verita Numida, who will introduce you to the Antiquarian's Eye, and teach you the skills needed to begin seeking Antiquities. You can then strike out on your own, or continue to learn more about the Antiquarian's Eye and how the Antiquities system works from Verita and Gabrielle Benele. 

• Leads 
  • In most cases before you can Scry for an Antiquity, you'll need to obtain a Lead. Leads can be found in a wide variety of ways and places throughout the world, and do not require you to be an Antiquarian to obtain them (though you will need to be to utilize them).
  • Some Leads may require you to have done other tasks before you can obtain them – exploring a Zone, completing a quest, or digging up other Antiquities. 
  • Leads expire 30 days after you obtain them. (Of course, you can always obtain them again).
  • Leads can be found almost anywhere, from nearly any activity. Below are some hints to get you started.
    • As a general rule of thumb: the rarer the Antiquity, the more specific, hidden, or mysterious its source. 
    • Lead sourcing is often related, directly or indirectly, to the Antiquity it will lead to. For instance, if you're looking for Leads to Antiquities concerning Glenumbra's history, try scouring Glenumbra. 
    • Some Leads are already known – to someone else. Try defeating powerful foes, speaking with shopkeepers, or checking in treasure hoards big and small. 
    • When in doubt, poke around and explore. You may find a new Lead when – and where! – you least expect to. 
  • Every zone has at least one green-quality treasure lead that you will already have, so you can dive into Antiquities right away without needing to hunt for leads.
  • Finding that lead can unlock higher value treasures in each zone.
• Scrying, Excavating, and The Antiquarian's Eye 
  • Once you've obtained a Lead, you'll learn a little about the Antiquity – enough to Scry for it.
  • You can Scry for an Antiquity from the Journal or from the Map.
  • You must be in the Antiquity's correct Zone in order to Scry for an Antiquity. 
  • Once you've successfully excavated an Antiquity, you'll learn a little lore about it. There are hundreds and hundreds of tidbits of scholarly discourse to be uncovered!
  • You can press F1 / hold Back to bring up the Help screens at any time.
• List of Antiquities 
  • Mythic Items – each Mythic Item is split into five fragments. You can read more details on these items under the “New Item Sets” section.
    • Bloodlord's Embrace (Heavy Chest) 
    • Malacath's Band of Brutality (Ring) (Requires Orsinium) 
    • Ring of the Wild Hunt (Ring) (Requires Murkmire) 
    • Snow Treaders (Medium Feet) 
    • Torc of Tonal Constancy (Neck) 
    • Thrassian Stranglers (Light Hands) (Requires Summerset) 
  • Dwarven Ebon Wolf mount – the first time a canine mount has been earnable in-game! 
    • This mount is split into 17 fragments, found throughout the base game and Western Skyrim. You'll need to collect all seventeen pieces in order to form the mount. 
  • Antique Map furnishings of nearly all zones in the game 
  • Three new Motifs 
    • Ancestral Altmer 
    • Ancestral Nord 
    • Ancestral Orc 
  • Cosmetic Options 
    • Companion's Coronet (Adorment) 
    • Ysgramor's Chosen Body Marking 
    • Ysgramor's Chosen Face Marking 
    • Dwemer Crown (Adornment) 
    • Dwemer Body Markings 
    • Dwemer Face Markings 
  • The Aldmeri Symphonium, a new Music Box furnishing – split into three Fragments (requires Thieves Guild) 
  • The Magicka Lance siege weapon, available in Fire, Ice, and Shock varieties
  • A new Emote, the Alinor Allemande (requires Summerset) 
  • Over a hundred new sellable treasures (three per Zone), worth a total value of over 300,000 gold 
  • Over fifty new, highly impressive Furnishings for your home:
    Furnishing - Zone
    Altar of Celestial Convergence - Craglorn
    Anvil of Old Orsinium - Wrothgar
    Ashen Infernace Gate - Stonefalls
    Ayleid Lightwell - Betnikh
    Beacon of Tower Zero - Stormhaven
    Blessed Dais of Mother Morrow - Deshaan
    Branch of Falinesti - Greenshade
    Brazier of Frozen Flame - Bleakrock
    Carved Whale Totem - Eastmarch
    Cat's Eye Prism - Khenarthi's Roost
    Daedric Pillar of Torment - Coldharbour
    Dwarven Puzzle Box - Stros M'Kai
    Dwemer Star Chart - Alik'r
    Dwemer Star Chart - Stros M'Kai
    Ebony Fox Totem - The Rift
    Echoes of Aldmeris - Auridon
    Eight-Star Chandelier - Grahtwood
    Font of Auri-El - Western Skyrim
    Golden Idol of Morihaus - Gold Coast
    Greensong Gathering Circle - Greenshade
    Hollowbone Wind Chimes - Malabal Tor
    Jeweled Skull of Ayleid Kings - Glenumbra
    Kingmaker's Trove - Glenumbra
    Maormeri Serpent Shrine - Auridon
    Meridian Sconce - Gold Coast
    Mnemonic Star-Sphere - Clockwork City
    Moonlight Mirror - Reaper's March
    Moons-Blessed Ceremonial Pool - Southern Elsweyr
    Morwha's Blessing - Hew's Bane
    Moth Priest's Cleansing Bowl - Elsweyr
    Nest of Shadows - Shadowfen
    Nisswo's Soul Tender - Murkmire
    Noble Knight's Rest - Stormhaven
    Prismatic Sunbird Feather - Summerset
    Remnant of the False Tower - Rivenspire
    Riven King's Throne - Rivenspire
    Ruby Dragon Skull - Bleakrock
    Rune-Carved Mammoth Skill - The Rift
    Sacred Chalice of Ysgramor - Eastmarch
    Seat of the Snow Prince - Western Skyrim
    Shrine of Boethra - Southern Elsweyr
    Silvenari Sap-Stone - Malabal Tor
    Sixth House Ritual Table - Vvardenfell
    Sorcerer-King's Blade - Reaper's March
    Spellscar Shard - Craglorn
    St. Alessia, Paravant - Grahtwood
    St. Nerevar, Moon-and-Star - Vvardenfell
    Stained Glass of Lunar Phases - Elsweyr
    Sweet Khenarthi's Song - Khenarthi's Roost
    Tall Papa's Lamp - Bangkorai
    The Dutiful Guar - Bal Foyen
    The Heartland - Alik'r
    Tri-Angled Truth Altar - Bal Foyen
    Tusks of the Orc-Father - Wrothgar
    Void-Crystal Anomaly - Coldharbour
    Warcaller's Painted Drum - Betnikh
    Yokudan Skystone Scabbard - Hew's Bane

New Trial: Kyne’s Aegis
Kyne's Aegis is a keep on an island north of Solitude. Its original intent was to be a bulwark against northern invasions which approached the coast via the easiest channel. Thane Ogvar was given ownership over the fort and over time, it morphed into a northern fishing village in addition to a fort. The island's gold veins led to the Thane establishing a mining operation. Until recently, the fort has remained peaceful with only the occasional northern squall cropping up to cause concern. The transformation of the island to a fishing and mining spot has led to the slow decline of the fort.

A short time ago, tremendously large longships appeared to the north. Before a proper defense could be mustered, these ships crashed into the island, disgorging Sea Giants and Half-Giants, led by a powerful Vampire lord. These creatures of myth quickly overwhelmed the northern section of the island and have begun the assault of the fort proper.

With the island threatened, the Thane has sent for assistance from anyone that can reach the island.

• Kyne’s Aegis is a 12-player Trial reached from the northern coast of Western Skyrim.
• The Trial includes both a normal and challenging Veteran version.
• There are unique Item Sets within the Trial, including Perfected versions only found in the Veteran difficulty.
• Unique Achievement awards are available for completing the Trial, including:
  • A unique Skin
  • A new and unique multi-player Memento awarded by completing all achievements within the Kyne’s Aegis
  • Several Titles
  • Unique housing items

New Item Sets
This update brings a number of new item sets you can obtain through various means, either from the overland, the new Trial, crafting, or the new Antiquities system.

• Overland
  • Winter’s Respite – Light Armor
    • 2 – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
    • 3 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 5 – Casting abilities that leave an effect on the ground will create a circle of healing frost for 10 seconds. You and your allies restore 2358 Health every 1 second while inside the circle. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.
  • Venomous Smite – Medium Armor
    • 2 – Adds 833 Weapon Critical
    • 3 – Adds 833 Weapon Critical
    • 4 – Adds 129 Weapon Damage
    • 5 – Dealing Critical Damage inflicts Hunter’s Venom on your enemy for 2241 Poison Damage to your target and nearby enemies every 1 second. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds.
  • Eternal Vigor – Heavy Armor
    • 2 – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
    • 3 – Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
    • 4 – Adds 129 Health Recovery
    • 5 – Adds 1407 Maximum Health
    • 5 – Adds 337 Stamina and Magicka Recovery while your Health is above 50%. Adds 1011 Health Recovery while your Health is 50% or less.
• Crafting
  • Stuhn’s Favor
    • 2 – Adds 129 Weapon Damage
    • 2 – Adds 129 Spell Damage
    • 3 – Adds 1487 Physical Penetration
    • 3 – Adds 1487 Spell Penetration
    • 4 – Adds 129 Weapon Damage
    • 4 – Adds 129 Spell Damage
    • 5 – Dealing damage to an enemy who is Off Balance grants you 5312 Physical and Spell Penetration for 10 seconds.
  • Dragon’s Appetite
    • 2 – Adds 129 Weapon Damage
    • 3 – Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
    • 4 – Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
    • 5 – Increases your damage done to Bleeding enemies by 225. Dealing non-Bleed damage to Bleeding enemies generates a persistent stack of Dragon’s Appetite, up to once per second. After 10 stacks, you consume Dragon’s Appetite and heal for 6415.
  • Spell Parasite
    • 2 – Adds 129 Spell Damage
    • 3 – Adds 833 Spell Critical
    • 4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 5 – Whenever you deal damage, you restore 63 Magicka. This effect can occur once every 0.25 seconds.
• Trial
  • Roaring Opportunist – Magicka DPS
    • 2 – Adds 1487 Spell Penetration
    • 3 – Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
    • 4 – Adds 129 Spell Damage
    • 5 (Perfected) – Adds 1096 Max Magicka
    • 5 – Dealing damage with a Fully-Charged Heavy Attack to an enemy grants you and up to 11 group members Major Slayer, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 15% for 1 second for every 8000 damage dealt, with a minimum of 5 seconds and maximum of 12 seconds. Roaring Opportunist can only affect a target every 22 seconds.
  • Yandir’s Might – Stamina DPS
    • 2 – Adds 129 Weapon Damage
    • 3 – Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial and Arena Monsters by 5%.
    • 4 – Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
    • 5 (Perfected) – Adds 1487 Physical Penetration
    • 5 – Dealing Critical Damage grants you a stack of Giant’s Endurance, up to one a second. Each stack of Giant’s Endurance adds 69 Stamina Recovery, up to 5 stacks. Dealing damage with a Fully Charged Heavy Attack removes Giant’s Endurance and grants you Giant’s Might for 10 seconds, increasing your Weapon Damage by 111 per stack removed. You cannot have Giant’s Endurance and Might active at the same time.
  • Kyne’s Wind – Healing
    • 2 – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
    • 3 – Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%
    • 4 – Adds 4% Healing Done
    • 5 (Perfected) – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
    • 5 – Casting an ability or drinking a potion that applies a Major Buff on yourself or an ally creates a pool of Kyne’s Blessing for 4 seconds. You and allies standing in Kyne’s Blessing restore 399 Stamina and Magicka every 1 second. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.
  • Vrol’s Command – Tanking
    • 2 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
    • 3 – Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
    • 4 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
    • 5 (Perfected) – Adds 4% Healing Taken
    • 5 – After dealing damage with a Fully-Charged Heavy Attack, apply Major Aegis to you and up to 11 nearby group members for 10 seconds, reducing damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena enemies by 15%. This effect can occur once every 36 seconds.
• Mythic
  • Bloodlord’s Embrace – Heavy Chest
    • 1 – Dealing damage with a Bash attack places a persistent, un-cleansable Blood Curse on an enemy. You can only have one Blood Cursed enemy at a time and dealing additional Bash damage moves the Blood Curse. Blocking an attack from a Blood Cursed enemy restores 1535 Magicka to you. This effect can occur every 1 second.
  • Thrassian Stranglers – Light Hands
    • 1 – Killing an enemy grants you a persistent stack of Sload’s Call, up to a maximum of 20 stacks. Each stack increases your Spell Damage by 150, but also increases your damage taken and reduces effectiveness of damage shields and healing taken by 2%. Removing Thrassian Stranglers, crouching, or going invisible removes all stacks of Sload’s Call.
  • Snow Treaders – Medium Feet
    • 1 – You are immune to Snares and Immobilizations that can be cleansed. While in combat, you cannot Sprint.
  • Ring of the Wild Hunt – Ring
    • 1 – Increases your movement speed by 15% while in combat. Increases your movement speed by 45% while out of combat.
  • Malacath’s Band of Brutality – Ring
    • 1 – Increases your damage done by 25%. You cannot deal critical damage.
  • Torc of Tonal Constancy – Necklace
    • 1 – While your Stamina is less than 50%, increases your Magicka Recovery by 450. While your Magicka is less than 50%, increases your Stamina Recovery by 450.

New Collectibles
In this update, we’ve added several new collectibles for you to, well, collect!

• Pets
  • Solitude Silver Wolf: Acquired by completing the quest "The Vampire Scholar".
• Mementos
  • Miniature Dwarven Sun: Acquired by completing the quest "The Tones of the Deep".
  • Kyne's Tablet of Storms: Complete the quest "The Fading Fire".
  • Ritual Circle Totem: Earn the "Shield of the North" achievement.
• Costumes
  • Antiquarian Robes: Acquired by completing the "Master of the Eye" achievement.
  • Master Field Cartographer: Acquired by collecting and combining all of the Cartographer Fragments found in the Nchuthnkarst public dungeon.
  • Antiquarian Field Garb: Acquired by completing the "Master Antiquarian" achievement.
• Hats
  • Reach-Mage Ceremonial Skullcap: Combine 20 Arena Gladiator's Proofs with a Reach Mage's Ferocity, available for purchase from War Researchers in Cyrodiil.
• Adornments
  • Wolfcrown of Solitude: Complete the "Daughter of the Wolf" quest.
• Skins
  • Seaborn Silver: Complete the "Kyne's Aegis Conqueror" achievement.
• Outfit Styles
  • Antiquarian's Pickaxe: Acquired by earning the "Master of the Spade" achievement.
  • Wolf of Solitude Replica Sword: Complete the quest "Greymoor Rising"
  • Karthwatch Sigil Shield: Complete the quest "The Vampire Scholar".
• A new Undaunted trophy and bust for completing the Kyne’s Aegis trial on normal and Veteran difficulty respectively.

New Achievements, Dyes & Titles
With Greymoor, we're adding over 80 new achievements with 12 unique titles, various achievement furnishing unlocking, 2 dyes, and more! 

• Dyes 
  • Blackreach Blue: Obtained by completing the Savior of Western Skyrim achievement. 
  • Marble White: Obtained by completing the Excavation Virtuoso achievement.
• Titles 
  • Shieldthane of Morthal: Obtained by completing the Shieldthane of Morthal achievement.
  • Harrowstorm Hero: Obtained by completing the Harrowstorm Chaser achievement.
  • Savior of Western Skyrim: Obtained by completing the Savior of Western Skyrim achievement.
  • Kyne's Chosen: Obtained by completing Kyne's Aegis on Normal difficulty.
  • Kyne's Wrath: Obtained by completing the Kyne’s Deliverance achievement.
  • Thane of Solitude: Obtained by completing the Champion of Solitude achievement.
  • Expert Excavator: Obtained by completing the Mater of the Spade achievement.
  • Sagacious Seer: Obtained by completing the Master of the Eye achievement.
  • Master Historian: Obtained by completing the Master Antiquarian achievement.
  • The Dawnbringer: Obtained by completing the Stainless Siege-breaker achievement.
  • Shield of the North: Obtained by completing the Kyne’s Aegis Vanquisher achievement.

New Homes
There are two new homes to obtain in this update:

• Snowmelt Suite: Whether visiting the Bards College, seeking an audience at the Blue Palace, or looking to imbibe the best Nord mead around, take advantage of convenient living in the midst of Solitude with this room inside the Lonely Troll.
• Proudspire Manor: Many lived within Solitude's coveted Proudspire Manor over the years, but its last owner vanished, leaving its spacious living quarters empty—and available. Shelter yourself from the cold within this multi-room landmark in the heart of Solitude.
  • Note this house is available in-game for gold by unlocking the Western Skyrim Grand Adventurer achievement, or for purchase in the Crown Store.

New Furnishings
A wide variety of new furnishings are available to find or craft with Greymoor.

• A wide range of recipes for Solitude style furnishings can be obtained from monsters and containers across Western Skyrim.
• Recipes for Vampiric furnishings can be found in the caverns beneath Western Skyrim, and from Harrowstorms.
• A selection of new conservatory furnishings and other offerings can be purchased from Masela, the Home Goods Furnisher in Solitude.
• A set of new achievement furnishings are available for purchase from Netinndel, the Achievement Furnisher in Solitude, after completing achievements in Greymoor.
• New Vampiric paintings can rarely be found in treasure chests in the caverns beneath Western Skyrim, while new Western Skyrim themed paintings can be found in treasure chests in Western Skyrim.
• All the new and unique furnishings found from the Antiquities system, as listed in the Antiquities section above.
• A brand new music box for recovering all of the missing instruments for the Bards College in Solitude!

New Motifs 
There are four new motifs being added with this update:

• Blackreach Vanguard Motif chapters, as well as the associated style item Gloomspore Chitin, can be obtained from completing delve and world boss dailies in Blackreach: Greymoor Caverns and Western Skyrim. 
• The Ancestral High Elf, Ancestral Orc and Ancestral Nord Motif chapters, as well as their associated style items of Etched Adamantite, Etched Manganese and Etched Corundum, are sourced via the Antiquity system. 

New Crafting Ingredients 

• Alchemy 
  • We have three new reagents for this update!
    • Crimson Nirnroot is a new herb that can be found in the world throughout Blackreach areas.
    • Vile Coagulant can be found by dispersing Harrowstorms.
    • Chaurus Egg can be found occasionally by defeating Chaurus monsters. 
    • All three new reagents carry the new effect trait of Minor Timidity.
  • Within the Alchemy system, Timidity is the opposite trait of Heroism. Reagents with the Heroism trait will cancel combinations with the Timidity trait and vice versa. 
    • Minor Timidity is a debuff that consumes the target's Ultimate points while in combat. When a poison with the Timidity trait is procced on a target, it will consume that target's Ultimate points for a short amount of time.  
    • If for some reason you were consume a potion with the Timidity trait while in combat, it would consume your own Ultimate points for a short amount of time.   
• Enchanting 
  • Added a new Essence Rune, known as Indeko, which can occasionally be obtained as bonus loot from the Antiquity system. This rune can be used to make two new types of jewelry Glyphs, Prismatic Recovery and Reduce Skill Cost. 

Trials

• Asylum Sanctorium
  • Saint Olms’ Gust of Steam ability will now correctly indicate the next intended landing spot.

General

• Interactable objects in Clockwork City now animate normally.

Monsters

• Moved the nameplate for the Imperfect to a more relevant location.

Monster Abilities

• Firepot Spider
  • Fireball can now be cast while the Firepot Spider is moving.

General

• Adjusted the names of “Ancient Dragonguard” quest rewards to “Venerable Dragonguard” to avoid confusion with the Ancient Dragonguard item set.
• Fixed an issue that, in some cases, could prevent you from having a chance to earn New Moon Priest Motif chapters when opening the Dragonguard supply chest.
• Fixed an issue that resulted in the Dragonguard supply chest inadvertently giving a guaranteed motif chapter with every interaction. Note the updated rate is still significantly higher than most other motif sources.

Achievements

• Updated the Dragonguard Style Master achievement to be in the Dragonhold General achievement category.

Quests

• Another Khajiit's Tale: Zhasim will now give you the proper greeting upon completing this quest.

Achievements

• Fixed an issue which could prevent you from getting credit for the “Unchecked Empowerment” achievement.
• Fixed an issue where the Pyre Watch and Icereach Coven motif achievements were incorrectly categorized under Greymoor > General. They are now correctly sorted under Harrowstorm > General.

Monster Abilities

• Beastcaller
  • The NPC Feral Guardian corpse is no longer considered a consumable corpse for Necromancer abilities.
• Iron Atronach
  • Blast Furnace no longer displays the interrupt tutorial.
• Netch Gouger Spellfiends
  • Updated the abilities of these monsters to fix an issue where they were not animating when using abilities.

General

• Delve and group boss dailies available in Vivec City no longer require that you complete the quest "Divine Conundrum" and the associated quest to the daily quest givers.
  • Ashlander dailies are unchanged, as there is a greater fictional justification for their gating.

Arenas

• Maelstrom Arena
  • The Maelstrom power-up synergies are now prioritized over the Venom Grenade synergy and the Spectral Explosion synergy.

Monster Abilities

• Echatere
  • Headbutt now displays a block telegraph instead of an Area of Effect telegraph.

Cloudrest Trial

• Shade of Belanaril
  • Voltaic Overload can no longer spread to allies in other worlds.
• Shade of Relequen
  • The Direct Current attack can now be correctly blocked if your character has the appropriate amount of stamina remaining.
• Z’Maja
  • The Shifting Shadows attack that originates from the Gateway can now be correctly blocked if your character has the appropriate amount of stamina remaining.
  • To go along with the updates to synergy priority, the Shed Hoarfrost synergy is now prioritized above the other synergies inside Cloudrest including Gateway, Welkynar's Light, Wind of the Welkynar and Malevolent Core.

Eidetic Memory

• Pearl Research Notes, Log 3 is now accessible even after completing the quest associated with it.

Monsters

• Gryphons no longer cause beam effects that are targeted at them to behave erratically.
• Skein Spider critters no longer make the same amount of noise as their giant brethren.

Monster Abilities

• Gloam Knight
  • Shade Impulse and Shadow Rend now display effects on players it hits.
• Indrik
  • Hyper Awareness will no longer be used if its target is out of range. Indriks are no longer shy about casting Hyper Awareness behind your back.
• Maormer Chaplain
  • Sky Strike can now be interrupted, and no longer completes if the monster dies while casting it.
• Sea Adder
  • Constricting Strike no longer displays a block telegraph.
• Sload
  • Mental Manipulation now deals damage more reliably.
• Spiderkith Fleshweaver
  • Web of Pain now has a telegraph and affects the target’s position at the beginning of it being cast, rather than at the end.
• Yaghra Spewer
  • Discharge and Luminescent Mark will no longer start casting if the Yaghra Spewer is rooted.

General

• Slaughterfish in Evergloam no longer allow revival outside of a Wayshrine or graveyard.

Dungeons

• Moon Hunter Keep
  • The Surging Gale attack from Vykosa can now be correctly blocked if your character has the appropriate amount of stamina remaining.

General

• Synergies now have a hierarchy to determine which synergy appears first when multiple are present to you. Quest, Dungeon, Arena, and Trial-related synergies now always appear over player-sourced synergies. Furthermore, for player-sourced synergies, the following ruleset is applied:
  • Healing and Shield-related synergies will take utmost priority.
  • Utility, Buff, and Debuff synergies will appear next.
  • Strictly Damage-related synergies are last in priority.
    • In a situation where Purify, Conduit, and Combustion are all available to activate and are given to you, Purify (Healing) will appear first, then Combustion (Utility), then Conduit (exclusive Damage).
• Fixed an issue where “Thorn” abilities, such as Spiked Armor or Thews of the Harbinger, were not being considered Direct Damage.
• Fixed an issue where partially charged Heavy Attacks, or “Medium Attacks,” were not considered Direct Damage.
• Updated and optimized the logic of many of the player passives to reduce load on the server.
  • Note this doesn’t change the functionality or balance of the passives, just how the server handles them.
• Updated numerous proc conditions’ logic, preventing the server from attempting to parse logic in situations where it will not succeed anyways.
• Fixed numerous issues where some “gap closer” abilities, such as Accursed Charge, could not be used while immobilized.
• Pet basic attacks can no longer remove players from stealth or invisibility; only special Area of Effect attacks that require special activation, such as Blastbones or Ultimates, will remove stealth.
  • In some instances, they may still attack stealthed targets if the target gained stealth in the time they began their attack, but the attack will not remove it.
• Pet summoning abilities now have a preventative window after completing their cast that prevents attempting to summon them again while they’re already alive.
• Pets will now properly inherit their parent’s bonuses related to armor, such as Concentration or Prodigy.
• Fixed an issue where pets could fail to summon if you immediately began sprinting after casting.
• Fixed an issue where sprinting while in the middle of a cast or channel time could cause a failure to obtain all speed bonuses.
• Fixed an issue where you could still mount up after block cancelling the summon cast time.
• Fixed numerous issues related to bar swapping while not having a weapon equipped on one of your bars.
• Fixed numerous issues where the audio for consuming a Quick Slotted item would play while you were unable to activate the item.
• Reduced the damage of Bashing by 80%.
  • Glyph of Bashing: These enchantments now increase the damage of your Bash attacks by up to 500 per CP160 Gold quality enchantment, rather than increasing the Weapon and Spell Damage of your Bash attacks by 348.
  • Deadly Bash (One Hand and Shield passive): This passive now increases the damage of your Bash attacks by 750/1500, rather than increasing the Weapon and Spell Damage of your Bash attacks by 250/500.
  Developer Comment:
  The above changes were made to reduce the impact of bash weaving in a normal damage dealer's rotation, which was creating a huge rift between those who did and did not engage with the mechanic. Bashing is meant to primarily focus on interrupting of mechanics, as well as to help increase or control proc conditions of item sets, passives, or other events, rather than dealing damage. We've decided to retain the ability to deal damage with bashes, however, and even increased their overall effectiveness if specifically built for. The flat damage modifiers will result in a slight decrease for standard bash builds, but a more moderate increase for super specialized bash builds such as Pummeling Goliath builds that go all in on enchantments, passives, and item sets (while not going too far like the builds were at its launch!)
• Increased the healing reduction from Battlespirit to 60%, up from 50%.
• All players will now have a baseline of 20% Critical Damage Reduction in the form of Critical Resistance, starting at level 10.
• In an effort to address many input delays, the cooldown for activating an ability after Weapon Swapping has been reduced from 500ms to 250ms to better match the animation. 
• Fixed numerous issues with passives such as Banish the Wicked or Expert Hunter failing to recognize some enemies as Werewolves in the Wolfhunter DLC dungeons.   
• Fixed an issue occurring in some Battlegrounds where falling while in the middle of a cast time could cause the cast time to get stuck.

Buffs and Debuffs

• Updated multiple abilities and item sets that grant the caster permanent Major or Minor buffs to make them work more consistently with other temporary sources of Major and Minor buffs.
  • This fix will help reduce situations where permanent sources of Major or Minor debuffs would clash with one another and cancel their effects.
  • It will also help situations where item sets that require Major or Minor buffs or debuffs apply their proc more appropriately.

Dragonknight

• Ardent Flame
  • Fiery Grip
    • Empowering Chains (morph): This ability now only grants 1 stack of Empower, rather than 2.

Nightblade

• Shadow
  • Veiled Strike: This ability and its morphs now stun and set targets Off Balance when used from the flank of an enemy, rather than when you are stealthed or invisible. This change was done to offset the loss of the ability to activate this portion of the attack with the recent fixes to Heavy Attacks properly breaking invisibility. 
• Siphoning
  • Siphoning Strikes: Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs could proc off Mend Wounds and its morphs. The soul-stealing power of this ability is now reserved for damaging Light and Heavy Attacks.
  • Soul Shred: The synergy granted from this Ultimate and its morphs will now work for allies who are 10 meters or closer to the target, rather than 10m or further.

Sorcerer

• Dark Magic
  • Rune Prison
    • Defensive Rune (morph): Fixed an issue where this ability’s stun could ignore Line of Sight or range.
• Storm Calling
  • Overload: Fixed numerous visual issues with this Ultimate and its morphs, such as causing your weapons to appear hidden longer than intended, or some cases where the effects could get stuck on your character. Casting any other Ultimate while this Ultimate or its morphs are toggled on will now cause this Ultimate to untoggle.
    • Energy Overload (morph): Fixed an issue where the Magicka restore from this morph would fire even if your Light or Heavy Attack failed to deal damage.

Templar

• Dawn’s Wrath
  • Sun Fire
    • Reflective Light (morph): Fixed an issue where this ability could not be used against neutral targets that are related to Justice activities.
• Restoring Light
  • Rite of Passage: Fixed an issue where this ability could not be block cancelled after beginning it, despite its morphs being able to.

Warden

• Animal Companions
  • Feral Guardian: Fixed an issue where this summon could not be interrupted.
  • Savage Beast: Fixed an issue where this passive could proc off casting Feral Guardian or its morphs.
  • Scorch: Fixed an issue where the damage from this ability and its morphs could fail to be recognized as Direct Damage in some instances.

Weapon

• Restoration Staff
  • Heavy Attack: Updated the Heavy Attack with this weapon to operate more closely to Lightning Staves. It will now have 2 minor ticks of damage and then a final, larger hit of damage at the end, rather than 3 continuous ticks of damage. This will fix numerous issues where sets or passives could fail to recognize the Fully Charged state with this weapon.

World

• Vampire
  • Mist Form: Fixed numerous issues relating to persistent visuals disappearing when using this ability or its morphs.
• Werewolf
  Developer Comment:
  The Werewolf experience has received many minor updates to its toolkit, focusing on enhancing its existing gameplay based on aggressive and fast-paced playstyles, as well as introducing more aspects related to the Pack Leader fantasy where you can lead your allies in and enfeeble your foes.
  • Call of the Pack: This passive now works with Direwolves summoned from the Pack Leader.
  • Hircine’s Bounty: Casting this ability while at full Health now restores Stamina. While this ability or its morphs are slotted, you passively gain Major Brutality.
    • Hircine’s Rage (morph): Casting this ability at full Health now grants Major Berserk for 6 seconds, but also causes you to take additional damage.
    • Hircine’s Fortitude (morph): This ability now also increases your Health and Stamina Recovery by a small percent of the Healing caused (with a cap), as well as continuing to increase the base healing of the ability.
  • Piercing Howl: This ability and its morphs now deal 10% more damage to enemies who are facing you.
    • Howl of Agony (morph): Decreased the damage bonus of this morph to 25%, down from 33%, but it now also works on enemies who are facing you.
  • Pounce: This ability now becomes Carnage for 5 seconds after casting it, which allows you to quickly rend your target, causing them to Bleed for 10 seconds with an aggressive execute scaling bonus.
    • Brutal Pounce (morph): Carnage now overrides to Brutal Carnage, converting it into a conal attack. Each time an enemy is hit by Brutal Carnage, you gain extra Weapon Damage up to a maximum of 6 times.
    • Feral Pounce (morph): Dealing damage with the initial hit or the override Feral Carnage, grant Stamina in addition to extending the time you stay in Werewolf form.
  • Roar: This ability now also causes enemies to become Off Balance for 7 seconds. While slotted, this ability and its morphs passively grant Major Savagery.
    • Deafening Roar (morph): This morph now also applies Minor Maim to enemies for its duration.
    • Ferocious Roar (morph): This morph now increases your Heavy Attack speed by 33% for its duration.
  • Werewolf Transformation: 
    • Pack Leader (morph): This morph no longer causes your Direwolves to apply Minor Maim to enemies when they deal damage. Instead, while you are transformed you gain 10% damage mitigation and you passively grant you and 11 other nearby allies Minor Courage.

Guild

• Fighters Guild
  • Silver Bolt:
    • Silver Shards (morph): Fixed an issue where you could not use this ability against neutral targets that are related to Justice activities.
• Psijic Order
  • Acceleration
    • Channeled Acceleration (morph): Fixed an issue with the timing of the visual effects of this ability when used with a Two Handed weapon.
  • Imbue Weapon
    • Crushing Weapon (morph): This morph’s heal now ranks up by 1% value of the damage done per rank, rather than 1.1% healing done per rank.
  • Mend Wounds:
    • Fixed an issue where Heavy Attacks could fail to chain properly after using this ability.
    • Fixed an issue where you could still get Magicka from heavy attacking a target with this ability without actually healing them.
  • Undo: Fixed an issue where the animation for this ability and morphs would appear and end abruptly, making your character appear to do jazz hands erratically, if not moved with the rewind.
• Undaunted
  • Blood Altar: Fixed an issue with the synergy visuals, causing it to fail to appear to some allies as well as being able to appear to enemies.

Alliance War

• Fixed an issue where your Alliance War skill lines could reset to Rank 1 after encountering a specific crash in Cyrodiil.
• Support
  • Barrier: Increased the cost of this Ultimate and its morphs to 250, up from 200, to ensure it meets standards with other Ultimates that apply to 12 targets.
    • Replenishing Barrier (morph): Fixed an issue where this ability could apply to non-grouped targets.

Champion System

• The Shadow
  • Shadowstrike:
    • Fixed a movement issue involving this passive.
    • This passive will no longer force an animation to play on your character, in order to prevent strange animation errors from occurring when it managed to proc while in the middle of a different animation.
• The Atronach
  • Physical Weapon Expert: This passive now properly works with Unarmed Light and Heavy Attacks.

Consumables

• Updated Alliance War sourced potions to reflect the power level of max level crafted and Crown potions, resulting in increases in their resources restored and durations across the board. They now better reflect the following potions:
  • Battle Draughts now mimic Gold Coast Warrior Elixirs
  • Spell Draughts now mimic Gold Coast Spellcaster Elixirs
  • Health Draughts now mimic Gold Coast Survivor Elixirs
• Potions that grant the Detection bonus now properly apply their visual effects.
• Fixed an issue where you could activate certain potions while stunned.

Item Sets
Developer Comment:

• Aegis of Galenwae:
  • This set and its perfected version now grant Empower to 11 allies, rather than only 3.
  • This set no longer has a 50% chance to proc, but instead has a 2 second cooldown, up from 1.
  • Fixed an issue where the radius of this bonus was not as large as the tooltip indicated.
• Amberplasm:
  • This set now grants Health Recovery alongside its Magicka and Stamina Recovery.
  • Increased the bonus of each recovery to 276, up from 250.
• Arch-Mage: This set now increases your Magicka Recovery by 360 for 10 seconds after dealing damage with a fully charged Heavy Attack, rather than granting 834 Magicka whenever you fully charge a Heavy Attack.
• Ashen Grip: This set now deals damage in the same size as Fiery Breath does, resulting in twice the arc and reach than it previously did, ensuring it more appropriately matches the visual effects.
• Bahraha’s Curse:
  • Fixed an issue where this set’s damage was considered Direct Damage in some cases.
  • Fixed an issue where the final tick of damage from this set did not heal.
• Deadly Strike: Fixed an issue where this set was not applying to Rapid Fire or its morphs.
• Draugr’s Rest: Increased the total healing done of this set to 19404 over its duration, up from 11000.
• Elf Bane: This set no longer works with channeled effects or beams.
• Embershield:
  • Fixed an issue where the damage from this set was considered Direct Damage instead of Damage over Time.
  • Reduced the Armor granted to 3300, down from 3440.
  • Decreased the damage done per tick to 860, down from 1032.
  • This set no longer has a proc chance.
• Grace of Gloom:
  • Increased the duration of this set to 10 seconds, up from 5.
  • Increased the cooldown to 25 seconds, up from 15.
  • This set now properly works with Overload and morphs’ Heavy Attacks.
• Hand of Mephala: This set now has a negative telegraph to denote the damage area.
• Healing Mage:
  • This set now more accurately procs off abilities that meet its stated requirements.
  • Fixed an issue where the enemies affected by this debuff in the area around you did not match the typical sort selection - prioritizing the nearest enemies.
• Impregnable Armor: This set now grants 1650 Critical Resistance, down from 2000.
• Kvatch Gladiator: This set now increases your Weapon Damage by 1475 against targets under 25% Health, rather than increasing your Weapon Damage with Light and Heavy Attacks by 1800 against targets under 25% Health.
• Leeching Plate:
  • Fixed an issue where this set’s damage was considered Direct Damage in some cases.
  • Fixed an issue where the heal value from this set could become bloated when hitting targets with damage shields.
  • Fixed an issue where the final tick of damage from this set did not heal.
• Orgnum’s Scales: This set now increases your Health Recovery by 800 and Armor by 6400 while at or below 60% health, rather than increasing your Health Recovery by 50% while below 60% health.
• Queen’s Elegance: This set now causes your Light Attacks to reduce the Health, Magicka, or Stamina cost of your next ability used by 10%, and your Fully Charged Heavy Attacks to increase the damage of your next Direct Damage attack by 2610. Previously, it increased your Light and Heavy Attack damage by 20%.
• Reactive Armor:
  • This set now reduces your damage taken by 33% for 5 seconds after being affected by a disabling effect, with a 20 second cooldown, rather than reducing your damage taken by 35% while you are disabled.
  • This set now works with Snares.
• Robes of the Hist:
  • Slightly redesigned this set to apply a Heal over Time that heals for the original value every second for 5 seconds after being hit by a disabling effect, rather than healing once every second while under the effect of one.
  • Fixed an issue where this set could trigger off self-imposed snares and some snares meant to bypass the normal rule sets, such as boss mechanics.
• Robes of Transmutation: This set now grants 1400 Critical Resistance for 5 seconds when the proc conditions are met, rather than 1304 for 20 seconds.
• Savage Werewolf: Fixed an issue where this set would double proc from Dual Wield Heavy Attacks.
• Senchal Defender: Fixed an issue where this set considered beam attacks as Direct Damage.
• Sergeant’s Mail: Increased the damage bonus for Fully Charged Heavy Attacks to 2257, up from 1634.
• Tormentor: This set now more accurately describes what abilities it works with, and has had its proc condition expanded to work with more abilities that fall into the standard type it was designed to. Previously, it only worked on abilities that operated as charges, but now works on charges, leaps, teleports, and pulls. This set will continue to not work with blinks, such as streak.
• Vampire Lord: This set now increases the bonuses and penalties of your Vampire Stages by the following amounts:
  • Stage 1/2/3/4
  • Flame Damage Taken 1/2/4/6%
  • Regular Ability Cost Increase: 1/2/4/6%
  • Vampire Ability Cost Decrease 5/10/15/20%
• Winterborn: Fixed an issue where the snare from this set could fail to apply in some situations.

Monster Masks
Developer Comment:

• Balorg:
  • This set now grants Weapon and Spell Damage equal to the amount of Ultimate spent, rather than double the amount spent. It now also grants Physical and Spell Penetration equal to 23 times the amount spent.
  • Increased duration of bonuses to 12 seconds, up from 10.
  Developer Comment:
  This set's functionality was meant to help enable burst to the caster for a short duration and reward holding onto your Ultimate for a longer time. With the original values, the set could hit those notes but would often fail against high mitigation targets due to just getting a flat increase. This change means the set will be stronger against high mitigation targets, while weaker against squishy targets, allowing a healthier balance point and reducing some of the gank potential of the set.
• Bloodspawn:
  • Reduced the armor granted from this set to 3300, down from 6450.
  • Reduced the Ultimate on proc to 8, down from 14.
  • Reduced the duration and cooldown to 5 seconds, down from 6 seconds.
  Developer Comment:
  Bloodspawn was one of the original Monster Masks created before the game had time to develop more complex behaviors and mechanics. Because of this, the total power it enabled is often times significantly higher than other sets, leading to situations where it overshadows them. With these adjustments, we decided to retain the defensive and offensive options, with a milder window of opportunity. The reduced duration and cooldown helps tone it down in smaller skirmishes, while retaining some of its power in outnumbered situations since it will be able to proc more frequently and give Ultimate each time.
• Chokethorn:
  • This set now heals for 24409 health over 6 seconds, rather than 19565 health over 4 seconds.
  • Increased the proc chance to 33%, up from 15%.
  • Reduced the range of the beam from 28 meters to 15 meters in order to help introduce more counterplay with its stronger heal.
• Domihaus:
  • This set now grants 300 Weapon or Spell Damage while standing in the ring, rather than 200. The outer ring now deals 1380 damage, up from 1000.
  • Removed the proc chance from this set.
• Earthgore:
  • This set now heals for 29700 health over 10 seconds, rather than 30000 over 6 seconds, to reduce the burst heal potential.
  • Reduced the cooldown to 20 seconds from 35 seconds.
• Engine Guardian:
  • This set now restores 550 Magicka or Stamina per tick, rather than 1204.
  • Increased the healing to 1955 per tick, up from 1204.
  • Reduced the range of the beam to 15 meters, down from 28 meters.
  • Fixed an issue where the sphere would not attempt to cast again after being interrupted.
  • Fixed an issue where the cooldown displayed was incorrect to its actual cooldown. It previously displayed 10.7 seconds, but is now 10 seconds as intended. This will also fix an issue where if you managed to proc the set after 8 seconds, you would not summon a new sphere and simply prevent the set from proccing again for another 8 seconds, resulting in a 16 second cooldown from the original cast.
  Developer Comment:
  Similarly to Bloodspawn, Engine Guardian is a set that was made during a very different time of the game's life and has significantly affected balance decisions made for other resource return sets. Often times, Monster Masks that deal with resource management would be significantly stronger than 5 piece counterparts because of this. By reducing the total regeneration possible from this set, we can allow for a healthier balance between all sets in the game. The healing has been increased to better match other healing set standards as well.
• Grundwulf: Reduced the primary resource restore granted by this set to 700 and the secondary to 350, down from 1000 and 500 respectively.
• Ilambris:
  • Increased the damage done from each meteor shower to 2015, up from 1170. You can no longer layer each meteor shower.
  • Increased the proc chance to 33%.
  • Fixed an issue where this set was triggering other proc sets.
  • Fixed an issue where this set’s Fire Damage was not extended by Elf Bane.
• Infernal Guardian:
  • Decreased the damage done from each mortar to 4430, down from 5000.
  • Fixed an issue where this set would fail to proc from a Hardening Enchantment while using a channeled Heavy Attack.
• Kjalnar’s Nightmare: Fixed an issue where the damage of this set could fail to inherit some bonuses, such as Ancient Knowledge.
• Kra'gh's: Increased the damage per tick of this set to 1345, up from 1300.
• Lord Warden:
  • Reduced the armor bonus of the 1 piece set to 1487, down from 2975.
  • Decreased the armor bonus of the proc to 3180, down from 3870.
• Maarselok: Reduced the damage done to 7200, down from 8000.
• Maw of the Infernal:
  • Streamlined the damage of the Daedroth's attacks to always deal 3865 damage over each ability's duration, which is 2 seconds, down from the varying values which averaged at 4257.
  • The Daedroth will now follow a pattern to its attack combinations, rather than having a random chance to use them.
  • Fixed an issue where the breath attack was proccing Burning significantly more frequently more than intended.
  • Increased the proc chance to 33%, up from 10%.
  • The Daedroth can no longer be targeted.
  • Changed the 1 piece bonus to 1096 Max Magicka, from 1206 Max Health.
• Mighty Chudan: Reduced the 1 piece bonus to 1487 armor, down from 2975.
• Molag Kena: Increased the Weapon and Spell Damage granted from this set to 560, up from 516.
• Mother Ciannait: Increased the Magicka granted by this set to 822, up from 600.
• Nerien'eth:
  • Increased the damage of this set to 9393, up from 8890.
  • Increased the proc chance to 15%, up from 10%.
  • The 1 piece bonus now grants 129 Spell Damage, rather than Max Health.
• Nightflame (Bogdan's):
  • Decreased the healing per tick of this set to 2460, down from 2525.
  • Increased the proc chance to 20%, up from 10%.
• Pirate Skeleton:
  • Reduced the 1 piece bonus of armor to 1487, down to 2975.
  • Decreased the cooldown of the proc of this set to 15 seconds, down from 20 seconds.
  • Increased the proc chance to 10%, up from 8%.
• Scourge Harvester (Malubeth's):
  • Decreased the damage of this set to 5715 over its duration, down from 5805.
  • Increased the proc chance to 10%, up from 8%.
  • Fixed an issue where the heal from this set could return labeled as a Critical Strike, despite not actually Critically Striking. This will fix instances of other proc conditions, such as Power Surge, activating from this set.
• Selene's: Increased the damage of this set to 13364, up from 12000.
• Sellistrix:
  • Increased the damage of this set to 6836, up from 5030.
  • This set no longer has a proc chance.
  • Slightly increased the cooldown to 6 seconds from 5.5 seconds.
  • Fixed an issue where hitting multiple enemies with this set could intensify the screen shake. Your Richter scales will no longer implode when using this set in AoE situations.
• Sentinel of Rkugamz:
  • Removed the proc chance from this set.
  • Reduced the tick count of the heal and resource restore by 1.
  • Increased the Magicka and Stamina restore to 125 per tick, up from 115.
• Shadowrend:
  • This set no longer applies Minor Maim to targets hit for 3 seconds, and instead reduces their damage done by 5% for 2 seconds. This debuff cannot stack from multiple sources.
  • Significantly reduced and streamlined the damage of the Clannfear's attacks to 800 per hit from 3240. The attacks it deals are no longer random.
  • Reduced the cast time of the Tail Swipe attack by 400ms, and reduced its cooldown by 3 seconds.
  Developer Comment:
  Previously, this set was enabling far too much damage reduction for a passive set, as well as dealing a sizable amount of damage while doing so. Rather than introducing a huge cooldown to the set, we've opted to change the bonus from Maim to a weaker version, but by making it unique it should help the set become more viable in PvE. The reduction in damage also reinforces the set as a tank centric set rather than a bruiser.
• Spawn of Mephala:
  • Increased the damage per tick of this set to 1340, up from 1096.
  • Fixed an issue with the visuals from this set. 
  • Fixed an issue where this set could be blocked. 
  • This set now is accurately displayed as Damage over Time by Scrolling Combat Text.
• Stonekeeper:
  • Reduced the Health, Magicka, and Stamina restored from this set to 2480, down from 5350.
  • Reduced the cooldown stacker to 250ms, down from 1 second, to better match the cooldown of block's cost.
  Developer Comment:
  By now matching the standards of typical resource management sets, the values needed to be considerably reduced. To offset this large loss, we've opted to allow the stacks to generate much more frequently, helping the set function better in outnumbered situations.
• Stormfist: Increased the damage of the final explosion to 8470, up from 8000. The Shock damage of the set now bypasses Spell Resistance.
• Swarm Mother: Changed the 1 piece bonus of this set to 1096 Max Magicka and Max Stamina, instead of 129 Stamina Recovery.
• Symphony of Blades:
  • This set now restores 570 resource per tick, down from 2325.
  • The cooldown of 18 seconds is now applied per target, rather than overall.
• Thurvokun:
  • Reduced the damage per tick of this set to 100, down from 430.
  • Increased the cooldown to 16 seconds, up from 8 seconds.
  Developer Comment:
  Since this set was essentially a permanent (and then some) uptime of Minor Defile and Maim, it was significantly stronger than other enfeebling sets. We decided to retain the extra breathing room of 4 seconds on the debuff to ensure targets that leave the area are still afflicted for a time afterwards, and adjusted the cooldown to better account for that uptime. For stationary targets, the total uptime will now be 12 seconds with a 16 second cooldown.
• Tremorscale:
  • Increased the damage of this set to 6000, up from 5850.
  • Increased the cooldown to 8 seconds, up from 4 seconds.
  • Enemies hit by the damage now have their Physical Resistance reduced by 2395 for 8 seconds, rather than being snared by 70% for 3 seconds.
  • Removed the proc chance from this set.
  Developer Comment:
  By removing the snare from this set and swapping to an armor shred, the functionality can now be more flexible between content and playstyles rather than focusing primarily on Player versus Player interaction.
• Troll King:
  • Reduced the Health Recovery granted by this set to 925, down from 1548.
  • Fixed an issue where this set had a range limit, despite being bound to heals that already passed a range check.
• Valkyn Skoria:
  • This set's 1 piece bonus now grants 1487 Spell Penetration rather than 1206 Max Health.
  • Decreased the splash damage of the meteor to 3535, down from 4000.
• Velidreth:
  • Increased the damage of this set to 10752 per spore, up from 10320.
  • Reduced the cooldown to 8 seconds from 9 seconds.
• Zaan:
  • Decreased the initial damage of this set to 2010, down from 3440.
  • Increased the damage scaling bonus to 100% per stack, up from 50%.
  • Increased the duration of the beam to 6 seconds, up from 5 seconds.
  • Increased the proc chance to 33%, up from 20%.

Arena Weapons
Developer Comment:

• Asylum Sanctorium
  • Chaotic Whirlwind:
    • Casting Whirlwind now envelops yourself with a whirlwind for 6 seconds, which strikes out to 3 random enemies every second, dealing up to 2675 Physical Damage with a 10 second cooldown.
    • The perfected version no longer has a unique value, and instead grants up to 666 Weapon Critical.
  • Concentrated Force:
    • The perfected version of this set no longer has a unique value, and instead grants up to 103 Spell Damage.
    • Fixed an issue where this set was allowing each elemental attack to proc its respective status for a short duration after reaching the proc condition, rather than immediately applying each elemental status effect listed.
    • Fixed an issue where this set could fail to apply if you bar swapped before it landed.
  • Defensive Position:
    • Increased the base restore to 2200 Magicka and the maximum restore to 6600.
    • The Perfected version no longer has a unique value and instead grants up to 877 Max Stamina.
  • Disciplined Slash:
    • Reduced the maximum Ultimate returned from this set to 12, down from 15.
    • Fixed an issue where the Ultimate restore started at 48.9%, rather than at 49.9%.
    • Fixed an issue where the restore could return 0, despite the FX proccing; it will now restore a minimum of 1 Ultimate whenever it procs on targets low enough.
    • The Perfected version no longer has a unique value and instead grants up to 877 Max Stamina.
  • Piercing Spray:
    • Enemies hit by your Arrow Spray now have their Physical Resistance reduced by up to 6600 against incoming Bow attacks for 10 seconds.
    • The perfected version no longer has a unique value and instead grants up to 1190 Physical Penetration.
  • Timeless Blessing:
    • Reduced the cost reduction of this set to 21%, down from 27%.
    • The Perfected version of this set no longer has a unique value, and instead grants up to 877 Max Magicka.
• Blackrose Prison
  • Gallant Charge: Reduced the Perfected version's armor to 1190.
  • Mender's Ward:
    • Reduced the duration of Major Vitality to 2 seconds, down from 3.
    • Reduced the Perfected version's Magicka Recovery to 103.
  • Radial Uppercut:
    • This set now deals 45% of the damage dealt with Uppercut to all nearby targets, rather than 100% to only 1 nearby target.
    • Reduced the Perfected version's Penetration to 1190.
  • Spectral Cloak:
    • This set now increases your damage done and reduces your damage taken by 6% for 2 seconds when dealing damage with Blade Cloak, rather than granting Major Protection for 3 seconds after casting it.
    • Reduced the Perfected version's Stamina Recovery to 103.
  • Virulent Shot:
    • Increased the damage this set does to 65% of the damage done of your Scatter Shot, up from 50%.
    • Reduced the Perfected version's Weapon Critical to 666.
  • Wild Impulse:
    • Increased the damage done by this set to 3965 per elemental tick, up from 3333.
    • Reduced the Perfected version's Spell Penetration to 1190.
• Dragonstar Arena
  • Caustic Arrow:
    • This set now grants up to 330 Weapon Damage against targets affected with your Poison Arrow, up from 300.
    • This set now has a perfected version that grants up to 103 Weapon Damage.
  • Destructive Impact:
    • This set now grants up to 600 Spell Damage for 4 seconds after casting Destructive Touch.
    • Reduced the cost reduction granted towards Destructive Touch to 10%, down from 30%.
    • This set now has a Perfected version that grants up to 103 Spell Damage.
  • Grand Rejuvenation:
    • This set now grants up to 117 Magicka and Stamina to target affected, up from 100.
    • This set now has a Perfected version that grants up to 877 Max Magicka.
  • Puncturing Remedy:
    • Increased the healing granted by this set to 6130, up from 2500.
    • Increased the duration of the armor bonus to 5 seconds, up from 3.
    • The armor granted from this set will now incorporate over healing into its calculation, ensuring it will always grant a benefit when engaged with.
    • This set now has a Perfected version that grants up to 3% Healing Taken.
  • Stinging Slashes:
    • This set now increases any instance of damage done with Twin Slashes by 1635, rather than only increasing the bleed damage by 1600. We will continue to monitor the power of this ability altering weapon and its function in allowing Twin Slashes to perform closer to our “spammable” damage standard through the next update. 
    • This set now has a Perfected version which grants up to 666 Weapon Critical Rating.
  • Titanic Cleave:
    • Increased the stacking damage bonus of this set to 1550, up from 1500.
    • Increased the target cap to 24, up from 6.
      • Note we will closely monitor how frequently this allows utter devastation to large groups and will address it appropriately so it is similar in function to Proximity Detonation.
    • This set now has a Perfected version which grants up to 1190 Physical Penetration.
• Maelstrom Arena
  • Cruel Flurry:
    • Increased the Weapon and Spell Damage granted from this set to 1690, up from 1000.
    • This set now has a Perfected version which also grants up to 103 Weapon Damage.
  • Crushing Wall:
    • Increased the damage bonus of this set to 1353, up from 1341.
    • This set now has a Perfected version which grants up to 1190 Spell Penetration.
  • Merciless Charge:
    • Increased the damage done by this set to 10032 over its duration, up from 7200. The damage done is now once again labeled as a Bleed.
    • This set now has a Perfected version which also grants up to 1190 Physical Penetration.
    • This set now continuously activates from Stampede through bar swap.
  • Precise Regeneration:
    • Decreased the Magicka granted from this set to 500, down from 800.
    • Removed the cooldown from this set, though note it cannot proc from the event of simultaneous critical heals from Radiant Regeneration.
    • This set now has a Perfected version that grants up to 666 Spell Critical Rating.
  • Rampaging Slash:
    • Decreased the Magicka and Stamina restore from this set to 1904, down from 2000.
    • This set now has a Perfected version which also grants up to 77 Magicka and Stamina Recovery.
  • Thunderous Volley:
    • This set now increases the damage done of your Volley by 430 and increases by 143 per tick, up from 320 and increasing by 110 per tick.
    • This set now stacks up to a maximum of 8 times, rather than continuously stacking.
    • This set now has a Perfected version which grants up to 666 Weapon Critical rating.

Traits

• Reduced the armor trait Impenetrable to 172, down from 258.
• Fixed an issue where pets could not inherit the Bloodthirsty or Charged traits.