Base Game

Target Marker System
We’ve added a new UI system that allows you to mark allies, enemies, and even yourself with a unique icon. Target marking can be used across all types of content including dungeons, Trials, PvP, and in the overland, and can also be used while in a group or solo.

• By default, this feature is bound to the Tab key or the right D-pad on Gamepad. Simply hover over an entity and press Tab (or the right D-pad if on Gamepad). You can then select any icon in the wheel to apply the mark.
• A mark may be removed by targeting an entity with a mark and selecting the same mark currently present on that entity.
• Marks may be self-applied by bringing up the target marker wheel without a target selected, then selecting an icon.

Hiding Pets in Towns
A new feature is available in your settings to allow you to hide other players' pets (hereafter shorthand to mean summoned class ability pets like Winged Twilights and Warden bears, vanity pets, assistants, and Companions) around certain high-traffic objects in the game. Specifically, this includes daily crafting writ bestowal boards, daily crafting writ turn-in crates, and basic crafting stations.

• Your own pets will not be hidden if this option is turned on, and if a player whose pets are hidden gets into a duel or combat while near the affected objects, the pets will reappear.
• The setting can be found within the Gameplay menu, then toggling "Limit Followers in Towns.” Again, this is an optional feature you can turn on or off at your discretion!

Housing Quality of Life Improvements
We’ve added several improvements to the general housing system overall, including the following:

• Visitors can now access the Retrieval tab of the Browse menu, which includes Modify, Set Destination, and Precision Edit access if their permissions allow it. If you do not have permission to edit the home, this mode is named “Inspection Mode”.
• Added a display in the upper righthand corner, under the currently tracked quest, identifying the name of the current home, the homeowner, and the current number of visitors.
• You can now share links to any of your homes via Chat or the Guild Message of the Day!
  • Links to your homes can be created from the Collections menu or from the House Information panel shown while in a home’s Browse/Inspection Mode.
• We added the ability for you to cycle through targets using the Tab key in the Housing Editor’s selection mode. This makes selecting books in bookcases, fish in aquariums, and other items tucked away inside larger items easier.
• Furnishings intended to hang on walls now align more naturally with surfaces, aligning flat to the surface instead of embedded at sideways in the surface.
  • Several hundred furnishings were adjusted to use this new tech across a large range of furniture categories, most notably Art, Banners, Mounted Decor, Paintings, Sconces, and Shelves, to name a few.
• Furniture item tooltips now include the furniture Subcategory under the Category on the top left of a furnishing’s tooltip.

Emperor Scaling in Cyrodiil
The Health bonus for having an Emperor crowned for your Alliance will now scale depending on how many “home” or “natively owned” Keeps you have controlled by your alliance. For example, if you own all 6 of your home Keeps you’ll get the full bonus as Emperor, but for each of those you don’t own, the health bonus is reduced.

The Emperor Passives also now scale in a similar way to the Alliance wide health bonus. For each of the 6 home Keeps your Alliance owns, the bonus will be up to its full value. For each one that is not owned by your Alliance, the passive benefits are reduced.

Armory Stations in PvP
Armory Stations have been added to portal Keep locations for each alliance in Cyrodiil and in each sewer entry in Imperial Sewers.

Chat Narration
A new accessibility setting is now available that will let you have the game narrate what is said in text chat channels out loud. This setting is off by default, and you can toggle it on by navigating to the Accessibility menu in Settings, then setting “Narrate Chat” to On. From here, you can also adjust the voice volume, speed, and type. Note that Accessibility Mode does need to be enabled for this option to be available.

Daily Login Reward Timer Change
In this update, your new daily login rewards will start being available at 3am UTC for European servers and 10am UTC for North American servers, rather than at midnight UTC regardless of region.

Quests

• Competition and Contracts: Fixed an issue where the map pin for the lever to open the hidden passage was off center. 

Quests

• Pride of Alkosh: Fixed an issue where during the third trial, you could open the gate to exit the area but not receive quest credit for doing so. 
• The Good Bits: Completing this quest now grants a Dragonguard Supply Cache rather than a Southern Elsweyr Reward Chest.

General

• Motifs and style items from the Deadlands, High Isle, as well as additional ones from the Reach and Western Skyrim are now available as bonus loot. This ultimately fixes an issue where digging for bonus loot in these zones would sometimes yield an empty result. This includes:
  • Arkthzand Armory
  • Black Fin Legion
  • Blackreach Vanguard
  • House Hexos
  • Steadfast Society
  • Systres Guardian
• Antiquity Categories in the Journal will now appear in order of the Zone Story for Aldmeri Dominion, Daggerfall Covenant and Ebonheart Pact, and in the order of release for DLC areas.
  • For example, Daggerfall Covenant Antiquities will now appear in the following order:
    • Stros M'Kai
    • Betnikh
    • Glenumbra
    • Stormhaven
    • Rivenspire
    • Alik'r Desert
    • Bangkorai
• Updated the Antiquity Categories Alik'r and Bleakrock to read Alik'r Desert and Bleakrock Isle to match the actual zone names.
• Antiquarian Insight Level 5 will now display with its own unique icon.
• “Shipbuilder's Drafting Table, Forest Spirit” and “Music Box, Blessings of Stone” now have proper icons in the Antiquity Codex, as well as having their sale value removed.
• “Music Box, Blessings of Stone” is now appropriately named as such.
• Antiquity Furnishings will no longer appear on the Galen Achievement Furnisher twice.
• Increased the drop chance of the Antiquity Leads Sclerotic Tentacle and Bloodshot Oculus for the Mora's Whispers Mythic item.
• Updated the Antiquity for Lefthander's Aegis Belt to match the naming of the actual Mythic item.

Kyne’s Aegis Trial

• Monsters in Kyne’s Aegis will now have a chance to drop purple gear in Veteran Mode.

General

• Fixed an issue where Harrowstorm-specific Vampire Lords could get into a state where they could not be killed while flying.
• Feasting in the Dark: Fixed an issue where using “Show on Map” to locate the world boss and tormented spirits wouldn't always show you the area where they are located.

Quests

• Greymoor Rising: Fixed issue where Svana would sometimes not throw potion during the fight with King Svargrim. 
• The Vampire Scholar: Fixed an issue where an invisible Tzinghalis and Rada al-Saran would have nameplates for a scene you're supposed to hear, but not see. 

Quests

• The Lifeblood of an Empire: Some captives that previously lacked overhead pins now possess them. 

Quests

• A Book and Its Cover: Updated the interactions with Choixth and the Bailiff in Summerset to not track progress based on the state of this achievement.
  • As a result of this fix, you can redo these encounters on the original character that completed the achievement. Choixth in Murkmire will now react as though she knows you only on a character that has actually encountered her in Summerset after this fix. 
• Culture Clash: Added a new, unvoiced response to Grayscale to acquire the cultural item without being forced to be a turbo jerk about it. 

General

• Fixed an issue where some ticking Area of Effect abilities could delay or miss their first tick, or could apply their effects out of sync with their tick rates.
• Fixed an issue where re-zoning could cause your character to load a different ability bar in some rare cases.
• Fixed an issue where Break Free’s animation could fail to play in situations when your character would be stunned mid-animation with effects such as Time Stop.
• Death recaps will no longer taunt you with the concept of bringing a friend or using the grouping tool for solo arenas such as Maelstrom Arena.
• Fixed an issue where bashing could clear your Heavy Attack inputs.
• Fixed an issue where you could become stuck Heavy Attacking indefinitely after roll dodging while inputting a Light Attack. 
• Fixed an issue where you could fail to receive the skill lines from purchasable options, including Werewolf or Vampire. 

Dragonknight

• Ardent Flame
  • Shifting Standard: Fixed an issue that would cause the Ability Bar Timer to reset after recasting the ability to move it.

Nightblade

• Shadow
  • Path of Darkness: Fixed an issue with this ability and morphs’ Major Expedition where the visual effects could flicker and cause client performance issues.

Templar

• Dawn’s Wrath
  • Backlash: This ability and its morphs have been slightly reworked.
    • The final damage now deals a guaranteed amount of damage based on your highest offensive stats, rather than dealing damage based on the damage it took from you over the duration and with a cap based on your Weapon or Spell Damage.
    • The final damage deals approximately 10% more damage than the initial hit at base and increases up to an additional 200% to reach similar values of power seen before.
    • The final damage now takes more overall damage to reach, to make the payout less reliably reached in PvP scenarios.
    • These abilities are now once again limited to having one active at a time, to fix numerous exploits and bugs with the ability. This means if you cast the ability on another target while it is active, it will remove the previous cast.
      • Power of the Light (morph): Increased the duration of Minor Breach from this morph to 7-10 seconds, up from 6-9. This effect is also no longer tracked over the base ability with the Ability Timers option enabled, to help you keep track of the core ability instead.

Warden

• Animal Companions
  • Advanced Species: This passive now increases your Critical Damage done by 2/4%, rather than your Armor Penetration by 495/990.
    Developer Comment:
    We’re shifting this passive’s focus away from raw damage and more into Critical damage, to help focus the class’s natural tendency to burst foes down. This change should also help bring up Light Armor focused Wardens, while toning down some of the power that their currently much stronger Medium Armor cousins have.
  • Feral Guardian: Fixed an issue where the bear from this Ultimate and its morphs could get stuck in a loop of trying to cast Crushing Swipe repeatedly until it perished or was crowd controlled. It was just trying to make you proud.
• Green Balance
  • Healing Seed
    • Budding Seeds (morph):
      • Fixed an issue where the final heal from this ability was centered on the caster, rather than the Area of Effect.
      • Fixed an issue where this morph’s heal on end or recast could return improperly based on the number of targets in the area.
• Winter’s Embrace
  • Arctic Wind
    • Arctic Blast (morph): Removed the target cap from the damage of this morph, as the damage is no longer tied to stunning enemies.
  • Glacial Presence: This passive now increases the damage done by your Chilled status effect based on a value determined by your highest offensive stats, rather than adding 10% Critical Damage and Healing to recently Chilled targets.
    Developer Comment:
    It didn’t feel right having two passives that essentially did the same thing (between this and Advanced Species). As such, we're making Glacial Presence grant a bonus damage modifier that scales with your Offensive stats. This way, we don't need to worry too much about tankier builds getting a lot of power out of this passive, while helping the generic damage of the class go up when utilizing their kit and rewarding them even more if they are focused on Frost Damage as a whole. We're not too concerned about the potential Critical Healing loss here either since the requirement of an ally recently being Chilled was only applicable in PvP, where Warden healers specifically will be losing this small bit of power.
  • Piercing Cold: This passive now increases your damage done by 1/2% which increases to 6/12% while wielding an Ice Staff, rather than increasing your Magic and Frost Damage by 5/10%.
    Developer Comment:
    This passive was creating issues with morph choices in the class, as Wardens have a healthy mix of damage types outside of Magic and Frost. Many morphs that are meant to focus on damage are either close to or even eclipsed by the more utility driven morphs that retain Magic Damage, and the lack of more DPS focused Ice Damage abilities (since they are predominantly made for tanks or utility) create a situation where this passive isn’t helping the unique identity of Ice Mages keep up with other play styles. By shifting the focus of the passive over to generic damage that contextually gets stronger for the audience the passive is made for, we hope to help bring that playstyle up a bit more.

Weapon

• Bow
  • Volley: Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs only used your Weapon Critical, rather than dynamically scaling with whatever was higher.
• Destruction Staff
  • Weakness to Elements: Increased the duration of this morph to 30 seconds at its final rank, up from 20.
    • Elemental Drain (morph): This morph now increases the duration to 60 seconds at its final rank, up from 23.
    • Elemental Susceptibility (morph):
      • This morph now applies each elemental status effect (Burning, Chilled, AND Concussed) every 6 seconds, rather than applying a random of the three every 6 seconds.
      • This morph no longer gains extended duration and now lasts 30 seconds, down from 60.
      • Fixed an issue where the status effects from this ability could fail to apply.
      • Increased the range to 35 meters at rank IV, up from 33 meters.
      Developer Comment:
      We’re moving around some of the morph diversity here to reinforce use case and define the power of each. Since Elemental Drain focuses on being more of a pure debuff, the duration extension feels more appropriate there, while Elemental Susceptibility reinforces the offensive bonuses we added a few patches back. 
• Two Handed
  • Cleave: Fixed an issue where there was a noticeable delay between the attack animation and the damage applied to an enemy from this ability and its morphs.

Alliance War

• Assault
  • Vigor
    • Resolving Vigor (morph): Reduced the healing from this morph by approximately 10%.

Racial

• Khajiit
  • Robustness: This passive now increases your Health, Magicka, and Stamina Recovery by 90 at their final rank, rather than your Health Recovery by up to 100 and your Magicka and Stamina Recovery by up to 85.

Warfare

• Occult Overload:
  • Reduced the damage per stage of this star to 1037, down from 2560.
  • This node now also applies a random status effect to enemies hit.
  • Added a cooldown of 1 second, to prevent cascading effects.
  • The damage no longer has a maximum target cap of 6.
  Developer Comment:
  We’re toning down some of the burst damage of this effect, as well as its prevalence to operate like Vicious Death where it can cause cascading booms when you kill a large number of targets at the same time. The star doesn’t have enough drawbacks to justify the ease of access to instantly kill large groups of enemies, as well as being a bit overboard when used in tandem with other effects. To make up for this, though, we’re adding some more self-synergy to the effect where it will reward more booms back-to-back if you can manage to kill the affected targets within the time frame of the status applied, so it feels more controlled in risk reward situations rather than random.

General

• Fixed an issue where Companions would fail to resummon on zone transitions while on the Deshaan quest "Oath Breaker."
• Fixed an issue where you couldn’t click through your pet to interact with your Companion.
• Fixed an issue where Bastian's passive was not correctly dropping potent potions from world or delve bosses. 
• Ember's hidden wallet has a slightly higher chance to drop multiple times in a row. 

Animations

• Updated the Companion's Dual Wield ability Swift Assault to now use the same player animation as Flurry. 
• Fixed an issue with the Companion summon animation where it would play awkwardly while running.
• Fixed an issue where Companions would not kneel in grief after combat for player characters who died while groupmate(s) survived. 

Audio

• Your Companions now have more to say when you complete a Geyser in Summerset. 
• Fixed an issue that prevented Bastian and Mirri from occasionally acknowledging your defeat in duels. 
• Increased likelihood of Ember having something unique to say when pickpocketing guards. 

Gameplay

• Companions will no longer incorrectly queue up light attacks shortly after using a channeled attack.
• Updated Isobel's Penetrating Strikes ability to share the same animation as Biting Jabs. This ability now hits 3 times instead of 4 but maintains the same total damage done. 

Rapport

• Increased the rapport gained with Isobel when killing a world boss. 
• Ember now can gain rapport more often when harvesting rune nodes in the world. 
• Fixed an issue where Mirri might not receive a rapport increase when turning in an Ashlander daily if you set your Companion reaction frequencies to minimal. 
• Fixed an issue where Isobel would not give you a rapport increase if you were mounted when approaching an Undaunted Enclave.

General

• Fixed numerous issues with item set visuals failing to apply on their second cast.

Ability Altering Weapons

• Gallant Charge: Fixed an issue where this set’s cost reduction bonus could fail to work in some cases.
• Grand Rejuvenation: Fixed an issue where this set’s Area of Effect was being based off the caster, rather than the Area of Effect of the ability that activated it.
• Void Bash: Fixed an issue where this set could pull invisible targets.

Monster Masks

• Kargaeda: Fixed an issue where this set’s visual effects did not properly sync up with the size and duration of the actual effects.

Mythic Items

• Dov-rha Sabatons: Fixed numerous issues where this set could fail to retain its bonuses or deal the proper damage.

Overland Sets

• Way of the Air: Fixed an issue where this set’s bonus to detection radius was not working.

Trial Sets

• Bahsei’s Mania: Fixed an issue where this set’s damage bonus did not apply to pets. Rejoice, zookeepers!
• Mantle of Siroria: Fixed an issue where this set could grant stacks while outside of the Area of Effect.