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Re: Official Discussion Thread for "Capture New Collectibles during the Whitestrake’s Mayhem PvP Event!"
In the past we earned event boxes for RftW mails, this article doesn't mention that. Oversight or change to the event?
Believe that was an Oversight. However, I will be able to confirm on Tuesday Morning when we are back in the office. (Note for non-US folks: Monday is a holiday stateside, so we'll be back on Tuesday. )
Re: Thoughts on Seasons?
While we will not have a zone questline this year, we will have new quests and stories to tell.But a whole year without a story.
Re: Thoughts on Seasons?
It's great they are now weekly/seasonal instead of daily which definitely felt chore-like.
Are we buying daily rewards with whatever currency we get out of said chores? I think I am confused since it seems what used to be something I innately get now requires some task instead outside of logging in.
Overall I am not a player who likes artificial tasks, I prefer to live in the world and mostly do stories and content that capture my interests, so I am curious. Most of the endeavors I have were accidental and happened to be given as I played naturally.
Edit: I wanted to clarify I do like things like event quests. But I'm not really a big fan of "go kill 50 ghosts" or whatever on a to-do list like Golden Endeavors, which is why I skip most of those.
I am going to preface with this: On week three of PTS, the Tome system will be live on the PTS server in a test state. So while it will not be indicative of the full Tamriel Tome rewards releasing in Season Zero, it will reflect day to day function of how you will interact with the Tome. So that will certainly help reduce confusion that wasn't cleared up in the article. If you have access to PTS, highly encourage trying it out to see how you think it will fit in with your playstyle. If you don't have PTS access, I'm sure we will have content creators who will make videos to also help show the experience.
As for the how to claim rewards, I will point you to what we posted in this week's PTS patch notes:
Tamriel Tomes
The Update 49 PTS Season as well as the Update 49 PTS Tamriel Tome will go live on 1/27/26 at 10 AM ET.
In addition, please note that the Update 49 PTS Tamriel Tome is not fully representative of the Season Zero: Tome of Dawn and Dusk that goes live on April 2, 2026. The goal for PTS is to test functionality and address any bugs present in Tome functionality.
This PTS Tome will have several differences from what you will see in April. Some of these differences may include rewards, the placement of rewards, as well as final values for the Pages, Challenges, and Tome Points.
Tamriel Tomes are a new way for players to earn a wide array of rewards for engaging directly with ESO’s content and systems. Read more below to find out what this system brings to the game.
Our goal with Tamriel Tomes is to introduce a battle pass-like system that makes ESO consistently more rewarding to play for everyone.
The Tamriel Tome will be a central part of Seasons, offering rewards themed around the Season and activities to complete. We want to make sure everyone can participate in it, whether you’re interested in Questing, Trials, PvP, Crafting, or other playstyles.
A new Tamriel Tome will launch with every Season, with each Tome lasting the full duration of the Season.
Everyone will have access to the Free side of the Tamriel Tome which offers rewards from new cosmetics, Seals, Trade Bars (more on this below), and gameplay items. A paid upgrade to the Premium version will also be available, offering additional cosmetics and rewards. The Tamriel Tome will change for each new season. However, if you decide to purchase the Premium Tamriel Tome - it’s yours to keep forever. You can come back to it and continue to progress it at any time.
Trade Bars are a new currency primarily earned from engaging in the Tamriel Tome. This new currency replaces Event Tickets and will never be sold for Crowns. In addition, you can earn Trade Bars from In-Game Events and PvP progression system coming up called Veterancy.
You’ll progress the Tamriel Tome through a new Challenge System that features Weekly Challenges and Seasonal Challenges. As you complete Challenges, you’ll earn Tome Points. Earning Tome Points will unlock further pages in the Tamriel Tome, and you can use Tome Points on unlocked pages to obtain rewards.
You’ll have access to 5 Weekly Challenges, refreshing every week. These Challenges provide a wide variety of activities to engage in, and if you don’t like some of your Weekly Challenges or are trying to sync your activities with a friend, you’ll have the ability to reroll Weekly Challenges.
Seasonal Challenges will offer more specific or larger activities, and will often be highly thematic to the current Season’s activities and Events. Unlike Weekly Challenges, Seasonal Challenges cannot be rerolled.
And don’t worry if you’re not able to play every day either! Weekly Challenges will accumulate up to 12 at once, letting you take breaks and pick it back up when you’re ready.
Finally, while we were setting out to design the Tamriel Tome, one of our main goals was to simplify some fragmented reward systems. To this end, we’re removing the Endeavors and Daily Login Reward systems from the game in Update 49. You can expect to see many of these rewards, such as Seals and consumable items, on the Free side of the Tome. Both of these systems make less sense in our new Seasons world - we didn’t want to increase the feeling of a chore-list from completing endeavors and claiming log-in rewards, all on top of completing the battle pass.
You can learn more about the Tamriel Tomes system in this article.
Re: Thoughts on Seasons?
twisttop138 wrote: »I'm curious though Kevin. New zones, classes etc all cost quite a bit. A fear I've seen, that I also feel, is that now there's no return on that investment. What incentive does Zos have to make us something like, say Western Skyrim. A large zone full of side quests and delves and all the accoutrements. Or to invest in a new class. Other battle pass games in the genre are very skint on the content except the paid tier of the pass for cosmetic items.
Not trying to be an ass, genuinely curious. As we start to look more like fallout 76, a game I play and love, its worrying.
Edit to add. I do appreciate that there is more that hasn't been brought up yet. This is a mistake on your guys part I believe. The Livestream talked long about the new way to pay you guys and not nearly enough about what we'll play. Not super different to previous years, but this year is different. Thank you. You do quite a bit of the heavy lifting for Zos in how many players view the company. I hope they appreciate your hard work.
Totally get the question. No harm done. The incentive for us is simple. Ultimately, we want to make a game that you, the player, wants to continue to play and return to. We know folks come to ESO for a variety of things, and we want to continue to support that. To do that, we will need to continue to provide content that you will want to play and engage with. So the things you noted, like investment in a new class, or a new zone with story content and delves, new trials, etc. These are things that we have seen players ask for and we want to continue to deliver those. With the new structure, we can do that without having to stick with one specific deadline like we did under chapters. Lastly, the new leadership team is very serious about building the game with you, the player. A big part of that is delivering on gameplay elements you want, being honest and adapting on things that miss the mark wherever possible, and ideally delighting with things you didn't expect. This is on top of continuing QoL improvements. If those elements continue to build a healthy and happy ESO community, then that is our return on investment.
On the livestream bit, thank you for the feedback. We have passed similar feedback on to our Leadership Team and other teams in charge of the production. The goal for the stream was to articulate that a lot was changing and changing because of player feedback. We will have a stream to talk about more about the specific details of seasons beyond Season Zero (keep your eyes open for that announcement) in the coming months. But we viewed it as an opportunity to level set with the immediate changes happening. Which with the existence of this thread, shows was needed, but with more detail to try and clear up any confusion. The payment piece is one part of that, but as you can see, there is quite a bit changing and going over that and what is coming in Update 49/Season Zero was the goal.
Re: Thoughts on Seasons?
For me, the tomes are basically paying for endeavors and login rewards. So instead of logging in every day and doing the endeavors and getting seals, and grabbing that day's login reward, I'll have to pay for the privilege of earning this stuff. Yes, you get some of the new currency too, but it's all about cosmetics, consumables, and such.
Just wanted to note that this is not accurate. Items like seals of endeavor and items that you would find on the login rewards page will be on the free track of the Tamriel Tome.
Official Discussion Thread for "Capture New Collectibles during the Whitestrake’s Mayhem PvP Event!"
This is the official discussion thread for, "Capture New Collectibles during the Whitestrake’s Mayhem PvP Event!"
"Seize the spoils of victory when you dominate your fellow players in ESO’s various PvP game modes during Whitestrake’s Mayhem!"
Re: Update 49 PTS – Week 1 Summary
With that being said, I hope there are considerations for the many threads and feedback that have been asking to have a toggle option to lessen the visual effects of either all players, or just other players, abilities.
Yes! We do have this feedback and request into the dev team, and they are investigating options. As that is more of an evergreen request that would benefit players throughout every part of the game and not specific to Update 49, we didn't list it here. But it is in the dev team's hands.
Update 49 PTS – Week 1 Summary
Hi everyone! Welcome to our first PTS weekly summary. In this post, you will find a high-level summary of the Update 49 PTS – Week 1 top feedback points and issues. The purpose of these weekly PTS summaries is to give you visibility into the main pieces of feedback and most prominent bugs we are tracking. As mentioned in this post, this summary is not intended to be as comprehensive as our PTS incremental patch notes and as such just a gentle reminder that it will not include everything.
As this is a new initiative, we’ll be looking to evolve and optimize it over time. We’ll consider team bandwidth and look at contents and level of detail on our side. We would love to hear your thoughts, too.
Dragonknight Class Refresh
Cyrodiil
Player Experience Improvements
Miscellaneous
As this is a new initiative, we’ll be looking to evolve and optimize it over time. We’ll consider team bandwidth and look at contents and level of detail on our side. We would love to hear your thoughts, too.
Dragonknight Class Refresh
- Dragon Blood [Feedback]: We have seen community feedback about the visual change to this ability, and questions about if the new look is a bug. While it is not a bug, based on community feedback we are assessing possible updates to the visuals to update this ability and its morphs so the heart visual no longer appears above the character’s head. This change will go into effect in a later PTS incremental. (Related post.)
- Dragon Wings Visual Effects Misaligned on Multiple Skills [Bug]: The Dragonknight wings visual effect are misaligned on the player character with the Dragon Leap ability and its morphs, and the Wing Buffet ability and its morphs. Dragon Leap and its morphs will be fixed in PTS Week 2 (Related post.) Wing Buffet and its morphs will be fixed in a later PTS incremental.
- Earthspike Mantle [Feedback]: Based on community feedback, we have made some visual changes to the originally updated design. These changes are what we were able to do in the short-term, and will be viewable on the PTS in Week 2 (related post). We will continue to monitor feedback – it is possible we could make further adjustments to the Dragonknight’s visuals in the future as needed.
- Engulfing Dragonfire [Bug]: Fixing several issues with the Dragonknight Engulfing Dragonfire ability, including (but not limited to) players being able to recast the ability before the prior cast finishes, stacking damage. This will be fixed in PTS Week 2.
- General Dragonknight Class Power [Feedback]: Based on player feedback that the Dragonknight class's overall ability strength still feels lower than ideal even after the recent class refresh changes, we are investigating a number of additional improvements. Watch for a full article around PTS Week 4 that details these additional improvements.
- Various Dragonknight Visual Effects & Animations Issues [Bug]: We are tracking some additional visual effects and/or animations issues for Dragonknight class abilities including Corrosive Armor, Obsidian Shield, Fragmented Shield, and and Fire Keeper. These will be fixed in PTS Week 2 and a later PTS incremental.
Cyrodiil
- Heal-over-Time Changes [Feedback]: After feedback about the originally proposed changes to how Battlespirit modifies Heals-over-Time in Cyrodiil, we are reverting the change in PTS Week 2 (related post.) We are investigating alternate short-term and long-term solutions (related post.) One of the short-term solutions we defined in that second related post link would be possible for us to get in for an upcoming PTS incremental and Update 49. Longer-term solutions are still under discussion.
Player Experience Improvements
- Increasing Housing Population Caps [Feedback]: We’ve seen some questions and suggestions about whether housing population caps are also increasing alongside the furnishing cap increase. Based on this suggestion and piece of feedback, we are increasing the housing population caps with Update 49. Now Staple homes will have a population cap of 6 players, Classic homes will have a population cap of 12 players, and all notable homes will remain at a cap of 24 players. (Note: This will effectively increase the population cap to homes that were previously Classic but have since moved into the Notable category.) (Related post.)
- Respec Skills & Attributes in the UI for Free [Feedback]: Based on player feedback, we will be restricting the use of the new UI Respec feature in PVE Leaderboard content. Infinite Archive will continue to allow use of the UI Respec feature. This change will go in a later PTS incremental. (Related post.)
Miscellaneous
- Buccaneer’s Bay House [Bug]: We are tracking several bugs with the Buccaneer’s Bay house, including (but not limited to) the door being misaligned and prompt text inconsistent with other homes, the house not correctly supporting weather states, the door locks lacking audio cues, and it being difficult to find your way back on land if you fall into the water. Some of these fixes will be in PTS Week 2 and the rest in one of the later PTS incremental patches. (Related thread.)
- New Vampire NPC – Shrine Reference in Dialogue [Bug]: Azisa refers to the shrine at her location as a shrine of Molag Bal. This is inconsistent with her other dialogue. We are changing this line of dialogue and shifting the name of the POI and some related quest text. As this requires a new voice-over recording, the change will go in with Update 50. (Related post.)
- Transmutation Cap Increase [Bug]: There is an issue where players cannot earn more Transmute Crystals beyond the old cap. This issue will be fixed in the PTS Week 2 incremental. (Related post.)
- Vampire & Werewolf Reinfection [Bug]: There is an issue where players who have maxed both Vampire and Werewolf skill lines and cured themselves can become locked out of reinfection. This will be fixed in a later PTS incremental. (Related post.)
Re: Voice actors for Lamae Bal and Zaan the Scalecaller
It is indeed Erin Fitzgerald who voices both Zaan the Scalecaller and Lamae Bal.
