PTS Patch Notes v3.1.4

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The Elder Scrolls Online v3.1.4 is our last PTS incremental patch before Horns of the Reach is released for PC/Mac on August 14. We’ve made several additional fixes to the two new dungeons, homes and furnishings, itemization, and more. The size of this patch is approximately 278MB.

• Fixes & Improvements
  • Morrowind
    • Alliance War
    • Quests & Zones
  • Imperial City DLC Game Pack
    • Dungeons & Group Content
  • Horns of the Reach DLC Game Pack
    • Art & Animation
    • Dungeons & Group Content
  • Combat & Gameplay
    • Combat Balance
    • Combat Fixes & Improvements
    • Itemization Balance
    • Itemization Fixes & Improvements
  • Base Game Patch
    • Art & Animation
    • Crafting & Economy
    • Crown Store & Crown Crates
    • Exploration & Itemization
    • Housing
    • Quests & Zones
    • UI

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Battlegrounds

• Fixed an issue that would cause some players in Ready Check to not receive any error message when someone declined the Ready Check.

Quests

• An Armiger’s Duty: Ibaal will now spawn properly if you logged out on the last step of the quest.  
• For Glory: This quest can now be acquired from handbills posted in Balmora, Sadrith Mora, Gnisis, and Vos.

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Dungeons

• Imperial City Prison
  • The Overfiend will now consistently return after defeating a group of player characters.

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General

• Falkreath Hold and Bloodroot Forge now have their final loading screens.

Dungeons

• Falkreath Hold
  • Deathlord Bjarfrud Skjoralmor
    • Engulf can no longer be removed by using abilities while in Veteran difficulty.
    • Deathlord Bjarfrud Skjoralmor will now summon Draugr and use Wrath of the Fallen much sooner, and will cast Wrath of Fallen more often.
    • Increased the health of this boss in Veteran difficulty.
    • Corpses of defeated Draugr that eventually explode are now easier to see during this encounter.
    • Wrath of the Fallen will no longer deal damage once Deathlord Bjarfrud Skjoralmor has been defeated.
  • Purifying Blessing can now be cast while sprinting.
  • Wrath of the Fallen now has an appropriate Death Recap hint.
• Bloodroot Forge
  • Nirncrux Tremors now has an appropriate Death Recap hint.
  • Shalk Lava Balls have increased speed and a larger area of effect after a short time while chasing a target.
  • Stoneheart and Galchobhar will no longer, on rare occasions, inexplicably reset their encounters after activating Stone Atronachs.
  • Reduced Stoneheart’s Atronachs to five from six, and repositioned them within the fighting area.

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General

• The bonus damage dealt by execute abilities, such as Assassin’s Blade or Reverse Slash, now works more intuitively with global damage done bonuses, such as Mighty or Minor/Major Berserk. Execute bonus damage is now multiplicative with global damage bonuses instead of additive.

General

• Improved the reliability of CC (crowd control) immunity when other status effects are on you.
  • For example, you can now reliably break CC after being CC’d while sprinting.
• Fixed an issue where Two Handed, One Hand and Shield, and Dual Wield Heavy Attacks could not proc weapon enchantments or poisons.

Item Sets

• Necropotence: Reduced the Max Magicka increase granted by this Item Set to 3150 from 4000.

Item Sets

• Fixed an issue where the Infused weapon trait and the Torug’s Pact set bonus were stacking additively instead of multiplicatively.
• Earthgore: Fixed an issue where this Item Set would not proc with certain healing abilities.

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General

• Fixed an issue that made certain lights throughout the game brighter than intended.

Motifs

• Fixed an issue where the "Primal" style was occasionally referred to as "Primitive".
• Sashes crafted in the Redoran style now have their intended icon.

Survey Reports

• Fixed an issue that prevented Glenumbra's Enchanting Survey Report from respawning if you had multiple surveys on-hand when returning to its area.

Motifs

• Removed inaccurate rank requirements from the tooltips of certain Crown Crafting Motif books. Motifs purchased from the Crown Store can always be learned, regardless of crafting rank.

Eidetic Memory

• The Redoran House Proclamation can now be read when not on the quest.

Furnishings

• Fixed an issue where the “Fogs of the Hag Fen” and “Mists of the Hag Fen” furnishings were not counting toward the Special Furnishings limit.
• Fixed an issue where several furnishing items were counting towards the collectible furnishing limit instead of the traditional furnishing limit when placed.
• Added icons to a number of new furnishings that didn’t yet have icons.
• Updated the price of the “Horn of the Reachclans” furnishing to 50,000 gold from 20,000 gold.
• Added the Interactable and Audio tags to the “Horn of the Reachclans” furnishing item, because you can blow the horn for a big toot.

Homes

• Updated the name and description of the Cozy Fenside Cottage to emphasize its ties to the Witches Festival. Below is the new name and description:
  • Exorcised Coven Cottage - Pay no attention to the rumors: this witches hut on the edge of Hag Fen in Glenumbra is guaranteed NOT to be haunted by the dead, the undead, or restless spirits of any kind. It does come with tumbledown walls to keep the crocodiles and wolves out. Spooky!
• Fixed an issue that caused you to face the exit door when you entered the Exorcised Coven Cottage or Linchal Grand Manor.
• The Exorcised Coven Cottage and Linchal Grand Manor now have their appropriate loading screens.
• Adjusted the walls at the rear of the Autumn’s-Gate courtyard back to their original positions, to ensure there will be no change to homes with the release of Horns of the Reach.

Main Quest

• Shadow of Sancre Tor: Fixed an issue where your game could crash during this quest.

General

• Your screen will no longer blur while in the Escape menu.

Gameplay

• Fixed inconsistencies between the attribute bars and the ability bar where they could appear in cursor mode while not set to Always Show.

Mondini

sweet

UrbanMonk

That's all?

casparian

The bonus damage dealt by execute abilities, such as Assassin’s Blade or Reverse Slash, now works more intuitively with global damage done bonuses, such as Mighty or Minor/Major Berserk. Execute bonus damage is now multiplicative with global damage bonuses instead of additive.

This is terrific.

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ToxicPAWS wrote: »

That's all?

Yes.

Biro123

Nooo!!! My beautiful Necropotence!!

Nah, its cool.

jcaceresw

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Item Sets

• Necropotence: Reduced the Max Magicka increase granted by this Item Set to 3150 from 4000.

Please revert back this change and remove the need to use a pet in order to get the 5pc bonus.

rhapsodious

The bonus damage dealt by execute abilities, such as Assassin’s Blade or Reverse Slash, now works more intuitively with global damage done bonuses, such as Mighty or Minor/Major Berserk. Execute bonus damage is now multiplicative with global damage bonuses instead of additive.

kreygasm

Improved the reliability of CC (crowd control) immunity when other status effects are on you.
For example, you can now reliably break CC after being CC’d while sprinting.

double kreygasm

Nifty2g

Real talk ZOS, the balance is good and everything is going towards the same level

But why is Magicka Templar DPS still left alone to be the [Snip] of them all? Why wasn't there any changes to their damage kit? This was the balance patch after all, possibly look into it for when the patch hits live? Because they are quite far behind the other classes.

[Edit to remove profanity]

casparian

Nifty2g wrote: »

Real talk ZOS, the balance is good and everything is going towards the same level

But why is Magicka Templar DPS still left alone to be the [Snip] of them all? Why wasn't there any changes to their damage kit?

There was a change -- they fixed the execute scaling bug, so Radiant damage is going to go up.

Anne_Firehawk

WTB Magicka DK Execute, it's about time seriously.

Teridaxus

... hello oblivion enchant meta.

Nifty2g

casparian wrote: »

Nifty2g wrote: »

Real talk ZOS, the balance is good and everything is going towards the same level

But why is Magicka Templar DPS still left alone to be the shittest of them all? Why wasn't there any changes to their damage kit?

There was a change -- they fixed the execute scaling bug, so Radiant damage is going to go up.

That really isn't the issue with Templar DPS but sure it's a start, plus Templars have a really high cost heavy toolkit (should possibly look into that too) that you rarely will get the full damage from their execute anyway since it scales on your magicka pool.

Ilsabet

Is there any chance of getting "A Plea for Help" from Orsinium added to the Eidetic Memory fixes any time soon?

OdinForge

jcaceresw wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Item Sets

• Necropotence: Reduced the Max Magicka increase granted by this Item Set to 3150 from 4000.

Please revert back this change and remove the need to use a pet in order to get the 5pc bonus.

LZH

So happy with the change to execute scaling, but at the same time I hope you didn't forget sweeps/jabs.

Feanor

Fixed an issue where the Infused weapon trait and the Torug’s Pact set bonus were stacking additively instead of multiplicatively.

No further changes to oblivion damage at all? Nice. Gonna be awesome in Cyrodiil for the next six months. Not.

Avran_Sylt

Dope

Jeezye

Uhm... where is the class specific balance changes???

Biro123

LZH wrote: »

So happy with the change to execute scaling, but at the same time I hope you didn't forget sweeps/jabs.

Good point

Ryan1704

Expected more changes but meh nothing to terrible

Midori_Oku

Nifty2g wrote: »

Real talk ZOS, the balance is good and everything is going towards the same level

But why is Magicka Templar DPS still left alone to be the [Snip] of them all? Why wasn't there any changes to their damage kit? This was the balance patch after all, possibly look into it for when the patch hits live? Because they are quite far behind the other classes.

That magicka Warden though, its DPS is insane! Sure beats the crap out of a magicka Templar.

Avran_Sylt

Jeezye wrote: »

Uhm... where is the class specific balance changes???

Probably still being tested. Or, you know. They like it where it is currently.

ZOS_GinaBruno

Jeezye wrote: »

Uhm... where is the class specific balance changes???

Our focus for this update has always been geared (no pun intended) more toward itemization and item sets.

Brutusmax1mus

They must be serious about the torugs meta. Wow..

dpencil1

Necropotence 5-piece nerfed by 21.25%??

What is the math that justifies this? Or is it just a reaction to forum whining?

Not happy about this change at all.