PTS Patch Notes v6.3.2

ZOS_GinaBruno · February 2021

The Elder Scrolls Online v6.3.2 includes several more adjustments to the updated Champion System and some item sets, bug fixes for the new dungeons, and activates the Anniversary Jubilee event on February 10. Additionally, we’ve copied all PC EU characters this week; remember, all skill points will be reset when you first log in. The size of this patch is approximately 172MB.

New Features / Updates / Big Changes
- Anniversary Jubilee
Known Issues
Fixes & Improvements
- Chapters & DLCs
  - Flames of Ambition
  - Greymoor
  - Markarth
  - Stonethorn
- Combat & Gameplay
  - Combat & Abilities
  - Itemization & Item Sets
- Base Game
  - Alliance War & PvP
  - Art & Animation
  - Events & Celebrations
  - Exploration & Itemization
  - Housing
  - Miscellaneous
  - UI

ZOS_GinaBruno · February 2021

Anniversary Jubilee
Starting February 10 at 10am EST, the next Anniversary Jubilee will be available to test on the PTS! Complete the introductory quest, Ache for Cake, to get this year's Jubilee cake Memento. Use this Memento and eat a slice of the cake for a 100% bonus to earned experience for the duration of the buff, as well as three Event Tickets. Don't eat those, though; use them at the Impresario for special rewards!

During the Jubilee, any daily quest throughout Tamriel and beyond will award you an Anniversary Jubilee Gift Box, which contains a scattering of valuable rewards.
- The new reward available in this year's gift box is a chance at pages for the new Imperial Champion weapon set.
- You can also acquire these in bound form from the Impresario.
Also available are the first two fragments, of three total fragments, for the Deadlands Firewalker personality. These are available from the Impresario for 10 Event Tickets each, but the third and final fragment won't be available until a later event in the season.

ZOS_GinaBruno · February 2021

General

Meticulous Disassembly: This passive is currently not working when used in tandem with the max rank of some crafting skill passives.
Medium Armor's Area of Effect damage reduction is currently granting 100% mitigation against attacks in some cases, rather than its proper value.

ZOS_GinaBruno · February 2021

General

Baron Zaudrus's Visage and Pauldrons now have the appropriate tints when dropped.

Dungeons

Black Drake Villa
- General
  - Reduced the number of critters found in the dungeon.
  - Removed the ability to see tools which should be hidden until obtained.
- Captain Geminus
  - Captain Geminus will now face her target when casting Death Wish.
- Pyroturge Encratis
  - Geysers are now more responsive to fast moving player characters.
  - Pyroturge Encratis no longer removes Heartsfire Blade when casting Heartsfire Spear at a player character in the pit on normal difficulty.
  - Pyroturge Encratis will no longer attack someone who has him taunted from the lower level if there are player targets on the upper level available for him to attack.
  - Pyroturge Encratis will now always face the correct direction when using Meteor Storm.
  - The Black Drake fountainheads will no longer appear to breathe non-damaging fire when the encounter is completed or resets.
The Cauldron
- Oxblood the Depraved
  - Oxblood no longer plays odd animations when casting Noxious Release. He farts properly now.
- Baron Zaudrus
  - Lyranth will no longer change outfits during the fight with Baron Zaudrus.

ZOS_GinaBruno · February 2021

Kyne’s Aegis Trial

Lord Falgravn
- Prisoners once again provide their boon if rescued.

ZOS_GinaBruno · February 2021

General

Fixed several typos in the Wayward Guardian Motif books.

Quests

Language of the Night: You are now able to pick up the scroll in Nighthollow Keep.

ZOS_GinaBruno · February 2021

Dungeons

Stone Garden
- General
  - Dead Stone Husks will now always leave a lootable ash pile corpse.
- Arkasis the Mad Alchemist
  - Fixed an issue where Arkasis would sometimes decide not to release the second batch of Stone Husks and become an immortal mad scientist (the worst kind of scientist).

ZOS_GinaBruno · February 2021

General

Fixed issue where weapon swapping could become unresponsive after using a grappling hook.
Fixed an issue where health stats were not properly reflecting in the Advanced Stats UI tab.
Fixed an issue where Battle Spirit still included its 5000 Max Health. This health has already been incorporated into base character stats, as called out in the first PTS patch.
The built-in damage reduction is now 10%, which was improperly listed as 15% in the original notes.
Fixed an issue where the adjustments to the Champion Point experience curve mentioned in the original notes was not properly working.
Emotes can no longer be started while blocking.
Blocking during an emote will now interrupt it.

Buffs

Reduced the bonus value of the following buffs to 30%, down from 40%:
- Major Endurance
- Major Fortitude
- Major Intellect
Reduced the bonus value of the following buffs to 15%, down from 20%:
- Minor Endurance
- Minor Fortitude
- Minor Intellect
Developer Comment:
Based on the many changes to the Champion Point system and overall data we've gathered from the live servers, these recovery related buffs were slightly overtuned when paired with recovery bonuses, which is contributing to larger problems with hard-to-take-down builds in PvP and PvE alike. With these adjustments, we still want to better reward players who spec for recovery than in the past, but with less of a delta between those who find sustain through other means.

Champion System
Developer Comment:

In efforts to further reduce the amount of vertical progression the updated Champion System has in regards to passive power, we have reduced the maximum number of stages of many stars that do not require slotting to the Champion Bar and adjusted some outliers to be more in line with our expected results. These adjustments will only affect those who are very high in Champion Points and will have very little effect on those in the early or middle stages of Champion progression, who are focusing on grabbing their slotted stars and unlocking pathways before topping out each node.

Reduced the following stars to a maximum of 4 stages, rather than 5:
- Blessed
- Defiance
- Eldritch Insight
- Elemental Aegis
- Hardy
- Hasty
- Hero's Vigor
- Piercing
- Precision
- Preparation
- Quick Recovery
- Sprinter
- Tireless Discipline
- Tireless Guardian
Reduced the following stars to a maximum of 2 stages, rather than 5:
- Battle Mastery
- Flawless Ritual
Reduced the following stars to a maximum of 3 stages, rather than 4:
- Savage Defense
- Tumbling
The following skills are now slotted rather than passive to better mirror the other specific bonus type mechanics, such as damage done or damage taken:
- Focused Mending
- Soothing Tide
- Swift Renewal
Bashing Brutality:
- This passive is now 60 increased damage, down from 120.
- Reduce the points per stage to 10, down from 20.
- Reduced the maximum number of stages to 4, down from 5.
Fortification:
- This passive is now 2% block mitigation per stage, down from 4%.
- Reduced the points per stage to 15, down from 20.
- Reduced the maximum number of stages to 3, down from 5.
Haggler: This star has been replaced with a new star, Gilded Fingers, which increases your gold gained by 2% per stage, up to 5 stages at 10 points per stage.
Developer Comment:
Haggler may return in the future as a potential new star, but its current form has too many exploitable cases that need in-depth investigation before solutions can be found in time.
Infamous: Fixed an issue where this passive did not work as stated.
Spirit Mastery:
- This passive is now slotted rather than passive.
- Increased the points required of this star to 50, up from 33.
Steed's Blessing: Reduced the Movement Speed granted from this passive to 0.4% per stage, down from 1%.
Developer Comment:
This was done to help reduce the delta in speed experiences between players who slot this and those who do not, as out-of-combat movement speed doesn't have a hard set bonus efficiency standard.
Strategic Reserve: Reduced the Health Recovery per 10 Ultimate granted from this star to 30, down from 50.
Tempered Soul:
- This passive now grants 5% more resources when you resurrect, down from 10%.
- Reduced the points required per stage to 25, down from 50.
Improved the readability of the links between Champion skills.

General

In accordance with the recent change to item sets to not be usable while outside of combat to be manipulated as "pre-buff" sets, the following sets now only grant their effects/activate while in combat:
- Elf Bane
- Jorvuld's Guidance
- Seventh Legion

Dungeon Sets

Dead-Water's Guile: This set now only activates on your killing blows, rather than shared killing blows in order to help reduce the stacking effectiveness it has in large groups.

Monster Sets

Selene: Fixed an issue where this set could be procced outside of melee range with some attacks.

Overland Sets

Senche's Bite:
- This set now procs whenever you dodge an attack, rather than when you activate Roll Dodge.
- Increased the duration to 10 seconds, up from 8 seconds.
- Fixed an issue where this set's tooltip did not state it also affected your Critical Healing done. This change was done to help decrease the amount of alpha strike potential it has before combat has begun.

Trial Sets

The following sets now only proc on slain enemies you've damaged within 2 seconds, down from 5. Their tooltips now properly mention you do not need a killing blow for them.
- False God's Devotion
- Quick Serpent
- Vicious Serpent

ZOS_GinaBruno · February 2021

General

Fixed an issue where the Battering Ram UI could remain on screen after loading into a new zone.

General

Mounts will no longer float on the character select screen.

General

Added a tooltip to explain where certain Morphing Collectible components come from.

Achievements

Updated the wording of Champion Point achievements to be more in-line with the new Champion Point names.
Updated the text for "Vault Breacher" achievement to match prior prologue achievements.

General

Fixed an issue where chairs were not working properly after going through a portal in a home.

Furnishings

The new Aetherial Well furnishing can no longer be used while in combat.
The bristleback inside the “Stone Garden Vat, Alchemized Bristleback” furnishing now correctly plays a subtle animation, similar to the other alchemized creatures.

Homes

Updated the pre-placed furnishing templates in Varlaisvea Ayleid Ruins and Kushalit Sanctuary to correct some visual issues.
Adjusted the main altar inside Varlaisvea Ayleid Ruins to allow for more flexible decoration options.
Filled in two unusual gaps in the water that fills the pools on the upper section of Varlaisvea Ayleid Ruins.
Fixed an issue that caused a small region of glowing white textures to appear near the top of one of the lavafalls in Kushalit Sanctuary.

General

Fixed a rare crash that could occur when multiple effects would try to move a character simultaneously.
Fixed a crash that could occur when removing furniture in player housing.

Activity Finder

Fixed an issue where logging out while queued on the PTS would cause you to get stuck in the queue.
Fixed an issue where you could get stuck in the queue on the PTS for several minutes.

General

Updated tutorial text to reflect updates to the Champion System.
Updated the message that displays when skills have been forcibly reset to be more generic.
Fixed an issue where a random UI error could trigger a chatter interact when one shouldn't be happening.