PTS Patch Notes v7.3.1

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The Elder Scrolls Online v7.3.1 includes a number of fixes and adjustments for the new Ascending Tide dungeons and High Isle prologue quests, a fix for a crash that would occur when trying to log into the PTS, and more. We have also activated the upcoming Jester’s Festival event for testing this week. This patch is approximately 404MB.

• New Features / Updates / Big Changes
  • Jester's Festival
• Known Issues
• Fixes & Improvements
  • Chapters & DLCs
  • Combat & Gameplay
  • Base Game

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Jester’s Festival
The Jester's Festival returns to Tamriel! This year we’re introducing a new daily quest, "Getting the Band Together", offered by a stranger arriving at each Jester's Festival location with the aim of freshening up the entertainment with some otherworldly performers. Completing the introductory quest again is optional if you've done it before, but for new players it is the only way to get the Pie of Misrule. You may use the Pie of Misrule for a 2 hour +100% experience bonus, for as long as the event lasts. Remember, this Pie is now under the Tools category of Collectibles instead of Mementos!

• This year's offerings include the Second Seed springtime-themed outfit style pages, as well as the new Cadwell's Surprise Box memento.
  • The first Jester's Festival daily quest that you complete each day will award you 3 Event Tickets, plus a Stupendous Jester's Festival Box that has a chance to contain one (or, rarely, two!) pages for the Second Seed outfit style, along with a goofy assortment of festival goodies.
  • Subsequent dailies will instead award a regular Jester's Festival Box, with less stupendous but no less goofy offerings.
  • Fragments for Cadwell's Surprise Box are available from both kinds of boxes. Combining five fragments together will grant you the Memento.
• The Impresario will offer all three fragments of both the Soulfire Dragon Illusion pet and Scales of Akatosh skin, along with pages of the Second Seed outfit style. Additionally, she will have fragments for Cadwell's Surprise Box if you'd like to spend your excess tickets to earn it faster.
  • As always, anything acquired from the Impresario for tickets is bound to you.

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Homes

• The barrier effects for the windows in the viewing room of Seaveil Spire are currently missing and will appear in a future PTS patch.

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Dungeons

• Coral Aerie
  • S’zarzo
    • The Bulwark ability will now reliably be removed when S’zarzo is defeated.
  • Sarydil
    • Sarydil will now wait a bit longer between casts of her Vacate and Obscure abilities.
    • Sarydil will now wait a bit before beginning her attacks after jumping down from the balcony.
    • The Detonate ability will now remove any lingering Aperature effects in the fight space.
    • Reduced the health of Ascendant Stormshapers when the Challenge Banner is active.
    • The Bulwark ability will now reliably be removed when Sarydil is defeated.
• Shipwright’s Regret
  • General
    • The Maormer Slayer achievement will now correctly increment when defeating Maormer instead of Lurchers, and similarly, the Lurcher Slayer achievement will now correctly increment when defeating Lurchers rather than Maormer.
    • Fixed a crash in Shipwright's Regret that could happen at the first boss.
  • Captain Numirril
    • The Waves and Swell abilities will now stagger player characters hit by those abilities.
    • Defeated Drowned Fiends will no longer leave behind invisible Bile Pools. They will now leave a single, visible Bile Pool when defeated.
    • Reduced the damage from Quick Strike in all difficulties.
    • The “Battered” negative effect applied by Quick Strike no longer applies a tick of damage when it is applied.
    • Reduced the duration of the Gaping Wound ability.
    • Drowned Hulks will no longer both charge targets at the same time.
    • The Bile Burst ability will now clear lingering Bile Pools in its area of effect when it detonates.
    • With the Challenge Banner active, Drowned Corpses’ Retch ability can now be interrupted as it can in Veteran and Normal difficulties.

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General

• Updated many of the new dungeon set tooltips to give standard information such as tick rates and Area of Effect sizes.

Dungeon Sets

• Grisly Gourmet: The sweetrolls from this set can now only be picked up by players, as pets and Companions are unable to appreciate them.

Monster Masks

• Nazaray:
  • This set no longer extends the duration of Damage over Time effects.
  • Increased the duration of the extension to 1 second per 20 Ultimate spent, up from 1 second per 25 Ultimate spent.
  Developer Comment:
  This set was originally intended to make Damage over Time effects and potent debuffs easier to manage and allow for focus on different actions (like being able to actually spam your "spammable"), but was inevitably delivered in a way that only high end groups would be able to use. We've decided to shift the focus to the negative version of Jorvuld's Guidance where we have a much more reigned in sense of balance with Major and Minor debuffs, and will investigate alternative means to achieving our original goal.
  
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  • Dark Convergence: Fixed an issue where some sound effects from this set were not playing properly.

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Homes

• Fixed an issue where several mountains in Seaveil Spire got lost on their way to PTS.
  • Known Issue: Currently, many of the textures for these errant mountains appear greyed out. This will be fixed in a future PTS patch.
• Corrected some small visual issues in the exterior areas of Seaveil Spire.

Furnishings

• Added a bottom to the “Nedic Brazier, Cold-Flame Pillar” furnishing.
• The “Deadlands Tapestry, Mehrunes Dagon” furnishing is now easier to select once placed.
• Improved some textures near the tail of the snake in the “Blackwood Provisioning Station” furnishing, and sealed a hole in the bottom of one of the wooden spikes.
• Improved the collision accuracy for the same “Blackwood Provisioning Station” furnishing, as well as the “Deadlands Throne” furnishing.
• Improved the textures on the bottom of the “Stones, Coral Cluster” furnishing.
• Improved the collision accuracy of the “Fargrave Defensive Spikes, Curved” furnishing.

General

• Fixed a crash related to some third party transparent overlays.

High Isle Prologue Quest

• You will now receive significantly more gold and XP rewards for completing the prologue quests.
• Ascending Doubt:
  • You are now told to meet Jakarn specifically at Sareloth Grotto during this quest.
  • There are now more accurate quest pins during the quest step to search Sareloth Grotto.
  • Tarazka now has a more appropriate quest target above his head.
  • Fixed an issue where you would not be directed throughout the quest properly if you left the quest area and later returned.
  • Fixed an issue where you could interrupt quest NPCs while they were speaking.
  • The Ascendant Order Note now rests on top of the barrel, rather than floating inside of it.
• A King’s Retreat:
  • The encounter with the Ascendant Champion is now a bit more forgiving.
  • Fixed an issue where the Aldmeri Dominion Medallion would spawn under the table.

Help & Tutorials

• Updated the text on some Achievements, Tutorials, Loading Tips, and Crown Store offerings to better clarify how Skyshards are handled with Account-Wide Achievements.
• Corrected some incorrect keybindings referenced in help and tutorial messages.

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Just a heads up that we accidentally missed a patch note for a change that went into yesterday's PTS patch affecting the Nazaray set. This has been added to the notes above, but for visibility, here is the change:

Monster Masks

• Nazaray:
  • This set no longer extends the duration of Damage over Time effects.
  • Increased the duration of the extension to 1 second per 20 Ultimate spent, up from 1 second per 25 Ultimate spent.
  Developer Comment:
  This set was originally intended to make Damage over Time effects and potent debuffs easier to manage and allow for focus on different actions (like being able to actually spam your "spammable"), but was inevitably delivered in a way that only high end groups would be able to use. We've decided to shift the focus to the negative version of Jorvuld's Guidance where we have a much more reigned in sense of balance with Major and Minor debuffs, and will investigate alternative means to achieving our original goal.