PTS Patch Notes v9.2.3

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2023

The Elder Scrolls Online v9.2.3 continues to address bugs and feedback within in Infinite Archive, with the most noteworthy change being the removal of a Stage so you will now fight through 2 Stages instead of 3 before encountering a Cycle or Arc boss. We’ve also made a few additional adjustments to some Class Sets and fixed a number of issues involving the Group Finder. The size of this patch is approximately 358MB.

New Features / Updates / Big Changes
- Event Testing: Whitestrake’s Mayhem
Known Issues
Combat & Gameplay
- Combat & Abilities
- Itemization & Item Sets
Fixes & Improvements
- Chapters & DLCs
- Base Game

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2023

Event Testing: Whitestrake’s Mayhem
Whitestrake's Mayhem returns to Cyrodiil and the Imperial City! This year, you no longer need to use the Scroll of Pelinal’s Ferocity to get your buffs during the event; all bonuses are now passive in the appropriate worlds while the event is running. Additionally, the previous experience bonus for killing players is now a general +100% XP earned in all Cyrodiil, Imperial City, and Battleground worlds.

Pelinal’s Boon Boxes are rewarded for completing daily quests in Cyrodiil or Imperial City district daily quests, or as a bonus reward with Rewards for the Worthy mails you receive.
- These boxes contain treasures ranging from Tel-Var Stones to Cyrodiil repair kits or soul gems, as well as a chance for Cyrodiil style pages, Daedric siege weapons, transmute geodes.
- You may also receive a tradeable style page for the new Dovah’s Du’ul outfit style. If you’ve already earned one on a given day, you can instead get pages of the Sancre Tor Sentry weapon style.
You can earn a total of 3 Event Tickets per day during this event. The first 2 come from completing any daily quest that focuses on Cyrodiil or Battlegrounds. You may earn an additional ticket by completing an Imperial City District daily quest.
This Mayhem, you will also have a chance to find returning Sancre Tor Sentry armor style and Gloamsedge armor style pages from Imperial City bosses and sweepers.
The Bag of Veteran’s Glory this season contains the following offerings from previous Mayhems:
- Legion Zero Armor Style Pages
- Alliance Banner Emotes
- Second Legion Armor Style Pages
- Banner-Bearer Shields and Staves Pages
- Legion Zero Vigiles Armor Style Pages
- Black Drake’s Body/Face Warpaint
- Ebonsteel Knight Armor Style Pages
- Black Drake Clanwrap Style Pages
- Battle-Scared Body/Face Markings
- House Dufort Banneret Armor Style Pages
- Tools of Domination Weapon Style Pages
The Impresario will have bound style pages for the Dovah’s Du’ul outfit for 5 tickets each. Also available will be all three fragments of the Molag Bal Imp Pet as well as the first and second fragments of the Planemeld’s Master body and face markings (a single morph that grants both collectibles).

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2023

Item Sets

Basalt-Blooded Warrior: This set does not currently interact properly with bar swapping while the set is only active on one bar in some cases.
Gardner of Seasons: This set is currently undergoing internal adjustments to make the set simpler to understand and use.
- Our goals are to simplify the conditions necessary to enter Harbinger of Fall, while making its action requirement more appropriate for the defensive bonuses it offers, since it currently may be needed in the heat of the moment but requires a minimum time investment to enter.
- In addition to this, we plan on exchanging the Major Maim it provides to Major Cowardice, so it does not suffer from sharing named effects with other class sets.
- Finally, we also plan on reducing the duration of time investment for Harbinger of Fall from 10 seconds to 6 seconds, so it is easier to swing between Fall and Spring, while also allowing you to refresh Fall so if you require more drawn out defensive windows, you still have the opportunity to do so.
Monolith of Storms:
- This set’s damage currently ignores Line of Sight.
- A preliminary fix has been found for this set’s inability to Critically Strike but requires more thorough testing before implementing it.
Wrathsun: This set is currently undergoing internal investigations to slightly reduce its maximum stack count, to increase the frequency of its effects and to slightly reduce its passive resource recovery power.

Achievements

With the removal of a Stage in Infinite Archive, we are currently reworking some achievements. These include:
- A Little Help Never Hurt
- A Stage For Two
- Companionable Combatant
- Infinite Camaraderie
- Going Solo
- Who Needs Friends?
Reworking some achievements related to Cycles and Bosses, including the following:
- Breaking the Cycle
- Infinite Endurance
- Running the Gauntlet
- Back for Seconds
- Boss Basher
- Watch Them Fall
- Still Standing
- Decisive Dispatch
- Outstanding Onslaught
- Furious Fighter
- Slaying the Hordes
- Infinite Cycle's End

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2023

Arcanist

Curative Runeforms
- Vitalizing Glyphic
  - Resonating Glyphic (morph): This morph now requires you to be in combat to activate the Ultimate.
    Developer Comment:
    Since this morph changes the target context of what you’re summoning to be an attackable “enemy” rather than the standard allied target, we’ve found that casting this Ultimate morph has been contributing to some “in combat” state confusion where players are in combat for simply casting the Ultimate even with no nearby foes, while simultaneously allowing others to circumvent “while in combat” requirements of certain effects like item sets or special abilities. To correct both of these issues, we’re making the change to require you to already be in combat before placing the Ultimate. This should help remove those pesky situations where you accidentally activate the Ultimate while trying to loot a chest and then get stuck in combat with your group, clamp down on the pre-buffing opportunities it was offering, while not disrupting the intended use of the Ultimate to act as a powerful heal and buff for you and your allies.

Class Sets

Monolith of Storms: Fixed an issue where this set was treated as single target direct damage, rather than Area of Effect Damage over Time.
Nobility in Decay: This set no longer grants Minor Resolve and Minor Protection in addition to Beautiful Corpse. Instead of these Minor buffs, it now grants you up to 12% Healing Taken and reduces your damage taken by up to 12%, both of which are based on your missing Health.
Developer Comment:
Much of the feedback from this set has been that the bonuses it provides are not nearly impactful enough to justify its use, despite Beautiful Corpse being an interesting effect that allows for some clever and new uses of the Necromancer toolkit. In order to reinforce the Necromancer’s defiance of Death itself, we’ve added more aptly powerful and thematic bonuses to help them gain some potent staying power in battle.
Soulcleaver:
- This set’s bonuses to damage and healing done with Siphoning abilities no longer scale based on your Ultimate, and instead offer a flat 18% increase in damage and healing done and Cost Reduction for Siphoning abilities.
- This set no longer requires you to actively have 20 Ultimate to gain its effects (including the Ultimate drain). As such, this set now also applies to the Ultimate abilities from the Siphoning skill line.
Developer Comment:
Originally during testing, this set went through many iterations to try and avoid behavior where the set could enable Nightblades to become incredibly powerful in areas they have not been; many restrictions and regulations were put in place to attempt to quell issues. As the set went to the PTS and we began receiving feedback, much of this feedback was pointed at how overly complicated the set seemed to be. As such, we’ve simplified the set immensely while also easing back on its ceiling potential, correcting both some of the insane power the class obtained when not using their Ultimate, while also allowing the set to fit into the normal play patterns Nightblade is traditionally played – where it can utilize Ultimates more rapidly than most other classes due to its passives and costs. It’s our hope that the set still remains impactful at enabling Nightblades to tap into the Siphoning power fantasies more effectively, with an outcome that is simpler to use and understand.

[*]Wrathsun: Removed the persistent sound effects from equipping 5 or more pieces of this set.
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General

Screen effects will no longer persist during Tribute matches.
Adjusted the Patron selection screen to make the 3rd row more visible.

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2023

General

Added a new icon for the Grand Master Blacksmithing Station.
Updated the layout for the Grand Master Blacksmithing Station to get its size more aligned with that of other Grand Master Crafting Stations.
Fixed an issue where you could have trouble interacting with Grand Master Crafting Stations from certain angles.

Jewelry Crafting

Adjusted the number of Jewelry Crafting Platings required for a variety of recipes to bring them more in line with upgrade material costs from other crafting disciplines.
Fixed an issue that prevented the pop-up explaining the Jewelry Crafting conversion in some storage withdrawal situations from appearing.

Infinite Archive

General
- You will now fight through two Stages, rather than three, before encountering a Cycle or Arc boss.
  Developer Comment:
  We have seen the feedback that Stages with non-boss monsters feel fatiguing. We agree and have decided to remove a Stage per Cycle to alleviate these concerns.
- Stage selection is now more varied as you progress through Arcs and Cycles.
- You will no longer see the “Leaving Instance” countdown timer reset when returning to the lobby.
- You will now always be returned to the Index when all Threads of Fate have been cut.
- You can no longer loot chests you were not present for when the encounter was completed.
- Re-added the icons for Stages and Cycles in the Mora’s Boon UI.
- Added missing audio effects to the Mora’a Boons UI.
- Added animations for players in Werewolf Transformation when selecting Verses and transition stages.
- Updated the visual look of the Materials for Novice Necromancers book.
- Fixed some typos throughout Infinite Archive.
Portals to the Unknown
- Your Ultimate will now be filled after completing a Portal to the Unknown.
- Your character will no longer remain slowed if you stealth prior to being changed into a Watcher or Goat in Filer’s Wing or Haefal’s Butchery. You can no longer stealth while transformed, as well.
- You can no longer target your partner with Headbutt while transformed into a Goat in Haefal’s Butchery.
- Fixed an issue where you could get stuck in some Portals to the Unknown when using the exit portal immediately upon entering.
- Filer Kor will no longer reappear if you leave the Infinite Archive and return while in the Filer’s Wing portal.
- Adjusted the collision of walls in the Filer Wing.
- The quests “Restorer of Theories” and “Restoring the Resurrected” now properly share credit across the party.
- Updated Destozuno’s animations during conversations.
Verses and Visions
- The Flame Aura Verse no longer deals damage when the verse holder is dead.
- The radius of the Flame Aura Verse now displays correctly.
- Fixed some graphical issues with Vision and Verse icons.
Cycle Bosses
- Selene and Grothdarr’s health and damage are now affected by Arc increases.
- Made several adjustments to Zhaj’hassa damage and ability timing.
- Caluurion will no longer erroneously remove Threads of Fate without your character actually dying.
- Nerien’eth’s Necrotic Swarm will no longer target players outside of the encounter area.
- Vandacia’s Desperation will no longer persist through death.
- The Mage’s Conjured Mines ability can no longer be interrupted.
- Mulaamnir’s Storm Bound ability now has visible effects.
Arc Boss – Tho’at Replicanum
- Splintering Mirror no longer shields Tho’at Replicanum from damage caused by the Scorching Support Verse.
Itemization and Rewards
- Cycle Bosses can now drop Overland Set Items.
  - Each week, 2 overland zones will be selected in a random rotation. One zone will be selected from the base game zones, available to all players, and one zone will be selected from DLC zones, only available to players with relevant content access.
  - Each boss will pull from the available overland sets associated with these zones.
- Updated rewards for the following quests:
  - “The Margins of Ire” will now award a container with one of each type of Verse consumable, rather than a random Class Set Item.
  - The optional quests “A Bookbinder's Bind” and “Restoring the Resurrected” will now award 500 Archival Fortunes, up from 100.
  - The daily quest “Restorer of Theories” will now award 500 Archival Fortunes the first time you complet this quest per day, per account. Additional completions on other characters in the same day will continue to award 100 Archival Fortunes.
- Adjusted the Archival Fortune pricing for several items available from Filer Tezurs and Filer Ool:
  - Reduced the Archival Treasury Lockbox from 5,000 to 4,000 Archival Fortunes.
  - Reduced the Archival Crafting containers from 3,000 to 2,000 Archival Fortunes each.
  - Increased the Mystery Verse consumables from 100 to 200 Archival Fortunes each.
  - Reduced the Lorebook Furnishings available from Filer Ool from 2,000 to 1,000 Archival Fortunes each.
- Fixed an issue that caused Antiquity Leads to drop more often than intended.

Guilds and Glory Celebration

Fixed an issue where panels for this event referred to the DLC rather than the zone name.

General

Removed the non-existent "Shroomtender Robe" from the collections menu.

Endeavors

Adjusted several Endeavors related to Infinite Archive.

Furnishings

Fixed an issue where the effects from the furnishing “Vision of Mora” could persist into a Tales of Tribute match.
Fixed an issue where the icon for the furnishing “Necrom Candle, Elegant” did not match the furnishing.
Fixed a variety of collision issues with the following new furnishings:
- Clockwork Wall Gears
- Dibella Shrine
- Druidic Rack, Hide Stretcher
- Druidic Smoking Rack, Fish
- Floating Apocrypha Bookcase, Nautilus
- Floating Apocrypha Bookcase, Tall
Fixed a variety of small visual issues with the following new furnishings:
- Choral Altar
- Druidic Brazier, Standing
- Druidic Brazier, Leaning
Added the icon for the new furnishing “A Brief History of House Telvanni”.
Updated the name of the furnishing “Mortar and Pestle, Paper Making” to “Pulp Masher, Paper Making” to better match the visuals.

Homes

Fixed a small visual issue with one of the plants in the background outside of the Tower of Unutterable Truths.
Fixed a few visual issues with the walls in Emissary’s Enclave.
Fixed an issue on Keyboard UI where the ability to purchase a Furnished Template for a home was disabled, even when selected.

General

Fixed a rare crash that could occur when saving camera settings.

Gamepad Mode

Fixed an issue where keybinds could display incorrectly in various help and tutorial text.

Group Finder

Fixed an issue where the Group Finder would display a joinable listing for a group that disbanded.
Fixed an issue where the Normal/Veteran toggle could disappear in the Group Finder.
Fixed an issue where you could be kicked out of the edit listing screen.
Fixed an issue where the actual difficulty selector could get desynced with the difficulty selected within a Group Finder creation.
Fixed an issue where the Dungeon Finder could become unusable after ignoring the leader of a Group Finder group.
Fixed an issue where you couldn't immediately create a Group Finder listing after hitting level 10.
Fixed an issue where an error stating "No access to content" could show up when trying to create a Group Finder listing.
Group Finder filter checkboxes no longer become unusable after changing categories in the Additional Filters dialog.
Fixed an issue where you could sometimes not change the difficulty while creating a Group Finder listing.
Fixed an issue where Group Finder results could show groups with the opposite difficulty selected in the filters.
Fixed an issue where leaving a Group Finder group would make it so you could no longer see that group.