PTS Patch Notes v9.3.1

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The Elder Scrolls Online v9.3.1 includes several fixes for the Gold Road prologue quest and a few initial fixes for the new Scions of Ithelia dungeons, combat abilities and item sets. We’ve also activated the Jester’s Festival event for testing this week and have made a few updates to the tutorial portal room. The size of this patch is approximately 410MB.

• New Features / Updates / Big Changes
  • Event Testing: Jester’s Festival
  • Tutorial Updates
• Template Updates
• Combat & Gameplay
  • Combat & Abilities
  • Itemization & Item Sets
• Fixes & Improvements
  • Chapters & DLCs
  • Base Game

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Event Testing: Jester’s Festival
The Jesters Festival returns! As always, you can complete the introductory quest to acquire a Pie of Misrule as a delicious memento treat. The first Jesters Festival daily you complete each day will award you a gold-quality Stupendous Jester’s Festival Box and 3 Event Tickets, with subsequent dailies granting purple quality Jester’s Festival Boxes that have smaller chances to give you The Good Stuff.

• As with other events such as Witches Festival and New Life Festival last year, the experience bonus previously provided by eating the pie is now PASSIVE during the event. You don’t need to do anything to get it. It applies to everything and there’s no buff to track.
  • Note: We are working on a way to display some in-game indicator that the effect is active just to put minds at ease, but that will be forthcoming after solving some technical hangups associated with buffs that are not buffs.
• This year’s goofy pageantry includes style pages for the new Seeker Mummer outfit, so you too can dress like a slurpy squid-fella from scenic Apocrypha.
• The Impresario will have all three fragments of both the Molag Bal Illusion Imp pet and Planemeld’s Master body and face markings, along with bound versions of fragments and style pages for the new offerings this year. She will also carry some older offerings for folks who still need to collect them, so be sure to visit her for her latest stock.

Tutorial Updates
We’ve updated the post-quest tutorial portal room so new accounts will be initially limited to the portals to Stros M'Kai, Bleakrock Isle, and Khenarthi's Roost, depending on their alliance. Upon using any of the aforementioned portals, you will gain the ability to use portals to any additional zones available to your account as well as the ability to skip the tutorial on subsequent characters.

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• Dungeon Set containers for Bedlam Veil and Oathsworn Pit on the PTS template now properly note which dungeon they can be acquired from.

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Sorcerer

• Daedric Summoning
  • Conjured Ward: Fixed an issue with this ability and the Hardened Ward's morph where the conditional heal could fail if an ally pet was nearby you, rather than only looking at if you - the caster - had a pet active.

Guild

• Fighter’s Guild
  • Trap Beast
    • Barbed Trap: This morph now increases the damage done of the initial hit by 20% and the initial hit now always applies the Hemorrhaging status effect, rather than increasing the chances of applying the effect by 10 times.
      Developer Comment:
      Since we’ve significantly buffed Hemorrhaging in instances when you can keep up the effect, we’re toning down this morph’s ability to passively keep it active. Now the initial hit will help jump start your stacks, but you’ll need to find additional sources of Bleed Damage to keep up the pressure. 

Dungeon Sets

• Cinders of Anthelmir: Fixed an issue where this set was visible to all targets instead of just the wearer of the set and enemies.

Monster Sets

• Maarselok: Fixed an issue where this set could ignore its own cooldown in some cases, and stack multiple times from the same caster.

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General

• Fixed an issue where waterfall sound effects were playing in the Sanity's Edge starting area.

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Dungeons

• Bedlam Veil
  • The Blind will no longer reappear in the Hall of Barons should you exit and re-enter.
• Oathsworn Pit
  • It is no longer possible for Kindle Pitch Barrels to explode with fire abilities.
  • Adjusted player character dialogue when talking to Bazrag after Anthelmir is defeated to not seem so cold and unfeeling.

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General

• Flaming Oil now stacks in your inventory similar to other siege weapons.

Infinite Archive

• Style pages in the Infinite Archive are now curated.

Furnishings

• Fixed an issue with “Apocrypha Bridge, Small Curling” where your character could float on it when it’s curled.
• Fixed an issue with “Redguard Tent, Rectangular Blue” where your character could not stand on the roof.
• Fixed some minor visual issues with the following furnishings:
  • Apocrypha Alcove, Stone
  • Redguard Tent, Rectangular Blue
  • Statue, Redguard's Respect
• Fixed a minor visual issue with the furnishing “Cliff Strider Skeleton Stand”.

General

• Fixed a rare crash that could be caused by the audio system.

Mac Game Client

• Default controller button bindings when using an Xbox One controller on Mac now match other platforms.

Gold Road Prologue

• Leramil will now wait to stop talking before summoning portals.
• Fixed an issue where you would sometimes not receive Leramil's letter when accepting the quest.
• The portals opened by Leramil to objectives during the quest will now be visible to group members not on the quest.
• Fixed an issue wherein the portal summoned by Leramil the Wise to Stonefalls from the Outlaw's Refuges would incorrectly teleport you to Grahtwood.
• Fixed an issue where the glyphic you seek during the quest wasn’t appearing.
• Fixed the name of the map in the Sea of Ghosts area.
• Leramil and Gadayn will no longer reappear under the water when you emerge into the Shrine of Inevitable Secrets.
• Torvesard no longer reappears after leaving the Mythos Vault.
• Fixed an issue if followers disappear prematurely, they will now reappear again.
• Updated a number of quest pins to appear in correct locations on the map and on the compass during this quest.

Rivenspire

• The Blood-Cursed Town: Fixed an issue where taking the Scholar's Skull could block your groupmates from picking it up themselves.

The Rift

• The Lion's Den: Fixed issues with spawn rates and control on resource nodes and heavy sacks in this public dungeon.

General

• Fixed an issue that caused outlines to be missing around some fonts that made certain UI elements, such as the move counter when Scrying for Antiquities, difficult to read.
• Fixed issue where the "Assign" option would sometimes be visible in the Collections menu for collectibles that can't be assigned to a quickslot wheel.
• Tutorials can now be searched by title.
• Left-clicking on a previewable collectible will now preview that collectible in the collections book.

Gamepad Mode

• Fixed a UI error that could occur when searching in the housing editor.
• Fixed an issue where searching in the housing editor could sometimes not properly filter out the furniture categories.