PlayStation Patch Notes v2.70 (PS4)/ v1.51 (PS5) | Fallen Banners DLC & Update 45

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

Welcome to The Elder Scrolls Online v2.70 (PS4)/ v1.51 (PS5) Fallen Banners Dungeon Pack and Update 45 base game patch! This update brings two brand new dungeons, new homes, new furnishings, new gear to earn, and several quality-of-life improvements for the base game. Additionally, there are some incremental combat changes and general bug fixes.

Along with the new dungeons, we have some new base game features and quality-of-life features being added in Update 45. Player Response Options open a new way to add roleplay choice as you interact with quest characters, ultimately impacting their responses and quest outcomes. For quality-of-life systems, you’ll see an overhaul of the in-game map, Green Champion Point Star improvements, mount speed adjustments and starter zone art refresh, just to name a few.

There will be additional content going live later in the Update 45 update cycle, like this year’s prologue quest. The prologue quest, “A Guild In Crisis”, sees the resurgence of a once defeated foe in The Worm Cult wandering Tamriel once again. Look forward to this and the all-new Reaper Strikes, Worm Cult themed encounters popping up across Tamriel.

However until then, for a full detailed list of Fallen Banner and Update 45 content, please check our patch notes below. This size of this update will be 35.78 GB (PS4)/ 3.5 GB (PS5)

Overview
New Features / Updates / Big Changes
- Fallen Banners
  - Exiled Redoubt
  - Lep Seclusa
  - Additional Dungeon Information
- Base Game
  - Map Improvements
  - Converting Disguises to Collectibles
  - Antiquity Leads Messaging Improvements
  - Updates to Initial Mount Speed
  - Starter Zone Refresh
  - Craft (Green) Champion Point Stars Slotting Improvements
  - Increased Mundus Stone Visibility on Character and Inventory UI Screens
  - Player Response Options – A New Way to Engage in Conversations with Story NPCs
  - First Stages of Console Add-On Support
  - New 10-Year Anniversary Dyes to Obtain
  - New Housing
  - New Furnishing
- Known Issues
- Combat & Gameplay
  - Combat & Abilities
  - Scribing
- Itemization & Item Sets
  - Item Set Changes
- Companions
Fixes & Improvements
- Deadlands
- Firesong
- Gold Road
- Greymoor
- High Isle
- Morrowind
- Murkmire
- Necrom
- Orsinium
- Rivenspire
- Base Game

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

Fallen Banners Dungeon DLC
Gather your party for two challenging new PvE dungeon experiences: Lep Seclusa and Exiled Redoubt. Unlock new achievements and earn new rewards including item sets, collectibles, and more as you fight to preserve what little peace remains in the war-torn region of Cyrodiil.*

*Please note that the Fallen Banners Dungeon Pack is currently available for ESO+ Members. There will be additional ways to acquire the Dungeon Pack after Update 45 Console Launch, including in the Crown Store. Please see Matt Firor's post here for the original statement, and stay tuned for more information during the April ESO Direct.

Exiled Redoubt

The Albus family--once staunch proponents of peace and finding a diplomatic end to the Three Banners War--suddenly turned bloodthirsty. Whatever caused their change of heart sparked a movement that seeks to punish every soldier, the generals that command them, and the heads of the alliances themselves. The Albus family’s machinations started small, but their goal is total destruction.

Lep Seclusa

The Three Banners War impacted lives all across Tamriel and perhaps no one felt that impact more than the soldiers that fought and bled on the front lines. As the war dragged on, a growing number of veterans became disillusioned with the constant fighting and sought a means to end the conflict. One such individual is Orpheon the Tactician, the former battlefield emperor of Cyrodiil. Orpheon broke from his chains of allegiance and recruited despondent deserters into a fearsome army. Orpheon’s goal is to seize an Elder Scroll said to have the power to end the bloodshed. All that stands in his way are a handful of monks and moth priests sworn to protect the Scroll.

Additional Dungeon Information

Exiled Redoubt and Lep Seclusa are 4-player dungeons which can be reached via West Weald and Hew’s Bane respectively.
- Exiled Redoubt’s entrance is in eastern West Weald near Grey’s Hollow.
- Lep Seclusa’s entrance is on the dock in Abah’s Landing.
Both dungeons include a Normal version in addition to a Veteran version. Each dungeon features challenging Hard Modes for each of their three boss encounters.
There are unique item sets, including two new Undaunted Monster Mask sets, only available within the Dungeons.
Unique Achievement awards are available for completing the dungeons, including the following:
- Unique Skin
  - The “Tactician’s Gold Lattice” skin is available for those who complete both Exiled Redoubt and Lep Seclusa on at least Veteran difficulty and trigger the achievement “Fallen Banners Delver”.
- Two unique Mementos
  - The Haunted Mirror of Introspection and Dust of the Conqueror’s Flame mementos are available to players who complete Exiled Redoubt and Lep Seclusa, respectively, on at least Veteran difficulty.
- Unique Dye
  - Exiled Goldenrod is available for those who complete the “Fallen Banners Scout” achievement.

7 new achievement furnishings are being added and can be unlocked or purchased after completing the prerequisite achievements:

3 new achievement furnishings that can be purchased from the Undaunted Quartermasters, after completing the “Exiled Redoubt Vanquisher”, “Lep Seclusa Vanquisher”, and “Slayer of Death Itself” achievements.
4 new trophy and bust furnishings can be earned from completing the Exiled Redoubt and Lep Secluse dungeons on normal and veteran difficulties.

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

Base Game

Map Improvements
The team has been looking for ways to improve ESO’s in-game map, with the intention of making it easier to understand and parse for both new players and veteran players alike. While there are still more changes we wish to implement in future packages, the first batch of quality-of-life improvements includes the following changes:

The Tamriel view of the map will now only show one Wayshrine per zone.
The Tamriel view of the map will now only show favorited and primary homes. You may still favorite as many homes as you’d like.
Dungeons and Trials will no longer be shown by default on the Tamriel view of the map, but can still be toggled on.
The Tamriel, Blackreach, and Aurbis views of the map now have a more catered filter list.
The ‘Wayshrines’ filter has been split into the following filters:
- Wayshrines
- Dungeons
- Trials
- Houses
If you have a focused quest, the quest’s ultimate location will now show on the Tamriel and Aurbis maps. If the ultimate location is on the ring of the Aurbis, the location will be shown on the appropriate symbolic location, like Clockwork City.
Quest indicators, group member indicators, and player indicators will now show on symbolic locations if said indicators are pointing to those locations.
The names of zones in the Tamriel view of the map will now appear as you zoom in.
When hovering over a Wayshrine, the name of the zone will now appear in the tooltip.

Converting Disguises to Collectibles
When completing certain quests that use a disguise, as part of the quest reward, you will now get a collectible that grants that appearance. If these quests have been completed already, then these collectibles will be automatically granted upon first login with the associated character. Below is a list outlining all current disguises that have been converted at this time.*

*Note: Not all disguises have been converted at this time.

Antiquity Leads Messaging Improvements
Now when you find a lead that is part of an antiquity, the final antiquity name is listed.

Updates to Initial Mount Speed
The team wanted your initial experience unlocking a mount to be more impactful, so we've made significant improvements to the speed of mounts prior to unlocking Major Gallop. The end result of these changes is that mounts will start out noticeably faster than they did previously, i.e. you are now much less likely to be overtaken on foot when mounted, while still ending up at the same speed (or very slightly faster at the top end). The details of these changes are:

Increased the base mounted speed bonus to 42%, up from 15%.
Major Gallop is now Gallop, and counts as a Minor buff instead of a Major buff. The multiplicative bonus of Gallop is now 15% instead of 30%.
- Note: Due to the way that this bonus multiplies with base speed, this ends up being no change for fully trained mounts, or a very slight buff if you’re also using the Gifted Rider champion star. See below for more detail!

Here are the percent changes different folks can expect to see, as a percentage change from their prior speed:

Sprinting on a brand new mount: +19%
Sprinting on a trained mount: +13%
Sprinting on a brand new mount with Gallop: +5%
Sprinting on a trained mount with Gallop: No Change
Sprinting on a trained mount with Gallop and Gifted Rider: +1%

Starter Zone Refresh
The starter zones of Betnikh, Stros M’kai, Bleakrock, Bal Foyen, and Khenarthi’s Roost have all undergone a makeover, bringing them more in line visually with the detail of ESO’s recent additions such as West Weald or the Telvanni Peninsula.

These starter zones have received improvements to their terrain transitions, materials and lighting, and atmosphere. Signs and banners have been positioned to better highlight services (such as crafting or banking locations), and lighting has been adjusted to better define important paths and other areas of detail. With the addition of more organic clutter and props, various portions of the zones should feel a little less sparse and a little more lived in.

Craft (Green) Champion Point Stars Slotting Improvements
The following nine Craft (Green) champion stars no longer need to be slotted for you to benefit from their effects:

Meticulous Disassembly
Plentiful Harvest
Treasure Hunter
Rationer
Liquid Efficiency
Homemaker

Professional Upkeep
Infamous
Cutpurse's Art

These adjustments make it easier and more forgiving to engage with the Craft tree, and reduces the need to swap stars before specific activities. No more forgetting to slot Meticulous Disassembly before a big batch of resource refining!

Increased Mundus Stone Visibility on Character and Inventory UI Screens
We want to better convey the value of having a Mundus Stone Boon and where to find Mundus Stones.
To that end, we have:

Added a reminder about Mundus Stones to the Level 10 Level Up Rewards.
Updated the Mundus Stone Help Entry to be clearer and more direct about where you find them.
Added discrete sections for Mundus Stone Boons on both the Character and Inventory UI Screens.
- If you reach level 20 without an active Mundus Stone Boon, the text here turns red to suggest that you should acquire one.

Player Response Options – A New Way to Engage in Conversations with Story NPCs
There are now opportunities in some quests that provide a choice as to how you want to roleplay your character known as Player Response Options. While these options usually provide roleplaying choices on how to respond to characters and alter their responses, they can sometimes alter the course of a quest in unexpected ways.
Player Response Options display a special icon when a dialogue choice is available. Here are the types of dialogue choices you may encounter, in addition to the usual neutral voice response:

Kind: A supportive, compassionate, or amusing response to an NPC.
Grim: A darker, stern, sarcastic, or harsh response to an NPC.
Merciful: A charitable response to an NPC in dire circumstances.
Ruthless: A vengeful response to an NPC in dire circumstances.
Joker: A quip, ironic response, or comedic reply to an NPC.
Flirty: An amorous response toward an NPC.

First Stages of Console Add-On Support
In preparation of console add-on support coming later this year, Update 45 will set the groundwork to ensure add-on developers have the tools needed to support their add-ons for console players. There will now be a gamepad version of the add-on manager.

A new UserSetting.txt entry will allow add-on developers to place the game into console mode. This will prevent loading any keyboard/PC specific files and fonts, load console only files, and expose new console specific APIs. The main purpose of this is to allow add-on developers a way to develop and test console add-ons without needing a console.

With this, developers can get a jump on creating and testing console add-ons so that when the feature proper goes live, they'll be able to upload them right away. Please note that console add-on support will only be for current generation consoles, as they can support the memory limitation needed.

New 10-Year Anniversary Dyes to Obtain
Update 45 also introduces 3 new dye options to obtain through achievement completion. The three new dye options include the following:

10-Year Anniversary Gold Leaf- Obtain the Commemorative Safebox Looter Achievement.
10-Year Anniversary Ebon Leather- Obtain the Commemorative Activity Achiever Achievement.
10-Year Anniversary Ivory- Obtain the Commemorative Mundus Missionary Achievement.

New Homes
Two new homes will be available later in the Update 45 live cycle:

Shattered Mirror Isle
- Scintillating islands and skeletons of long-forgotten beasts float amid Mirrormoor's luminous skies. Enterprising architects, step through a shattered mirror portal in Fargrave and finesse this osseous mass into a dazzling dimensional home.
- This Notable home will be available for purchase later.

Castle Skingrad
- Count Calantius cordially invites a caretaker to maintain and decorate Castle Skingrad as he rides out to support his loyal citizens. This majestic castle stands just outside Skingrad, granting easy access to the city's amenities and nearby vineyards.
- This Notable home will be available for purchase later.

New Furnishings
In this update we’re adding a new furnishing type that allows you to control the weather states in your homes! The new weather control furnishing, Kynareth's Icon of Storm Control, is a collectible furnishing that will be available to earn later this year.

Also in this update, we are focusing on new structural furnishing recipes, achievement rewards, and new Master Writs.
37 new furnishing plans are being sourced in 5 places:

9 new furnishing plans, which can be acquired via the Skingrad Reward Coffer, obtainable by completing the West Weald World Boss, Incursion, or Delve Daily Quests.
6 new Mirrormoor themed recipes exclusive to completing Mirrormoor Mosaics.
14 new Ayleid themed recipes can be found in West Weald, Gold Coast, and Blackwood from bonus loot when excavating antiquities of intermediate or higher difficulty.
Colovian Bed, Canopy Full can be obtained from monsters, containers, and more across West Weald.
7 new Master Writ Furnishings, which can be purchased from Rolis Hlaalu.

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

Undaunted Masks in Lep Seclusa and Exiled Redoubt are currently not curated.
- This will be fixed in an upcoming incremental patch.
A treasure map dig site in Stros M'Kai is partially blocked by rubble.
- This is a known issue and we have a bug in place for this. Estimated fix will be in Update 46.
UI Error noting to "buy DLC in crown store", referencing the Fallen Banners Dungeon Pack.
- Please refer to the reminder at the top of the known issues page regarding the Fallen Banners Dungeon pack currently only available to ESO+ Members.
No music is currently playing in Battlegrounds. This is not working as intended.
- This will be fixed in an upcoming incremental.
Currently, the achievement “Commemorative Safebox Looter” is not working as intended in several ways:
- You are able to get the achievement completed before all components are done – only 34 are needed.
- Safeboxes in Wrothgar and Northern Elsweyr will not trigger, making the component incompletable.
- There are no safeboxes in Artaeum, by design, making completing this component impossible.
  - Due to the complexity involved in addressing the issues, this achievement will be fixed in a future update. In the meantime you will still be able to get the associated dye, the “10-Year Anniversary Gold Leaf” if you are able to trigger the achievement, and progress will be carried over in the future when the achievement will be fixed.
The ability to change the waypoint color from the login screen is not working as intended on both Keyboard/Mouse and Gamepad. Attempting to change the color current causes ESO to freeze and/or crash.
- Current workaround, you can change the color either in the Character Selection screen or after loading into a zone. A fix for the core issue is being investigated.
- A fix has been identified and will be worked on for an upcoming incremental.
Tales of Tribute currently has a chance of a UI error occurring when selecting Patrons.
- We have been able to reproduce the issue and have a bug in for this. This will be resolved in a future incremental patch. Currently a work-around is to restart the game client and load back in-game with a few characters. Our testing has shown Patrons reappear after that process.
Twice Struck achievement for Lep Secusa is not registering properly and the Lep Seclusa Champion Meta Achievement cannot be properly completed as a result.
- A fix has been identified and will be worked on for an upcoming incremental.

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

General

Crouch:
- When successfully transitioning from Detected to Hidden after Crouching, the effect that considers you in the "Sneak" state is now visible on your effect bar. This effect can be hovered over in the Character Sheet to read what Sneak does, rather than needing to open up the Help tab and searching for what it does. This is one of the few times that improved visibility isn't a detriment to your sneaking about.
- Fixed an issue where some channeled abilities could be used while Crouching without cancelling Crouch.
The following abilities will now actively remove Stealth and Invisibility upon activating them, rather than when they complete:
- Stonefist and Stone Giant's initial cast time
- Crystal Shard and Crystal Fragment's cast time
- Death Stroke and morphs
- Soul Shred and Soul Tether
- Radial Sweep and morphs
- Solar Flare and Dark Flare
- Abyssal Impact and morphs
- Berserker Strike and morphs
- All variants of Smash
- Lacerate and morphs
- Dawnbreaker and morphs
- All variants of Trample
- Inferno and Ice Staff Heavy Attacks
Fixed an issue where the following abilities did not influence tooltips related to their effects:
- Fiery Banner
- Rapid Rot
The following effects have been hard coded to be easier and quicker to calculate, resulting in some minor adjustments to order of operations in combat calculations;
- The 10% damage reduction all player characters have
- The 70% increased damage done with Heavy Attacks against Off Balance targets
- [Developer Comment]
  This change is mainly being done for performance reasons, to make it ever so slightly harder to reach the effect limit while simultaneously reducing the weight of combat calculations slightly. In doing so, these percent bonuses will interact slightly differently with the other effects, as they will now be bundled with other "hard coded" bonuses that the server handles. Most notably, the 10% reduced damage taken effect will become slightly stronger than before. Since we recently fixed other damage taken effects from being additive (resulting in a loss of damage reduction), we're less concerned with this "increase" in effectiveness.

Minor Prophecy and Savagery’s listed values are now consistent between their tooltip and effect. They now always state the proper granted amount of Critical Rating, equal to 6% based on your level.
Abilities with a cooldown can no longer be queued if their slot was attempted to be activated while on cooldown. This resolves the unintended action to cast an ability the instant their cooldowns ends.

Class Abilities

Arcanist
- Curative Runeforms
  - Remedy Cascade: This ability and its morphs now properly prioritize the lowest health allies in the area.
Dragonknight
- Ardent Flame
  - Warmth: Fixed an issue where this passive’s visual effects could become stuck on targets.
Necromancer
- Gravelord
  - Unnerving Boneyard: Minor Vulnerability and Major Breach from this morph can now be cleansed.
Nightblade
- Grim Focus
  - Merciless Resolve (morph): Fixed an issue where this morph's stacks would not clear after leaving combat while Battle Spirit was active.
Sorcerer
- Dark Magic
  - Crystal Weapon: Fixed a rare issue where activating this ability could sometimes prevent you from interacting with objects (via the Interact prompt) after leaving combat while it was active.
  - Encase: Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs would often miss larger targets such as Saint Olms or Taleria.
- Daedric Summoning
  - Summon Storm Atronach: Fixed an issue where the damage caused by the impact of this Ultimate and its morphs was not considered pet damage.

Weapon Abilities
- Dual Wield
  - Dual Wield Expert: Fixed an edge case issue where sometimes this passive could result in higher Weapon and Spell Damage than intended.
Scribing
- Grimoires
  - Banner Bearer:
    - Fixed an issue where the following script effects could be removed from the caster of the ability when an ally under the influence of the ability left the area.
      - Immobilize Focus
      - Cavalier’s Charge Signature
      - Class Mastery Signature
      - Wayfarer’s Mastery Signature
      - Brutality and Sorcery Affix
      - Savagery and Prophecy Affix
    - Updated the tooltip for this Grimoire when paired with the Class Mastery Signature script to be more clear about its frequency and application.
  - Fixed a bug where the wrong sound effect was playing for grouped players entering the ability AoE.

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

Item Sets
Dungeon Sets

Exiled Redoubt
Light – Vandorallen’s Resonance

2 – Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
3 – Adds 657 Critical Chance
4 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
5 – Dealing damage with a fully-charged Heavy Attack places an electric charge on yourself and below your enemy. After 1 second, both charges explode in a 4 meter blast, each dealing Shock Damage to enemies hit. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.

Medium – Jerensi’s Bladestorm

2 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
3 – Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
4 – Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
5 – While in combat, casting an ability that leaves an effect on the ground creates a 6 meter Spike Vortex that deals Physical Damage over 5 seconds to enemies inside it. After 5 seconds, enemies within the Vortex are dealt additional Physical Damage over 5 seconds. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.

Heavy – Lucilla’s Windshield

2 – Adds 4% Healing Taken
3 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
5 – Blocking 3 attacks within 10 seconds creates an 8 meter Windshield at your feet for 10 seconds. Enemies within the area gain Minor Brittle, increasing their Critical Damage taken by 10%. While you are within the area, you gain Major Protection, reducing your damage taken by 10%. This effect can occur once every 7 seconds. You can only have 1 Windshield active at a time.

Monster Mask – Squall of Retribution

1 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
2 – When you take damage, gain one random effect for 6 seconds:
Gain Minor Protection, reducing your damage taken by 5%
Gain a damage shield that absorbs up to 5835 damage.
Gain a heal over time that heals every 2 seconds.
The heal over time scales off of your Max Health. This effect can occur once every 4.5 seconds.

Lep Seclusa
Light – Fledgling's Nest

2 – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
3 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
5 – While in combat, casting an ability that leaves an effect on the ground creates an 8 meter Gryphon Nest for 10 seconds. You and group members inside the Nest gain Magicka and Stamina Recovery. The first time you or a group member leaves the Nest, they gain Minor Courage for 10 seconds, increasing their Weapon and Spell Damage by 215. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.

Medium – Noxious Boulder

2 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
3 – Adds 657 Critical Chance
4 – Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
5 – Dealing damage with a fully-charged Heavy Attack creates a 3 meter poison boulder. After 1.2 seconds, the boulder rolls forward until it hits an enemy, dealing Poison Damage in a 6 meter area and creating a 6 meter pool of poison for 5 seconds, dealing Poison Damage and applying the Poisoned status effect each second. This effect can occur once every 20 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.

Heavy – Heroic Unity

2 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
3 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
4 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
5 – Activating a Synergy gives you and up to 3 group members within 12 meters Major Heroism for 6 seconds, granting 3 Ultimate every 1.5 seconds. This effect can occur once every 1 second.

Monster Mask – Orpheon the Tactician

1 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
2 – While in combat, casting an ability that leaves an effect on the ground summons a tentacle at the target’s location. After 2 seconds, the tentacle swings wildly in a 5 meter radius, dealing Physical Damage and stunning up to 6 enemies for 3 seconds. Enemies immune to stun take significantly more Physical Damage instead. This effect can occur every 8 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.

Rewards for the Worthy
Light - Arkay’s Charity

2 – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
3 – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
5 – When you cleanse a negative effect from yourself or an ally, restore 13 Ultimate to the target. This effect can occur once every 9 seconds per target.

Medium – Lamp Knight’s Art

2 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
3 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
4 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
5 – Gain 100000 Offensive Penetration. Reduce your damage done by 46%.

Heavy - Blackfeather Flight

2 – Adds 4% Healing Taken
3 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
4 – Adds 1487 Armor
5 – When you Break Free, gain 100% Movement Speed for 7 seconds. This effect can occur once every 28 seconds.

Item Set Changes

Item Sets
- General
  - The following sets have seen adjustments to their stat line bonuses to grant stats more applicable to their 5 piece effects and gameplay;
    - Unleashed Ritualist:
      - 2 piece bonus: 1096 Max Magicka -> 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
      - 3 piece bonus: 1096 Max Magicka -> 657 Critical Chance
      - 4 piece bonus: 1096 Max Magicka -> 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
    - Arms of Relequen:
      - 2 piece: 657 Critical Chance -> 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
      - 4 piece: 657 Critical Chance -> 1487 Offensive Penetration
      - Perfected bonus: 1096 Max Stamina -> 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
    - Destructive Mage:
      - 2 piece: 1096 Max Magicka -> 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
    - Way of Fire:
      - 3 piece: 1096 Max Stamina -> 1206 Max Health
    - Poisonous Serpent:
      - 2 piece: 1096 Max Stamina -> 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
      - 4 piece: 1096 Max Stamina -> 657 Critical Chance
    [Developer Comment]
    We’re taking a light sweep through a handful of sets this update to improve their stat lines to better reflect their centerpiece effect’s gameplay requirements and scaling. We plan on doing small passes like this over time as well, so this does not include every set we’d like to adjust.

Arena Sets
- Hunt Leader: Fixed an issue where this set did not trigger off the following sources of pet damage:
  - Unstable Familiar and Volatile Familiar's damage pulse activate.
  - Summon Storm Atronach and morphs impact damage.
Crafted Sets
- Telvanni Efficiency: Fixed an issue where the cost reduction bonus from this set was additive, rather than multiplicative.
Dungeon Sets
- Abyssal Brace: Fixed an issue where the visuals of this set would disappear if a group member left the area while it was active.
- Azureblight Reaper: Fixed an issue where the damage from this set was treated as single target, rather than area of effect.
- Unleashed Ritualist:
  - This set now increases your damage done with your summoned pets at all times, rather than causing your damage to mark enemies to take increased damage taken by your pets for 10 seconds.
  - Fixed an issue where this set did not work with the following sources of pet damage:
    - Unstable Familiar and Volatile Familiar's damage pulse activate.
  - Flame Blossom: This set no longer deals unintended extra instances of damage when paired with certain other sets.

Monster Masks
- Baron Thirsk: Fixed an issue where the visuals for this set would sometimes fail to play.
Overland Sets
- Way of Fire: This set now only activates off Light and Heavy Attacks, rather than any weapon attack.
  [Developer Comment]
  We’re tuning down how much damage this set can passively deal by preventing it from activating off residual abilities, in hopes to make it less oppressive in PvP environments.

PvP Sets
- Shared Pain: Adjusted the sound effects for this set to reduce the amount of noise generated when frequently activated.
- Tracker’s Lash: Adjusted the volume of the persistent audio so it is quieter.
Trial Sets
- Slivers of the Null Arca: This set no longer occasionally proc multiple times before its cooldown is applied when used in tandem with certain abilities.
- Poisonous Serpent:
  - Reduced the damage on hit of this set by ~92%, but it now always applies the Poisoned status effect, rather than having a 10% base chance.
  - This set no longer activates the 1 second global cooldown for other instant damage proc sets, as it primarily deals damage over time now.
  - Fixed an issue where this set would ignore its requirements to activate with any Heavy Attack.
  - Fixed an issue where this set could trigger off any Poison Damage effect, rather than only Poison Damage abilities as the tooltip stated.
  [Developer Comment]
  This set felt like a weaker version of Way of Fire, dealing the same damage with more requirements. As such, we're doing a very mild rework to have this set focus on uptime for the Poisoned status effect, in hopes that it has more unique interplay with passives and other sets. Overall these adjustments will increase this set's damage potential for builds that had a lower uptime on Poisoned.

Class Sets
- Gardener of Seasons: Fixed an issue where this set’s application of Minor Heroism would cause sound effects to play each application, rather than only when it was applied on targets who did not already have Minor Heroism.
- Soulcleaver: This set now increases the potency of your Siphoning abilities by 21%, up from 18%.
- Wrathsun: This set’s stacks now last for 15 seconds, up from 10.
Skill Styling
- The Snipe Vibrant Yellow Skill style will now appear correctly on the Lethal Arrow morph.

General

Fixed an issue where various Companion voice lines in response to Tribute matches were missing.
You can now properly equip and unequip items from your companions after interacting with a crafting station.

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

Eidetic Memory

The Reformatory Register now has a copy on the ground near Tufeh after turning in the quest.

General

Fixed an issue in the Bazaar of the Fargrave City District, where two instances of Grizzlefang were spawning. Now one instance of Grizzlefang will spawn.

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

Dark Brotherhood contractors have eliminated a doppelganger of Luce Gemain in the Jaded Ornaug Tavern.

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

Sanity’s Edge

Ansuul the Tormentor
- Player characters are now restricted from using abilities such as Procognition during, and for a short time following, the attunement process.

Eidetic Memory

The Ritual Scroll in Nonungalo is now properly readable after the quest is complete.

Paths of Chaos

Players who teleported out of Elenglynn could now re-enter the Maze Gate upon returning.

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

General

Adjusted a dig site in The Reach that was slightly underground.

The Coven Conspiracy (Prologue)

Scout Gunthe no longer harasses you to take The Coven Conspiracy, which is still properly given by Lyris in Riften. This is to not distract new players in the zone with a prologue quest.

Gray Council Questline

Fix for map and quest pin locations while within Castle Grayhome.

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

General

Corrected Flesh Atronachs in the Spire of the Crimson Coin to use the proper up-to-date model, rather than the old one.

Cold Trail

Fixed a handful of issues where the quest could become blocked if you dismissed Ember in the middle of activity involving her.

Green With Envy

Silverslip's dialogue now clears her quest compass pin.
Added a hint to summon Ember on certain steps where the hint is missing and she is required for the step.

The Princess Detective

Fixed a handful of issues where the quest could become blocked if you dismissed Isobel in the middle of an activity involving her.

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

General

For new players, the “Invitation to Morrowind” system mail will no longer include the Divine Conundrum quest starter. It is still available in the Crown Store.

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

General

Empty Nest: Dead aberration no longer continuously turns to face your follower, Iskenaaz.

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

General

Dim and Distant Pasts: Fixed a handful of issues where the quest could become blocked if you dismissed Sharp-as-Night in the middle of an activity involving him.
Light the Way to Freedom: You now cannot defeat Sondivel without Sharp-as-Night present, resolving some strange continuity outcomes.
Paths Unwalked: Fixed a handful of issues where the quest could become blocked if you dismissed Azandar in the middle of an activity involving him.
Tempting Fates: Fixed a handful of issues where the quest could become blocked if you dismissed Azandar in the middle of an activity involving him.

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

General

A few chub loons in the ice floes of northern Wrothgar have moved to the shoreline to prevent cases where you could get stuck under the ice floes if you charge them with Critical Charge.

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

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General

Adjusted some lighting in the Worm Cult’s Nest

ZOS_Kevin · March 25

Battlegrounds

The correct audio cue will now play at the end of Battleground matches that consist of a single round.
Runebound Tomes from the Battleground Merchant to now properly Bind on Pickup. This will affect any Runebound Tomes that have been placed in Guild Banks or Guild Traders. The item(s) will Bind to the first player to remove these from those locations.
Additional flag locations have been added to Mota-Ka in the Crazy King Battleground.
Integrated missing Battleground VO for English Orc Female and Redguard Female.
General art asset fixes to multiple Battleground maps have been addressed.
In Port Dufort, we fixed a spot behind a particular crate where you could previously get stuck.
If you are very low ranked, you will no longer sometimes be matched with players ranked far above you.
Updated Battlemaster's Duel and Battlemaster's Rivalry text with flavor text and removed TBD note.
Updated the descriptions for all Two-Sided Battleground Weekends to clarify that only the 8v8 queues are affected by the queue restrictions. The AP bonus is still for everybody.

General

The issue where you could get stuck in a fixed spot is fixed.
Props are now visible when “Beachside Imbibe” emote is used.
Props now correctly appear for the 'Beachside Drink' emote.

Item sets

The visibility of the effects for Vandorallen’s Resonance has been adjusted.

Skill Styles

We’ve made adjustments to the color saturation on Grand Healing, Sea Elf Style. The change should make the skill easier to sea see.

General

Sound effects now correctly play for the morphs of the following skill styles:
- Force Shock, Onyx Black
- Puncture, Lavaburst
- Summon Winged Twilight, Warrior
- Volley, Winterfall
- Meteor, Winter’s Blast
- Critical Charge, Winter’s Gale

General

Fixed some redundant naming schemes with fishing nodes while under the effects of Hissmir Fish-Eye Rye, to resolve redundancy with naming schemes.

Hireling Mail

Rank 3 Hireling mails will now properly grant Potency runes once again.

Anniversary Jubilee

Anniversary Jubilee cakes are now more consistently flagged to indicate they are acquired through "Purchase, Promo, or Event."

Bleakrock

In the quest, “What Waits Beneath”, Haldriin now sounds properly spectral.
Updated overland ambiance in this zone.

Stros M’Kai

When it rains and you are inside of a ship, you no longer loudly hear the weather outside.

General

Unearthed some buried treasure chests in Betnikh, Stros M'Kai, Khenarthi's Roost, and Bleakrock Isle.

General

Unlocked homes now appear correctly on the Tamriel map for newly created characters.

Homes

In the “Lakemire Xanmeer” house, you can no longer charge through the underwater windows.
Fixed a few minor placement issues in the furnished template preview for the “Gorinir Estate” house. This change will not affect any owned versions of this home.
Made a few minor adjustments to the ceilings in the “Gardner House” to make the collision match more accurately.

Furnishings

Adjusted the furnishing “Rubble Pile, Ancient Stone” so that its base had collision.
Adjusted the sitting locations for the furnishing "Elsweyr Chaise Lounge, Upholstered" so your legs no longer clip into the chaise when seated.
Fixed an issue with the following window furnishings where their lights would suddenly turn off when the weather in a home was stormy:
- Stained Glass of Lunar Phases
- Vampiric Stained Glass
- Stained Glass of Zenithar
- Stained Glass of Akatosh
- Stained Glass of Arkay
- Stained Glass of Dibella
- Stained Glass of Julianos
- Stained Glass of Kynareth
- Stained Glass of Mara
- Stained Glass of Stendarr
- Deadlands Window, Fireglass
- Deadlands Window, Stormglass
- Fargrave Window, Medallion
- Fargrave Window, Grand Medallion
- Mages Guild Stained Glass
- Red Diamond Stained Glass
- Elsweyr Window, Ritual
- Redguard Window, Iron Lattice
- Tribunal Window, Stained Glass
- Necrom Window, Leaded Interior
- Necrom Window, Framed Exterior
- Necrom Window, Unframed Exterior
- Ayleid Window, Large
- Colovian Window, Rectangular
- Colovian Window, Peaked
Renamed the "Furniture" Collectible category to "Furnishing" to match the "Furnishing" Item category.
The light for the furnishing "Ayleid Crystal, Cracked" no longer turns off after half a minute and can be turned back on.
Fixed an issue where if you searched for the term "bust" in the collections menu, the furnishing "Trophy: Lord Hollowjack" would appear as a valid result even though it's not a bust.
The hint for the "Haven of the Five Companions" house no longer incorrectly says it is available for purchase.
Made a minor adjustment to the crafting view when using the “Scribing Altar” furnishing.
The "Necromancer's Spire, Narrow" and "Necromancer's Spire, Alcove" furnishings icons now display the correct icons and are no longer swapped with one another.
Adjusted the category in the crafting menu for the furnishing "Colovian Armchair, Noble Backless" to be under Dining.
Adjusted the precision edit node for the following furnishings to match their normal pivot points:
- Apocrypha Alcove, Book Stacks
- Apocrypha Stairway, Stone
- Apocrypha Obelisk
- Apocrypha Pillar, Book Stacks
- Apocrypha Archway, Book Stacks
- Apocrypha Platform, Lattice Tile
- Apocrypha Bridge, Small Curling
- Apocrypha Bridge, Large Curling
The Twin Arches furnishing no longer creates a large black wall during furniture preview.
Ceiling clipping issue in Castle Skingrad no longer occurs.

General

You no longer need to relog into ESO after purchasing a Game SKU that delivered you a new Character Slot.
Fixed an issue where if you logged in while hidden within a hidey hole, you may fail to enter stealth correctly.
Refined the text in the “Slayer of Death Itself” achievement to be more specific.
You will now see fewer issues when Energy Sustainability features are in effect.
- VSync behavior is improved when the game is running at 30FPS
- VRR no longer causes graphical issues on some devices

Endeavors & Golden Pursuits

Endeavors and Golden Pursuits activities asking you to slay foes in Telvanni Peninsula, Apocrypha, and Vvardenfell will now progress correctly.
Endeavors and Golden Pursuits activities asking the player to complete quests in a specific zone will now count Daily quests.
Endeavors and Golden Pursuits activities asking the player to complete quests in a specific zone will now count the completion of multi-zone quests.
Loading Tips will now appear for Golden Pursuits when a Golden Pursuits campaign is active.
Endeavor and Golden Pursuit activities asking you to devour corpses as a Werewolf will now count correctly.

Mounts

Using a riding speed training book while mounted will now correctly increase your mounted speed without reload.
Polymorph heads will no longer disappear when riding Hollowjack mounts.

Personalities

Fixed various visual issues with certain personalities.

Preview

Preview is now disabled when riding as a passenger on a multi-rider mount.
Preview keybinds will now be grayed out while preview is unavailable.
Fixed a visual issue that could occur when you previewed a skin and then performed a weapon swap.

General

Performed significant cleanup of map and compass pin direction in Bal Foyen, Betnikh, Bleakrock Isle, Khenarthi’s Roost, and Stros M’Kai. This should fix many issues that include the following:
- Doors that lack door pins.
- NPCs and Objects missing overhead pins.
- Bizarre directionality for quest goals.
Fixed more people, cats, rats, books, guars, resource nodes, etc. that are floating, buried, or clipping.
Fixed another batch of typos in books, journal text, and dialogue.

Bal Foyen

Breaking the Tide: Fixed an issue where you could spy Trynhild spawning if you approach a certain way.
Salt of the Earth:
- Fixed some issues where you might see the various Argonians spawn in if you approached from certain angles.
- Running into the rescued Argonians back in town before rescuing all of them will no longer give you their "save me!" dialogue options.
- Fixed an issue where abandoning the quest immediately after accepting it would not properly respawn the bestowers.
Zeren in Peril: You can no longer advance the step “Defend Fort Zeren” by hopping up and down on a particular table.

Bleakrock Isle

Orkey’s Hollow now has a graveyard for resurrecting inside the cave, should you be mauled to death by bears.
The Frozen Man: Compass and map pins have been greatly improved for this quest.
The Frozen Man: The Abandoned Sword's interaction camera is no longer staring into a pile of rocks.
Sparking the Flame: Eiman and Rolunda's house in Bleakrock is no longer accessible while the door is on fire.

Coldharbour

Into the Woods: Items interacted with during this quest did now have proper interact cameras.
A Light in the Darkness: If you turned in Army of Meridia before turning in A Light From the Darkness, King Dynar should now be present outside the Fighters Guild.

Glenumbra

Rally Cry: Shaza gra-Dasik no longer becomes non-interactive during the waves of werewolves.

Grahtwood

Root Sunder Ruins: Adjusted the position and physics interactions that could sometimes cause Rustjaw to spawn inside the ceiling.

Khenarthi’s Roost

Cast Adrift: Added back a previously deactivated version of Sergeant Firion on the beach near Quartermaster Oblan.
The Family Business: The Alchemical Tools are now interactable and no longer run into non-interactable issues.
Thanks to Dark Brotherhood contractors, Sentry Anenelle’s doppelgangers have been quietly eliminated.

Main Quest

Added improved “stuck protection” to many followers throughout all chapters of the Main Quest, in the rare instance they become stuck and despawn.
Fixed a handful of issues with missing overhead pins on NPCs you are supposed to talk to.
Castle of the Worm:
- The barrier around the tower summit now properly disappears after defeating the Mannimarco projection.
- The instance will now properly remember how many Atronach Parts you found between logouts/reloads.
Daughter of Giants:
- Lyris properly plays her “suiting up” animation again.
- When Lyris entering the “Imperial Camp” and “Manifestation of Terror” sections of the instance, she is no longer prevented from firing off contextual lines.
The Harborage: Combat pets and Companions now properly get the same ghostly appearance as yourself when in the Prophet’s trippy headspace.
The Harborage: Running away from the Prophet after he appears to grant you the The Harborage quest will no longer point you to weird and/or non-existent quest locations as a backup.
Valley of Blades: If you log out really fast after the Prophet starts to open the portal to the Valley, the portal will now be present upon returning. This resolves previous issues of the portal not working as intended.

Reaper’s March

The Arbordawn Cult: Logging out and back in within Halls of Ichor no longer loads you into the quest in a broken state.

Stonefalls

Corrected an old legacy map connector in Davon's Watch that could lead quest pins leading into it from outside the city to become confused.
Fixed a tiny section near the western gate, while inside the city proper, caused the map and quest pins to go haywire as you ran through it.

Stormhaven

During The Eternal One event in Bonesnap Ruins, invisible entities no longer turn hostile. This reduces the draw threat from companions/pets.

Stros M’Kai

Izad’s Treasure: You can no longer interact with the Unearthed Chest after emptying it of its contents.

Achievements

Players who have the Imperial Fragment Collector achievement showing up as completed but with partial progress will have it updated to the correct 100% progress.

Add-ons

Fixed issue where add-on files underneath PC or Keyboard folders would still load on a console and enforce console flow mode.

Audio

Added in audio that was missing for when players acquire or spend Imperial Fragments and Writ Vouchers.

Gamepad

Mundus Stone bonuses are now properly displaying in Advanced Stats within the Character screen.
Mundus boon names display correctly.

General Bug Fixes

Companion equipment silhouette no longer randomly appears as your player character’s race instead of the companion's race.
Fixed various quest breadcrumbing issues.
You should now be re-prompted to download language packs whenever they are not detected in the game files (PS4/PS5 only).
Added a Quit option to the main menu in Gamepad UI mode on PC.
The "mount training ready" icon on the keyboard stats page now correctly displays its tooltip.
Fixed a UI error that could sometimes occur when going into the Video settings on Gamepad Mode for PC.
The Patron search for console now works as intended.
Crown Store bundles with collectibles and quest starters now properly grey out when purchased.
Backing out of the outfit dialog will now return the player to the subcategory from which they opened the dialog.
Search results are now properly displayed when switching guilds in the guild bank.
Fixed an issue where patron tooltips were being displayed on Gamepad UI even when a search returned no patrons.
The "continue" keybind on the Tribute summary screen stays on screen as intended, regardless of your selected aspect ratios.
Switching from Keyboard to Gamepad UI while at an Alchemy station no longer causes a stray popup to appear on screen.
The camera previews for third person camera settings now correctly show the adjustments being made.
Updated the lock states of the skill style icons in the Skills menu to be more readable at a glance.
Renamed the Antiquities section in the journal to "Antiquities Codex”.

Some icons in the navigation window on Gamepad UI now correctly dim when not selected.
Acquiring the same skyshard on a second character clears the skyshard tracking if it was tracked in the Zone Guide.
The "Invert Y-Axis" option in Settings has been more clearly labeled to differentiate between Gamepad and Keyboard Settings.
The Gamepad UI gender slider is properly labeled (male, female).
Some icons in collections had the border edge replaced.
Previewing furnishings on Gamepad UI now works correctly.
Console loading screen tips no longer show the incorrect PC version of the tip.
Fixed UI error caused by viewing products in the gamepad crown store with an associated completed account wide achievement.
Gamepad Inventory no longer changes categories when destroying the last item in a category.
Certain currencies correctly play sounds when you deposited them or withdrew them from the bank.
Keybinds in the add-on manager screen no longer overlap text in certain languages.
The Map will no longer focus on hidden pins in Gamepad UI.
Stats modified by a Mundus Stone on the character sheet now display correctly.
Greyhome’s name will now be displayed on the Tamriel map.
The Champion bar will revert to the normal Champion bar after leaving the Vengeance campaign.
A UI error no longer occurs when quickly switching between Group & Activity Finder tabs.

Scribing

An extra space is no longer present in crafted ability tooltips.

Group Finder

The default roles of a group finder listing will now reset each time the category is changed.

Screen narration

If you were under level 50 with no account champion levels, screen narration no longer reads out your non-existent champion level.
The Gamepad UI gift claim screen should now narrate correctly. In addition, changed the keybind to view the tooltip in the Gamepad UI gift claim screen to a toggle instead of a hold.
All of the text on screen while at the Riding Traner will be narrated in for Gamepad UI.
The "Confirm Logout" popup should now be fully narrated.
The text on screen while viewing a Crown Store product should now narrate correctly.
The Right-side details panel for the various campaigns should now narrate.
The weapon style, armor style, and restyle screens should now narrate properly.