PTS Patch Notes v11.0.2

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The Elder Scrolls Online v11.0.2 kicks off week 3 of the PTS Cycle. The main focus of this week's PTS update is to address a variety of fixes and improvements to the Seasons of the Worm Cult, Part 1 content. You will find fixes for Ossein Cage, a good chunk of quests, and overall improvements to smooth out gameplay. There are also fixes for new Base Game additions, like Hero’s Return and UI Modernization efforts.

For those looking for combat updates, don’t worry. We’re giving you the heads up that next week will have a large chunk of combat adjustments. Stay tuned for PTS Week 4.

Additionally, Whitestrake’s Mayhem is available for testing this week! There are also general fixes for Greymoor, Fallen Banners, Necrom and Base Game content. Those changes are outlined below.

As always, feel free to provide feedback on PTS v11.0.2 through our feedback and bug threads, located here. The update is 1.04GB.

• Overview
• New Features / Updates / Big Changes
  • Base Game
  • Event: Whitestrake’s Mayhem
• Template Information
• Known Issues
• Combat & Gameplay
  • Combat & Abilities
  • Scribing
• Fixes & Improvements
  • Solstice
  • Necrom
  • Fallen Banners
  • Greymoor
  • Base Game

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Event: Whitestrake’s Mayhem
Mayhem returns! No shake-ups here, just the expected functions at this time (review the in-game help entry for all details). The new rewards include:

• Truth in Wisdom armor set, with pages available from the Impresario for 5 tickets each or rarely from Pelinal’s Boon Boxes.
  • Arkay Unending Cycle style pages go into the Imperial City “sweeper” boss drop tables along with Dovah’s Du’ul. Sancre Tor Sentry pages go into Bags of Veteran’s Glory instead of from sweeper drops. Dovah’s Du’ul pages may also come from Bags of Veteran’s Glory if you have yet to collect them all.
• The Impresario will start carrying the first two fragments, “Comfortable Spider Chassis” and “Dwarven Control Rod,” for the Law of Julianos Dwarven Spider mount, sold for 10 tickets each. The third and final fragment will come with a later event.

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• We have removed the Subclassing template from character creation. The Max Level template has everything this template had and more.
• Heroic Unity can now be found in the Dungeon Heavy Item Sets container on template characters.
• Tanlorin and Zerith are not automatically unlocked for template characters.
• Perfected Kazpian's Cruel Signet container now has its Jewelry container.
• The Crate of Rare Fish has returned to template characters.
• The Mundus Stone consumable will no longer drop its Mundus Stone when you rezone.

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• Attack Animations
  • Though many have been fixed, some abilities still contain extraneous movement, particularly in the extremities (hands, tails, weapons, feet, etc.) which looks like twitching or shaking.
  • If casting while running diagonally, the character can be pointing up to 45 degrees away from the target (most obvious with beam attacks). This is a more exaggerated version of an issue that's always been a problem. The final fix should keep you facing your target.
  • Moving and jumping with a bow or two-handed melee weapon out can cause female characters’ arms to distort. This has been fixed internally and will be in the next PTS update.
  • Some weapon types such as Two-Handed, Bow, and Destruction Staff can pull the off-hand away from the weapon briefly and snap back when the ability is played through uninterrupted.
• Ossein Cage
  • Seeking Spark Surge and Seeking Forge Fire do not deal damage. This will be fixed in a future update.

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• Classes
  • Nightblade
    • Assassination
      • Master Assassin: Reduced the Critical Chance granted from this passive to 3.3/6.6%, down from 4.4/8.8%.
• Subclassing
  • Fixed an issue that prevented swapping subclassed skill lines, if the skill point allocation post-swap resulted in more skill points than were originally present before the swap.

• Scribing
  • Banner Bearer
    • Banner Bearer's visuals no longer play multiple times and no longer linger on allies.

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Fixes & Improvements
Solstice

• Ossein Cage
  • Achievements
    • The Successful Strike achievement can no longer be completed on Normal difficulty.
  • Audio
    • Updated sound effects for rock bridges throughout the Trial.
  • Blood Drinker Thisa
    • Blood Crawlers and Blood Slingers no longer have a chance to leave the encounter prematurely.
    • Blood Crawlers, Blood Slingers, and Blood Knights can no longer be attacked as they enter the encounter.
  • General
    • If afflicted with Caustic Carrion, you will no longer be afflicted when “Joining Encounter in Progress.”
    • Adjusted timing of Abductors appearing in several sections.
    • You are now healed when using Carrion Portals or are Abducted.
  • Jynorah and Skorkhif
    • Updated several ability names.
    • Pets and companions can no longer attack or damage Myrinax or Valneer.
    • Enemy corpses no longer have a chance to persist longer than intended.
    • Titanic Leap now has more consistent targeting.
    • Curses will now correctly target intended enemies.
    • Sparking and Blazing aspects which use Heat Ray will now appear in less hard to reach areas.
    • Heat Ray now removes Enfeeble areas from their area of influence upon cast.
    • Heat Ray will now deal more damage to Myrinax and Valneer when not properly mitigated.
    • Blazing Daedroths and Sparking Shackled Titans now cast Intimidating Roar when intended.
    • Increased damage of Jynorah’s Frostburn Flare, Staff Strike, Spark Surge Bolt, and Spark Smash in Veteran and Hard mode difficulty.
    • Increased the damage dealt by Skorkhif's Forge Flare, Staff Strike, Forge Fire Bolt, and Blazing Smash in Veteran and Hard Mode difficulties.
    • Sparking Curse and Blazing Curse now modify the duration of opposite-colored Enfeeblement when the Curse expires.
    • Hard Mode
      • Radiating Sparkling and Blazing Malediction now do increased damage.
      • Increased Health of Sparking Banekin, Blazing Scamps, Sparking Cold-Flame Atronachs, Blazing Flame Atronachs, and Enlightened Channelers.
      • Sparking Cold-Flame Aspect and Blazing Brimstone Aspect abilities now apply Sparking Inferno and Blazing Inferno respectively.
      • Goaded Breath no longer has a chance overlap with Sparking or Blazing Curse.
  • Overfiend Kazpian
    • You will no longer be “Joining Encounter In Progress” after the encounter has completed.
    • Kazpian’s Giant Sword Conal ability no longer has a chance to hit multiple times in succession.
    • Molag Kena can no longer be immediately damaged when she emerges from the Dolorous Cista.
    • Kazpian will now remain active throughout the fight, refusing his previously designated rest breaks.
    • Giant Swords will now always appear when intended.
  • Shaper of Flesh
    • Shields will now visually remain when active.

• Achievements
  • Achievements for the Mythics found in Solstice now have the correct icons.
• Zone Guide
  • Added the intended Mage's Guild Books to be tracked in the Solstice Zone Guide. There are five tracked in total.

• Guild Trader
  • The Guild Trader located in the Sunport Outlaw's Refuge now correctly allows for hiring and bidding.

• Broken Light Temple
  • Enemies are no longer neutral to players.
• Carapace Cavern
  • Added missing lighting to skeletal hands.
  • Updated skeleton and ghost sound effects.
• Corelanya Manor
  • Adjusted the difficulty of an encounter at the end of the Vaults.
• Deetra Grotto
  • Monsters in a wave event are no longer scared and should all jump down to join combat.
  • The wave event will continue to advance if the Vahat Behemoth despawned too soon.
  • Zar-lye'ix no longer has flames that linger on his corpse after death.
  • Updated the volume of the voice over lines during encounters.
  • Improved performance when in dungeon.
• Everlasting Fair
  • Updated several voice over lines throughout the area so they can be better heard.
  • Added a gesture that more appropriately matches the end of one of the dialog lines.
• General
  • The caravan carrying the Tales of Tribute NPCs to Sunport was waylaid by members of the Worm Cult. Good news is they have safely found their way to the tavern within the city and can now be challenged to a game.
  • The Skill Respec Shrines have been added inside Sunport’s Cathedral of the Three Queens.
  • The Jewelry Writ box hand-in now spawns properly within the city.
  • Fixed several floating books.
  • Adjusted several wilderness encounters where enemies could spawn in poor locations.
  • Moved multiple wilderness encounters that were too close to one another.
  • Fixed a wilderness encounter where a treasure chest would despawn before you could loot all contents.
  • The Traveling Merchant Khobald no longer goes invisible while taking a short break during his route. Sad for him, but good for us!
  • Several performance improvements in Sunport.
• “The Stubbornness of Nords” Quest
  • Corrected difficulty of enemy crabs.
  • Adjusted the difficulty of the final encounter in the tavern.
• “The Writhing Wall” Quest
  • Made balance adjustments to the final boss encounter of this quest.
• World Boss Encounter: Gaulm
  • Updated sound effects throughout the encounter.

• Mystery of the Broken Temple
  • You should no longer be able to skip several of the bridge puzzles. Some of you are very clever!
  • The quest assist should now display all quest steps properly.
  • We resolved several voice-over issues.
• Tide of the Heart
  • You should not get locked out of specific conversations during and after the quest.
  • Fixed several conversation animation glitches with various NPCs.
• Ghosthunters
  • The Search the Reanimatorium step now properly shares across group members.
  • The poison miasma will not return upon relogging into the game.
  • The Final Boss will now spawn properly and you can finish the quest.
  • We resolved several conversation animation issues.
• The Everlasting Fair
  • We resolved several visual issues related to the Rod of Revels.
  • The Prize Chest will no longer spawn in the ground.
• The Stubbornness of Nords
  • The conversation camera is now working as intended.
  • Quest assist pin locations are now working as intended.
  • We resolved several general animation issues.
• A Pirate’s Debt
  • Antiquarian Telderrin will now respond properly if you are noticed during the trespassing sequence.
• A Death Dancer’s Duty
  • Multiple typos fixed.
• Honor Bound
  • You can no longer use doors while morphed into Honor.
  • The quest assist now points you to the correct door.
• Candleflies for the Dead
  • You now have the candleflies in your inventory before entering Tainted Leel.
• The Stirk Fellowship
  • Midconjuror Mirmal, who starts the main quest on Solstice, will now also spawn within the city at the main wayshrine.
  • You can now speak to certain NPCs from the intended distance.
• The Regent of Sunport
  • Hostages no longer despawn without running away first.
  • You can no longer interact with Farinor in locations that are not intended.
• The Passages Beneath
  • Updated some visuals for the barge room scene.
• The Writhing Wall
  • Updated some visuals in the boss fight.
  • We resolved several map issues.
• The Gift of Death
  • We updated multiple theater scenes and NPC interactions during those scenes.

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• General
  • Adjusted some antiquity dig sites in Apocrypha to be more accurate when displayed on the map.

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• Achievements
  • You should now be able to find the books used for the "Tomes Beyond Life and Death" achievement even if you’ve already completed the achievement on your account.

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• Itemization
  • Removed some incorrect tooltips claiming certain Mythic items were unique, even when they were not. This affected:
    • Thrassian Stranglers
    • Snow Treaders
    • Bloodlord's Embrace
    • Harpooner's Wading Kilt
    • Gaze of Sithis
    • Spaulder of Ruin
    • Faun's Lark Cladding
    • Stormweaver's Cavort
    • Syrabane's Ward

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• Attack Animations
  • Numerous timing and effects issues have been addressed since the previous PTS update including:
    • Light/Heavy Attacks:
      • Unarmed
      • One-Handed/Shield
    • Abilities and morphs:
      • Regeneration
      • Imbue
      • Crystal Weapon
      • Dawnbreaker
  • Multiple instances of twitching/shaking extremities have been smoothed out.

• Hero’s Return Adventure
  • You no longer can enter the Hero's Return adventure while still in a tutorial zone like The Wailing Prison.
  • Improved Vanus's rift-closing animation at the beginning of the Hero's Return adventure.
  • Vanus’s intro theater now plays properly if you’d previously met him.
  • Vanus no longer appears to create two separate portals after the final encounter in the Hero's Return adventure.
  • Made a number of small adjustments to the Hero's Return adventure enemy encounters to help with combat clarity, timing, and difficulty.
• Hero’s Return Golden Pursuits
  • The Hero's Return Experience Scroll buff is no longer lost when logging out.
  • Riding lessons earned from the Hero's Return Golden Pursuits are now correctly account bound, instead of being bound to the specific character that claimed them.
  • The Hero's Return Campaign "Better Together" now reliably rewards it's capstone reward upon completion.
  • Food or drink consumption now reliably completes the associated Hero's Return Golden Pursuit Campaign task.
  • Similarly, deconstructing gear now reliably advances the Hero's Return Golden Pursuit Campaign task "Deconstruct or Research 3 Pieces of Equipment".
  • The Hero's Return Golden Pursuit task "Successfully Open 1 Locked Door or Container" now also advances upon successfully forcing a lock.
• General
  • Red Revelry Bottle Memento: Reduced the appearance of the bottle clipping through the hand.
  • Solstice Sloth: Slowed the speed of the sloth pet to make it look more natural.
  • Gassy Glowstalk Memento: Updated the acquisition hint to the correct quest name: "The Daedric Scourge.”
  • Pact Red War Tattoos: Scaled and moved Dragon head design to be higher up on the chest.
  • Twin Titan's Retribution Skin: Updated textures to reduce visible seams on neck.
  • Blade Cloak, Mirrormoor Skill Style: Updated effects coloring to intended color.
  • Inventory Granting Pets: PTS Template characters created with the Max Level Template will now unlock both max inventory and bank space. Additionally, they will automatically have all three inventory granting pets unlocked by default.
  • Skill Styles: Swapping skill styles in some cases will no longer cause an infinite load screen and character roll back.

• General
  • Gassy Glowstalk Memento: Added new sound effects.

• Anniversary Jubilee Event
  • Updated text on cake slice achievements will note cake slices can be purchased at the Impresario's tent during the event.

• General
  • It is no longer possible to be interrupted after triggering a Mystery Transformation Verse.
  • Resolved instances of crashing within Infinite Archive.
• Itemization
  • Fixed an issue with Overland Sets that drop from bosses in the Infinite Archive.

• Outfits
  • Class Style Weapons for Sorcerer and Warden are now properly shown in the Outfit Collection, regardless of unlock status.

• Furnishing Vault
  • Initially, the default behavior for the new Retrieval mode was set to use the Furnishing Vault. However based on feedback, we have changed it to default to your Inventory.

• Furnishings
  • You will no longer see some housing furnishings and interiors appear all black instead of their intended appearance. Their textures have been found!
  • The furniture preview camera no longer gets stuck zooming in or out when trying to view different furnishings.

• Houses
  • Bismuth Steam Baths
    • We resolved various visual issues with textures, clipping, and gaps.
  • The Sleepy Sloth
    • The interior of The Sleepy Sloth has been restored to its intended visuals.
    • The quest, “A Room To Spare,” can now be completed when the quest starter is taken through the Crown Store.
    • Your location was now properly displayed on the map for the home.
  • Theater of the Ancients
    • The spotlights are now emitting light as intended.
    • The purchase menu for the home has the proper image present.
    • Adjusted the courtyard to be more smoothly traversed.
    • Prompt for leaving the home now properly says “Exit” instead of “Enter.”
    • We resolved various visual issues with textures, clipping, and gaps.

• General
  • When teleporting to different areas, a randomly occurring crash due to the teleport should no longer occur. We suspect a temporal disturbance, but the jury is still out.

• Companions
  • Thorns and Blossoms: You will no longer teleport people around you to Auridon when dismissing Tanlorin. See temporal disturbance note above.
  • A Moonlit Shadow: Added a gesture for Zerith when he talks after finding his moon claw.
• Eastmarch
  • Dear Cousins: Uggisar's ghost no longer haunts you everywhere in the world until you turn in the quest.

• General
  • Unused keybind no longer appear on the Console UI login screen.
• Hero’s Return
  • In the Golden Pursuits capstone reward dialog for mouse and keyboard, the "Next Campaign" keybind no longer displays when there is no next campaign.
  • Closing the capstone claimed dialogue now works as intended.
  • Opening Golden Pursuits after completing all Hero's Return campaigns will now automatically select the first subcategory in the list.
• Housing
  • The search bar in the housing editor, while in Gamepad UI mode, is now being correctly focused on.
  • Relevant keybinds are now visible in the housing editor, while in Gamepad UI mode, during a search.
  • The search bar no longer loses focus while backspacing a search term in the housing editor, while in Gamepad UI mode.
• Subclassing
  • Skill Styles can now be viewed while in preview mode of a skill line. You can view the preview in the Subclassing subcategory.
• UI Style Modernization
  • Updated various minor in-game UI elements in accordance with the new UI style.
  • Adjusted the background of one login panel texture to match the new UI style more closely.
  • Fixed a rare issue that could occur if the request to interact with a station was canceled immediately.
  • Added the appropriate icon to the Sanguine Rose Pendant quest reward.
  • PvP campaigns in Group Finder will now refresh without requiring a relog when campaigns are enabled / disabled.