PTS Patch Notes v11.0.3

ZOS_Kevin · May 5

The Elder Scrolls Online v11.0.3 kicks off week 4 of the PTS Cycle. The main focus of this week's PTS update is to address combat changes for both classes and the upcoming trials sets. Additionally, we have a variety of fixes and improvements to the Seasons of the Worm Cult, Part 1 content. There are more adjustments and fixes for Ossein Cage, and overall quest fixes.

There are also more base game adjustments, including added improvements to the Hero’s Return efforts. Overall, you will find fixes for Fallen Banners, High Isle, Solstice, and Base Game content in this week’s patch notes.

We have copied all PC EU characters for usage during week four of PTS. As always, feel free to provide feedback on PTS v11.0.3 through our feedback and bug threads, located here. The update is 717.88MB.

Overview
New Features / Updates / Big Changes
- Hero’s Return
Known Issues
Combat & Gameplay
- Combat & Abilities
- Itemization & Item Sets
Fixes & Improvements

ZOS_Kevin · May 5

Hero’s Return

We updated the Hero’s Return adventure to be an official quest.
- Now, when you arrive in the Aetherian Archive after accepting Vanus Galerion’s invitation from the Hero’s Return pop-up, you will have to accept the quest from Vanus to be able to continue through the experience.
  - [Developer Comment]:
    We found some of you could feel a bit lost without the more traditional quest guidance about where to go next, so we have smoothed out this experience and helped provide a cleaner flow to help players feel like they are on the right path.
Damage shield visuals have been updated in the encounters and provide better reinforcement when following the tutorial prompts. You can see when progress is being made in the encounters.
Adjusted the timing of the ability bar overrides and sprint tutorial in the Hero's Return adventure to provide a window for you to set your own skills if desired.
You now need to complete 2 quests in the Hero's Return Campaign titled "Ride Out to Adventure.”
Resolved an issue where the Hero's Return Campaign "Better Together" would not reward the second milestone reward when claiming it.
Improved the behavior of the Hero’s Return Announcement panels in older tutorial zones (for the rare characters still present in those zones), to reduce UI distractions until you're done with the tutorial, similar to Soul Shriven in the Coldharbour tutorial.
Updated the Rededication help entry to cover the following:
- Various rededication shrine cultural names
- A few more example shrine locations
- Respec scroll behavior
- Bahtra at-Hunding's rededication services
- Corrected previously incorrect shrine setup in the Solstice Cathedral.

ZOS_Kevin · May 5

Attack Animations

Though many more animations have been fixed from the previous PTS, some abilities still contain extraneous movement, particularly in the extremities (hands, tails, weapons, feet, etc.) which looks like twitching, shaking, or overly abrupt movements.
If casting while running diagonally, the character can be pointing up to 45 degrees away from the target (most obvious with ranged attacks). This is a more exaggerated version of an issue that has always existed. The final fix will keep you facing your target.

ZOS_Kevin · May 5

General

Abilities that are traditionally referred to as “beams” have all been updated to now be considered Direct Damage, rather than Damage over Time. This affects the following abilities;
- Radiant Destruction and morphs
- Fatecarver and morphs
- Soul Strike and morphs
- Vampiric Drain and morphs
Fixed an issue where some abilities did not clear their reported duration upon ending when using the Ability Timers setting.

Classes

Arcanist
- Curative Runeforms
  - Arcanist's Domain: Updated the tooltip for this ability and its morphs to improve the abilities functionality for gaining the effects. The tooltips now specify you are given the effects for entering the area – rather than standing in the area at any time.
    
    [Developer Comment]
    This adjustment is rather minor in appearance but gets into how many ground-based effects with persistency operate - particularly in the case of target acquisition and target caps. Typically, unless an ability states otherwise, target caps for effects are limited to the first 6 entities that meet the sorting behaviors the ability in question has. In the context for this ability, if 7 allies enter the area all around the same time, the first 6 who enter the area are granted the buffs, and the 7th ally will receive nothing - as this ability now correctly follows the standard of having a 6-person target cap. If one of the 6 allies who has the buff leaves the area and loses the buff, the 7th ally will not immediately receive the effect - since the validation of when the area grants its effects is handled when a target enters the area.

Dragonknight
- Ardent Flame
  - Searing Strike: Reduced the cost of this ability and morphs to 2295, down from 2970 to account for their melee requirements.
  - Fiery Breath: Reduced the cost of this ability and the Engulfing Flames morph to 2984 to account for their melee requirements.
  - Noxious Breath: This morph now also applies the Poisoned status effect to all enemies hit by the initial hit.
- Draconic Power
  - Dark Talons: Reduced the cost of this ability and the Burning Talons morph to 3150, down from 3780.
  - Choking Talons: The cost reduction bonus from this morph now takes the cost to 3240, down from 3510.
Necromancer
- Bone Tyrant
  - Bone Goliath
    - Pummeling Goliath: This morph’s special bash attack now works for non-Necromancer classes.
Sorcerer
- Daedric Summoning
  - Bound Armor
    - Bound Armaments: Reverted the previous 10% damage reduction made during the first week of PTS.
- Dark Magic
  - Dark Exchange: This ability and its morphs now break Stealth and Invisibility immediately upon activation, rather than not removing either at all.
- Storm Calling
  - Lightning Splash: This ability and its morphs’ synergy can now be self-synergized, to make the abilities feel less like a sacrifice for the caster to run.
Templar
- Aedric Spear
  - Spear Shards
    - Luminous Shards: The synergy granted from this ability can now be self-synergized by the caster in many cases.
- Dawn’s Wrath
  - Radiant Destruction: This ability and its morphs now last for 3.8s in total, down from 4.8s. Reduced the cost per tick to 1080, so the cost per second remains the same over the total duration/tick rate. Increased the base damage by 4%. Increased the health threshold the execute scaling starts at to 33%, up from 30%. Increased the status effect chance per tick to 6%, up from 3%.
    - Radiant Glory: Reduced the cost of this morph to be a 40% cost reduction, up from a 33.33% cost reduction. Reduced the healing done to 15% of the damage done, down from 20%.
    - Radiant Oppression: This morph's execute scaling now starts at 40%, up from 39%.
  [Developer Comment]
  We're peeling back the commitment time by 1 second to try and better accommodate for rotation timing and item set interaction. This is so things like stack-based sets don't have such a short window before they'd fall off. In addition to this, we're also gently bumping up the damage the abilities can do to help get some of their power back in from before. For example, Radiant Glory now sacrifices a little bit of its healing potency in exchange for a further cost reduction, so it's a tiny bit easier for non-Magicka focused builds to utilize. Meanwhile Oppression sees a slight boost in power to make it a little clearer on when to start its use, but with less of a DPS delta between the morphs.

Warden
- Winter’s Embrace
  - Piercing Cold: Increased this passive's increase to Frost Damage to 7/15%, up from 5/10%.
    [Developer Comment]
    We're temporarily inflating the damage of this passive to influence Frost Damage a bit more aggressively than we'd like, until we can find better long-term solutions (like more sources of Frost Damage in general) for those who wish to wield the cold like a weapon.

Item Sets

Mythic Items
- Pearls of Ehlnofey: This set now grants Major Heroism for 1.5s (1 tick of 3 Ultimate) after using a healing ability while under 50% of your dominant resource, rather than granting a unique form of 3 Ultimate.
  [Developer Comment]
  We're making an adjustment of this set to no longer grant a unique form of Ultimate generation, to prevent the upper end of Ultimate production when specializing in that role. It will still grant the same total amount when it activates but won't be able to stack with other sources of Major Heroism.

Trial Sets
- Pillager's Profit: Reduced the amount of Ultimate this set grants per tick to 2%, down from 5% of the Ultimate spent.
  [Developer Comment]
  We're peeling pack some of the raw ultimate generation with this set to better account for its realistic target cap of 11, as well as preparing for how much ultimate generation we're seeing now that builds can better specialize with subclassing.

Update 46 Trial Sets
- Harmony in Chaos: Increased the amount of Weapon and Spell Damage granted per stack to 135, up from 86.
- Recovery Convergence: Reduced the cooldown of this set to 10 seconds, down from 30. Note that the synergy will continue to have a 20 second cooldown.
- Kazpian’s Cruel Signet: Increased the base damage this set deals by ~98%. This set no longer deals increased damage for each sword active (and by nature, can now Critically Strike because of this). Increased the application cooldown of this set to 500ms, up from 100s. This set now increases your damage done by 1% for every sword active.
  [Developer Comment]
  We’re updating the functionality of this set to be less comparable to something like Azureblight or Relequen, where each enemy or application scale the damage up – largely since those sets already fill those functions incredibly well. Rather than being an in between hybrid that doesn’t excite nearly as much as either, we’re turning this into a damage multiplier for the wearer in high enemy density situations. This is so all of your damage can increase, similarly to something like Thrive in Chaos.

ZOS_Kevin · May 5

Soul Reaper Events

Dark Fissures will no longer always respawn in the same location. This was preventing Worm Cult Soul Reapers from properly spawning in some areas. Thank you to some forum users who brought this to our attention.

ZOS_Kevin · May 5

Dreadsail Reef

Tideborn Taleria: The Sea Behemoth will now always play attack animations when attacking.

ZOS_Kevin · May 5

Skill Styles

Sound effects have been updated for the following Skill Styles:
- Blade Cloak, Mirrormoor
- Feral Guardian, Snow Bear
- Shield Charge, Dragonclash
- Volley of the World-Eater

Ossein Cage

General
- Ogrims’ charge telegraph will now consistently show to enemies (That’s YOU).
- Ambient audio has been updated throughout the Trial.
Blood Drinker Thisa
- Summoned Bloodknights have increased health in veteran difficulty.
Shapers of Flesh
- Flesh Colossus no longer has a chance to form after the encounter is completed.
Jynorah and Skorkhif
- The Heat Ray ability will no longer be used by monsters when Jynorah and Skorkhif are at low health.
- Death recap hints for Sparking Heat and Blazing Heat Ray will now appear more consistently.
- Spark and Flame Surge visual effects no longer have a chance to end prematurely.
- Sparking Cold-Flame and Blazing Flame Atronachs no longer have a chance to create more than one instance of Seeking Spark Surge or Seeking Forge Flame and they will once again damage you.
- Adjusted the health thresholds before Titanic Clash can occur.
- The Titanic Clash duration has increased.
- Ally corpses will only be moved to the lower platform after Titanic Clash has completed rather than during Titanic Clash.
- Hard Mode
  - Caustic Carrion will no longer increase in damage quite so drastically.
  - Increased the time between either Jynorah or Skorkhif dying and the remaining boss superheating the platform.
  - Lowered health of Sparking Banekins, Blazing Scamps, Sparking Cold-Flame Atronachs, Blazing Flame Atronachs, and Enlightened Channelers.
  - Reduced the damage done to Myrinax and Valneer by some abilities.
  - Jynorah and Skorkhif will summon less Cold-Flame and Blazing Atronachs at once.
  - The Sparking and Blazing Inferno abilities now deal less damage.
Overfiend Kazpian
- Kazpian will now always channel on the Dolorous Cista when intended.
- You will now be teleported to the active platform when the bridge collapses and those refusing to move from the Channeler platform will be bombarded with meteors. So for your safety, please move from the Channeler platform.
- You will now always perish should you jump off the platform in the encounter space.
- Giant Swords will no longer target you as they emerge from the Carrion portal.
- The Ossein Colossus will now afflict players with Trauma when using its Bone Saw ability.
- Sound effects throughout this encounter have been updated.
- Overfiend Kazpian is not fond of fighting near his allies and will take drastic measures should that happen.
- Hard Mode:
  - Increased health of Overfiend Kazpian, Low Warden Dusk, Molag Kena, King Khrogo, and Channelers.
  - Caustic Carrion will now increase the damage inflicted much quicker.

Achievements

The Hermit Crab Dance Music Box achievement now has the correct icon.
In the Solstice Zone Guide, the achievement "Wanderers of Western Solstice" is no longer displayed as one of the four achievements. To replace this in the Zone Guide, we are now presenting the "Western Solstice Master Angler" achievement, showcasing the 12 rare fish to catch.

Antiquities

Several dig sites have been adjusted to be in bounds.
Updated the display name of "Rakkhat, Fang of Lorkhaj" to "Rakkhat's Voidmantle" in various places to match the item's name.

Safe Boxes

Reduced the max amount of Safe Boxes spawning at once to the correct amount.

World Bosses

General
- Adjusted a number of locations for the random combat events that spawn in the world.
Tidewash Strand
- Fixed several issues involving various crabs in the fight getting stuck.
- Fixed a number of icons for boss abilities.

General

Solstice
- Misplaced Foul Fishing spots are now Lake Fishing spots.
- Livestock are now properly appearing. They defied us for a while, but we’ve lured them back with yummy treats.
- A number of resource node placement across the zone are now working as intended.
Sunport
- The Skill Respec Shrines have been added inside the Cathedral of the Three Queens in the city.
- The Sunport City Wayshrine is now showing as being discovered
- Updated Guild Trader’s map icons to be the correct information throughout the city and Outlaw’s Refuge.
- Guild Trader’s will now display guild tabards properly.
- Tales of Tribute Daily Quests will now properly include Sunport.
- Several stores have undergone sign renovations to make sure store signs now properly display the correct names.
- There are no longer two Quens in the Outlaw Refuge. Sunport is only big enough for one.

Quests

Death Dancer’s Duty
- Teerad no longer repeats lines after completing the quest.
Deetra Grotto
- Ambient audio has been updated throughout the area.
Everlasting Fair
- The door to exit the Bristleback area got some much needed grease and is now working as intented.
- Sergeant Alydine now properly appears.
- The Lady of Riot will now properly cycle through her abilities.
- Garil Drelo now audibly squawks.
Ghosthunters
- Oorbesh’s dialogue has been corrected and working as intended.
  - Corelanya Manor
    - Sound effects have been updated throughout the Ghosthunters quest and surrounding area.
Honor Bound
- You can no longer bypass the boss fight during the end sequence. Come ready to fight.
Mystery of the Broken Temple
- Multiple art updates throughout the temple.
- Missing dialogue has been found and is working as intended.
- The text in the Quest Tracker is now working as intended.
The Stubbornness of Nords
- The camera placement when speaking to Barogar is working as intended.
- Fixed several quest assist issues.
- When gathering specific fish for the quest, you can no longer fish while swimming in the water.
The Writhing Wall
- You can no longer re-enter Vosgah Shrine after completing the quest unless they are with group members actively doing it.

ZOS_Kevin · May 5

Attack Animations

When using a Bow or 2-Handed weapon, your arms should no longer distort and hyperextend while navigating.
Weapon swapping between Bow and Unarmed now animates.
More instances of abrupt recoveries and shaking extremities have been smoothed out.
Numerous animation issues have been addressed since the previous PTS update including:
- Frozen Gate
- Flurry
- Reverse Slash
- Fiery Grip
- Backlash
- Mage's Fury

Carnaval Dancer Costume

When dyeing the costume, the feathers will now correctly be the same color.

Sanctum Ophidia

Ozara
- Monsters knocked into the abyss near Ozara will no longer persist and keep you in combat.

Achievements

You should now be able to find the books used for the "Tracker of Temporal Tomes" achievement even if you’ve already completed the achievement on your account.

Stonefalls

You should no longer have to cook youself to reach The Lady Mundus Stone in Stonefalls.

Furniture

The “Fruit Bunch, Display” and “Inert Portal” furnishings no longer sink into the ground when aligned.
Furnishing Recipes, "Design: Green Coconut Bunch, Display" and "Design: Coconut Bunch, Display," now require the same ingredients and crafting passive ranks.
The "Argonian House Boat" furnishing is now hooked up to its intended vendor. It can now be purchased off of Narwaawende in Wayrest, Mournhold, Elden Root, or Vivec City, or Nolenowen in Alinor.
Adjusted the selection area on “Alinor Carpet, Alinor Crescent” furnishing to better match the visuals.

Furnishing Vault

Adjusted some of the messaging to clarify how to change your default retrieve location when picking up furnishings from your home.

Homes

Made a variety of minor visual tweaks to the houses “Theater of the Ancestors” and “Bismuth Steam Baths.”
The “Theater of the Ancestors” control buttons no longer animate twice when pressed.
Removed a few pre-placed furnishings from the “Theater of the Ancestors.”
“Bismuth Steam Baths” collectible now correctly communicates what Achievement you need to complete to purchase it with gold.
Made a minor adjustment to the Kill area in the “Theater of the Ancestors” to better match the visuals of the home.

Golden Pursuits

To more clearly communicate Dungeon-related tasks in Golden Pursuits, tasks requiring a specific dungeon run now read "Complete the X Dungeon X Times".

Stormhaven

Gift from a Suitor: Fixed (again) another edge case where Countess Ilise Manteau could get stuck cowering behind the gravestone and couldn’t be interacted with.

General

Replaced the pre-login animation with a new environment for the Console and Gamepad UI experiences.
New stackable writ containers now have a tooltip header category, and should be searchable under Consumable -> Misc in a guild store.

Golden Pursuits/Hero’s Return

The Keyboard and Gamepad UI no longer get mismatched after closing the capstone reward dialog.
The Hero’s Return Login Rewards screen will now be hidden when all Hero's Return campaigns are completed, and all Hero's Return daily login rewards have been claimed.
The Hero's Return Login Rewards screen will now be hidden for two hours after you've dismissed it unless a new login reward becomes available.
The Hero’s Return Login Rewards screen will now initially appear after completing the Hero’s Return Quest, if you elect to pursue the Hero’s Return adventure.
The Hero's Return adventure popup now closes correctly upon entering the adventure.

Subclassing

You can now subclass, equip, and un-subclass a skill line directly from the Subclassing skill line preview screen.
You can now see your skill lines while talking to the Subclassing NPC during the introduction quest after previously cancelling your Subclassing changes.