PTS Patch Notes v11.1.3

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The Elder Scrolls Online v11.1.3 kicks off week 3 of the PTS Cycle. As noted in our previous post regarding U47 Combat Changes, we have reverted some of the week one PTS changes to class ultimate generation passives, Sorcerer adjustments, and the Arcanist's Class Mastery script with Banner Bearer. Full details on these changes are included below along with some other minor combat adjustments. Once again, thank you for your feedback on the week one changes.

In addition to combat changes, there are general adjustments to content in Feast of Shadows, Solstice and Base Game content. More adjustments to Black Gem Foundry, Naj-Caldeesh, the Writhing Wall event, etc. have been made.

For those who are in the festive mood, Witches Festival is available for testing this week as well. Check out some of the new loot: Wickerchain Soul outfit style, as well as the Hagraven Matron Face and Body Markings.

We have copied all PC EU characters for usage during week three of PTS. As always, feel free to provide feedback on PTS v 11.1.3 through our feedback and bug threads, located here. The update is 457.08MB.

Note: This should have been 11.1.2 for week 3 of PTS. Looks like there was an issue when determining the version number and we skipped to v11.1.3 instead. Sorry for any confusion regarding the version number.

• Overview
• New Features / Updates / Big Changes
  • Events: Witches Festival
• Template Information
• Known Issues
• Combat & Gameplay
  • Combat & Abilities
  • Scribing
  • Itemization & Item Sets
• Fixes & Improvements
  • Feast of Shadows
    • Dungeons & Group Content
    • Exploration & Itemization
  • Solstice
    • Dungeons & Group Content
  • Base Game
    • Crafting & Economy
    • Housing
    • Miscellaneous
    • Quests & Zones
    • UI

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Events: Witches Festival
Witches Festival returns with some new rewards! This year’s new offerings are the Wickerchain Soul outfit style, as well as the Hagraven Matron Face and Body Markings. All are available from Dremora Plunder Skulls of any type, or from the Impresario for Event Tickets. The face and body markings have separate Runebox collectibles, so you will need to find both to complete the look.

Older rewards rotate accordingly; Eltheric Revenant armor is available as a fallback reward from Plunder Skulls, and the Crowborne Hunter outfit pages, Plunder Skull Blunder memento, and Senchal Horned Owl pet fragments rotate into the grab bag.

The Impresario will offer the first two of five fragments for the new Wildgrown Chapel of Julianos house. Additional fragments will come in the last two events of the year.

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• Fixed the item set tooltips on the Curated Feast of Shadows Coffer.

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Crown Store

• There is currently an issue that prevents you from claiming Scribing unless you are on a character that has Champion Points. We are updating this to include players who are either level 30+ or has Champion Points on the account will be able to claim Scribing for free.

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General

• Based on player feedback earlier in this PTS cycle, we are reverting the week 1 adjustments to class ultimate generation passives. They now all generate a unique form of Ultimate again – however these effects put all similar passives on cooldown, so they cannot be stacked.
  • Affects the following: Prism, Transfer, Mountain's Blessing, Savage Beast, Implacable Outcome, and Corpse Consumption.
  • This cooldown works by taking the first effect to activate and using the cooldown of that effect to prevent any of these other effects (including itself) from activating for the listed duration. If you have Corpse Consumption and Prism and trigger Corpse Consumption first – you will not be able to trigger either for 16 seconds. If you trigger Prism after that cooldown window, the next cooldown would be 6 seconds.
• Fixed an issue where sprint could fail to deactivate if you had a combination of settings that changed behaviors of sprint toggle and walk toggle.

Class Abilities

• Nightblade
  • Siphoning
    • Catalyst: Reduced the Ultimate generated by this passive to 11/22, down from 15/30.
• Sorcerer
  • Daedric Summoning
    • Bound Armor: This ability and its morphs have been partially reverted to grant Minor Protection rather than Major Resolve. Bound Armor and Aegis' duration are now based on your combined Physical and Spell Resistance - 1 second for every 10000 rating. Minimum duration of 3 seconds, maximum duration of 15 seconds (if you for some reason decide to stack that insane amount of Resistances).
      • Bound Aegis: This morph now increases your block mitigation by 50% at rank IV, up from 40%. This morph no longer passively increases in duration directly, as it does indirectly from the Minor Resolve granted.
  • Dark Magic
    • Blood Magic: This passive now only heals you if you are not at full Health. If you are at full Health, it now increases the higher of your Max Magicka or Stamina by 5/10% for 10 seconds.
      
      [Developer Comment]
      We’re taking the passive slot effect from Bound Armor and its morphs and placing it here to ensure base Sorcerer classes can retain the effects (and get a small boost in some cases), while also moving it to a less utilized skill line. We know this isn’t a silver bullet to making Dark Magic a desired skill line – but we’re using this as an experiment to see if this sort of shuffling of power is seen as a good thing or not in the brave new subclassing world. Definitely give us your feedback on this.

• Storm Calling
  • Lightning Form: This ability and its morphs have been reverted to grant Major Resolve, rather than Minor Force.

Scribing
Grimoires

• Banner Bearer: The Class Mastery script when paired with this Grimoire as an Arcanist now generates 3 Ultimate if the effect did not generate a Crux. This is in an effort to offer a universal/role agnostic reward in cases where you already have a Crux.
  
  [Developer Comment]
  Our original goal of limiting passive Crux generation remains, as we’ve seen the significant power gains and simplification of an already simple gameplay experience from having too much of it.

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Item Sets

• Monster Masks
  • Black Gem Monstrosity: Fixed an issue where this set would deal 0 damage against targets with very high Health pools. Integer caps and overflow strikes again.

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Fixes & Improvements
Feast of Shadows

Black Gem Foundry

• General
  • Dalenor no longer has a chance to duplicate himself within the dungeon.
  • Lesser Stone Atronachs are no longer immune to crowd control and have increased health.
• High Soulbinder Vykand
  • Clarified description of the “Soul Rancher” achievement to better indicate how it is earned.
  • Unstable Refracted Souls will now move slower while fixated on Vykand and faster while fixated on you or your party.
  • Radial damage from Refracted Soul Essences, along with damage from Searing Refraction, and Soul Essence Bombardment now increases in Veteran difficulty and while Hard Mode is activated.
  • Refracted Soul Essences will now use their abilities much more frequently with Hard Mode active. Refracted Soul Essences go brrr, so look out!
  • Damage from Refracted Soul Essences will now bypass your damage shield abilities.
  • Refracted Soul Essences will now move more quickly when affected by certain types of Vykand’s magic.
  • Updated the sound effects throughout the encounter.
• Quarrymaster Saldezaar
  • Multiple Rumble effects no longer have a chance to occur simultaneously.

Naj-Caldeesh

• General
  • Seeksxilts has learned some new songs within the optional activities.
  • Seeksxilts will no longer encourage you to continue playing the optional activities once they are complete. The activities are still playable for those wishing to accomplish greater achievements.
  • Playing the optional activities has been adjusted to feel more reliable when using a controller.
  • Monsters that fall in the depths will now die correctly. Who told them to die incorrectly anyway.
  • You will no longer be able to use doorways should you remain in combat.
  • The descriptions for effects gained from optional activities have been updated.
  • Pressure pads at the entrance to Naj-Caldeesh will no longer continue to display their visual effects once the drawbridge has lowered.

Achievements

• Adjusted the following achievements to match their intended point values:
  • Siege Camp Liberator -> 5 achievement points.
  • Underminers -> 10 points.
• Updated text in the Naj-Caldeesh Champion achievement to switch “Bowling for Undead” to “Cadaver Crunch” to match.

Rewards

• Monster Mask sets in Black Gem Foundry and Naj-Caldeesh are now properly curated.
• Bar-Sakka Head and Shoulders outfit styles have been moved to the Undaunted category.
• Writhing Haj Mota Scale can now be properly consumed for Achievement credit.
• Shards of Writhing Bone can now be properly consuming to advance the achievement.
• Fixed missing icons on several items.

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Ossein Cage

• General
  • Caustic Carrion damage has been normalized throughout the zone.
  • Applying Regeneration (or its morphs) will no longer cause a health desync when affected by Caustic Carrion.
• Jynorah and Skorkhif
  • Adjusted the voice overs to be present as designed during the encounter.

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Crafting Writs

• Legendary quality master writs for cloth-based goods now have a chance to require Nighthollow and Wayward Guardian styles, matching other master writ types.

Furniture

• Updated the interact prompts for the furnishing "Worm Cult Crystal Pylon" to be more accurate to the furniture's states.

Houses

• Hiddenspring Cottage’s interact prompts were adjusted so you will no longer be able to change whether the animals are on or off in other people's homes.
• In Hiddenspring Cottage, you can no longer create black voids by spamming the feed interacts.
• Adjusted the location of the Hiddenspring Cottage on the crown store to be in Classic Homes instead of the Notable Homes category.
• Corrected an issue where the Hiddenspring Cottage’s exit called it “Enter” instead of “Exit”.
• Added a missing bed to the furnished template for the Hiddenspring Cottage House.
• Added some missing smoke from the chimney in the Hiddenspring Cottage.
• Corrected various minor visual issues in the Wildgrown Chapel of Julianos.

General

• Fixed a crash that could occur when using addons.

Writhing Wall

• Crossing the Wall: Bestowal is no longer offered before event begins.
• Writhing Wall Event Progress bar will now display on Solstice and Stirk zone maps.
• Updated breadcrumbing on Stirk.
• Navigator on Stirk now sends you to the expected location.
• Stirk Wayshrine is now visible.
• Gathering Supplies quests for the Writhing Wall event now share properly in a group.
• Ghishzor: Coalesced Essences now work as intended and are always targetable.
• Ghishzor: Increased damage and health of Ghishzor encounter. Boss health increased 100%. The boss and added power increased by 30%.

General

• Added support for server-wide system announcements that can be shown at the start or end of any phase of a global event.
• Resolved an UI error with the gamepad Golden Pursuits UI.
• Unlocking an entire lorebook collection at once, such as by reading a style book, will now only trigger a single notification.
• Added a shared event specific Point of Interest icon with a new tooltip displaying progress to the map.
• Claiming a Golden Pursuits reward should no longer cause the Hero's Return screen to appear.
  

Housing

• The New Item indicator should now properly clear for items placed in the vault.
• Collectible item set pieces now show as correct "collected" state icon when stored in house chests and coffers.
• Furnishing categories with stolen items, which cannot be deposited into the vault, should no longer flash the "new item(s)" animation, as they are not valid items to deposit into the vault.