PTS Patch Notes v3.0.3

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

The Elder Scrolls Online v3.0.3 continues to address issues in Morrowind involving quests and itemization, plus some adjustments to Battlegrounds and the Halls of Fabrication. We’ve also continued to make some tweaks to the overall class balance, and have several fixes for the Grouping Tool. The size of this patch is approximately 1.3GB.

KNOWN ISSUES

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS

Morrowind
DLC Game Packs
- Dark Brotherhood
- Orsinium
Base Game Patch
- Art & Animation
- Combat & Gameplay
- Crafting & Economy
- Crown Store & Crown Crates
- Exploration & Itemization
- Housing
- Miscellaneous
- Quests & Zones
- UI

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

Achievements

The “Battleground Dominator” achievement is not always awarded for teams that qualify for it.
The “Triple Threat” achievement is not currently achievable, but will be returning soon.

Gameplay

If you’re afflicted with Static Charge when a Dark Anchor is completed, it cannot be removed until the debuff expires.

Public Dungeons

Your game may crash when fighting Mynar Igna or some of the Iron Atronachs in the Forgotten Wastes. We’re working on getting this fixed for a future patch.

Quests

You may not be able to complete the Vvardenfell quest “The Heart of a Telvanni”, and may get stuck at the quest step to free the slaves.

UI

In some cases, Death Recap entries may be missing icons and attacker names.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

Battlegrounds

Adjusted or removed some Medals so there are more clear and repeatable opportunities to reward capturing Relics or Banner locations, specifically in Domination and Capture the Flag matches.
Added new Medals to Capture the Flag games for healing or damaging flag carriers.
Fixed an issue where you could be pulled into an unintended playing area in Ularra where your character would instantly die.
Player characters carrying flags during Capture the Flag games will now have an escalating debuff to their healing received and damage shields.
Reduced the spawns for Sigils of Power to one every few minutes.
Fixed an issue that prevented more than one Relic or Capture Point capture per match from contributing to the Relic Hunter and Standard-Bearer achievements.

Quests

All Battleground quests now appear under the Battleground tab in the Quest Journal.
Let the Games Begin: This quest now requires completion of the correct number of Battleground dailies.
Test of Mettle: This quest now requires the proper amount of Battlegrounds points earned for completion.

Rewards

Players in the top 100 on Battleground Leaderboards are now rewarded on a weekly basis.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

Animation

Gilustulum, found in Vivec City, no longer holds props in his hand while speaking to you.
Fixed an issue where the tail from the Guar found in the stables in Balmora would appear broken.
Female hands no longer clip into the Dwarven Puzzle Orb memento.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

Warden

Animal Companions
- Betty Netch: Slightly decreased the length of the summoning animation for this ability.
Green Balance
- Enchanted Forest (Secluded Grove morph): Fixed an issue where this morph would not grant Ultimate when healing a target below 50% health.
- Nature’s Grasp: Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs were targeting NPCs; it can now only target other player characters.
Winter’s Embrace
- Crystallized Shield: Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs could absorb beam attacks.

World Bosses

Salothran’s Council
- General Tanasa and Councilor Reynis now display the proper health bar for their difficulty.
Missir-Dadalit Egg Mine
- Queen’s Consort no longer constantly resets.
- You can no longer pull the consort out of the cave.
- Killing the Queen's Consort will now properly award the achievement and complete the Point of Interest map icon.
Sulipund Grange
- The Hunger group boss battle now resets properly if you evade the boss.
- The green screen effect from the Hunger will now be properly removed from player characters that exit the event.
Wuyuvus
- Break Free no longer frees you from Devour. However, your allies can still interrupt Devour.
- Improved the visuals for Devour and Torpor.
Dubdil Alar Tower
- Mehz the Cozener now has a boss health bar.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

General

Corrected several minor camera issues with crafting stations in Vvardenfell.

Furniture Crafting

Fixed an issue where the names of the “Hlaalu Lantern, Stationary” and “Hlaalu Lantern, Portable” were swapped.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

Halls of Fabrication Trial

General
- Slightly decreased the damage done by the Whirring Blade Traps on normal difficulty.
- Slightly increased the damage done by the Whirring Blade Traps on Veteran difficulty.
- Conduit Strike from Capacitors will no longer target pets from other player characters.
- Fixed an issue where there were some missing textures in Abanabi Cave.
Hunter-Killer Fabricants
- Renamed the Hunter-Killer Fabricants to Hunter-Killer Negatrix and Hunter-Killer Positrox in order to better differentiate them.
- Increased the health of the Hunter-Killer Fabricants while in Veteran difficulty.
- Shalk Fabricants now appear an additional time while in Veteran difficulty.
- Shock Lash now targets a random player character rather than the Hunter-Killer’s current target.
- Shock Lash now fires six Static Cascade orbs instead of five.
- Increased the time the encounter after the Hunter-Killer Fabricants activates once the Hunter-Killers are defeated.
Pinnacle Fabricant
- The damage from Short Circuit now increases with each hit while on Veteran difficulty.
- Increased the time the portal to the Transport Circuit materializes once the Pinnacle Fabricant is defeated.
- The Levitate synergy and Power Switch synergy are now more responsive in high latency situations.
- Renamed Heavy Shock to Shock Wave.
- Renamed the Shock Wave attacks generated by Palm Strike to Simulacra Shock Waves.
- Simulacra Shock Waves will now do fatal damage in Veteran difficulty.
Fabrication Committee
- Conduit Strike from the Reclaimer will no longer target pets from other player characters.
- Fixed a rare issue where Overcharge could end with only two of the three bosses being Overcharged.
Assembly General
- Tactical Facsimiles are now larger and more imposing.
- Tactical Facsimiles now do increased damage and have more health.
- Tactical Facsimiles will now become Enraged after a short time if left alive.
- Tactical Facsimiles created from Bow users will now do more damage with Lethal Arrow, and will use Quick Strike more reliably.
- Tactical Facsimiles created from Dragonknights will now do more damage with Lava Whip.
- Tactical Facsimiles created from Dragonknights’ Noxious Breath can no longer be blocked.
- Tactical Facsimiles created from Sorcerers will now do more damage with Daedric Curse, Daedric Mines and Boundless Storm.
- Tactical Facsimiles created from Nightblades will now do more damage with Funnel Health.
- Tactical Facsimiles created from Wardens will now do more damage with Deep Fissure and Gripping Shards, and will heal more with Nature's Embrace.
- Tactical Facsimiles created from Templars will now do more damage with Puncturing Sweeps, Radiant Destruction and Ritual of Retribution, and will heal more with Ritual of Retribution.
- The Assembly General will now vent Toxic Coolant around the edges of the interior while Terminals are active.
- It is no longer possible to have more than twelve Tactical Facsimiles at one time.
- Titanic Smash’s “Kinetic Energy” Death Recap hint will now only display when appropriate.
- Whirring Blade Traps are now always active when Terminals are active.
- Draining Shock’s damage is now timed to the explosion impact.
- Generic icons will no longer display in the buff tracker during this encounter.
- Arm attacks will now be less jittery and more smooth.
- Realigned the console that the Assembly General uses while Terminals are active.
- Arms will now properly animate when destroyed.
- Calefactor and Capacitor monsters will now appear on the platforms closest to the Assembly General.
- Calefactor and Capacitor monsters will now appear more frequently in Veteran difficulty.
  - These monsters will appear even more frequently after resetting the circuit breaker and empowering the Assembly General.
- During the final phase of this battle, Seeker Projectiles will now target the maximum number of players.
- During the final phase, you will now gain Exhaustion resulting in taking more damage from Seeker Projectiles and Toxic Coolant the longer the fight progresses.
- The final phase will now begin sooner.

Public Dungeons

Nchuleftingth
- The proper public dungeon icon will now be displayed on the map.
- The map icon will now display properly when you complete this Public Dungeon.
Forgotten Waste
- The proper public dungeon icon will now be displayed on the map.
- Echoes of a Fallen House: It will now be slightly easier to interact with the Sixth House Bells.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

General

Added multiple books and notes to Eidetic Memory.
Adjusted the title for “Battleground Elite Merchants” to “Elite Gear Vendors”, to match their compatriots in Cyrodiil.
Added a new book, Lady Cinnabar of Taneth's “Who Are the Wardens?” to bookshelves across Vvardenfell. Wardens who read this tome will find its words will improve their knowledge of the Animal Companions, Green Balance, and Winter's Embrace skill lines.

Achievements

You will now be credited for defeating the Guardian of Bthark for the Nchuleftingth Conqueror & Nchuleftingth Vanquisher achievements.

Item Sets

Defiler: Reduced the damage the Hunger deals to 6000 from 9999.
Knight Slayer: This item set now deals 9% of an enemy player’s maximum health as Oblivion Damage, reduced from 10%.
Vanguard’s Challenge: The effect is now lost if the wearer enters sneak, invisibility, or moves further than 28 meters away from the taunted enemy player character.
Warrior-Poet: This item set now has an additional 5-piece bonus of Max Health.
War Maiden: This item set now has a 2-piece bonus of Spell Critical instead of Max Health.
Developer Comments:
Sets like War Maiden, Netch’s Touch, and Ysgramor’s Legacy are meant to be damage or healing focused by augmenting a particular element or skill line, so the 2-piece bonus of Max Health was out of place for this theme. We’ve updated them to have more appropriate 2-piece bonuses instead.

Pickpocketing

Fixed an issue where the citizens of Vvardenfell would sometimes have fewer items in their pockets than intended.
Fixed several minor placement issues with Safeboxes and Thieves Troves in Vvardenfell.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

Furnishings

Fixed an issue where the visual effects for the “Dwarven Crystal Mechanism” furnishing would disappear unexpectedly.
Fixed an issue where the “Tree, Rooted Ashland" furnishing had a lower sell price than intended.
Added size information to the quest reward Housing item, "Sir Sock's Ball of Yarn".
Fixed an issue with the appearance of the "Dwarven Table, Refined” furnishing.
Added icons to a number of Dwarven furnishings.

Housing Editor

Moved "Rock, Volcanic Chunk" and "Rock, Volcanic Slab" to the Boulders and Large Rocks category from the Stones and Pebbles category.

Homes

Fixed the leaky roof on the Amaya Lake Lodge; it will no longer rain in your home.
Replaced some of the Redoran items in the Amaya Lake Lodge with Hlaalu furnishings. However, not every item in the Hlaalu home is of Hlaalu origin – the great House Hlaalu still enjoys getting a good deal on furnishings from the other Houses.
The Ald Velothi Harbor House now has an appropriate preview picture in the Collections menu.
Corrected several minor visual issues in Vvardenfell homes.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

General

Guild Traders Mauthoth and Sebastian Brutya are now manning their proper booths.
Slaves in Vvardenfell no longer have perky greetings; they are much more dismal now.
You can no longer sit on Vivec’s Throne. Sorry!
Improved the loading time at the Molag Mar Wayshrine
Updated Drivam's House to be a trespassing location.
Added initial quests to help guide you to the Fighters and Mages Guilds.
Fixed various issues involving VO, visual effects, typos, and floating objects.

Quests

A Creeping Hunger: The Hunger now resets properly in certain situations.
A Hireling of House Telvanni: Vampire player characters will no longer be prompted to “Feed” when pickpocketing the bad poem.
A Melodic Mistake: The miners now hum significantly on the quest step “Fix the Dwarven Resonator”.
An Armiger’s Duty:
- You can now choose to take the helmet if you wish instead of always taking it.
- Fixed an issue if a stack of corpses covered the boss's spawn location, it could prevent others from summoning it.
Ancestral Adversity:
- You will no longer be blocked by invisible collision once the gate has been lifted.
- Narsis Dren lost another superpower -- only one of him will appear when he picks up the skull. The world is not ready for two Narsis Drens!
- You will no longer see inside Elms Veloths tomb when interacting with it.
- Fixed an issue where there would be a long delay between shoving Narsis Dren and when he actually falls.
At Any Cost: Xykenaz now disappears after being defeated.
Bound by Love: Star shell mounds are now only usable while on this quest.
Breaking through the Fog:
- All group members will now only receive credit toward this quest once per slave rescued.
- Grouped players will now advance the quest properly if one player uses Findun’s Special Blend.
Broken Bonds:
- You will now be less likely to back up when interacting with the boat to the pirate ship.
- You can no longer social jump to Firemoth Island.
Divine Delusions: The Wise Woman now speaks louder during the debate in Under Skar, and will also leave when the fight begins.
Divine Intervention: Realizing that history will record her as Imperial, Volrina Quarra has decided not to argue and has changed herself to an Imperial.
Divine Restoration: Barbas will no longer knock you through doors.
Hatching a Plan: The giant egg no longer clips into Revus Demnevanni.
Haunted Grounds: Ashu-awa will no longer vanish if you leave the Ashlander camp before speaking to him.
Like Blood From a Stone:
- You can no longer sit in Rayveth’s seat. Sorry!
- Fixed an issue where the Assassin would occasionally not spawn, blocking your quest progress.
Of Faith and Family: Naryu’s posture changes are now much smoother during this quest.
Oxen Free: All group members will now receive credit for killing Nilthog and collecting mushrooms.
Relics of Ashalmawia: Increased the number rubble locations active at one time.
Relics of Yasammidan: Increased the number rubble locations active at one time.
Siren’s Song:
- You will now receive credit when you or other group members collect the cargo, but you will only receive credit once.
- Kimbrudhil now displays a boss health bar.
The Heart of a Telvani: You can no longer use knockout powder on corpses.
The Memory Stone: Gilan is noticeably more thrilled with Bravora’s news.
The Scarlet Judge: Once handcuffed, Master Arano will remain handcuffed.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

General

Fixed an issue where the in-game mail for the Discovery Pack did not have the correct text in German and French.
Attempting to use “Travel to Player” on a group member who is in Vvardenfell will now display an appropriate error message if you do not have access to Morrowind.

Achievements

The "Morrowind Master Angler" and "Strider Caravaner" achievements now have their final icons.
Made several minor improvements and corrections to the text for Battleground achievements.

Battlegrounds

Center screen messages for kills will now display only in Deathmatch games.
Relic icons in the score tracker will no longer shift around.

Help

Updated the in game help screens for Battlegrounds to reflect the Medals that can be earned in the different match types.
Made a number of minor typo corrections and text clarifications to in-game help screens.
Localized the remaining ESO Plus help menu entries in the French game client.

Maps

Destinations for the Silt Strider caravans in Balmora and Vivec City are now listed on their city maps.
Navigators in Vivec City and Sadrith Mora now list destinations on the map.
Navigators to Vvardenfell are now shown on the Port Hunding, Bleakrock Village, and Abah’s Landing maps.
Your map pin is now correctly placed when inside St. Delyn’s Penthouse.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

Figure

The Cadaverous Assassin polymorph no longer appears to be distorted.

General

It is now possible to use the Blade of Woe on men and mer, Draugr, and Dremora found in the following public dungeons:
- Crimson Cove
- Hall of the Dead
- Lions Den
- Lost City of Na-Totambu
- Obsidian Scar
- Razak's Wheel
- Rulanyil's Fall
- Sanguine's Demesne
- Vile Manse
- Village of the Lost

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

Quests

Old Orsinium: You will now be able to pass through the locked door to the interior once the puzzle has been solved.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

Animation

Removed idle animations for Target Skeletons. They’re not even alive, after all.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

General

You can no longer increase your total Movement Speed bonus to more than 100% of your base Movement Speed.
Developer Comment:
This change should only affect builds that are stacking all the Movement Speed bonuses in the game, and should prevent some of the extreme movement those builds are able to do in situations like Battleground flag running. This also prevents instances where those builds could run faster on foot than via a mount.

Buffs and Debuffs

Minor Toughness: Fixed an issue where reapplying this buff would cause you to lose health.

Nightblade

Shadow
- Twisting Path (Path of Darkness morph): Increased the damage of this morph by approximately 11%.

Sorcerer

Dark Magic
- Dark Exchange: Increased the cast time of this ability and its morphs to 1.2 seconds from 1 second.
  Developer Comments:
  Adding an additional .2 seconds to the cast time of these abilities reduces the amount of resources they can generate when cast quickly in succession, and grants enemies more time to interrupt them.

Weapon

Two Handed
- Cleave: Increased the damage over time of this ability and its morphs by approximately 16%.
Bow
- Heavy Attacks now automatically fire when they are fully charged.
  Developer Comment:
  Fully-charged Heavy Attacks will be more important with the resource changes coming in this update, so we want to make sure there are no gameplay barriers to using them.

Guild

Mages Guild
- Radiant Magelight (Magelight morph):
  - This morph no longer passively reduces your damage taken by sneak attacks. It continues to passively prevent the stun from sneak attacks.
  - Reduced the cost of this morph by approximately 10%.
  Developer Comments:
  Due to the reduction of sneak attack damage against other player characters, it is no longer necessary for Radiant Magelight to reduce their damage further. This prevents situations where using a sneak attack would actually do less damage than a normal attack. We’ve reduced the cost on this morph to make it more attractive relative to Inner Light.

Dark Anchors

Standing still while in combat with a Dark Anchor now causes an an extraplanar charge to gradually accumulate at your location. A charge that has built to critical levels explodes, damaging those who contributed to its growth and significantly reducing their health recovery.

Monster Abilities

Watcher
- Doom-Truth's Gaze damage now scales with the Watcher's attributes instead of the target's.
- Shockwave will now be used even if targets cannot be knocked back.
- Silence no longer stops Watchers from attacking.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

Master Writs

Adjusted the drop rates for furnishing plans from Hlaalu Master Furnisher’s Documents and Hlaalu Journeyman Furnisher’s Documents to ensure each plan shows up roughly as often.
- For example, Redguard plans will be easier to find, while Wood Elf plans will repeat themselves less often.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

Crafting Motifs

Fixed an issue where Celestial Motif books purchased from the Crown Store had an incorrect requirement listed, stating that you needed Rank 10 in a crafting passive to read the book. This is not the case – the Crown Store version of the Motif can be learned by a character of any crafting rank.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

General

Grand Soul Gems are now simply known as Soul Gems.
Fixed an issue where the names of Soul Gems found throughout the world would not match the item you received.
Master and Maelstrom Weapon Enchantments no longer function if the item runs out of enchantment charges.

Harvesting

Fixed an issue that caused heavy sacks to occasionally contain potency runes of a slightly higher or lower rank than intended.

Item Sets

The following item sets now has a 2-piece bonus of Spell Critical instead of Max Health:
- Light Speaker
- Netch’s Touch
- Spider Cultist
- Ysgramor’s Birthright
Developer Comments:
These sets are meant to be damage or healing focused by augmenting a particular element or skill line, so the 2-piece bonus of Max Health was out of place for this theme. We’ve updated them to have more appropriate 2-piece bonuses instead.

The following item sets now has a 2-piece bonus of Weapon Critical instead of Max Health:
- Strength of the Automaton
- Sword Dancer
Burning Spellweave: Decreased the proc chance to 15% from 20%, and decreased the Spell Damage bonus to 525 from 600.
Developer Comments:
Burning Spellweave is currently one of the most dominant Magicka DPS sets in the game, which limits diversity in set gearing. We’ve slightly reduced the proc chance and Spell Damage it grants so it is more in-line with other Item Set options, and is only a more attractive option when you are using many Flame Damage attacks.

Pirate Skeleton: This item set no longer procs if the damage you take is fully absorbed by a damage shield.
Pirate Skeleton: Increased the proc chance to 8% from 5%.
Developer Comments:
We’ve increased the proc chance on this Item Set to make it more attractive for tanks, but have also added the restriction that it cannot proc on damage shields. This means you will need to take damage to your health in order to proc it, and cannot easily circumvent the Minor Defile penalty. It also adds more risk to utilizing this set as a damage shield user since you must first let your damage shields fall off.

PvP Merchants

The "Offensive" and "Defensive" boxes of equipment that Elite Gear merchants sell now have a small chance to contain a purple-quality item instead of the usual blue-quality item.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

Furnishings

The “Redguard Cask, Sealed” furnishing now has appropriate collision on all sides.
Added textures to the bottom of the “Boulder, Craggy Heap” furnishing.
The "Argonian Drum, Ceremonial" furnishing can now be selected normally in the Housing Editor.
Fixed an issue that caused held items to fly around you when you used a Mundus Stone furnishing.
Adjusted the center point of the "Wood Elf Handfast Statue" so it's easier to pick up and move around.
- If you’ve already placed this in your home, it will be in a slightly different position and you may need to pick it up and reposition it.

Homes

Fixed an issue that could cause you to be knocked through parts of certain homes.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

General

Fixed an issue where your game could crash after going through a loading screen while in combat.

Grouping Tool

Fixed an issue where you could get teleported out of a dungeon after entering it when using the Grouping Tool.
Fixed an issue where you would occasionally not receive your rewards for completing a random dungeon.
Fixed an issue where you would occasionally see some status messages such as “Activity Completed” at the incorrect times.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

Craglorn

Howling Sepulcher's meta-achievement, Upper Craglorn Cave Delver, will now always award progress.
- If you have not received progress for this, simply defeat Akiirdal once again and you will receive proper credit.

ZOS_GinaBruno · May 2017

General

Chairs, benches and various other items you can sit on are now named “Seat” instead of “Sit”.
Fixed an issue where the names for some homes would not appear on the purchasing screen.

Bank

Fixed an issue where splitting a stack in the bank could sometimes incorrectly show a "Bank is full" error message.

Gamepad Mode

Tooltips for collectibles will now show the collectible's category type.

MotokoKusanagi34 · May 2017

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Onefrkncrzypope · May 2017

DKs are perfectly balance good job ZoS

Mojmir · May 2017

LOL nerfs to BSW and movement speed?

HugeMuffin · May 2017

Sap tanks still dead. Stamblades not worth playing, but at least path got a buff for magblades.

Kilandros · May 2017

These notes are just an insult to player feedback at this point

Oompuh · May 2017

Burning spell weave and pirate skele nerf. PogChamp

Arrchangell · May 2017

I'll just stop hoping they will fix nb this update, it's clear they aren't gonna do anything for them right now.

BohnT · May 2017

And still no fix for dark deal...

Akimbro · May 2017

No changes to classes/sustain...?