PTS Patch Notes v3.2.3

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2017

The Elder Scrolls Online v3.2.3 continues to address issues in the Clockwork City DLC game pack, and includes further improvements to the Transmutation system. We’ve also made a number of additional combat balance changes affecting abilities and item sets, which you can read more about below. All PC/Mac European megaserver characters have been copied in this patch, which is approximate 408MB in size. Thanks for all your feedback and bug reports so far!

Fixes & Improvements
- Morrowind
- DLC Game Packs
  - Clockwork City
  - Imperial City
- Combat & Gameplay
  - Combat Balance
  - Combat Fixes & Improvements
  - Itemization Balance
  - Itemization Fixes & Improvements
- Base Game Patch
  - Art & Animation
  - Crafting & Economy
  - Crown Store & Crown Crates
  - Exploration & Itemization
  - Housing
  - Quests & Zones
  - UI

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2017

Battlegrounds

Interacting with all flags in a Capture the Flag match now has a small cast time to initially pick up the flag, but it's still instant capture.

Animation

Naryu no longer flickers during conversation in the quest Broken Bonds.

Warden Balance

Animal Companions
- Feral Guardian: Increased the Health of the bear summoned by this ability and its morphs to 25,000 from 20,000.
  Developer Comments:
  This change will make the bear a little more resilient against incidental Area of Effect attacks, as well as against being focus-fired.

Motifs

Fixed an issue where Crafting Motif 51: Hlaalu Boots could be used even if you had already learned that chapter.

Quests

Nothing to Sneeze At: You will now be taken back to the step to talk to Tilenra if you run away from Menaldinion immediately after dousing the plants with the potion. This will help prevent your progress from becoming blocked.

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2017

Animation

The legs from the Nix Ox mount will now conform to more variable terrain when IK is enabled.
Fixed an issue where the wings from the Wraith of Crows and Abathoth would appear distorted or with holes.
Female player characters will now interact with Transmute Stations properly.

General

Added musical stingers to appropriate scenes and quests throughout the Clockwork City.
Hostile factotums will now play ambient VO where applicable.

Monsters

Fixed an issue where Firepot Spiders would occasionally fail to land after leaping into the air.
Monsters that spawn from pipes are now accompanied by a burst of steam.
Fixed an issue where some monsters would not fight back after being attacked.
Fixed an issue that would occasionally cause the Wraith of Crows not to properly murder the targeted player character.
Tenebrous Shadows are now less selective when casting Shadow Wave.
Shadow of Sotha Sil
- The Shadow Wave and Distant Shadows buff icons will no longer be displayed.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Shadow of Sotha Sil to display generic icons upon receiving a damage shield from his summoned minions.
Shrike Shroudweavers no longer cast Night Shroud for monsters outside its current combat.
Whispering Sentinels no longer cast Grasping Void on a target recently knocked back by Abyss.
The Fire Mage Heat Wave ability can now be interrupted.

NPCs

Adjusted the locations of multiple randomized NPCs so they no longer interfere with one another or spawn too close to enemies.
You can no longer assassinate Auditory Stimulators in the Brass Fortress. I mean, they have no kidneys to stab, y'know?

World Bosses

Increased the difficulty of world bosses found in the Clockwork City.

Asylum Sanctorium Trial

General
- The “Halo Fragments” quest-granting item will now always be awarded upon defeating Saint Olms in Asylum Sanctorium in Normal mode, if not already on the Saint’s Mercy quest.
Saint Felms
- Saint Felms, the patron saint of Butchers and Fishmongers, is now rightfully equipped with an Axe and Dagger.
Saint Olms
- Saint Olms will no longer cause performance degradation when he lands after performing Gusts of Steam.

Eidetic Memory

The books present for the quest “Of Knives and Long Shadows” will be now visible in their original locations after you complete this quest, if for some reason they did not add to your Eidetic Memory.

Mementos

The icon for the Umbral Projector will no longer become distorted when dragging this Memento into a quickslot.

Furnishings

Fixed an issue where certain Clockwork Provisioning designs required more Bervez Juice to craft than intended.
A number of new furnishings can now be acquired from a variety of sources in Clockwork City. This includes precision tools and small pieces of machinery from Justice activities, as well as obsolete Factotum parts from Factotum enemies.

General

Stolen Treasures in the Clockwork City now correctly indicate that they are Treasures, and are now correctly Bind on Pickup.

General

Fixed a number of typos and text/VO mismatches in relation to quests.
Fixed a gate in the Clockwork Basilica that was interfering with interactions with a particular NPC in the main story.

Quests

Deepening Shadows: Adjusted the steam valve puzzle based on feedback received.
Lost in the Gloam: The Knight of Marrow and Luciana will no longer repeat their VO.
The Most Complicated Machine: Bolin’s VO will now be heard properly during and after the transfer sequence.
To the Clockwork City: Fixed an issue with the map in Seht’s Vault, the Pneumatis, and other quest instance locations.
Where Shadows Lie: Significantly increased the damage dealt by the shadowed areas in this quest.

General

Factotums in Halls of Regulation will no longer have quest pins appear above their heads while on this delve's daily quests.

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2017

Gamepad Mode

Fixed an issue where the Tel Var Stone icon would appear as a white square in the Death Recap screen.

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2017

Dragonknight

Draconic Power
- Reflective Scale: Increased the duration of this ability and it morphs to 6 seconds from 4 seconds.
  Developer Comments:
  This new duration is consistent with similar abilities, such as Crystallized Shield or damage shields, and allows Dragonknights to maintain better uptime with less resources spent and global cooldowns used.

Earthen Heart
- Petrify: This ability and its morphs can no longer be cast on a crowd-control immune enemy.

Sorcerer

Dark Magic
- Defensive Rune (Rune Prison morph): The buff applied by this morph will no longer be consumed when you are attacked by a crowd-control immune enemy.
- Rune Prison: This ability and its morphs can no longer be cast on a crowd-control immune enemy.

Templar

Dawn’s Wrath
- Eclipse:
  - Increased the damage this ability and its morphs deal by approximately 67%.
  - Increased the cooldown on when this damage can occur to 750ms.
  - The damage from this ability can no longer be blocked.
  - The damage from this ability can now occur on the first tick of any Damage over Time ability.
  - This ability and the Total Dark morph can no longer be cast on a crowd-control immune enemy.
  Developer Comments:
  This change makes Eclipse more useful against targets that are not dealing numerous attacks each second, such as monsters or even players who are not light attack weaving. This helps make the results of this ability more consistent against different targets.
- Solar Barrage (Solar Flare morph): This morph now grants the Empower buff after every tick of damage, instead of only when you initially cast it.
Restoring Light
- Healing Ritual: Reduced the cast time of this ability and its morphs to 1.2 seconds from 1.5 seconds.
  Developer Comments:
  Reducing the cast time of this ability will make it less susceptible to interrupts, and easier to land a potential life-saving heal on an ally. It now fits better with the fast-paced nature of combat.
- Cleansing Ritual: Increased the cost of this ability and its morphs by approximately 14%.
  Developer Comments:
  This change encourages more strategic use of this ability’s powerful debuff removal. Recasting this ability to remove only a few debuffs at a time will be a less efficient use of the Templar’s resources.

Weapon

Bow
- Acid Spray (Arrow Spray morph): Increased the duration of the Damage over Time applied by this morph to 6 seconds from 5 seconds, causing it to tick for one additional instance of damage.
- Arrow Spray: Increased the duration of the snare applied by this ability and its morphs to 6 seconds from 5 seconds.
Destruction Staff
- Elemental Storm: Reduced the damage of this ability and the Eye of the Storm morph by approximately 12%. The damage on the Elemental Rage morph remains unchanged.

Armor

Heavy Armor
- Immovable: Reduced the cost of this ability and its morphs by approximately 5%.

Champion System

The Tower
- Siphoner: Reverted this champion passive’s values back to 15% at 100-points, but it now reduces all resource restore effects on the enemy. This includes potions, item sets, and ability passives.

Nightblade

Siphoning
- Malevolent Offering:
  - Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs were displaying a generic icon and incorrect name in the Death Recap UI.
  - Updated this ability and its morphs’ tooltip text and new morph effect text to better match its new functionality.

Sorcerer

Daedric Summoning
- Summon Storm Atronach: Fixed an issue where the Atronach summoned from this ability and its morphs could use its channeled zap attack through walls.

Templar

Restoring Light
- Rune Focus: Fixed an issue where the visual effects and audio from this ability and its morphs would repeatedly flicker if you stood within the Area of Effect.

Guild

Fighters Guild
- Circle of Protection: Fixed an issue where the visual effects and audio from this ability and its morphs would repeatedly flicker if you stood within the Area of Effect.

Champion System

Fixed an issue where the Master Gatherer and Befoul Champion passives were not functioning.

Item Sets

Chaotic Whirlwind: Increased the duration that Whirlwind adds to your Twin Slashes, Lacerate, and Blade Cloak over time effects to 12 seconds from 10 seconds.
- The imperfect version was increased to 10 seconds from 8 seconds.
Clever Alchemist: This item set’s proc now requires that you are in combat for it to function.
Developer Comments:
This solves the issue where some players would activate their potion with this item set, then completely switch their gear to a new item set while retaining the bonus. We want this item set to be used more strategically in the middle of combat, rather than it only being used to one-shot players from stealth.

Destructive Impact: Increased this item set’s cost reduction for Destructive Touch to 30% from 12%, and increased the bonus to its direct damage to 2000 from 1500.
Piercing Spray: Increased the duration of the debuff applied by this item set to 6 seconds from 5 seconds.
Shadow of the Red Mountain: This item set’s proc can no longer target neutral monsters or monsters you are not in combat with.
Timeless Blessing: This item set now causes Blessing of Protection to reduce the cost of all your healing abilities by 30% for 3 seconds.
- The imperfect version reduces the cost by 27%.
Titanic Cleave: This item set now increases the direct damage Cleave deals by 1500 for each enemy in its cone, up to a maximum of 9000 increased damage.

Item Sets

Destructive Impact: Fixed a typo in this item set’s name.
Mad Tinkerer: Fixed an issue where the monster summoned by this item set’s proc was not scaling with your global damage bonuses, such as those from the Champion System.

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2017

Figure

Fingers on the Wraith of Crows polymorph no longer appear flat or with gaps.
Fixed a visual issue on the shoulders for the Malacath Homespun Armor when worn by Khajiit female characters and thin Altmer characters.
Fixed visual issues with elbow pads, tassets, pauldrons, or the overall appearance for a number of armors and costumes.

Terrain

Fixed collision on various assets.
Fixed textures that were previously missing or stretched on a variety of assets.

Crafting Writs

Fixed an issue where the journal entry for a high ranking Enchanting Writ would claim to require the non-existent Nokude rune, instead of a Jehade rune.

Art & Animation

The Plague Husk Horse now has proper visual effects an all mount upgrades.

Eidetic Memory

Made changes to multiple lore books that were not attainable until after their associated quest is complete.

Item Sets

The Automaton Gem, a named ring found in Darkshade Caverns, now appears in the Strength of the Automaton set instead of the Netch’s Touch set.
- Previously-dropped Automaton Gems will not be changed, and will continue to be part of the Netch's Touch item set.

Transmutation

Continued to iterate on Transmute Crystal drop rates in this patch.
- The Weekly Veteran and Normal-mode Trial Quests now give 5 Transmute Crystals upon completion, up from 4 Crystals.
- Transmutation Geodes awarded from Dungeon and Trial Leaderboard placement now award 5 Transmute Crystals, up from 4 Crystals.
- The Transmutation Geodes awarded from placing on the Leaderboards in 7-day Cyrodiil Campaigns will now award 10 Transmute Crystals, up from 4 Crystals.
- The Transmutation Geodes awarded from placing on the Leaderboards in 30-day Cyrodiil Campaigns will now award 50 Transmute Crystals, up from 40 Crystals.
- The Uncracked Transmutation Geodes awarded from Rewards for the Worthy mails will now give a minimum of 4 Transmute Crystals, up from 3, and can rarely grant as many as 25.
Standardized the different Geode names - there are now Transmutation Geodes which always give a set amount of Crystals, and Uncracked Transmutation Geodes which give a random amount of Crystals. The higher a Geode's quality, the more Crystals it will provide.
Transmutation Geodes can no longer be opened if you are already have the maximum number of Transmute Crystals.

General

Updated the text for the book "Anthology of Available Abodes" to be generally more informative about the abodes in question.

Homes

Fixed a number of small visual and collision issues with Pariah’s Pinnacle and The Orbservatory Prior.

Furnishings

The "Khajiit Skooma Bubbler" furnishing can now be lit, generating a soft purple plume of smoke.
Fixed an issue that caused the "Shrub, Mountain Thistle" furnishing to appear twice in the Purchase tab of the housing editor.
Fixed an issue where the flames for the "Orcish Brazier, Snowswept Column" would appear at the base of the column.
Stealing from wardrobes, dressers, and the pockets of Clothiers now has a small chance to award you with a furnishing version of stacked cloth or folded leather.

Greenshade

The Flooded Grove: The ritual altar is now easier to interact with.

General

Fixed an issue where the Equipment Bonus indicator could be missing a star.
Fixed an issue where you could receive a Collectible notification for a Collectible that hasn't actually been granted and isn't usable.

Gamepad Mode

Fixed an issue where your target’s name would collide with the Player to Player interaction wheel.

BohnT · October 2017

Still no changes to Shield ult and Resto ult?
The other changes look good.

Zerglings are scrubs

ak_pvp · October 2017

Well it looks like DKs are getting the short straw again. A 2s buff to a costly, projectile limited, bugged and some projectiles ignored it.

*** great.

Kilandros · October 2017

ARE SERIOUS WITH THAT NEW SIPHONER PASSIVE. That's going to be absolutely broken in PvP.

Takes-No-Prisoner · October 2017

Clever Alchemist: This item set’s proc now requires that you are in combat for it to function.

Developer Comments:
Spoilerhide
This solves the issue where some players would activate their potion with this item set, then completely switch their gear to a new item set while retaining the bonus. We want this item set to be used more strategically in the middle of combat, rather than it only being used to one-shot players from stealth

Interesting

Blackbird_V · October 2017

Still no fix to templars or synergies......

NBrookus · October 2017

Kilandros wrote: »

ARE SERIOUS WITH THAT NEW SIPHONER PASSIVE. That's going to be absolutely broken in PvP.

And add that to the increased cost of Purifying Ritual.

LordSlif · October 2017

templars dnt use direct dmg, pls remove empower omg

LordSlif · October 2017

change empower for something useful

Sandman929 · October 2017

A few interesting things. I'm content to know that EotS is at least getting examined.

jcaceresw · October 2017

Those PVP whiners asked for the Destro Ulti nerf, right? **** you!

Cinbri · October 2017

Resto and snb ults nerfs next week?
Tho I liked how when other classes got only buffs Templars got nerf..

Minno · October 2017

Sandman929 wrote: »

A few interesting things. I'm content to know that EotS is at least getting examined.

But Templar purge got more expensive. Like we need more resource drain lol.

DDuke · October 2017

Another PTS Patch, and still nothing to address the rampant cheating via 3rd party addons (detecting incoming attacks from stealth before they're even in the air).

Sometimes I wonder if you read your forums at all.

MyKillv2.0 · October 2017

jcaceresw wrote: »

Those PVP whiners asked for the Destro Ulti nerf, right? **** you!

The PvE version was left unchanged, I thought ?

Solariken · October 2017

LordSlif wrote: »

change empower for something useful

Agreed, just grant Minor Berserk for 6 sec on cast.

Solariken · October 2017

jcaceresw wrote: »

Those PVP whiners asked for the Destro Ulti nerf, right? **** you!

If you PvE you should be taking the other morph anyway.

zyk · October 2017

Clever Alchemist: This item set’s proc now requires that you are in combat for it to function.
Developer Comments:

This solves the issue where some players would activate their potion with this item set, then completely switch their gear to a new item set while retaining the bonus. We want this item set to be used more strategically in the middle of combat, rather than it only being used to one-shot players from stealth.

Ugh. This is a really lazy fix that limits flexibility and imposes an inconvenience. Please implement a proper fix for this set that removes the buff if the set bonus is removed.

SFDB · October 2017

Please consider adding a lone transmute crystal to the rewards for perfect scores in Heists and Sacraments. These can't really break the game, and improving those rewards would make attempting those challenges more worthwhile.

Elsterchen · October 2017

Animal Companions

Feral Guardian: Increased the Health of the bear summoned by this ability and its morphs to 25,000 from 20,000.

... so wardens have a companion now ? Someone with as much health as a player and attacking ... ?

Please explain to me why the mercenary have been taken away from cyrodiil?

Moloch1514 · October 2017

Furnishings
The "Khajiit Skooma Bubbler" furnishing can now be lit, generating a soft purple plume of smoke

Yay! One time I was happy in a patch note! Thanks ZoS!

AlienatedGoat · October 2017

Solariken wrote: »

jcaceresw wrote: »

Those PVP whiners asked for the Destro Ulti nerf, right? **** you!

If you PvE you should be taking the other morph anyway.

Yeah I'm just happy they didn't nerf Elemental Rage too. That would've been hard to swallow.

_Salty_ · October 2017

Just be greatful that they didnt buff sorcs more. Any patch without a sorc buff is a good one lol.

Xsorus · October 2017

Hmmmm, titanic cleave seems interesting now... I mean.... that’s a really powerful weapon now

SaintSubwayy · October 2017

Clever Alchemist: This item set’s proc now requires that you are in combat for it to function.

Developer Comments:
Spoilerhide
This solves the issue where some players would activate their potion with this item set, then completely switch their gear to a new item set while retaining the bonus. We want this item set to be used more strategically in the middle of combat, rather than it only being used to one-shot players from stealth

just fix the set and we^re good to go... not sure what bomblades are running these days but it might be a nerf due to a poorly coded set.

Elsonso · October 2017

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Female player characters will now interact with Transmute Stations properly.

Kinky...

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

World Bosses
Increased the difficulty of world bosses found in the Clockwork City.

Interesting. This is something we almost never see in patch notes.