PTS Patch Notes v4.1.1

ZOS_GinaBruno · July 2018

The Elder Scrolls Online v4.1.1 introduces a number of new features to test including the Witches Festival and Imperial City Celebration events, and a new currency - Event Tickets. Please help us in testing these features! Additionally, we have a number of bug fixes that mainly cover the two new dungeons and new features in Update 19. The size of this patch is approximately 383MB.

New Features / Updates / Big Changes
Template Updates
Known Issues
Fixes & Improvements
- DLCs & Updates
  - Clockwork City
  - Summerset
  - Wolfhunter
- Combat & Gameplay
  - Combat & Abilities
  - Itemization & Item Sets
- Base Game
  - Alliance War & PvP
  - Crafting & Economy
  - Crown Store & Crown Crates
  - Exploration & Itemization
  - Housing
  - UI

ZOS_GinaBruno · July 2018

Special Merchant & Event Tickets
Event Tickets are a special new currency that can only be earned by participating in Holidays, DLC Celebrations, and other in-game events. Event Tickets are account-wide, so an Event Ticket earned on one character is accessible to another character immediately. You can hold up to a maximum of 10 Event Tickets on your account, and Event Tickets cannot be traded, mailed, or banked.

The first event to feature Event Tickets will be the Witches Festival, which is being turned on during this PTS patch. You'll be able to earn one Event Ticket per day, per account, by defeating any boss monster during the Witches Festival.
You can spend your Event Tickets at the Impresario, found just north of Vulkhel Guard in Auridon, southeast of Davon's Watch in Stonefalls, and east of Daggerfall in Glenumbra. During the Witches Festival, she will be selling an Emerald Indrik Feather for 10 Event Tickets each.
- This unique, account-bound Legendary Feather is a Runebox Fragment; the remaining three Runebox Fragments will become available during future events.
- While we won't spoil what they combine into just yet, be aware that the thing they create when combined will also be account-bound and untradeable.

Witches Festival
Beware the coming of the Dremora with the Witches Festival! During this event, which is available to test this week on the PTS, you will be able to earn the previously-unreleased Dremora Crafting Motif, obtained from Dremora Plunder Skulls, and the new Apple-Bobbing Cauldron Memento. We’ve also adjusted the rates of rewards within all Plunder Skulls for greater variety, and to make the Hollowjack Motif rarer and more desirable.

The delightful Apple-Bobbing Cauldron Memento can be obtained by acquiring the seven fragments of its Runebox. These Runebox Fragments can be obtained from any Plunder Skulls (Dremora or non-Dremora), found during the Witches Festival.

Dremora Motif
The Dremora Motif is available during the Witches Festival, inside the new Dremora Plunder Skulls. This style has been spread among all the evils that plague Tamriel; while wearing it, others might mistake you for one such evil, too.

The special new Plunder Skulls contain the Dremora Crafting Motif, in addition to all the bewitching loot that a normal Plunder Skull has. Each Dremora Plunder Skull is tied to a specific type of boss, such as Delve, Dungeon, or Trial Bosses. You can obtain a Dremora Plunder Skull by killing a boss of that type, once per day.
The specific Dremora Motif Chapter found in a Dremora Plunder Skull depends on the type of boss defeated to obtain it:
Note that for Arenas, Dungeons, and Trials, only the final boss will provide a Dremora Plunder Skull. All other bosses leading up to the final boss will only provide a normal, non-Dremora Plunder Skull.

Imperial City Celebration
Prepare for double rewards with the Imperial City Celebration! For the duration of the event, available to test now on the PTS, bosses drop twice their normal loot, daily quests give two reward boxes instead of one, harvest nodes give double resources, and you get twice as many Tel Var Stones and Bone Shards. If you are lucky enough to find and slay a Treasure Scamp in the sewers, you’ll enjoy double the normal loot from it as well. In addition, defeating the Simulacrum of Molag Bal in the Barathrum Centrata has twice the normal chance to award the Stonefire Scamp pet or Soul-Shriven skin.

Platinum, the Jewelry Crafting material for CP 150-160 rings and necklaces, is purchased from Tel Var General Merchants for 50 Tel Var Stones apiece, starting with the Imperial City Celebration. After that time, Platinum will be available from those same merchants, at that same price, even after the event ends.
During the Imperial City Celebration, drops from all bosses are doubled during the event. This includes sweepers, and bosses in the White-Gold Tower and the Imperial City Prison dungeons.

ZOS_GinaBruno · July 2018

Fixed an issue where the Bust and Trophy for Saint Olms the Just were not in The Undaunted Furnisher's Crate.
Creating a character with the Wolfhunter Character Template will now set your account to have 9 Event Tickets. The Event Tickets are only applied to characters freshly made with the Template; previously-made characters, whether with or without the Template, will not gain these Event Tickets.
Fixed an issue where the Blood Moon Jewelry box was mislabeled as the Plague Slinger jewelry box.
Fixed an issue where the Savage Werewolf box contained the Blood Moon item set.
Fixed an issue where Gryphon Plumes, the style item for the Welkynar style, did not have the correct icon.

ZOS_GinaBruno · July 2018

Performance

If you have multiple GPUs, it’s very likely you will crash when launching the game. As a temporary workaround, disabling crossfire or SLI will allow you to log into the PTS.

ZOS_GinaBruno · July 2018

Monsters

Wraith of Crows no longer bleeds blood when struck by physical attacks.

ZOS_GinaBruno · July 2018

Monster Abilities

Players chomped by salamanders now hear themselves being chomped.

World Bosses

Graveld no longer regenerates slightly when he takes refuge in his lair.

ZOS_GinaBruno · July 2018

General

Added the final voiceover in all languages. If you come across any VO that is missing or incorrect, please use /bug and let us know!

Dungeons

March of Sacrifices
- General
  - Balorgh has replaced the Banner of Glorious Hunt with the Moon Hunter Pack banner to activate Hard Mode.
  - Hanu and her Father will no longer talk over each other after you defeat Balorgh.
  - The synergy of the wisps will now correctly display “Use Hunting Wisp.”
  - Static Charge can no longer be blocked and now does reduced damage.
  - Conflagration can no longer be blocked.
  - The Golden Indriks will now reward you with loot and experience when defeated.
  - The Wyress Sisters will now reward you with experience when defeated.
  - Hanu will no longer repeat herself if you leave the entrance while she is talking.
  - The Wisp now has a visual indicator for the step “Follow the Wisp” during the Great Hunt quest.
  - Hanu will now continue through the door after the fight with Tarcyr.
- Dagrund the Bulky
  - Dagrund the Bulky’s Possessed Nords have now been correctly identified as Bearfang Hunters.
  - The dead Nords in the Dagrund the Bulky fight will no longer inexplicably stand up before dying.
- Tarcyr
  - Tarcyr will no longer become indecisive during the encounter and fail to attack you.
- Balorgh
  - Balorgh will no longer cast Venomous Slam immediately after Thunder Stomp.
  - The Electric Water in the fight with Balorgh will no longer fail to take effect periodically.
  - Reduced the initial damage of Balorgh’s Fire Blast.
  - Any remaining wolves that are active at the time of Balorgh’s death will now perish along with him.
  - Balorgh’s Venomous Slam will now always cause venomous spores to emerge, regardless if anyone is hit.
  - Balorgh now prefers to let his actions do the talking rather than announcing every… single… ability.
  - Balorgh will no longer talk over Tharas during the fight.
  - The Shades of Balorgh are less verbose when performing attacks.
Moon Hunter Keep
- Hulking Werewolves have been trained to use Roar and Slam. In addition to their forgotten knowledge, they’ve obtained a slight increase in power.
- Vicious Dire Wolves now have armor.
- Werewolf Berserkers are now much darker than other Werewolves within Moon Hunter Keep.
- The chains for Ary and Zel now attach to the wall and harness correctly.
- The Shock Wardens’ Lightning Storm ability will no longer damage monsters and only damage players.
- Balorgh and Hanu will no longer have an incoherent conversation before Aghaedh of the Solstice.
- The archers in Moon Hunter Keep now use a bow.

Achievements

The Trick and Trap Achievement now requires you to trap Balorgh 10 times.
- Note: It does not require this to be done within the same encounter.
The Perfect Hunt Achievement now requires you to defeat Balorgh after desecrating the Moon Hunter Pack's banner, and without being hit by his fiery remnant ability for the duration of the encounter in Veteran March of Sacrifices.

ZOS_GinaBruno · July 2018

General

Fixed an issue where you were unable to slot and use abilities.
- Note: This issue tended to happened more frequently if you used the Wolfhunter character template.
Fixed an issue where the tooltips for some Enemy Keep Bonus abilities were not accurate.

Nightblade

Shadow
- Shadow Cloak
  - Dark Cloak (morph): Fixed an issue where the Minor Protection buff was reducing your damage taken by 8 instead of 8%.

Item Sets

Light of Cyrodiil: Fixed an issue where the visual effects from this item set would persist after the buff was consumed.
Zaan: Fixed an issue where the tooltip was not updated to reflect the new tether range of the beam.

ZOS_GinaBruno · July 2018

General

Keep wall upgrades now give the proper amount of wall HP.

Itemization

Fixed an issue where attempting to use a Keep Recall Stone during its casting animation would result in a failed cast.

Siege

The damage effects from Scattershot, Oil Pot and Meatbag will now last 4.5 seconds instead of 8 seconds.

Outfit Styles

Updated the visuals for Outfit Styles for Iceheart's Mask and Shoulders to better match the upcoming Arms Pack and Stalhrim Frostcaster motifs.

General

The outline and animation from the Skein Wasp pet will no longer appear on the Character Select screen if the pet is inactive.

Mementos

The Werewolf Behemoth Sigil Memento now has a 12 second cooldown.

General

Fixed an issue where Pets, Mounts, and Assistants would not rotate properly when placed in a house with the Housing Editor.

Homes

Fixed a number of small graphical errors in the Grand Psijic Villa.
Fixed an issue where the new homes were not free to teleport to.
Fixed an issue where you could become stuck near the entrance to Hunter's Glade.
Fixed issue where certain houses did not immediately show up in collections after you bought them.

Furnishings

Gnawed Animal Bones will now actually exist when you place them.

General

Fixed a UI error that would trigger when deleting your last character.

Daily Rewards

Fixed an issue where a timer would display on the next Daily Reward tooltip even though the month would end first.

Maps

The Grand Psijic Villa (located in Artaeum) will no longer appear on the Tamriel Map.

templesus · July 2018

Where are the balance changes?

ZOS_GinaBruno · July 2018

templesus wrote: »

Where are the balance changes?

We're still reviewing a lot of the feedback and data from the first week of PTS.

Lichbourne90 · July 2018

Ertthewolf · July 2018

Likely next week. Usually it goes, first patch, then bug and playability fixes, next balance changes, finally the touch up patch.

Aliyavana · July 2018

Sloads needs to not stack and have it's cool down increased.

Rmmichael95 · July 2018

Great looking bug fixes. I ama big fan of lowering the siege up time too. Would love to hear a plan for sloads and rune prison going forward tho.

templesus · July 2018

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

templesus wrote: »

Where are the balance changes?

We're still reviewing a lot of the feedback and data from the first week of PTS.

Will we see changes next week?

Rex-Umbra · July 2018

Moar plz

nemvar · July 2018

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Siege
The damage effects from Scattershot, Oil Pot and Meatbag will now last 4.5 seconds instead of 8 seconds.

good

Dracane · July 2018

Looks like the Witches Festival will be very busy this year.

Joy_Division · July 2018

If you are wondering where are the class balance changes, why X hasn''t been buffed, or Y nerfed on the second cycle of PTS notes, you haven't been paying attention the past year or so.

Sandman929 · July 2018

If anyone needs help figuring out the actual problem with Rune Cage rather than the damage it does, have them take a knee for 5 seconds while everyone else in the office kicks them.

Lord_Eomer · July 2018

templesus wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

templesus wrote: »

Where are the balance changes?

We're still reviewing a lot of the feedback and data from the first week of PTS.

Will we see changes next week?

Probably Update 20!

ZOS hardly implement any good changes during patch PTS life cycle!

WembleyOTG · July 2018

Nevermind

ZOS_GinaBruno · July 2018

templesus wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

templesus wrote: »

Where are the balance changes?

We're still reviewing a lot of the feedback and data from the first week of PTS.

Will we see changes next week?

There will likely be a few changes starting next week, yes.

TrinityBreaker · July 2018

I dont know how much more I can take...

templesus · July 2018

Joy_Division wrote: »

If you are wondering where are the class balance changes, why X hasn''t been buffed, or Y nerfed on the second cycle of PTS notes, you haven't been paying attention the past year or so.

I knew there likely wouldn’t be any, but a guys gotta hope.

chris211 · July 2018

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

templesus wrote: »

Where are the balance changes?

We're still reviewing a lot of the feedback and data from the first week of PTS.

can you look into making proc sets not procing on siege, for example sloads, vd and skoria

jaws343 · July 2018

Legendary Feather runebox, the first piece of a future secret item... do I smell Gryphon mounts in the future?

Also, farming for Dremora motifs looks to be brutal. I wonder if the Dremora Plunder skull will be a guaranteed drop on each boss type each day. Allowing for 7 total motifs to be earned per day. Or if completing a boss only provides a chance.

To make the arena motif farm easier, I wonder if we would be able to advance a number of characters to arena 9 of normal Maelstrom and then just complete the last boss each day with a different character to get the skulls.

PureEnvelope35 · July 2018

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

templesus wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

templesus wrote: »

Where are the balance changes?

We're still reviewing a lot of the feedback and data from the first week of PTS.

Will we see changes next week?

There will likely be a few changes starting next week, yes.

Will they be positive for once?

eso_nya · July 2018

Does Plunderskulltype: Arena require vet or does normal drop aswell?

Elsterchen · July 2018

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Performance
If you have multiple GPUs, it’s very likely you will crash when launching the game. As a temporary workaround, disabling crossfire or SLI will allow you to log into the PTS.

I need a guide-for-dummies please.

And I am just a little ashamed I have to ask for it.

@templesus reps meeting is scheduled for 20.7. ... so I suppose if any more changes make it into PTS, its goin to be last round only.