Indrik Mount
During this PTS patch, you’ll be able to test the sequence of events to obtain your very own Indrik mount! This mount can be earned by completing in-game events, and later exchanging Event Tickets for unique Indrik Feathers from The Impresario.

• To acquire the magical Nascent Indrik mount, you’ll need to collect four unique Indrik Feathers, which are purchased in exchange for Event Tickets with The Impresario.
  • The Impresario can be found in Daggerfall, Davon’s Watch, and Vulkhel Guard.
• Each Indrik Feather requires 10 Event Tickets.
  • Note: You can only hold up to 12 Event Tickets at a time.
• Event Tickets can be earned by participating in specific in-game events.
• Each time a new and participating in-game event starts, you’ll be able to collect a new Feather and any previous Feathers; you won’t be locked out of obtaining Feathers from previous events.
• Once you’ve summoned the base Nascent Indrik mount, you’ll have a chance to evolve it with the use of unique Berries.
  • Similar to Feathers, Berries are available from The Impresario in exchange for Event Tickets.
  • While some Berries will be available during this PTS cycle through testable in-game events, there won’t be enough to evolve the Indrik at this time.

Clockwork City Celebration
For the first time, we’ll be celebrating the Clockwork City DLC with a new event, and you’ll be able to test it this week on the PTS.

• There are a number of bonuses found throughout the zone, including:
  • Double harvesting resources from regular crafting nodes
  • Double reward drops for defeating any Boss
  • Double rewards from Clockwork City daily and weekly quests
• Additionally, you’ll be able to obtain Event Tickets from the Impresario Event Merchant.
  • You can earn two Event Tickets by completing any Clockwork City Daily Quest, once per day per account
  • The Impresario will also have the Gilded Indrik Feather to purchase with Event Tickets.

Undaunted Celebration
We’re kicking off another dungeon event later this year to give you a chance to earn a number of in-game items, including the third Indrik feather!

• To get started, simply utilize the Dungeon Finder and queue for a random Normal or Veteran dungeon.
• Upon completion of the dungeon, you’ll receive a Mysterious Reward Box that contains a bevy of items, and could include one of the following:
  • Survey Reports
  • Treasure Maps
  • Undaunted Plunder
  • Transmute Crystals
  • Undaunted Keys
  • Scalecaller Themed Pets
  • Motif Chapters
  • Mounts
  • Houses
• You can also earn up to 3 Event Tickets by defeating the final boss of any dungeon (Normal or Veteran), once per account per day.
• Visit the Impresario to purchase the Emerald Indrik Feather with your Event Tickets!

New Life Festival
The New Life Festival returns! As with previous years, track down Breda outside Windhelm to obtain the appropriately-named quest, “The New Life Festival” to get started.

• Once you complete Breda’s requests, you'll have the opportunity to complete up to nine different daily quests, each themed for Tamriel's different races and located in their respective zones. These include:
  • Castle Charm Challenge (Breton)
  • Fish Boon Feast (Argonian)
  • Lava Foot Stomp (Dunmer)
  • Mud Ball Merriment (Bosmer)
  • Signal Fire Sprint (Redguard)
  • Snow Bear Plunge (Nord)
  • Stonetooth Bash (Orc)
  • The Trial of Five-Clawed Guile (Khajiit)
  • War Orphan's Sojourn (Altmer)
• In addition, you can drink Breda’s Magnificent Mead (located in the New Life Festival Pavilion) to gain a 100% Experience buff for two hours.
• There are a number of rewards you have the chance to obtain when completing these quests, including:
  • Flavor Ingredients
  • Consumable Mementos
  • Skinchanger Motif Chapters
  • New Life Runeboxes
  • Provisioning Recipes
  • Light Source Furnishings
  • Thiefy Potions
  • Wolfsbane Incense
  • New Life Charity Writs
  • A new Crystalfrost skin, earned by completing twelve New Life Charity Writs
• You’ll be able to acquire one Event Ticket by completing any New Life Festival daily quest, once per day.
  • With these, you can purchase the Opaline Indrik Feather from the Impresario Event Merchant.

Midyear Mayhem
Midyear Mayhem is returning, but sooner than you think… As usual, you will receive double AP and double XP from PvP player kills when the reusable scroll is active.

• To start your Midyear Mayhem journey, simply follow the following steps:
  • Visit the in-game Crown Store and acquire and activate the “Details on the Midyear Mayhem" ticket
  • Travel to your Alliance War faction's main gate in Cyrodiil using the Alliance War menu
  • Find the NPC called “Predicant Maera" and pick up the quest “Midyear Mayhem" (if you already completed the quest last year, you won't need to do it again)
  • Complete the quest to receive your Scroll of Pelinal's Ferocity and a Pelinal's Midyear Boon Box
  • Use the scroll to enjoy a two-hour, 100% buff in the Alliance War, Imperial City, and Battlegrounds. This applies to both Alliance Points gained and Experience gains for PvP player kills.
    • Important Note: You can keep the Scroll of Pelinal's Ferocity and re-use it for the duration of the event. If you already completed the quest in last year's event, the scroll you received then will work, too.
• You also have a chance to acquire a Boon Box that could contain the following items:
  • Transmute Crystals
  • Alchemy reagents
  • PvP consumables such as repair kits, forward camps, and siege weapons
  • Motif pages for the Alliance and Akaviri styles
  • Style items for your Alliance
  • Akaviri style items
  • Coldharbour siege weapons
  • Prismatic Runestones
  • Books of Pelinal housing items
• During this event, you can obtain one Event Ticket after completing a Cyrodiil Board or Town Daily quest, once per day per account.
  • You can turn in Event Tickets to the Impresario to purchase the first Indrik evolution berry, the Dawnwood Berry of Bloom.

Morrowind Celebration
Looking for more new events? Enter the Morrowind Celebration! During the event, you’ll enjoy various bonuses while adventuring throughout the zone of Vvardenfell.

• Bonuses during this event include the following:
  • Double reward drops for defeating any Boss
  • Double rewards from Daily and Weekly quests
  • Double harvesting resources from regular crafting nodes
• In addition, you’ll be able to get one Event Ticket by completing a Morrowind World Boss Daily quest and one ticket by completing a Morrowind Delve Boss Daily quest, once per day per account.
  • You can use these Event Tickets by visiting the Impresario to purchase the Dawnwood Berry of Budding.

Thieves Guild/Dark Brotherhood Celebration
We’ll be once again celebrating the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood DLCs in unison, with the same bonuses you enjoyed earlier this year.

• The bonuses from the event include the following:
  • Double harvest node yields in Hew’s Bane and Gold Coast
  • Double delve and world boss drops in Hew’s Bane and Gold Coast
  • Increased style item drops from Maw of Lorkhaj Bosses
  • Increased rewards from Heists and Sacraments dailies
• Important Note: The repeatable quests from the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood DLC packs do not have bonus rewards during the event period.
• You can also obtain one event ticket by completing a Heist Daily quest, and one ticket by completing a Sacrament Daily quest, once per day per account.
  • As with the other events, you can visit the Impresario to exchange Event Tickets for a Dawnwood Berry of Growth, used to assist in evolving your Indrik mount.

General

• Guards found in the Imperial City will no longer spawn under the world.

Developer Comment: A number of changes listed below are targeted at reducing the overall movement speed of players. It is currently too easy for players to hit and stay at the 100% movement speed cap, allowing them to disengage from dangerous situations easily. You will still be able to hit the 100% movement speed cap; however, it will now require more investment to hit and stay at it. We're still working on ensuring all sources of Major Expedition are being brought up to the new values, such as Major Expedition on potions.

General

• Your character will now have a faster knock-down animation when being dismounted.
• Increased the movement speed bonus from the Steed Mundus Stone to 10% from 5%.
• Combat pets will now take 0 damage while in a Dungeon, Trial, or Group Arena.
• Pets now inherit the caster’s Critical Resistance.
• The Swift Jewelry Trait now increases movement speed by 6% at max quality, previously 10%.

Dragonknight

• Ardent Flame
  • Fiery Grip: This ability now grants Major Expedition for a maximum of 4 seconds instead of 6 seconds.
  • World in Ruin: Fixed an issue where this passive was not reducing the cost of Trapping Webs and its morphs.
• Earthen Heart
  • Obsidian Shield: Reduced the health scale of this ability and its morphs to 8% from 9%, and reduced the shield bonus for the caster of Igneous Shield from 200% bonus to 150% bonus.
    Developer Comment:
    With these changes, Obsidian Shield and its morphs should be roughly equivalent in power as they previously were, now that armor applies to them.

Nightblade

• Assassination
  • Grim Focus: Added a brief minimum travel time to the Assassin's Will proc of this ability and its morphs.
    Developer Comment:
    This change was made to ensure you have a brief window to react to this powerful attack when the caster uses it in close combat quarters.

Sorcerer

• Dark Magic
  • Crystal Fragments:
    • Increased the damage of the proc from this ability to 20% from 10%.
    • This ability’s proc now has a very brief minimum travel time before it hits your target.
    • You can no longer get a Crystal Fragment proc while you are not actively engaged in combat.
  • Conjured Ward: Reverted the cast time and duration increases from this ability. The total strength is now limited to 40% of caster's max health.
    • Hardened Ward (morph): This morph now only ranks up the damage shield strength, instead of shield strength and caster self-shield bonus.
  • Known issue: The ability rank-up currently allows a damage shield increase of 3.3% higher than the cap, and is also currently applying Battle Spirit after the 40% cap instead of before.
• Storm Calling
  • Boundless Storm: This ability now grants Major Expedition for a maximum of 4 seconds instead of 7.5.

Templar

• Aedric Spear
  • Radial Sweep
    • Fixed an issue where the Empowering Sweep and Crescent Sweep morphs were checking against the incorrect resistance type.
  • Blazing Shield: Reduced the amount of damage that this ability deals from a maximum of 42% of the shield size to 30%.
    Developer Comment:
    Since shields now scale with your Armor, we wanted to ensure this ability wasn't doing too much for its cost and effectiveness. The shield should now absorb more damage, but its total damage dealt has slightly decreased to compensate.

Warden

• Animal Companions
  • Falcon’s Swiftness: This ability now grants Major Expedition for a maximum of 4 seconds instead of 10 seconds.
• Green Balance
  • The Warden's healing abilities will now prioritize targets without Minor Toughness if both targets are at the same health.

Weapons

• Two Handed
  • Forward Momentum: Reduced the duration of the snare immunity from this ability to 4 seconds from 8 seconds.
• Bow
  • Hasty Retreat: This ability now grants Major Expedition for a maximum of 4 seconds instead of 5 seconds.
• Dual Wield
  • Quick Cloak: This ability now grants Major Expedition for a maximum of 4 seconds instead of 5 seconds.

Armor

• Light Armor
  • Annulment: Reverted the cast time and duration increases from this ability. The total strength is now limited to 40% of caster's max health.
    • Known issue: The ability rank-up currently allows a damage shield increase of 3.3% higher than the cap, and is also currently applying Battle Spirit after the 40% cap instead of before.
    • Dampen Magic (morph): Fixed an issue where this morph was not scaling in size based on how many pieces of Light Armor your character was wearing.
    • Harness Magicka (morph): Fixed an issue where this morph was double dipping with its Magicka return based on the Light Armor worn.
      • Known Issue: This ability is currently giving a larger shield than intended.

Guild

• Mages Guild
  • Meteor: Fixed an issue where the morphs of this ability would cause your character to slide on the ground when knocked back.
  • Volcanic Rune: Fixed an issue where your character could slide on the ground after being knocked by this ability.
• Undaunted
  • Bone Shield: Reduced the effectiveness of the Bone Wall and Spinal Surge Synergy granted by this ability and its morphs to 50% from 100%.
    Developer Comment:
    With the changes to shields now accounting for your armor, we wanted to ensure these shields could remain just as potent as before, but you would need to allocate more resources in doing so.

Item Sets

• Reduced the duration of the Major Expedition buff granted from some item sets to 8 seconds from 20 seconds. The affected item sets include:
  • Dreugh King Slayer
  • Quick Serpent
  • Vicious Serpent
  Developer Comment:
  With the pass on the accessibility to the Major Expedition buff, we wanted to ensure there were sets that wouldn't allow players to keep this buff active all the time without high trade off or big requirements.
• Arms of Relequen: Fixed an issue where the damage over time from this item set and the perfected version would break your character out of stealth.
• Balorgh: Fixed an issue where some Ultimates were not working with this item set.
  • Note: Overload still should not proc Balorgh.
• Battalion Defender: The tooltip from this item set now lists radius of healing effect.
• Hist Bark:
  • Fixed an issue where this item set could stack with other sources of Major Evasion. This set will now override and replace any active Major Evasion when you activate block.
  • Fixed an issue where you could get Hist Bark to temporarily persist without blocking.
• Impregnable: Reduced the maximum bonus of this item set’s Critical Resistance to 2000 with 5 pieces of gold quality from 2500.
  Developer Comment:
  This set was reducing damage far more than any other set in the game and limiting gear diversity for defensive sets. This change still retains the power of the set while bringing it more in line with other defensive sets, since this still only reduces damage from Critical Strikes rather than all damage taken.
• Leki's Focus: The damage reduction no longer stacks additively with Minor/Major Evasion.
• Radial Uppercut: This item set now deals 100% damage to 1 nearby target instead of 50% to 2 nearby targets.
• Razor Shot: This item set now deals 50% of Scattershot’s damage as poison instead of 40% as a bleed.
• Wild Impulse: This item set now deals damage over 8 seconds instead of 9 seconds.