ELSWEYR CHAPTER

New Zone - Elsweyr
Prepare to embark on a new journey! In this patch, you can travel to the Khajiiti kingdom of Anequina in Northern Elsweyr to battle a rage of Dragons.

• To begin your voyage in Elsweyr, you can choose from among the following:
  • Create a new character and play through the new Elsweyr tutorial.
  • Bring an existing character to the zone. You can enter the zone in one of the following ways (provided it is unlocked on your account):
    • Using the Wayshrine in Rimmen.
    • Entering through the gate in northeastern Grahtwood, which connects to Northern Elsweyr’s southwestern edge.
    • Entering through the gate in northeastern Reaper’s March, which connects to Northern Elsweyr’s northwestern edge.
    • Traveling to a friend who is already in Elsweyr.
• Seek out the courier, Anais Davaux, or Abnur Tharn in Riverhold after you exit the tutorial or enter the zone for the first time to begin the main story!
• Elsweyr includes the following activities for your enjoyment:
  • Six delves, each with its own Skyshard and associated content
  • Six challenging world bosses, ranging from the Akaviri Sword Master Vhysradue to the terrible Thannar the Graveprowler
  • Two public dungeons, Rimmen Necropolis and the plague-city of Orcrest
  • New set crafting stations
  • Over thirty hours of quest content, exploration, achievement hunting for over 50 new achievements, treasure finding, and monster battles!
  • And of course, hunting down the most terrible predators ever to soar the skies of Tamriel: DRAGONS!

New Class – Necromancer
Necromancers are able to summon relentless undead to attack their enemies, use blood and bone to protect themselves, and even manipulate the balance of life and death to help their allies. This new class uses the power of death to deal with any situation. Necromancers feature a unique set of abilities that use corpses as an alternate resource, with an emphasis on positional-based gameplay and a deep mastery curve.

Practicing necromancy in Tamriel is a criminal act. In most cases, mages caught casting necromantic spells can feign ignorance or insist that the spell originates from a different school of magic. Some spells, however, are too horrific to overlook. Any necromantic ability marked as a “CRIMINAL ACT” is a major crime, and will offend the locals and alert the guards.

Sunspire Trial
The Temple of the First Cat was at one time a gleaming golden sight perched on the lip of a slumbering volcanic crater that drew in pilgrims from all over Elsweyr. Legend says its inner shrine was erected at the spot where Dro-Zira stood at the mountaintop and heard the great roar of Alkosh, the Cat King of Time call to him. It is said the Lattice is thin at the mountain summit, and those most faithful can still hear echo of the First Cat's calling. To this day, the mountaintop temple remains the highest point in Elsweyr. 

Over time, the popularity of Alkosh in the Khajiiti pantheon waned, and less and less visitors made the harrowing trek up the mountain paths. The present-day temple is on the decline, though its monks still dutifully maintain the crumbling statues and relics. They are firm in their belief that one day, the mountain will awaken and Alkosh will return to call the Khajiiit to him once more.

As the Halls of Colossus unleash dragons over Elsweyr, the isolated monks at the temple are entirely unaware of the new threat. When a huge golden dragon crashes through the roof of the temple claiming to be a divine protector, they see the creature's presence as nothing short of a miracle and fall quickly for the dragon's lies and deceit. The once-holy temple has been warped into a horrible prison as the dragon deceives his followers into building an army of mortals and dragons under his command.

• Sunspire is a 12-player Trial located in the southern portion of Elsweyr.
• The Trial includes a normal and challenging Veteran version.
• Additionally, for the first time, each boss in the Trial has its own Hard Mode!
• There are unique Item Sets within the Trial including Perfected versions only found in the Veteran difficulty.
• Unique Achievement awards are available for completing the Trial
  • Unique Player Skin
  • Unique Player Mount
  • Several Titles
  • Unique housing items

New Item Sets
There are 14 new Item Sets available from a variety of sources from Elsweyr. This includes 3 Item Sets available as drops throughout Elsweyr, 3 Item Sets available at crafting stations in Elsweyr, and 8 Item Sets available from Sunspire Trial.

• Overland
  • Crafty Alfiq – Light
    • 2 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 3 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 5 – Adds 2560 Maximum Magicka
  • Vesture of Darloc Brae – Medium
    • 2 – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
    • 3 – Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
    • 4 – Reduces the radius you can be detected while Sneaking by 2 meters. Reduces the cost of Sneak by 10%.
    • 5 – While crouching, you restore 670 Magicka and Stamina and heal for 670 Health every second.
  • Call of the Undertaker – Heavy
    • 2 – Adds 4% Healing Taken
    • 3 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
    • 4 – Adds 4% Healing Done
    • 5 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
    • 5 – When you deal damage with a Light Attack, you apply Minor Lifesteal to your enemy for 8 seconds, healing you and your allies for 600 Health every 1 second when damaging them. This effect can occur once every 8 seconds.
• Crafted
  • Senche-raht’s Grit
    • 2 – Adds 4% Healing Done
    • 3 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
    • 4 – Adds 4% Healing Taken
    • 5 – After being damaged by a damage over time ability, increase your Healing Received by 6% and your Physical and Spell Resistance by 2585 for 3 seconds.
  • Vastarie’s Tutelage
    • 2 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
    • 3 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
    • 4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 5 – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
    • 5 – Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
    • 5 – When you resurrect an ally, you and your ally gain 258 Weapon and Spell Damage and 10% cost reduction to all regular abilities for 10 seconds.
  • Coldharbour’s Favorite
    • 2 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 3 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
    • 4 – Adds 129 Spell Damage
    • 4 – Adds 129 Weapon Damage
    • 5 – When you heal yourself or an ally, summon Cadwell’s noble mount – Honor - who after 2 seconds, casts a healing spell on you and allies around him that heals for 12,190 Health over 4 seconds.When you damage an enemy, summon Cadwell’s noble mount – Honor - who after 2 seconds, explodes, damaging enemies around him for 12,190 Magic Damage over 4 seconds.Honor can only be summoned every 10 seconds.
• Trial
  • False God’s Devotion – Light – Magicka DPS
    • 2 – Adds 833 Spell Critical
    • 3 – Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
    • 4 – Adds 833 Spell Critical
    • 5 – Adds 129 Spell Damage
    • 5 – Reduces the cost of your Magicka abilities by 8%. When you kill an enemy, you restore 2150 Magicka and gain Major Expedition for 8 seconds, increasing your Movement Speed by 30%.
  • Tooth of Lokkestiiz – Medium – Stamina DPS
    • 2 – Adds 129 Weapon Damage
    • 3 – Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
    • 4 – Adds 129 Weapon Damage
    • 5 – When you activate a synergy, gain Major Slayer for 15 seconds, increasing your damage done to Dungeon and Trial monsters by 15%.
  • Eye of Nahviintaas – Light – Healer
    • 2 – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
    • 3 – Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
    • 4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 5 – When an ally activates one of your synergies, you and the ally who activated the synergy get 12% cost reduction for non-Ultimate abilities plus Bash, Dodge Roll, Break Free, and Sprint for 3 seconds. This effect can occur every 6 seconds per target.
  • Claw of Yolnakhriin – Heavy – Tank
    • 2 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
    • 3 – Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
    • 4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
    • 5 – When you taunt an enemy, you give yourself and 11 group members Minor Courage for 15 seconds, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 129. This effect can occur once every 8 seconds.
• Trial – Perfected
  • Perfected False God’s Devotion – Magicka DPS
    • 2 – Adds 833 Spell Critical
    • 3 – Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
    • 4 – Adds 833 Spell Critical
    • 5 – Adds 129 Spell Damage
    • 5 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 5 – Reduces the cost of your Magicka abilities by 8%. When you kill an enemy, you restore 2150 Magicka and gain Major Expedition for 8 seconds, increasing your Movement Speed by 30%.
  • Perfected Tooth of Lokkestiiz – Stamina DPS
    • 2 – Adds 129 Weapon Damage
    • 3 – Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
    • 4 – Adds 129 Weapon Damage
    • 5 – Adds 833 Weapon Critical
    • 5 – When you activate a synergy, gain Major Slayer for 15 seconds, increasing your damage done to Dungeon and Trial monsters by 15%.
  • Perfected Eye of Nahviintaas – Healer
    • 2 – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
    • 3 – Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
    • 4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 5 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 5 – When an ally activates one of your synergies, you and the ally who activated the synergy get 12% cost reduction for non-Ultimate abilities for 3 seconds. This effect can occur every 6 seconds.
  • Perfected Claw of Yolnakhriin – Tank
    • 2 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
    • 3 – Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
    • 4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
    • 5 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
    • 5 – When you taunt an enemy, you give yourself and 11 group members Minor Courage for 15 seconds, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 129. This effect can occur once every 8 seconds.

New Collectibles
We’ve added a host of new collectibles and rewards by completing various types of Elsweyr content:

• Costumes & Hats
  • Peryite Skeevemaster Costume: Obtained by completing the Peryite Plague-Clothes Patcher achievement
  • Madgod's Turban Hat: Obtained by completing the quest "The Lunacy of Two Moons"
  • Siegemaster Close Helm Hat: Obtained by consuming a Runebox: Siegemaster's Helm
    • This is obtained by using Siege of Cyrodiil Recognition to consume 20 Siege of Cyrodiil Merits. The Siege of Cyrodiil Recognition can be purchased from Tel Var General Merchants for 100 Tel Var, and the Siege of Cyrodiil Merits are obtained from completing Imperial City Daily quests.
• Furnishings
  • Replica Rithana-di-Renada Furnishing: Obtained by completing the Mural Mender achievement
  • Nahviintaas Trophy: Obtained from the corpse of the final boss of Sunspire on Normal difficulty
  • Nahviintaas Bust: Obtained from the corpse of the final boss of Sunspire on Veteran difficulty
• Mementos
  • Urn Smash Memento: Obtained from completing the quest "Relatively Speaking"
  • Winnowing Plague Decoction Memento: Obtained from completing the quest "Unhealthy Preoccupation"
• Pets & Mounts
  • Grisly Mummy Tabby Pet: Obtained by completing the Alfiq Mummy Master achievement
  • Sunspire Champion Senche-Lion Mount: Obtained by completing the Sunspire Dragonbreak achievement. Good luck!
• Skins
  • Sunspire Ice-Fire Skin: Obtained by completing the Sunspire Conqueror achievement
• Style Pages
  • Ancient Moon Crescent and the Pristine Moon Crescent: Both obtained by completing the "The Moonlight Blade" quest

New Dyes and Titles 
We’ve added several new dyes and titles by completing various content within Elsweyr and Sunspire Trial, listed below:

• Dyes
  • Anequina Sunrise Dye: Obtained by completing the Savior of Elsweyr achievement
  • Blood Gold Dye: Obtained by completing the Queenmaker achievement
  • Spectral Blue Dye: Obtained by completing the Grand Necromancer Slayer achievement
• Titles
  • Champion of Anequina: Obtained by completing the Champion of Anequina achievement
  • Hand of Alkosh: Obtained by completing the Sunspire Dragonbreak achievement
  • Sunspire Ascendant: Obtained by completing the Sunspire Completed achievement
  • Sunspire Saint: Obtained by completing the Sunspire Conqueror achievement
  • Godslayer: Obtained by completing the Godslayer of Sunspire achievement
  • Extinguisher of Flames: Obtained by completing the Sunspire Vanquishier achievement

New Housing Options & Additions

• With the Elsweyr Chapter, you can earn a special in-game home, the Hall of the Lunar Champion, acquired by completing the main story quest "Two Queens" (no additional purchase needed!) This quest also provides the first of four collectible furnishing tablets to be placed in the Hall of the Lunar Champion.
  • This first tablet, when placed on the matching altar in the Hall, marks the altars for the remaining three tablets. 
  • Completing the main story quest of Elsweyr in full grants a second tablet which, when placed on the corresponding altar in the home, unlocks the first of three additional wings for this home. 
  • This temple home will continue to grow with you as you acquire additional tablets recording the life of the Lunar Champion, Khunzar-ri, by completing dungeons and quests in the remaining two major updates this year during the Season of the Dragon. 
  • This home has furnishing limits equivalent to a manor, with a limit of 350 standard furnishings doubled to 700 for ESO Plus members. 
• As usual, there will also be an inn room, the Sugar Bowl Suite, acquired by completing the "Room to Spare" quest in Rimmen or by purchasing for gold. 
• We’ve also added over 140 New Elsweyr furnishing recipes to acquire from a variety of sources, including Dragons, containers, mob drops and more! 

New Motifs
Anequina Motif chapters, as well as the associated style item Shimmering Sand can now be obtained from completing delve and world boss dailies in Elsweyr.

New Crafting Ingredients
Dragon's Blood and Dragons Bile can be obtained by defeating Dragons. Both of these new Alchemy reagents carry the new effect trait of Minor Heroism! 

General

• Torn Cloth resource nodes in the Clockwork City zone are now easier to see.

Trials

• Asylum Sanctorium
  • Saint Felms
    • Saint Felms' Pneuma Projections will now correctly despawn when you leave the encounter space.
    • Increased the time between the uses of Saint Felms’ Teleport Strike ability.
  • Saint Olms
    • Ordinated Protectors now spawn from different locations.
    • The maximum amount of Ordinated Protectors that can be active at any given time is now three, as originally intended.

General

• Fixed an issue where a player between the levels of 45 and 49 using the Dungeon Finder would not be allowed into Falkreath Hold.

Maw of Lorkhaj Trial

• The visual effects for the Lunar Aspect debuff will now always be visible.
• The Lunar Aspect and Shadow Aspect effect icons now appear in the buff tracker, and both are now correctly categorized as negative effects.

Eidetic Memory

• You can now read Rhanbiq's Notes in the Abah's Landing Outlaw Refuge after completing the quest The One That Got Away.

General
Developer Comment:

• Fixed an issue where pets were only having their Healing Received from Battle Spirit reduced by 50, rather than 50%.
• Fixed an issue where pet shield sizes were not being properly reduced by Battle Spirit.
• Removed the 200ms post global cooldown from cast time abilities. This was done to improve the feeling of using these abilities in rapid succession with other abilities, to allow for a more fluid transition, and less down time between usage. We also made some adjustments to the cast times and power levels of specific abilities, which will be called out on a per case basis in further notes.
  • Note that channeled beam attacks, such as Soul Assault or Radiant Destruction, retain the post global cooldown, but have had them reduced to 100ms rather than 200ms. This was done to prevent animation errors.
• Player abilities that fear targets will no longer cause them to flee in terror. Instead, they will now cower in terror, unable to move while feared. Note that this does not affect abilities that monsters can cast. 
• All Immobilizes from player abilities and item sets will now apply Immobilization Immunity once applied, to prevent multiple Immobilizes from applying on the same target. Once an Immobilize from these abilities ends, you gain immunity to Immobilizes for 3 seconds after, similar to the Dodge Roll mechanic.
  Developer Comment:
  Previously, Immobilizes were an overbearing tool that completely shut down builds with lower Stamina pools, and could keep them from moving for extremely long periods of time. With this new system, we want a healthier balance of how these abilities interact, similar to Crowd Control functions.
• Fixed an issue where the visual effects of Roll Dodge Fatigue would not be removed if you used Roll Dodge multiple times in quick succession. Note that this was purely a visual error, and the cost increase was and still will be successfully removed.
• Pets no longer attempt to aid their owners in sieging destructible Keeps and bridge pieces, for they are powerless against the might of superior craftsmanship.
• Fixed an issue where Status Effects could be dodged.
• Weapon swapping while an arrow is in mid-air will no longer cause the arrow disappear. This ability is reserved for magicians at magic trick shows, which we do not support in combat.
• Dying on a destructible structure in Cyrodiil will no longer cause your corpse to magically float in the air, if the structure were to break while your character had already died.
• Updated some visuals of class abilities to no longer apply visible seams in their visual effects, such as Magma Armor or Blessing of Protection.
• Fixed an issue where pets were doubling some of their owner’s bonuses, such as Critical Strike Chance or Mundus Stones.
• Made several changes to “Gap Closer” abilities:
  • Removed the snare applied from all abilities that deal with character charges, leaps, teleports, or other movements.
  • Removed all minimum ranges from these abilities.
  • Drastically increased the speed of all of these abilities, and increased their auxiliary effects’ (damage, debuffs, etc.) range to ensure they always apply to their target.
  • Note: Dragon Leap and its morphs are an exclusion to some of these changes. They will continue to fire a snare, which has new visual effectcs introduced to it. This is due to the fact it cannot be used in quick succession compared to other instant cast abilities. Dragon Leap has had its speed increased as well, but not as drastically, to ensure the visual fidelity remains.

Buffs and Debuffs

• Fixed an issue where the Health Recovery reduction of Major and Minor Defile were being considered an additional negative effect on purge abilities that could only remove a limited amount of effects.
• Fixed an issue with the Poisoned status effect where it was using the incorrect missing of stats to derive its damage. Now, like all other status effects, it will use the caster’s highest Weapon or Spell Damage, Max Stamina or Magicka, and Weapon or Spell Critical Strike Chance.

Dragonknight

• Ardent Flame
  • Dragonknight Standard:
    • The rock textures now better align with the broken ground textures from these abilities.
    • Increased the duration of this ability and the Standard of Might morph to 16 seconds at all ranks.
    • Dragonknight Standard will now rank up in 1.1% damage per rank.
    • Fixed an issue where these abilities were being considered Direct Damage, rather than Damage over Time. 
      • Shifting Standard (morph): Fixed an issue where this ability was being removed before doing its final damage tick.
  • Fiery Breath: Increased the damage of the initial hit of this ability by 200% to be on par with our PBAoE standards. The base ability will now rank up in damage for the entire ability, rather than just the DoT.
  • Fiery Grip:
    • Increased the damage of this ability and its morphs by 20% to put it on par with our "gap closer" standards.
    • Improved the responsiveness of the pull speed from this ability to reduce situations where players were still CC'ed after the pull was complete.
  • Inferno: This ability and its morphs now operate like the Flames of Oblivion morph, where they will scale with your highest offensive stats. Also increased the power of these abilities by 5%.
    • Flames of Oblivion (morph): This morph no longer exclusively adds the dynamic scaling mechanism. Instead, the morph retains the gaining of Major Savagery, and hits 1 additional enemy.
  • Lava Whip: Reduced the cost of this ability and its morphs by 5% to put it in line with other melee “spammables”.
    • Molten Whip (morph): Reworked this ability so it no longer grants a passive bonus to Weapon and Spell Damage while slotted. Instead, this passive grants access to Seething Fury, a 33% damage bonus to your next Molten Whip cast and increase of 125 Weapon and Spell Damage every time you activate an Ardent Flame ability that isn't Molten Whip. This bonus can stack up to 3 times, lasts 5 seconds, and will refresh in duration every time it is applied to you. 
      Developer Comment:
      The previous Molten Whip was under budgeted in terms of total power compared to Flame Lash, and rather than reducing that morph, we wanted to bring this one up to par. Additionally, we like how Flame Lash has the potential to disrupt a static rotation in combat, so we wanted to add a diverse bonus that would allow for you to engage in different ways. Now, the caster can decide to simply follow a normal rotation, or attempt to save up for a heavy hitting attack after building up stacks. Please note however, this will operate similarly to the previous Molten Whip where your bonus will only be active on the bar that it is slotted on.
  • Searing Strike: Adjusted this ability and its morphs to follow our standardized Damage Over Time ruleset. Decreased the total duration to 8 seconds from 8.5 seconds, and increased the damage per tick by approximately 12.5% to make up for the loss of the first tick. This will result in roughly the same overall DPS, but with less burst damage.
• Draconic Power
  • Coagulating Blood: Increased the heal of this morph by approximately 19% to put it better in line with other burst heal abilities.
  • Dark Talons: Increased the damage of the initial hit of this ability and its morphs by 25% to put it on par with our other PBAoE abilities.
    • Burning Talons (morph): Adjusted the tick frequency, duration, and delay so this ability followed our standards. Duration remains at 4 seconds, with a 1 second delay of the DoT between the initial hit, but now ticks 4 times instead of 3.
  • Dragon Leap: Increased the radius of this ability and its morphs to 8 meters from 6.5 meters. It also now applies a more aggressive snare to targets it is cast on, to prevent them from being able to outrun the AoE damage when it lands.
  • Hardened Armor:
    • The damage shield granted from this ability will no longer extend in duration as the ability ranks up, but rather will increase by 1.1% in size per rank.
    • Adjusted the tooltip to state the value of the shield, rather than the % Health it was based off, for improved clarity.
  • Inhale:
    • Increased the damage of the initial hit of this ability and its morphs by 25%.
    • Increased the damage of the delayed explosion by approximately 7%. This was done to adhere the ability to our AoE standards. Note the initial hit of the abilities is half of the AoE standard, because it heals for 100% of the damage caused, which takes it to that standard.
    • Removed the 6 target cap for the heal, interrupt, and resource restore for this ability. Note this puts this ability into the "rule breaker" category.
  • Reflective Scale:
    • Renamed this ability to Protective Scale.
    • Converted the reflect function into a 50% damage reduction from projectiles. This happened to all 3 versions of the ability. 
      • Dragon Fire Scale (morph): This ability no longer increases damage of reflected attacks, since it can no longer reflect. Incoming projectiles will now cause you to launch a fiery orb at the attacker that deals Flame Damage. Effect can occur once every half second.
      • Reflective Plate: Renamed this ability to Protective Plate. No other changes were made to the ability’s functionality.
    Developer Comment:
    Previously, reflects were allowing for extremely unhealthy gameplay that granted the caster an effective 100% damage mitigation on top of the ability to return harmful damaging or controlling effects back at their caster. Additionally, the target requirement made this ability extremely polarizing in performance, going from absolute denial of ranged attacks, to offering little effective power when being bombarded with multiple projectiles. We will be closely monitoring the performance of this ability in both operational power and mathematical balance.
• Earthen Heart
  • Ash Cloud: Increased healing of this ability by approximately 15%.
    • Eruption (morph): Adjusted this ability to follow our standardized Damage over Time ruleset. Added a 1 second delay between the initial hit and the first damage over time tick, and increased the damage per tick by approximately 9% to make up for the loss of the first tick. Also increased damage of initial hit by approximately 35%.
    • Cinder Storm (morph): Increased healing of this ability by approximately 4%.
  • Earthen Heart: Adjusted the duration of these skills so that their final ranks land on integers rather than fractions when you have Rank 2 of Eternal Mountain. This has resulted in the following duration changes:
    • Magma Armor & morphs: Increased to 12 seconds from 10.8 seconds
    • Molten Weapon & morphs: Previously 39.6 seconds, adjusted so Igneous Weapons is now 42 seconds & Molten Armaments is 36 seconds 
    • Obsidian Shield & morphs: Increased to 8 seconds from 7.2 seconds
    • Petrify & morphs, Ash Cloud & morphs: no change 
    • Stonefist & morphs: Decreased to 3 seconds from 3.6 seconds  
  • Obsidian Shield: Fixed an issue where this ability and the Igneous Shield morph was increasing by 1 per level, rather than 1.1% per level.
    • Igneous Shield (morph): Fixed an issue where this ability was not increasing in size for the caster.

Nightblade

• Assassination
  • Blur:
    • Double Take (morph): Renamed and reworked this morph.
      • Renamed this morph to Phantasmal Escape.
      • This morph no longer grants Major Expedition for 4 seconds. Instead, it grants immunity to snare and immobilizes for 2.5 to 4 seconds, based on the rank.
      • This morph no longer becomes cheaper as ability ranks up.
  • Death Stroke: This ability and the Incapacitating Strike morph will no longer apply Major Defile to the target.
    Developer Comment:
    Death Stroke has been notorious for being a very potent Ultimate. We wanted to retain this ability's identity as a mark for death on your target, helping the Nightblade excel at assassinating high priority targets while reducing some of the over bearing nature it enables. You'll note that Soul Harvest has been left untouched, which is due to the morph only granting a conditional bonus previously. Now, Soul Harvest offers a guaranteed bonus with a conditional, while Incapacitating Strike doubles down on offering two powerful conditional bonuses.
    • Incapacitating Strike (morph): This morph will now Silence the enemy for 3 seconds if cast with 120 or more Ultimate. This Silence can be CC broken, and will fail to apply to CC immune enemies.
      Developer Comment:
      The goal with the change to Incapacitating Strike’s conditional bonus was to tone down some of the shut-down mechanic to it, since Silences are essentially stuns that allow the target to continue moving, blocking, and dodging. We are aware of the nature that Silences have in terms of effectiveness on varying builds, which is why we found the ability to CC break this effect would be an ideal compromise; it still has the counter play options of a traditional stun, but no longer needs to always be broken.
  • Grim Focus:
    • Removed the Minor Berserk buff from this ability and its morphs.
    • The spectral bow now heals for 33% of the damage dealt if you are within 7 meters of the target when firing it. 
    • Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs would continue to persist after logging off.
    • Reduced the minimum travel time on this ability and its morphs to 250ms from 450ms.
    • This ability and its morphs will now reduce your damage taken by 3% for each Light or Heavy Attack you use, up to 5 times. Note that this bonus will persist even if the Grim Focus buff fades from you, as it is tethered to the amount of stacks you had while the buff was active. This effect will be consumed when you use your stacks by firing the spectral bow or when you leave combat. 
      Developer Comment:
      The goal of this change is to alleviate some of the pains that were brought up where this ability required a cost and global to activate, but only enabled you to participate in a mini-game before you were able to be rewarded, unlike any other skill in the game. The initial intent was to remove the overloaded nature of this ability where it granted you more passive damage, but then also granted you more burst damage. Now, the focus has shifted for this ability to be tangible with multiple play styles, and can be used by tanks, damage dealers, or even healers with the bonuses it provides. We went with damage mitigation in order to help reinforce the desire to gain the healing from this skill, and wanted to avoid granting more flat damage or resource management.
      • Merciless Resolve (morph): Now increases healing done to 50%. 
      • Relentless Focus: Increased the duration to 30 seconds from 20 seconds. Additionally, this morph no longer grants Minor Endurance. 
    Developer Comment:
    Nightblades traditionally, while masters of high single target damage and a wide toolkit, were given too many potent tools on skills they'd continue using even without added bonuses. We've removed the Minor Berserk bonus from this ability since its overall performance is roughly where it should be comparatively to other abilities, and we've introduced a healing bonus to it to help the Nightblade class gain access to more high-risk staying power. Now, the caster will want to ensure their target hasn't prepared themselves with defenses, otherwise the heal will return an unsubstantial amount. Additionally, they must be in the range of their opponent where they are most susceptible to risk.
  • Lotus Fan: Increased the damage the DoT applies from this ability by approximately 175% to put it on par with our DoT standards. Note this was in last week’s PTS patch but was missing from the patch notes.
  • Mark Target: Removed the cost from this ability and its morphs. This was done to make it more comparable to abilities, such as Weakness to Elements, that only apply a debuff to their target.
  • Teleport Strike: This ability and its morphs will no longer stun NPC enemies. Instead, targets affected by the initial damage will be afflicted with Minor Vulnerability for 8 seconds. Note that the Minor Vulnerability will apply to both players and NPCs.
    Developer Comment:
    In order to retain functionality on "gap closer" abilities, these abilities typically all deal a set amount of damage with a consistent range and cost, while all having a unique affix that helps give each different ability its own identity and flare. Teleport Strike, while visually and thematically satisfying, was lacking in the department of gameplay identity since its auxiliary was inactive in some parts of the game. In tandem with the changes to Grim Focus, we wanted to ensure Nightblades could still focus on being single target assassins, while needing to utilize a larger variety of tools in their kit.
• Shadow
  • Aspect of Terror: This ability and its morphs no longer snare the target after the fear ends. Aspect of Terror now fears up to 3 enemies, up from 2.
    • Mass Hysteria (morph): This morph no longer applies Minor Maim to the targets affected. Also increased the number of feared targets to 6 enemies from 2.
  • Dark Cloak: Adjusted how this ability operates.
    • It will now heal the caster for 6% of their Max Health every 1 second, and duration can increase to a maximum of 8 seconds with other passives.
    • The tooltip will now state the value you will heal for, rather than how it scales, to prevent confusion. 
    • Fixed an issue where this ability had cost reduction for the rank up progression, rather than increasing the morph operation of the healing. This will result in a cost increase of approximately 7%, but a healing value increase of approximately 3%. 
    • Fixed an issue where the Minor Protection granted from this ability was additive rather than multiplicative.
    Developer Comment:
    Previously, this ability was providing a considerable amount of healing compared to what the tooltip implied, while also not providing a lengthy enough period of time to engage with the Minor Protection granted. Now with the duration increase, both the protection duration and the total healing will be improved, but over a longer period of time to prevent the "bursty" nature of the previous heal.
  • Dark Veil: Adjusted this passive to grant a flat 1 and 2 second duration increase to Shadow abilities, rather than 8 and 15% duration extensions. The duration of these abilities before allocating this passive have been adjusted to ensure the total duration remains relatively the same to their current Live values.
  • Summon Shade:
    • This ability now scales with the caster's Max Magicka and Spell Damage, or Stamina and Weapon Damage.
    • The shades will now attack every 2 seconds, rather than every 1.5 seconds.
    • Renamed the attacks the shades deal with each morph to help improve clarity.
    • Fixed an issue where these abilities did not increase in damage as they ranked up.
      • Dark Shade (morph): This ability now deals 50% more damage as a part of its morph functionality. The AoE attack it casts can happen 5% more frequently than before, and deals 20% more damage than the default attack.
  • Surprise Attack: This ability no longer applies Major Fracture. Instead, if you use the ability on the flank of an enemy (behind or at their sides), you reduce their Physical Resistance by 5%. This effect cannot stack, but will always prioritize the highest value. 
    Developer Comment:
    Similar to the other changes, this pass was done to ensure the Nightblade has less moments of redundancy within its own kit. Since Mark Target exists primarily as the class' way to gain access to Major Fracture or Breach, having a morph of your main ability grant the same thing heavily reduced the value of having Mark Target. Note that this effect will not stack per caster, similar to the Crusher enchantment for weapons.
  • Veil of Blades: Fixed an issue where this ability was not getting stronger as the ability ranked up. Total damage at Rank IV will be increased by 6.6%.
• Siphoning
  • Cripple: Adjusted this ability and the Debilitate morph to follow our standardized Damage Over Time ruleset.
    • Increased the total duration to 10 seconds from 8 seconds, and increased the damage per tick by approximately 4%. This will result in roughly the same overall DPS, but over a longer duration.
    • Reduced Snare potency to 30% from 40%.
    • This ability and its morphs no longer grant the caster Major Expedition.
    • This ability can now be placed on an infinite amount of targets.
      • Crippling Grasp (morph): Added a 2 second delay between the first Damage Over Time tick and the initial hit. Also increased damage of the initial hit by approximately 25%, and increased the damage of each DoT tick by approximately 25% to make up for the damage loss of the first tick.
      • Debilitate (morph): Increased the Snare potency to 50%. This morph also no longer refunds the Magicka cost if the target dies while it was active. Instead, it applies Minor Magickasteal to the enemy while the DoT persists.
  • Drain Power:
    • Increased the damage of this ability and the Sap Essence morph by 25% to adhere it to our PBAoE damage standards. Ability and Sap Essence now grant Major Sorcery, rather than Brutality, to better represent the scaling mechanisms the skills use. 
    • Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs could unintentionally be dodged.
      • Power Extraction (morph): Increased the damage of this ability by 20%. This ability continues to grant Major Brutality.
  • Siphoning Strikes: Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs had a cooldown on the heal. Since Light and Heavy Attacks already have their own unique cooldowns, this previous interaction meant if you had a set such as Blood Moon, you were not gaining the full efficiency of the bonus.
  • Soul Shred: Increased the radius of this ability and the Soul Tether morph to 8 meters from 6 meters.
    • Soul Tether (morph): Adjusted this morph to adhere to our DoT standards.
      • Added a 1 second delay between the initial hit and the first DoT tick.
      • Increased the damage by approximately 4% per tick to make up for loss of first tick. This will result in the same DPS/HPS, but with less burst.
      • Fixed an issue where these abilities did not get stronger as they ranked up. The initial hit and DoT will both gain 1.1% damage per rank.

Sorcerer

• Dark Magic
  • Crystal Shard:
    • Reduced the cost of this ability and its morphs by approximately 15% to put it in line with our other cast time abilities.
    • Reduced the minimum travel time on this ability and its morphs to 250ms from 450ms.
  • Dark Exchange: Fixed an issue where this ability and the Dark Conversion morphs would fail to return resources or heal if they were cast while silenced.
  • Encase: Reduced the duration of the Immobilize from this ability and its morphs to 4 seconds from 4.5 seconds. 
    • Shattering Prison (morph): Increased the damage of the explosion by approximately 82% to put in on par with other AoE instant hit abilities, such as Cleave or Impulse.
  • Negate Magic:
    • Fixed an issue where this ability would fail to continue suppressing Area of Effect abilities inside of the area.
    • Updated the tooltip to better describe the function of this Ultimate.
• Daedric Summoning
  • Daedric Curse: Fixed an issue where the AoE detonation of this ability and its morphs could be blocked. Note this refers only to the AoE portion of the ability, as the original target couldn't block the damage.
    • Daedric Prey (morph): Reworked the ability rank up of this ability.
      • Instead of gaining 1.1% damage on the explosion per rank, this ability becomes cheaper as it ranks up. The final cost is now 2160 at base, down from 2430, but will deal 3.3% less damage overall.
      • Added a pet taunt functionality to this ability that is similar to the one built into Heavy Attacks. Your active pets will now prioritize targets with Daedric Prey on them.
      • Reduced the damage bonus for pets from this ability to 40% from 55%.
      • Fixed an issue where the Summon Unstable Familiar's damage pulse was not being affected by this ability. Note that the morphed version, Volatile Familiar, was already working properly.
  • Hardened Ward: Fixed an issue where this ability was getting a 40% bonus to strength, rather than a 20% bonus. Please note that the previous bonus could not circumvent the health cap of 50%, so if you were already over that bonus, you will see no change to power.
• Storm Calling
  • Bolt Escape: Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs could stun targets behind walls.
    • Streak (morph): This ability will now scale with your highest offensive stats, and increased the stun duration to 3 seconds from 1.8 seconds.
  • Lightning Form
    • Boundless Storm (morph): This morph now grants the 4 seconds of Major Expedition immediately, rather than starting at 2.5 seconds and ranking up as the ability progresses. This ability's damage will now get 1.1% stronger per rank, ending in a 3.3% damage increase at Rank IV.
  • Lightning Splash: Increased the duration of this ability and its morphs to 8 seconds from 6 seconds.
    • Liquid Lightning (morph): This morph now lasts 12 seconds to retain the extra 4 seconds of duration increase.
    • Lighting Flood (morph): Increased the damage of this morph by 5%.
  • Mages' Wrath:
    • Increased the damage of the Area of Effect damage of this ability and its morphs by 20% to put it on par with our other executes.
    • Fixed an issue where this ability's detonation was able to be dodged, despite the initial hit also being able to be dodged. Now if the initial hit lands on the target, they will not be able to dodge the detonation.
      • Endless Fury (morph): This ability now returns Magicka if the target died within 5 seconds of taking damage, rather than only if this ability gained the killing blow. Also increased the amount of Magicka return by approximately 10%.
  • Overload: This ability and its morphs will now properly scale with Staff Expert in the Champion Point system. Also updated the tooltip for this ability and its morphs to better describe functionality.
    • Power Overload (morph): Increased the damage dealt of Light and Heavy Attack override by 10% to improve the morph distinction.
  • Summon Storm Atronach: Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs would not stun and deal damage to targets in the area where you cast the ability.

Templar

• Aedric Spear
  • Burning Light: Fixed an issue where the damage of this passive was able to be dodged, despite the fact that the damage was tethered to an attack that already could be blocked or dodged.
  • Focused Charge: Reduced the damage dealt by this ability and the Toppling Charge morph by approximately 8% to put it on par with other "gap closer" abilities.
    • Explosive Charge (morph): Increased the damage dealt from this morph by approximately 15% to put it on par with our PBAoE ability standard, since this morph converts the attack into an AoE.
    • Toppling Charge (morph): Fixed an issue where this ability and the Explosive Charge morph could not be CC broken until the stagger completed if you were interrupted by the ability. This ability and its morphs will now always apply Off Balance to the target, rather than requiring them to be interrupted, since targets were automatically set Off Balance if interrupted anyway.
  • Piercing Javelin: Increased the duration of the stun granted from this ability and its morphs to land on a beautiful, whole number. This means the base ability and Aurora Javelin will now stun for 2 seconds rather than 1.8, while Binding will last 4 seconds rather than 3.5.
    • Aurora Javelin (morph): Fixed an issue where you couldn’t hit the damage bonus cap without utilizing range increasing passives. Now, it will get 2% stronger for every 1 meter between you and the target, up to 40% at 20 meters.
  • Puncturing Strikes: Reduced the channel time for this ability and its morphs from to 1 seconds from 1.1 seconds. Praise the sun for whole numbers!
  • Radial Sweep: Increased the radius of this ability and its morphs to 8 meters from 6 meters.
    • Empowering Sweep (morph): Redesigned this morph to offer damage, rather than survivability. The damage pulse after the initial hit now lasts 6 seconds at base, but is increased by 2 seconds for each enemy hit, up to a maximum of 6 enemies. It also now grants Empower for the duration, rather than Major Protection.
      Developer Comment:
      The Templar has many Ultimates that operate defensively already in their other skill lines (Major Maim from Nova, Major Protection from Remembrance), and we found their toolkit for offensive moments wasn't being given enough opportunity. Back in Update 20, we adjusted Crescent Sweep to deal Magic Damage and introduced a bonus mechanism where enemies hit in a cone in front of you took bonus damage. We wanted the Physical Damage morph to also enable damage, but through alternative means. Now, the entire ability's duration will scale based on enemies hit, and will also grant Empower for the duration.
  • Spear Shards:
    • Increased the initial hit damage of this ability and its morphs by approximately 36%.
    • Increased the DoT of this ability and the Luminous Shards morph by approximately 5%.
    • Adjusted how these abilities power up as they increase in rank:
      • Spear Shards: Increases damage dealt by entire ability as it ranks up.
      • Luminous Shards: No longer increases damage as it ranks up, but instead gains cost reduction (-90 Magicka per rank)
      • Blazing Spear: Increases damage dealt by entire ability as it ranks up.
  • Sun Shield:
    • Updated the tooltip for this ability and its morphs to state the actual value, rather than an ambiguous value that required you to do super hard math.
    • Increased the initial hit damage of this ability and the Radiant Ward morph by 150% to put it on par with our PBAoE standards. Blazing Shield's damage remains untouched since it is already above that standard, since it has an additional requirement in order to gain the damage.
      • Radiant Ward (morph): This ability no longer gains additional cost reduction as it ranks up. Instead, the bonus shield size for enemies hit goes up to 9% per enemy hit at Rank IV.
• Dawn’s Wrath
  • Eclipse:
    • This ability and its morphs will no longer proc off Direct Damage attacks such as Spiked Armor or Thews of the Harbinger’s damage return.
    • Updated the tooltip on these abilities to properly indicate their internal cooldown, which have always been there.
    • Reduced the damage dealt by the thorn mechanic (damage return) of this ability and its morphs by 25%. Note this only pertains to the damage; the heal of Total Dark and explosion of Unstable Core remain untouched.
  • Power of the Light: Adjusted the ability rank up for this morph so it no longer gains damage on the initial hit, but instead increases the duration of Minor Fracture and Breach applied, since that is the focus of the morph. This will result in approximately a 3% damage loss on the initial hit, but the duration of the Minor Fracture and Breach will last 9 seconds, up from 6 seconds at their final rank.
  • Solar Flare:
    • Reduced the cast time from this ability and the Dark Flare morph to 1 second from 1.1 seconds.
    • Increased the travel speed to match other projectiles.
    • Reduced the damage by approximately 37% to make up for the fact that it can be cast more frequently.
    • Reduced base cost from to 2970 Magicka from 3240.
      • Solar Barrage (morph): Removed the delay of this ability, which will result in gaining one extra tick of damage. Also fixed an issue where this ability was being considered a Direct Damage attack, instead of Damage over Time.
  • Sun Fire: Adjusted this ability and its morphs to follow our standardized Damage Over Time ruleset. Total duration has been increased to 8 seconds from 6.25 seconds, and increased the damage per tick by approximately 31% to make up for the loss of the first tick. This will result in roughly the same overall DPS, but with less burst damage. 
    • Vampire's Bane (morph): This ability now lasts 12 seconds instead of 10.25 seconds. 
    • Reflective Light (morph): The spread of how far this ability will attempt to find targets near your initial target is now 5 meters instead of 4.5 meters.
• Restoring Light
  • Breath of Life: Fixed an issue where the secondary heal granted from this ability was able to ignore the caster’s line of sight and target players behind them.
  • Cleansing Ritual: This ability and its morphs will now grant healing and/or damage based on the users' highest offensive stats, rather than just Max Magicka and Spell Damage.
    • Ritual of Retribution (morph): Fixed an issue where the damage from this morph could not critically strike.
  • Practiced Incantation: Fixed an issue where this ability was increasing the heal by 1 per rank, rather than 1.1%
  • Repentance: This morph will now grey out and become unable to cast if there are no corpses around you.
  • Restoring Aura: Removed the cost from this ability and the Radiant Aura morph, and increased the duration to 20 seconds at max rank. This was done to put it in the same category as other abilities, such as Weakness to Elements.

Warden

• Animal Companions
  • Falcon’s Swiftness:
    • Reduced the cost of this ability and its morphs to 2700 from 3511 at base.
    • This ability no longer grants Major Endurance.
    • Major Expedition now lasts 6 seconds, up from 4 seconds. Note this ability is now considered a “rule breaker”, since it breaks the paradigm of Major Expedition lasting 4 seconds.
  • Scorch: This ability and its morphs can now be blocked.
• Green Balance
  • Corrupting Pollen: This ability no longer applies Major Defile to enemies for 4 seconds inside (which allowed it to bypass the 6 player target cap). Instead, up to 6 enemies inside will be properly afflicted with Major Defile, which will cease once the ability ends or they leave the radius.
  • Harvest: Fixed an issue where this synergy would not actively update to targets in the area. It will now operate like other synergies, prioritizing the closest players to the center of the area of effect placed. Also increased the radius of the synergy prompt to 5 meters from 3 meters to allow for more accessibility.
  • Lotus Flower: Increased the radius of the heal from this ability and its morphs to 28 meters from 12 meters to aid in better distributing the healing potential to group members.
  • Nature's Grasp: This ability and its morphs now scale with your highest offensive stats, rather than just your Max Magicka and Spell Damage.
• Winter’s Embrace
  • Arctic Wind: Increased the Heal over Time from this ability and its morphs to 3% of your Max Health, up from 2%. These abilities now properly rank up in healing with each rank, and their tooltips state the actual heal value. 
    • Arctic Blast (morph): Increased the travel speed of the projectile so it’s similar to Destructive Touch's speed. Also updated the tooltip to state it requires an enemy to cast. 
    • Polar Wind (morph): Increased the radius to 12 meters from 8 meters for the allied heal.
  • Crystallized Shield:
    • Removed the cost reduction rank up from this ability and its morphs. They will now all cost 3780 at base.
    • The size of the shield from this ability will increase as the ability ranks up.
    • Adjusted the Magicka return to be 22% of the ability's cost instead of the previous base value. 
      • Crystallized Slab (morph): Increased the damage return of this morph by approximately 55% to put it on par with other similar abilities such as Dragon Fire Scale or Inferno.
  • Frozen Gate:
    • This ability no longer becomes cheaper as it ranks up. The base cost remains 2970 at all ranks, rather than decreasing to 2701 on the morphs.
    • The duration has been streamlined to 30 seconds on all morphs.
    • This ability now ranks up in damage, but has had its base damage reduced to our PBAoE standard attack. Rank IV of each morph will reach the same damage as before.
  • Impaling Shards:
    • Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs were being removed before dealing their last tick of damage.
    • Fixed an issue where these abilities were being calculated as Direct Damage rather than Damage over Time.
    • Updated the tooltips of these abilities to mention their increased chance to apply the Chilled Status Effect. 
      • Impaling Shards and Gripping Shards: Increased the damage dealt by these abilities by 30% to put them on par with other AoE DoTs, such as Winter’s Revenge.
      • Winter’s Revenge (morph): Fixed an issue where this morph could snare enemies through walls.
  • Sleet Storm: Reduced the potency of the snare from this ability and its morphs to 40% from 70%.

General

• Fixed an issue where the value of an enchantment could decrease if you swapped to a different weapon with a poison equipped.

Consumables

• Decrease Health Enchant (Oblivion damage): Reduced the damage of this enchant by 33%.
  Developer Comment:
  Since these enchantments bypass Battle Spirit and other forms of mitigation such as Resistances and Block, these are far stronger than standard elemental damage proc enchantments like Fiery Weapon. This is the first step to better balance the interaction of Oblivion Damage in the game on player abilities; in a future update, we plan to introduce a scaling mechanism so these enchantments may be better suited to taking down high health targets to meet their intended goal.
• Dubious Cameron Throne & Witch Mother’s Brew: Reduced the Max Health and Max Resource (Stamina or Magicka) granted by these drinks by approximately 12%. The Recoveries remain unchanged.
• Artaeum Takeaway Broth & Clockwork Citrus Filet: Reduced the Max Health and Max Resource granted by these foods by approximately 15%.
  Developer Comment:
  Previously, these food buffs were a bit too stat dense in the areas that certain builds needed to focus on, which greatly reduced consumable options when comparing effectiveness. 
• Fixed an issue where weapon enchantments that dealt damage could be dodged when procced from a damage source that couldn’t be dodged. 
  Developer Comment:
  This change was made to help better solidify the notion that the enchantment is a part of the weapon itself. This means if you dodge an attack that would normally trigger an enchantment, you will dodge the attack and the enchantment together. However, if you are dodging while being hit with an attack that cannot be dodged, both that attack and the enchantment will successfully hit you.
• Foods and drinks that scale based on your level have had their values increased to put them on par with other consumed foods.
  • Dubious Camoran Throne and Witchmother’s Brew have been properly decreased to the original notes to ensure they are as powerful as other consumed foods.
  • Artaeum Takeaway Broth and Clockwork Citrus Filet have been properly adjusted to the original notes to ensure they are as powerful as other consumed foods. Their Max Health and Max Resource values have been reduced, while their Resource and Health Recovery values have seen slight increases.

Item Sets

• Updated the wording on numerous item sets to clarify their proc conditions, such as only triggering from healing allies, or requiring a target.
• Advancing Yokeda:
  • Fixed an issue where this set could not proc off abilities such as Rapid Strikes.
  • Added a 0.5 second internal cooldown from generating a stack, but increased the duration to 6 seconds from 5 seconds.
• Asylum’s Perfected Dual Wield: Fixed an issue where this set was not applying its bonus to Blade Cloak and its morphs.
• Burning Spellweave: Corrected a grammatical error in this item set’s description.
• Caluurion’s Legacy: Fixed an issue where certain elemental procs had a lower chance of being fired compared to others. Now, there will be an equal chance for each element to proc.
• Chokethorn: Fixed an issue where this set couldn’t proc from the healing of Meditate or its morphs.
• Daedric Trickery: Fixed an issue where each buff did not have an equal chance of proccing.
• Dead-Water’s Guile: Fixed an issue where this set would put an erroneous debuff on targets you hit with the set active.
• Deadly Strike: This set will no longer drop in Heavy Armor boxes in Cyrodiil, and will instead drop in Medium Armor boxes since it is, in fact, a Medium Armor set.
• Earthgore: This item set now instantly dispels all negative effects, rather than one. The heal granted from this set now only heals the target with the lowest health in the area, rather than the 6 lowest targets in the area.
• Essence Thief:
  • Fixed an issue where the pool would fail to materialize if you began sprinting or roll dodging while it was proccing.
  • Fixed an issue where targets other than the caster could see the essence pool.
  • Fixed multiple issues where the essence pool would vanish if the caster was stunned, feared, knocked back, silenced, disoriented, charging, staggered, or falling while it was still moving to its target location. The only time the pool should fail to materialize now is when your character dies or begins to swim. You're already in a pool, you don't need another.
• Grace of Gloom: Fixed a tooltip error where this set stated it could only proc off single target damage, rather than any damage.
• Gryphon's Ferocity: Fixed an issue where this set wasn't firing off of some specific Direct Damage attacks.
• Leeching Plate: Fixed an issue where this set’s damage could be blocked, despite it being an Area of Effect Damage Over Time.
• Mechanical Acuity: Fixed an issue where this set wasn't firing off of some specific Direct Damage attacks.
• Nikulas’ Heavy Armor: Fixed an issue where this set would not proc from Shield Wall or its morphs.
• Powerful Assault: Fixed an issue where this item set would trigger multiple times from a single cast of Caltrops or its morphs.
• Robes of the Hist:
  • Reduced the healing of this set by 20%.
  • Fixed an issue where this item set was able to critically strike.
• Shield Breaker: Redesigned this item set so it no longer deals damage when you Light Attack a target with a shield active. Now, it increases your damage dealt by 6% at all times. This effect is doubled when attacking targets with a damage shield active.
• Spell Strategist: Fixed an issue where this item set had reverted the cooldown to 5 seconds, rather than 4 seconds.
• Swarm Mother:
  • Adjusted the pull from this set to be in line with other pull abilities. Now, this item set will pull targets between 8m and 22m, rather than 5m and 28m.
    • Note this set’s minimum range is meant to help prevent situations where you could pull targets who were already in melee range.
  • Fixed an issue where this set would go on cooldown after attempting to pull a crowd control immune target.
• Twilight Remedy: Fixed an issue where activating your own synergy from things such as Haven of Ursus could proc this set.
• Valkyn Skoria: The proc from this item set will now display a ring around the target when it is incoming to improve the clarity of the threat.

General

• The ground level doors that lead to the Transitus Shrines in Bruma, Cropsford, and Vlastarus are temporarily locked. This will be resolved in an upcoming incremental patch.

General

• Move position abilities that either pull, charge, leap, or teleport will not currently display their animations to remote clients. This is not intended, and will be fixed in a future patch.