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PvP Campaign Changes
For Update 31, the existing No-CP Cyrodiil and Imperial City campaigns will now also prohibit proc sets from firing. We have expanded the number of sets from the original grouping that worked during the initial test several months ago.  

• As a refresher, the following sets were not affected by this ruleset when it was originally implemented back in February:
  • Amber Plasm
  • Armor of the Trainee
  • Beekeeper’s Gear
  • Crafty Alfiq
  • Draugr Hulk
  • Endurance
  • Fortified Brass
  • Grace of the Ancients
  • Hunding’s Rage
  • Impregnable Armor
  • Law of Julianos
  • Leviathan
  • Mother’s Sorrow
  • Plague Doctor
  • Shacklebreaker
  • Spinner’s Garments
  • Spriggan’s Thorns
  • Willpower Agility
• The following sets will function with these campaign rules during this week’s PTS patch and when U31 launches:
  • Agility
  • Amber Plasm
  • Armor of the Trainee
  • Battlefield Acrobat
  • Beekeeper’s Gear
  • Crafty Alfiq
  • Darkstride
  • Draugr Hulk
  • Endurance
  • Fortified Brass
  • Grace of the Ancients
  • Hunding’s Rage
  • Impregnable Armor
  • Law of Julianos
  • Leviathan
  • Mother’s Sorrow
  • Night Mother's Embrace
  • Night Terror (3-piece)
  • Plague Doctor
  • Relics of the Physician, Ansur
  • Robes of Alteration Mastery
  • Shacklebreaker
  • Shield of the Valiant (5-piece)
  • Spinner’s Garments
  • Spriggan’s Thorns
  • Twilight's Embrace
  • Vesture of Darloc Brae (4-piece)
  • Way of Air (4-piece)
  • Way of the Arena
  • Willow's Path
  • Willpower
• In the coming weeks, the following sets will be added and will be included with Update 31 launch:
  • Aetherial Ascension
  • Akaviri Dragonguard
  • Archer's Mind
  • Armor of the Seducer
  • Assassin's Guile
  • Bahraha's Curse (aka Bahara) (4-pieces)
  • Bastion of the Heartland
  • Black Rose
  • Blessing of the Potentates
  • Blooddrinker
  • Buffer of the Swift
  • Caustic Arrow (Master)
  • Crushing Wall (Maelstrom)
  • Dagon's Dominion
  • Deadly Strike
  • Duneripper's Scales
  • Eagle Eye
  • Elf Bane
  • Eyes of Mara
  • Flanking Strategist
  • Frostbite
  • Hawk's Eve
  • Innate Axiom
  • Jorvuld's Guidance
  • Kvatch Gladiator
  • Leki's Focus
  • Light Speaker
  • Mark of the Pariah
  • Marksman's Crest
  • Netch's Touch
  • Orgnum's Scales
  • Perfected Caustic Arrow
  • Perfected Crushing Wall
  • Permafrost
  • Ranger's Gait
  • Red Eagle's Fury
  • Robes of Destruction Mastery
  • Salvation
  • Sergeant's Mail
  • Shapeshifter's Chain
  • Shield Breaker
  • Shield of the Valiant
  • Silks of the Sun
  • Spider Cultist Cowl
  • Strength of the Automaton
  • Swamp Raider
  • Sword Dancer
  • Sword-Singer
  • Syvarra's Scales (4-pieces)
  • Torug's Pact
  • Trial by Fire
  • War Maiden
  • Witch-Knight's Defiance
  • Wrath of the Imperium
  • Ysgramor's Birthright
• Additionally, we will be disabling Volendrung in the No-CP, No-Proc Campaign.

Rewards for the Worthy
We’ve added three new item sets to be acquired through Rewards for the Worthy.

• Dark Convergence – Light
  • 2 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
  • 3 – Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
  • 4 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
  • 5 – Casting abilities that leave an effect on the ground will create an area that applies a 30% snare and pulls enemies every 2 seconds after a 0.5 second delay, and stun them for 1 seconds. After 4 seconds, the area deals Magic Damage to all enemies in the area, and additional Magic Damage to enemies within 3 meters of the center, increasing the damage by 10% for each target. This effect can occur once every 20 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.
  Developer Comment:
  This set was designed with one goal in mind – kill large groups. Pesky zerg sitting on your keep or resource flag? Send them to the void by pairing this set with some hard CC and immobilizes.
• Plaguebreak – Medium
  • 2 – Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
  • 3 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
  • 4 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
  • 5 – Dealing direct damage to an enemy turns them into a Plague Carrier for 10 seconds, dealing Disease Damage over the duration. If the plague is removed early, it explodes, infecting enemies within 8 meters of the carrier dealing Disease Damage. The explosion deals an additional 10% per enemy hit. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds and scales off of the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.
  Developer Comment:
  Similar to Dark Convergence, we targeted large groups again with this set, focusing on their ability to have numerous purges running, making locking them down and bleeding them out incredibly difficult to do. Now, larger groups must purge more carefully, running the risk of setting off ticking time bombs and having to heal up the aftermath instead of repeatedly casting it with reckless abandon.
• Hrothgar’s Chill - Heavy
  • 2 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
  • 3 – Adds 1487 Armor
  • 4 – Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
  • 5 – Stunning or Immobilizing your enemy causes them to burst with frost magic, applying the Chilled status effect and dealing 26% of their total Physical and Spell Resistance as Frost Damage to themselves and enemies within 8 meters of them. This effect can occur once every 7 seconds.

Multithreaded Rendering
Multithreaded Rendering (Beta) is an optional performance optimization available in the Video Settings panel. This option enables a separate thread for the render process which can improve performance and provide a smoother overall experience if the limiting factor on your device is CPU processing, rather than GPU processing. The setting change is only applied after a client restart.

Please note if you have this option enabled, you may hear your PC graphics cards working hard during loading screens. This is expected with the framerate now being uncapped during loading.

This feature is in Beta, so if you experience any negative effects, please disable it.

Interaction Priority Changes 
We've added new rules for determining which things you'll interact with when there's a potential conflict. Generally speaking, interactable objects that are valuable (such as resource nodes and lootable corpses) will have priority over things that are mobile or player-made (such as Companions and Mementos). You should also have less of a problem attempting to interact with doors, Dye Stations, and other permanently available interactable objects, even when they're surrounded by Jubilee Cakes or Sorcerer pets. 

We'll be looking for feedback on this new priority set and how it feels throughout the PTS cycle, so be sure to let us know how the interaction rules are working for you. 

Mail Reply
We’ve added a Reply option to received mail, which will open a new mail with the subject line and player name pre-populated.

New Collectibles
Update 31 brings a few new collectibles and items for you to acquire through various means:

• Costumes 
  • Urgarlag will now offer Moongrave Fane, Lair of Maarselok, and Icereach monster masks and shoulders. 
• Emotes 
  • The "Wargame Trebuchet" can be obtained by earning the "Siege Specialist" achievement. 
• Adornments 
  • The "Grave Elegance Mask" can be obtained by earning the "Lyranth's Liaison" achievement. 

New Homes
There are two new homes available for testing in this update!

• Sweetwater Cascades: Set in an idyllic location between Khajiiti and Imperial lands, this tranquil villa draws upon the Anequina Aqueduct for its dancing fountains and deep cisterns. After relaxing outside, retreat indoors to enjoy healthy nourishment and restful sleep.
• Doomchar Plateau: Forged in the fires of the Deadlands, this lava-ringed plateau features a stunning view of Daedric landmarks and a solid foundation on which to build your very own Daedric dwelling. Live dangerously within the realm controlled by Prince Mehrunes Dagon!
  • Note: Doomchar Plateau can be previewed from its entrance southwest of the Dra’bul wayshrine in Malabal Tor, but is not yet available to own.

New Furnishings
Update 31 introduces several new furnishings and updates to existing furnishings:

• Rolis Hlaalu, the Mastercraft Mediator, has 7 new furnishing plans available for purchase:
  • Diagram: Deadlands Torture Rack
  • Pattern: Leyawiin Tapestry, Hunting Party
  • Blueprint: Leyawiin Divider, Carved Starfish
  • Praxis: Leyawiin Hearth, Carved Wood
  • Design: Leyawiin Bowl, Squid Special
  • Formula: Blackwood Cottage Painting, Unframed
  • Sketch: Leyawiin Lightpost, Ornate
• As usual, Rolis has also handed the prior set of furnishing plans over to his assistant, Faustina Curio. These can now be purchased at the reduced price of 100 writ vouchers:
  • Diagram: Dwarven Minecart, Ornate
  • Pattern: Solitude Yarn Rack, Colorful
  • Blueprint: Solitude Well, Noble
  • Praxis: Solitude Hearth, Rounded Tall
  • Formula: Vampiric Cauldron, Distilled Coagulant
  • Design: Provisioning Station, Solitude Grill
  • Sketch: Dwarven Crystal Sconce, Mirror
• Faustina has bundled up the Western Skyrim plans into a new Furnishing Folio, which can be purchased for 700 writ vouchers and contains the following plans:
  • Diagram: Vampiric Chandelier, Azure Wrought-Iron
  • Pattern: Solitude Loom, Warp-Weighted
  • Blueprint: Solitude Game, Blood-on-the-Snow
  • Praxis: Ancient Nord Monolith, Head
  • Formula: Winter Cardinal Painting, In Progress
  • Design: Solitude Smoking Rack, Fish
  • Sketch: Blackreach Geode, Iridescent
• A new set of 21 Leyawiin Structural Furnishing Recipes are now available from Leyawiin Reward Coffers, which can be obtained by completing World Boss or Delve Boss daily quests in Blackwood. These include a variety of walls and platforms, as well as several doors, a wooden stairway, and other structural elements!
  • Please note this requires the Blackwood Chapter to access.

Update 32 Prologue Quest – An Apocalyptic Situation
The Dread Lady, Lyranth the Dremora, needs your help to investigate the activities of Mehrunes Dagon cultists and determine the nature of a situation she believes could spell the doom of the mortal world. Join her on an adventure that will take you across Tamriel and possibly even to realms beyond!

• To begin the Deadlands Prologue Quest for testing, you’ll need to first obtain the free Crown Store Quest Starter item, Lyranth’s Letter.
• Venture to Daggerfall, Davon’s Watch, or Vulkhel Guard (depending on your Alliance) and find Lyranth’s messenger Rogatina Cinna outside the city walls.
• Talk to Rogatina to begin the first of two quests: An Apocalyptic Situation.

Companions

• Companion idle animations now transition more smoothly.
• Bastian will now verbally respond less often to players looting high quality items.
• Companions no longer grieve for fallen groupmates.
• Fixed various minor text issues and discrepancies in Companion dialogue.
• Fixed an issue that could cause display issues with a Companion’s eyes while crouched and running. 
• Reduced the frequency of Companion responsiveness to specific player behaviors, including crafting cheese-based dishes and interacting with bookshelves.
• Fixed an issue that could cause a Companion to provide incorrect dialogue in Gloomreach.
• Fixed an issue where your Companion would try to attack certain monsters before the Companion was fully present.
• Fixed an issue which could cause bows equipped by Companions to unexpectedly rotate.
• Mirri will now correctly respond to you at the intended frequency while crafting alcoholic beverages.
• Mirri no longer gains rapport when looting Psijic Portals, as she’s not fascinated with them the way Bastian is.
• Mirri will now properly face your character prior to leaving in disgust when your rapport is low enough.
• Improved and adjusted various Companion pathing behavior.
• The quickened item trait for Companions will no longer affect core mechanics such as Roll Dodge, Break Free and Bash, and now only apply to abilities as intended.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Companion dialogue to not update correctly after accepting a Companion’s personal quest.
• Fixed a rare issue that could result in a Companion not being visible to you but still be interactable.
• Companions will now occasionally respond to additional situations such as being healed and witnessing their player gain a Champion Point.
• You can no longer talk to Companions while they are mounted and have a quest for you.

Rockgrove Trial

• General
  • Basks-In-Snakes will now correctly fire abilities as intended.
  • Rockgrove Trial will now drop 3 Perfected set items, rather than 2, when completed in Hard Mode. 
• Flame-Herald Bahsei
  • Bahsei will now play appropriate interrupt animations when she is interrupted by Crushing Shock or Venom Arrow.

General

• Dovah-Flies will no longer appear in Blackwood. Shoo! 
• Fixed an issue where certain Fiendroths in Oblivion Portals were dropping too much bait. 
• Female Marshrot Firemages will no longer drop loot as if they were a Delve boss. 
• Fixed the sets for several Blackwood quest reward armor items to match their armor class. 
• Fixed an issue which caused Hackwings in Vulnak Ruins to drop extra loot. 
• Reward potions from the quest "Things lost, Things Found" will now scale properly with your level.

Achievements

• Corrected a minor typo in the "Multiplanar Devastator" achievement name. 

Antiquities

• Fixed a typo in the second lore entry for the "Chain of the Werewolf" Antiquity. 
• Updated the Tide-Glass Beads Antiquity lead to also have a chance to drop from any alchemy harvesting node in Shadowfen. 

General

• You no longer must remain in solitude while in Solitude (you can now get married at the Shrine of Mara there).
• Fixed Tordrir in Solitude so if he is murdered, he can be looted properly.

Quests

• Broken Bonds: Some doors on Firemoth Island now tell you why you can't open them when you try.
• Like Blood from a Stone: Fixed an issue where Foreman Nox couldn't be pickpocketed.
• Oxen Free: Fixed an issue where you could be prevented from looting caldera mushrooms.
• Tribal Troubles: Fixed some Dwarven supply crates so they now properly have collision.

General

• Renamed Orsinium Treasure Maps to Wrothgar Treasure Maps so they properly reflect the zone they're related to. 

General

• Drastically improved the back-end scripting of taunt to be more responsive and follow its intended rules better. This should fix multiple issues where taunts would sometimes lose target context, exhibit issues when cast from a range, and had race conditions where some parts of the hidden behaviors (such as taunt immunity) would still apply to a target even if you failed to taunt them.
• Updated Break Free to follow a more consistent cost rule when compared to other abilities. This will reduce situations where it could desync your Stamina bar when using, as well as improving the response time in validating if you have enough resources to cast it.
  • Many bonuses that reduce its cost have also been changed to be handled naturally by the server, rather than as an ability, to speed up the validation in cases where you are using many of them.
• Increased the damage taken reduction from the Battle Spirit passive to 55%, up from 44%.
  Developer Comment:
  After the recent adjustments to base character stats, Champion Points, and item set scaling, we've seen a significant shift in the meta in ways that we wanted, in many cases. In other areas, primarily burst damage and overall Time To Kill, we've seen a pretty radical shift to something that's dangerously low. In efforts to expand the window of TTK, we're upping the effective base Player Damage Reduction from 50% to 60% (remember that players naturally take 10% less damage now, which is why Battle Spirit was reduced to 44%, to preserve the original 50%!) to make up for the added stats all characters have, especially in no-CP environments.
• The following passives and player abilities now grant hybrid stats to help improve their viability and accessibility to off-meta builds, because we love them too:
  • Agility: Now grants equal Weapon and Spell Damage.
  • Balanced Warrior:
    • Now grants 660/1320 Armor, rather than 1320/2640 Spell Resistance.
    • Now grants equal Weapon and Spell Damage values.
  • Brutal Carange’s bonus: Now grants equal Weapon and Spell Damage values.
  • Concentration: Now grants equal Offensive Penetration.
  • Dexterity: Now increases Critical Damage and Healing Done per piece worn, up to 2% at the final rank, rather than Weapon Critical (as Prodigy now grants Weapon Critical as well)
  • Flawless Dawnbreaker’s bonus: Now grants equal Weapon and Spell Damage values.
  • Prodigy: Now grants equal Critical Chance.
  • Savage Strength: Now grants equal Weapon and Spell Damage values.
  • Scaled Armor: Now grants 825/1650 Armor rather than 1320/3300 Spell Resistance.
  • Slayer: Now grants equal Weapon and Spell Damage values.
• Fixed multiple issues with Ability Bar Timers displaying incorrect durations.
• Fixed numerous issues with synergies failing to be considered ability casts.
  • Note that requirements that check for abilities with a cost will still fail with synergies.
• Fixed an issue where abilities using the new Area of Effect ability scripting from Update 30, such as Dragonknight Standard or Negate Magic, could hit innocent targets unintentionally.
• Adjusted many player abilities to no longer attempt to remove Stealth or Invisibility when they should not. This is also expanded to any Damage over Time effect, rather than only single target Damage over Time effects, as we want the removal and denial of Stealth and Invisibility to be more active rather than passive.
  • This means that the only player abilities that should remove stealth are Area of Effect Direct Damage, Stuns, Fears, or Immobilizes, as well as Reveals. Attacks made with Detection potions active may still damage the target but will not strip their Stealth or Invisibility.
  • Also fixed many issues where attacks that were checking in areas regularly to hit singular targets could target Stealthed or Invisible targets, such as Force Pulse or Shrouded Dagger’s bouncing attacks. Any attack that checks in an area to attack singular targets will no longer attempt to even apply to targets under these effects.
  Developer Comment:
  The main goals with these adjustments were to improve the consistency and reliability of things like Shadow Cloak, while also stamping out more deliberate rules on what should counter the effects. Currently, these effects have a lot of frustrating counters, mainly ones that feel like the attacker is getting for free on attacks they’d be using naturally regardless (such as pulsing AoE DoTs) making it relatively easy to deny Stealth and Invisibility when you know how. While we did spend a lot of time helping these effects feel more reliable, we also buffed many of the more deliberate sources of Stealth and Invisibility denial to make counteracting them feel better in general and to better reward going out of your way to utilize them.
• Fixed an issue where the guaranteed Critical Chance and Damage for successful sneak attacks could, in some cases, apply to multiple attacks at once.
• Fixed an issue where multiple heals based on Damage over Time were not considered healing over time, such as Blood Craze or Structured Entropy.

Dragonknight

• Earthen Heart
  • Magma Armor
    • Corrosive Armor (morph): Fixed an issue where the penetration check on direct damage for this morph was not consistent with other sources.
  • Molten Weapons: Fixed an issue where you could not cast this ability or its morphs on nearby neutral enemies.

Necromancer

• Grave Lord
  • Boneyard
    • Unnerving Boneyard (morph): Fixed an issue where this morphs’ damage was not considered an Area of Effect attack.
  • Flame Skull: The bonus damage from this ability and morphs’ third cast has now been built into their damage coefficients, rather than as a bonus modifier effect. This will clean up some calculation errors that result in less damage than intended when stacking multiple bonuses.

Nightblade

• Shadow
  • Shadow Cloak: Fixed an issue where this ability and morphs’ protections could work even if the attacker had a detection potion active.

Sorcerer

• Storm Calling
  • Overload: Light Attacks from this Ultimate and morphs now break Stealth when cast. There is nothing sneaky about lobbing giant bolts of lightning at your foes.

Templar

• Dawn’s Wrath
  • Backlash:
    • This ability and its morphs now retain 50% of the damage you dealt to the target, up from 20%, to help be more reliable in Player versus Player encounters.
    • The final explosion now scales off your Spell or Weapon Damage depending on the morph, rather than Magicka or Stamina. The final explosion now also scales with both positive and negative bonuses, rather than only negative ones. Haha Backlash go boom.
  • Radiant Destruction: Fixed an issue where both morphs of this ability had scaling coefficients with less significant figures than intended, resulting in some very minor lost damage.
    • Radiant Oppression (morph): This morph no longer increases the damage done of the ability based on your current Magicka, but instead increases the damage scaling of the execute multiplier to 500%. This should retain roughly the overall maximum power of the morph, but with far less micromanagement.

Warden

• Green Balance
  • Accelerated Growth: This passive now grants Major Mending for 2/4 seconds on proc, up from 1.5/3 seconds.
• Winter’s Embrace
  • Frozen Gate:
    • This ability and its morphs’ traps now last 15 seconds, rather than 30 seconds.
    • Fixed an issue where in some cases, these abilities could remove themselves before their timer ran out.

Weapon

• Destruction Staff
  • Ancient Knowledge:
    • This passive now better discerns what is an Area of Effect attack and what isn’t with its bonus damage based on your staff type.
    • Increased the bonuses of both the Inferno and Lightning Staff types to 5/10%, up from 4/8% to help better match the power of Twin Blade and Blunt or Heavy Weapons grant.
  • Destructive Touch:
    • This ability and its morphs now guarantee their respective element type’s status effect on hit.
    • Increased the cost to 2970, up from 2700 to incorporate the added auxiliary effect.
    • Increased the range to 15 meters from 14 meters for better consistency since Destructive Clench was already 15 meters.
    • The Frost Touch and Reach versions of this ability now deal 80% more damage on its initial hit to make them equal to other ranged spammable damage attacks to give love to those Frost DPS out there.
      • Destructive Clench (morph): The Frost version of this ability still remains tank-focused rather than DPS-focused, and as such has received a cost reduction to 1485, down from 2700. It also applies Major Maim for 5 seconds at rank IV.
    Developer Comment:
    With the introduction of the Frostbite set in Update 30, we saw a lot of discussion on the viability of Frost damage sets and how their main drawback - regardless of their power - was there was no Frost damaging ability that could be used as a spammable attack. Rather than bloating those sets further, we've decided to let Frost Touch and its morphs stand out; Frost Touch and Reach now deal ranged spammable damage on initial hit. Additionally, Frost Clench has been missing the mark for being a viable taunt compared to Puncture or Inner Fire, so we've decided to amp it up by introducing a source of on-demand Major Maim, while also reducing the cost. The changes to the base ability also help to gain a form of on demand Minor Brittle, helping both DPS and tanks out regardless of the morph.
  • Elemental Force: This passive now properly states it affects all Status Effect chances, rather than only Elemental Status Effects.
  • Force Shock: This ability and its morphs can now once again be reflected. Once upon a time, a special rule was made for these abilities to not be, as it interacted poorly with charged based reflect skills such as ye old Reflective Scales, which have been clipped. Therefore, this behavior is irrelevant and inconsistent.
  • Wall of Elements: Fixed an issue where Wall of Fire and morphs’ bonus damage against Burning targets didn’t work past 9 seconds, meaning the final 5 seconds of Blockade of Fire could not benefit from it.
  • Weakness to Elements
    • Elemental Susceptibility (morph): This morph now persists indefinitely, until the target leaves combat or dies, rather than lasting 20 seconds and refreshing whenever they take damage from you.
• Dual Wield
  • Flurry
    • Bloodthirst (morph): This morph now heals for up to 33% of the damage done per hit, rather than up to 63% of the final hit’s damage done. This will result in slightly more healing effectiveness and more responsive healing as well.
• Restoration Staff
  • Absorb:
    • This passive now procs on any successful block, rather than only against spells, which was already a half truth as it procced on plenty of non-spells as well.
    • Increased the restore to 300/600 Magicka on proc, up from 288/540.
    • This passive now has a 250ms internal cooldown.
  • Essence Drain:
    • Increased the duration of Major Mending from this passive to 2/4 seconds, up from 1.5/3 seconds.
    • This passive now heals a friendly target within 12 meters of the enemy you Heavy Attacked, up from 6 meters.
    • Increased the healing done to 25/50% of the damage done, up from 15/30%.
    • Fixed an issue where the passive could Critically Strike, despite the initial hit already being able to do that. No double crits allowed at the dinner table.
  • Grand Healing
    • Healing Springs (morph): Removed the visual effects for the Magicka restore on this ability to help reduce visual clutter.
  • Panacea
    • Life Giver (morph):
      • Fixed an issue where there was a short window of time where all spells could cost nothing after activating this ability.
      • Fixed an issue where this morph could fail to be recognized as a Restoration Staff ability in some rare cases.
• Two Handed
  • Berserker Strike
    • Onslaught (morph): Fixed an issue where the penetration check on direct damage for this morph was not consistent with other sources.
  • Cleave:
    • This ability and the Carve morph now apply a damage shield on you when cast equal to the scaling coefficients of the initial hit (note it does not grant a shield based on damage done).
    • Increased the cost of all versions to 3510, up from 3240.
    • Adjusted the area of all versions to hit in a 300-degree arc with a 5 meter radius, rather than a 140 degree arc with a 7 meter radius, to better line up with the attacks’ visual appearances and help make it more clear which attacks should land and which should not.
      • Brawler (morph): Increased the base size of this morph’s damage shield by approximately 7% to ensure it matches the others.
      • Carve: The bleed from this morph can now stack up to 3 times. Blood for the blood god.
    Developer Comment:
    Brawler is currently the clear winner in terms of morph options, as it scales far more effectively in power per target. This, paired with the fact that melee builds require staying power, make the defensive option the clear winner but makes Carve feel weak no matter how high the damage could be adjusted. By adding a base line shield to these abilities, we hope to see more active choice between the morphs. Will you let the blood flow for you and your enemy or staunchly stand in their faces?

Armor

• Light Armor
  • Annulment
    • Harness Magicka (morph): Fixed an issue where you could get more than 3 Magicka restores from this ability per cast.

World

• Soul Magic
  • Soul Lock:
    • This passive now procs on any killing blow, rather than only killing blows with a weapon attack.
    • Removed the visual effects from the proc.
  • Soul Summons: This passive now properly follows its listed cooldown, rather than having an hour cooldown regardless of rank.
  • Soulstrike: Fixed an issue where this Ultimate and morphs’ reveal was not a negative effect, and therefore could not be purged or was visible on your buff tracker.
• Vampire
  • Vampiric Drain: This ability and its morphs now heal for 25% of your Missing Health per tick, up from 23%. The morphs also no longer rank up in 1.1% per damage done per rank and now rank up in morphed effects.
    • Exhilaration Drain (morph): This morph now ranks up 1 additional Ultimate per rank which will be 5 at rank IV, up from 4.
    • Drain Vigor (morph): This morph now gains 1% missing Stamina per rank which ends at 10% at rank IV, up from 5%.

Guild

• Fighters Guild
  • Expert Hunter:
    • This ability and the Camouflaged Hunter morph now reveal hidden enemies within 8 meters of you, up from 6 meters.
    • All versions of this ability now check for hidden enemies every 500ms, instead of once every second, for more responsive catching of those slippery targets.
    • All versions of this ability now prevent stealth and invisibility for 4 seconds, up from 3 seconds.
    • The hidden passive from this ability and its morphs, Sense Evil, now only highlight player Werewolves and Vampires rather than any Undead, Daedra, or Werewolf creature. This change was done to better represent the targets your Skilled Tracker bonus works against.
      • Evil Hunter (morph): This morph now also increases the radius of the reveal to 12 meters.
  • Skilled Tracker: This passive now increases your damage with Fighters Guild abilities by 10% and an additional 10% against player Werewolves and Vampires, rather than increasing your damage done with Fighters Guild abilities by 20% against any Undead, Daedra, or Werewolf.
    Developer Comment:
    This passive is currently attempting to validate a very long list of specific target checks on the backend to apply its damage bonus. Rather than continuing this, it will now only check 3 things (instead of 23!) each time you deal damage, while retaining its flavor in PvP environments.
  • Trap Beast: This ability and its morph’s traps now last for 15 seconds after their delay, rather than 1 minute.
• Mages Guild
  • Fire Rune: This ability and its morph’s traps now last for 15 seconds after their delay, rather than 30 seconds.
  • Magelight:
    • This ability and the Inner Light morph now reveal hidden enemies within 8 meters of you, up from 6 meters.
    • All versions of this ability now check for hidden enemies every 500ms, instead of every second, for more responsive catching of those slippery targets.
    • All versions of this ability now prevent stealth and invisibility for 4 seconds, up from 3 seconds.
• Psijic Order
  • Deliberation: This passive no longer grants Major Protection, and instead applies a unique 30% unique damage mitigation to get this passive’s power back to where it was meant to be.
  • Imbue Weapon
    • Crushing Weapon (morph): This morph now applies Major Breach to the target hit for 6 seconds, rather than healing for 25% of the damage caused, to help ensure the thing being crushed wasn’t your dreams.
• Undaunted
  • Inner Fire:
    • This ability and morphs will now only apply their unique visuals if the synergy successfully applied to the target.
    • Fixed an issue where Inner Fire and Rage were placing an extra negative effect on targets.
      • Inner Beast (morph): Increased this morph’s damage taken bonus on the target to 12% at base, up from 2%, to better enable the very few bruiser-tanks out there that were utilizing this skill.

Alliance War

• Assault
  • Magicka Detonation:
    • Reduced the base damage of this ability and its morphs by approximately 60%, but increased the scaling per target to 100%, up from 25%. The abilities will now deal less damage than a normal Area of Effect spammable until it hits 3 or more targets.
    • Updated the tooltip to state the scaling works on the initial target as well. This should reduce the potency of the skill against smaller groups, while still retaining its high damage against large ones.
• Support
  • Revealing Flare:
    • This ability and its morphs now prevent stealth and invisibility for 4 seconds, up from 3 seconds.
    • This ability and its morphs now passively grant Major Protection while slotted to ensure they do not feel lackluster to slot when not actively trying to deny stealth or invisibility, similarly to Magelight or Expert Hunter granting Major buffs.

Fitness

• Added three new sub constellations to this tree focusing on more core combat gameplay interaction, as well as focusing on more universal engagement for PvE encounters as the original nodes tend to have very limited diversity in that regard. Each of these constellations is filled with new slottable stars only.
  • Wind Chaser sub constellation, focused on movement speed and Sprinting
    • Celerity: Increases Movement Speed by 2% per stage, 5 stages, 10 points per stage
    • Thrill of the Hunt: Whenever you kill an enemy you gain Major Expedition for 3 seconds per stage, 2 stages, 25 points per stage
    • Refreshing Stride: You gain 100 Health and Magicka Recovery per stage while sprinting, 5 stages, 10 points per stage
  • Survivor’s Spite sub constellation, focused on pushing back and fighting against the odds
    • Sustained by Suffering: Increases your Health, Magicka, and Stamina Recovery by 30 per stage while under the effects of a negative effect, 5 stages, 10 points per stage
    • Pain’s Refuge: Reduces your damage taken by 1% per negative effect on you up to a maximum of 20%, 1 stage, 50 points
    • Relentlessness: Gain Major Protection for 3 seconds after being Stunned or Feared, 1 stage, 50 points
  • Walking Fortress sub constellation, focused on Block and Damage Shields
    • Bracing Anchor: Increases Block Mitigation by 4% per stage but lowers your movement speed by 16% at all stages, 5 stages, 10 points per stage
    • Ward Master: Reduces your damage taken by 2% while blocking with a Damage Shield active, 5 stages, 10 points per stage
    • Soothing Shield: When you successfully block an attack, you have a 15% chance to restore 147 Health per stage, 5 stages, 10 points per stage
• Ironclad: Renamed this passive to Fortified to prevent confusion for legacy players, as the original Ironclad has made its return in Warfare.

Warfare

• Ironclad: This Champion star makes its return as a slottable star, reducing damage taken from direct damage attacks by 2% per stage, 5 stages, 10 points per stage.

General

• Updated several item sets to be more performant on the server. The following item sets can now be used in campaigns that do not allow item set procs:
  • Archer's Mind
  • Battlefield Acrobat
  • Champion of the Hist
  • Darkstride
  • Duneripper's Scales
  • Healer's Habit
  • Jailbreaker
  • Mark of the Pariah
  • Medusa
  • Mighty Chudan
  • Night Mother's Embrace
  • Night Terror (3-set bonus)
  • Order of Diagna
  • Orgnum's Scales
  • Rattlecage
  • Relics of the Physician, Ansur
  • Robes of Alteration Mastery
  • Robes of Destruction Mastery
  • Shalk Exoskeleton
  • Shield of the Valiant (5-set bonus)
  • Slimecraw
  • Toothrow
  • Treasure Hunter
  • Trial by Fire
  • Twice-Born Star
  • Twilight's Embrace
  • Vampire Cloak
  • Vesture of Darloc Brae (4-set bonus)
  • Warrior-Poet
  • Way of Air (4-set bonus)
  • Way of the Arena
  • Willow's Path
• Fixed an issue where Perfected Item Set pieces were not showing active bonuses correctly.

Ability Altering Weapons

• Frenzied Momentum: Fixed multiple issues where this set would fail to generate stacks when casting some Stamina abilities.

Consumables

• Prismatic Weapon: This enchantment now deals damage equal to a normal Absorb enchantment, and restores Health, Magicka, and Stamina equal to half of the potency of a singular resource, rather than dealing bonus damage to Undead and Daedra.
  Developer Comment:
  Similar to Skilled Hunter, this enchantment is too narrow in its use case, requiring it to check too many cases where it should and should not work. Rather than continuing that, this enchantment will now fit the proper theme of Prismatic enchants where it offers all 3 of the Primary resources in one at half the efficiency of a singular.

Crafted

• Pelinal’s Aptitude:
  • Renamed this set to Pelinal’s Wrath.
  • This set now grants you a damage shield based on your Weapon or Spell Damage and a stack of Wrath of Whitestrake for 10 seconds whenever you kill an enemy.
  • Wrath of Whitestrake grants you up to 100 Weapon and Spell Damage per stack, but causes you to take 1% of your Max health as Oblivion Damage every second per stack, up to 10 stacks max.
  • This set’s 2 through 4-piece bonuses are now Weapon and Spell Damage (2), Offensive Penetration (3), and Weapon and Spell Damage (4), rather than Max Health, Stamina Recovery, and Magicka Recovery.
  • This set no longer causes your Weapon and Spell Damage to become the highest of the two values.

Dungeon & Arena

• Auroran’s Thunder: This set is now properly labeled as Damage over Time and a proc.
• Azureblight Reaper: Fixed an issue where this set was not obeying its cooldown on recently affected targets.
• Crusader:
  • This set now grants you a damage shield based on your Weapon and Spell Damage for 6 seconds and creates an Area of Effect beneath you for 10 seconds whenever you deal direct damage with a Blink, Charge, Leap, Teleport, or Pull ability. Every 2 seconds, the area grants you and group members inside Minor Courage for 12 seconds. These effects can occur once every 20 seconds.
  • This set’s 2 through 4-piece bonuses are now Weapon and Spell Damage (2, 3, and 4) rather than Max Stamina, Stamina Recovery, and Max Stamina.
  • This set no longer increases your dodge chance bonus of Roll Dodge by 0.3 seconds.
• Pestilent Host: This set can now stack between multiple wearers. Large groups beware!
• Pillar of Nirn: The initial hit from this set can now be properly blocked.
• Sunderflame: This set now has a 2.1 second cooldown to prevent situations where repeated Heavy Attacks prevented it from dealing any damage.
• Unleashed Terror: This set is now properly labeled as a proc and has a 2 second delay before it deals damage. The total damage and duration remain the same.
• Viper’s Sting: This set now has a 1 second delay and ticks 4 times instead of 5 times. The total damage over the duration remains the same.

Monster Masks

• Kjalnar’s Nightmare: Fixed an issue where you could still generate stacks for a short window against targets who were recently affected by this set.
• Kra’gh’s: This set’s attack hit box now better matches its visual effects and adjusted its visual frequency to match its actual frequency. Overall, this will slightly decrease the width of the attack (-25cm) but increase the length (+3m).
• Selene: Updated this set to no longer spawn a real spirit bear pet, and now summons a visual bear to maul your foes. This should significantly improve its performance without changing its behavior too drastically, other than fixing multiple issues where it could synergize with sets such as Necropotence.
• Sellistrix: This set is now properly labeled as a proc.
• Stormfist: The Storm Atronach fist from this set can now be properly dispelled as it is pretty darn magical when you think about it.
• Velidreth:
  • This set’s disgusting “spores” longer explode after hitting a target, and instead now continue to travel in a straight line.
  • Fixed a few edge cases where the set would fail to work with multiple users.

Mythic Items

• Pearls of Ehlnofey: Fixed an issue where this set was incorrectly proccing off damage abilities that healed you when they dealt damage. This set was balanced around frequently having to cast healing abilities and this occurrence worked around this requirement, causing it to be significantly stronger than intended in some cases.

Overland

• Nikulas’ Heavy Armor:
  • This set now grants a stack of Nikulas’ Resolve for 5 seconds whenever you successfully block, which after 8 stacks, you consume them and completely avoid the next direct damage attack made against you within 5 seconds.
  • This set no longer has a 25% chance on blocking spell projectiles to reflect them back to the attacker.
• Sithis’ Touch:
  • This set now grants 5% movement speed for 30 seconds whenever you kill an enemy, up to 20 times, and grants invisibility for 3 seconds when activating.
  • This set’s 2 through 4-piece bonuses are now Max Stamina (2), Max Magicka (3), and Weapon and Spell Damage (4), rather than Max Health, Max Health, and Critical Chance.
  • This set no longer grants Major Berserk whenever you kill an enemy with the Blade of Woe.
• Stygian:
  • This set now grants hybrid stats rather than exclusively Magicka based stats.
  • Its 4-piece bonus is now Offensive Penetration rather than Max Magicka. The 5-piece bonus now requires you to be in combat to proc (note that this will still work with successful sneak attacks).
• Syvarra’s Scales: The initial hit from this set can now be properly blocked.
• Twin Sister’s: Fixed an issue where the Damage over Time from this ability could be dodged and blocked in some cases.

PvP Sourced

• Galerion’s Revenge: This set is now properly labeled as a proc.
• Meritorious Service and Powerful Assault: Fixed an issue where these sets did not properly follow their intended sorting behavior with how they applied to targets. They will now prioritize nearby players to the wearer of the set that do not have the effect active already.
• Vicecannon of Venom: The Damage over Time from this set can now stack from multiple users.

Trial

• Kyne’s Wind: Fixed an issue where this set would activate when you cast an ability while under the effects of a Major Buff, rather than casting an ability that applies a Major Buff to you or an ally.
• Roar of Alkosh: Increased this set’s Armor reduction cap to 6000, up from 3000. Perhaps damage dealers will finally wear it, but probably not.
• Sul-Xan’s Torment: Fixed an issue where if multiple players procced this set and had a soul active at any given time, anyone picking up a soul would remove all others around them in a 3 meter radius. It will now only remove the user’s soul, so multiple people can properly use the set!
• Twilight Remedy: Fixed an issue where this set could apply to yourself if you activated your own synergy.
  Developer Comment:
  The power of the set is designed around it being selfless in nature and would require reductions in power to retain this oversight in behavior since it was designed well before Unnerving Boneyard, Lady Thorn, or Blood Altar existed in their current forms.