They've changed skills and stats to be 'Hybrid' now, if you've not seen. So instead of a Magicka skill scaling off your Magicka and Spell damage, it will just scale off your highest stat regardless, so now you have more skills you can use in your off stat that will hit just as hard as if you had specced into it, just you won't have a big resource pool to keep casting them from. I have forgotten when this came into play, now.

PvP is in a state, yes. EU is going to begin it's new Hardware swap in April, which might fix Cyros horrid performance, but between the horrendous balance and cheaters, I doubt it's going to do much good.

The Mount John was on about was the Pre-order mount for Necrom that was just invisible for some reason, though I am unsure of the state of it right now

Oh, there is the Armoury System now. You can officially save your builds and create entirely new ones and switch between them with ease. Have one build as a WW, bother as a Vamp, all with different attributes, skill morphs and CP points assigned to them and kept separate from each other!

Lastly, ZOS is changing their game plan for content releases going forward. Now instead of a year long story like Elsywer was, we are going back to having the whole story in the expansion itself instead of being broken into a Q2 Chapter and a Q4 Story DLC, of which the Q4 update will now be new 'Tentpole' systems (This year's one seems like an endless dungeon of some sort. Details are due to come yet) and the Q3 Dungeons are now replaced with QoL updates

That's all I can think of right now, I'm sure there is probably more but the Hybridisation is probably the biggest thing of note for you to return to.

They added a new system for obtaining gear (antiquities) and all gear is now both curated and kept in a sticker book. This means that once you find a piece of gear, you can make it whenever you want from your sticker book. It also means that when a piece of gear drops, next time you fight a boss it will give you only a piece of gear you don't already know from it's available pool.

They also added something called endeavors. It lets you obtain items from crown crates (loot boxes) for free.

Hybridization: The line between mag and stam is blurrier so there's value in using your off resource for casting things, along with skill changes this has changed the skills people use in rotations.

CP changes: the entire CP system has been reworked. You may find yourself at relatively low CP, but you'll go up a lot faster now.

The armory: The first lets you change and save builds, or keep a build blank for instant reset.

stickerbook+reconstruction+curated loot: The gear grind now has a limit and you can reconstruct anything you find, makes changing builds and getting that darn weapon to drop a lot easier.

Mythics: Powerful single items that either have a medium power bonus or a high power bonus and a drawback. Some are uselss, some are situational, some very strong. This means a lot of build now either have just one piece monster set and a mythic or have a mythic and 2 piece but no arena weapon and split front and back bar.

Antiquity system used mostly for mythics, but also some furnishings and motifs
Companions:vaguely competent NPCs that help you out.
Tales of Tribute: Card game

Another change is groups have been reduced to a max of 12 which has really hurt casual PvPers - if you don't PvP enough to be in a guild you won't get in to a group most times. You also come across a lot more RPers in zone chat because the groups aren't big enough.

There's also account wide achievements now which has been a mixed bag. Some parts are ok (I managed to finally get my red BGs dye with it) but it's messed up map icons and individual achievements might be listed under different characters than you'd want.


There's been lots of other little changes like those - not much on their own but all together it can be annoying