Necrom Chapter

New Zones – Telvanni Peninsula & Apocrypha
Explore two new zones as you unravel the Shadows over Morrowind storyline! In this update, you’ll begin your journey in the Telvanni Peninsula, one of the most remote areas in the Morrowind province. From there, you’ll gain access to Apocrypha, Hermaeus Mora’s personal domain in Oblivion.

• To begin your adventures in Necrom, you can do any of the following:
  • Create a new character and play through the tutorial
  • Enter the zone with an existing character – if your realm’s character copy is in effect – by one of the following means:
    • Use a boat or cart outside Elden Root, Mournhold, or Wayrest to travel to the Necrom Docks
    • Travel to a friend who is already in the Telvanni Peninsula or Apocrypha
  • Utilize one of the PTS character templates
• After you complete the tutorial or otherwise arrive in the Telvanni Peninsula, seek out Leramil the Wise awaiting for your arrival at various locations in and around Necrom. She’ll ask you for help in the Main Story and send you to meet with the Daedric Prince of Forbidden Knowledge, Hermaeus Mora.
• In addition to the Main Story, the Necrom Chapter includes the following activities:
  • Six delves, two in the Telvanni Peninsula and four in Apocrypha, each with its own Skyshard, boss, and associated content.
  • Six challenging world bosses, from Coryls the Chain-Maker and House Dres’ terrifying slavers encroaching on House Telvanni’s lands, to the mind-bending Prime Cataloguer, a Seeker that toils to the point of madness in the Libram Cathedral in Apocrypha.
  • Two public dungeons: the once-beautiful island of Gorne, a sanitarium for the maddened mages of House Telvanni now overrun by Daedra interested only in sowing chaos, and the enigmatic Underweave, a vast and unknowable facility where Hermaeus Mora’s hostile minions process the fates of realities that never came to pass.
  • Three new set crafting locations
  • Nine additional quest objectives
  • Multiple side quests, unique distractions and many other encounters sown throughout the Telvanni Peninsula and Apocrypha

Bastion Nymic World Events
Shadows loom over both Apocrypha and the Telvanni Peninsula as a coterie of dark forces strike out at Hermaeus Mora to learn his most guarded secrets. These dark forces, led by a sinister figure known as the Herald, have set their eyes on Bastion Nymic, a fortress of Hermeaus Mora’s realm which holds Nymics – powerful names that can control Daedra once learned.

• To thwart these forces, you must first make contact with Ordinator Tandessa, a Hermaeus Mora worshipper masquerading as one of the proud Ordinators of the Tribunal, and accept her request for aid. Once that’s done, you will need to scour the lands of the Telvanni Peninsula or Apocrypha for Herald’s Seekers, corrupted gatekeepers of Bastion Nymic.
  • These maddened sentries will need to be killed so their ichor can be harvested and used to open the way to Bastion Nymic. Be prepared and travel with allies – they won’t go down easily!
• Once you have enough ichor, you can travel to one of Bastion Nymic’s entry portals and use the ichor to activate it. Once inside, the true challenge begins!
  • You and your group must fight your way through various districts of Bastion Nymic, felling foes and unravelling secrets until you confront the Herald at the heart of the fortress and kill them.
  • Once the invaders have been dispatched, you can claim your prize from Ordinator Tandessa.
• As you explore Bastion Nymic, keep an eye out for secrets and make sure to bring friends! You won’t be able to rely on the help of strangers once inside!

New Class: The Arcanist
Owning the Necrom Chapter will allow you to channel the eldritch powers of Apocrypha as an Arcanist! These scholarly spellcasters channel secret runes and abyssal spells to destroy their enemies, heal their allies, and defend against any foe.

• The Arcanist features a unique mechanic where some abilities can build or spend Crux. Each Crux you have, up to three maximum, will either passively increase your capabilities in combat or add further capabilities to abilities that spend Crux.
  • Crux gives the Arcanist a unique gameplay experience not yet seen in ESO and offers a greater variety in your gameplay whether you’re in Trials, questing or PvP.
  • You’ll see how much Crux you currently have by the floating runes circling your character.
• We’ve also added a new UI feature to help aim your Fatecarver and Remedy Cascade abilities. 
  • The new “Aim Assist” function is found in the Accessibility panel in your options, which gives your targeting a little help at 100% value. 
  • This can be reduced all the way to 0 (disabled) if desired.

Two New Companions: Sharp-as-Night and Azadar al-Cybiades
Two new Companions can be befriended in Necrom by completing their associated Chapter content. Sharp-as-Night, the gruff mercenary, can be found near the city gates of Necrom. The bombastic and personable Azandar al-Cybiades, magus supreme, can be found around the outskirts of Cipher’s Midden in Apocrypha.

• If you have access to the Necrom Chapter, you can unlock the two Companions through completing associated quests in the Necrom zone.
• Once either introduction quest is completed, the respective Companion collectible will be granted.
  • These collectibles can be found in the Collections menu under the Allies category, in the Companion subcategory.
  • You may have either a Companion or an Assistant active at one time.
  • Companion collectibles may be activated from the Collections menu or quick slotted for ease of use.
  • Once unlocked, other characters on your account will need to also complete the associated introductory objective to utilize Sharp or Azandar, but skill line, level progression and equipment are preserved on each Companion regardless which character summoned them.
• Each Companion possesses a passive perk ability which benefits you while the Companion is active, which can be seen via the Companion menu. This perk may also be permanently unlocked via Companion achievement accomplishment.
  • Sharp provides “Sharp’s Patience” which offers an improved chance at finding trophy fish and slightly reducing reel time.
  • Azandar grants “Azandar’s Inquisitiveness” which gives you a chance to discover research portfolios when searching containers. Portfolios can contain crafting recipes, treasure maps, research notes, survey reports, and other documents of value.

New Trial: Sanity’s Edge
A mind is a terrible thing to waste, especially one as bright and holds as much promise as that of Warlock Vanton. Hubris though got the better of him and now he needs help defeating the enemy unraveling his conscious. Travel into the mind of a mage and see just what his dreams and nightmares entail…

• Sanity’s Edge is a 12-player Trial in southern Telvanni Peninsula.
• The Trial includes a normal version in addition to a challenging Veteran version.
• There are unique item sets within the trial including Perfected versions only found in Veteran difficulty.
• Unique Achievement awards are available for completing this Trial, including:
  • A unique Body and Face Marking
  • A unique Mount
  • Several Titles
  • Unique housing items

New Item Sets
In this Chapter, we’ve added 13 total item sets which can be sourced from the overland, crafting, the new Trial, or via Antiquities.

• Overland Sets
  • Vivec’s Duality – Light Armor
    • 2 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 3 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
    • 4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 5 – After staying on one bar for 15 seconds, gain 6636 Magicka and Stamina when bar swapping.
    Developer Comment:
    You must have the 5-piece bonus on both of your bars in order to gain resources from the bar swap.
  • Camonna Tong – Medium Armor
    • 2 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
    • 3 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
    • 4 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
    • 5 – On gaining kill XP from a monster, gain 1 Weapon and Spell Damage for every 50 XP the monster is worth for 30 seconds. This bonus can stack up to a maximum of 540 Weapon and Spell Damage. This item set is not affected by XP boosting effects.
  • Adamant Lurker – Heavy Armor
    • 2 – Adds 129 Health Recovery
    • 3 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
    • 4 – Adds 129 Health Recovery
    • 5 – Gain 1505 Health Recovery while you are standing still.
    Developer Comment:
    Movement abilities such as Bolt Escape or Critical Charge count as standing still.
• Crafted Sets
  • Shattered Fate
    • 5 – Adds 7918 Offensive Penetration
    • 10 – Adds 687 Weapon and Spell Damage
    • 12 – Adds 1528 Critical Chance
    Developer Comment:
    This item set only grants bonuses on the 5, 10, and 12 piece. How many pieces you wear is up to you!
  • Telvanni Efficiency
    • 2 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
    • 3 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
    • 4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 5 – While you have a living Companion, reduce the cooldown of their abilities by 50%. While you do not have a living Companion, reduce the cost of your Magicka, Stamina, Health, and Ultimate abilities by 8%.
  • Seeker Synthesis
    • 2 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
    • 3 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
    • 5 – When you cast an ability that costs resources while in combat, you reduce your potion cooldown by 0.6 seconds. This effect can occur once every 0.6 seconds.
• Trial Sets
  • Peace and Serenity – Light Armor
    • 2 – Adds 657 Critical Chance
    • 3 – Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
    • 4 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
    • 5 (perfected only) – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
    • 5 – While you are standing still, you gain 465 Weapon and Spell Damage. While you are moving, you gain 203 Health, Magicka, and Stamina Recovery.
    Developer Comment:
    Movement abilities such as Bolt Escape and Critical Charge count as standing still.
  • Ansuul’s Torment – Medium Armor
    • 2 – Adds 657 Critical Chance
    • 3 – Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
    • 4 – Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
    • 5 (Perfected only) – Adds 657 Critical Chance
    • 5 – Increases your damage done against monsters by 7%. When you interrupt an enemy, you increase your damage done against monsters by an additional 7% for 10 seconds.
  • Transformative Hope – Light Armor
    • 2 – Adds 4% Healing Done
    • 3 – Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
    • 4 – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
    • 5 (Perfected only) – Adds 4% Healing Done
    • 5 – While in combat, when you heal yourself or an ally that is below 40% Health, you ignite a Spark of Hope within them for 3 seconds. If they are above 90% Health when the effect ends, you and the ally gain Major Heroism for 15 seconds. This effect can occur once every 20 seconds per target.
  • Test of Resolve – Heavy Armor
    • 2 – Adds 1487 Armor
    • 3 – Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
    • 4 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
    • 5 (Perfected only) – Adds 1487 Armor
    • 5 – When you take damage while under 35% Health, your resolve is tested. If you are also below 50% Stamina, you restore full Health, Magicka, and Stamina while also gaining Major Protection and Major Aegis for 10 seconds. If you are above 50% Stamina, you become a Beacon of Hope for 20 seconds, causing your Major and Minor Buffs to also grant Major Aegis for 10 seconds. This effect can occur once every 1 minute.
• Mythic Items
  • Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet – Necklace
    • 1 – Adds 4968 Offensive Penetration
    • 1 – Increase your damage done to monsters by 15%, Critical Damage by 15%, and reduce your Light and Heavy Attack damage by 99%.
  • Esoteric Environment Greaves – Heavy Legs
    • 1 – While you are above 33% Stamina, reduce your damage taken by 50% and lose 1567 Stamina whenever you take direct damage, up to once every 0.5 seconds.
    Developer Comment:
    This stacks with other damage mitigation sources, such as Block.
  • Cryptcannon Vestments – Light Chest
    • 1 – You can no longer cast Ultimate abilities. Instead, casting an Ultimate ability transfers your Ultimate resource to your living group members, divided equally among them. Gain Minor Heroism at all times.
    Developer Comment:
    Cryptcannon Vestment replaces your ability to cast Ultimates. You will not be able to proc other sets that rely on casting Ultimates, such as Lamia’s Song and Balorg.

New Mythics & Antiquities
As described above, there are 3 new Mythics available to discover through Antiquities along with a few other Antiquities:

• A Glyphic Music Box and a Necrom Alchemy Station can be discovered from Antiquities.
• Leads for two antique maps – one of Telvanni and another of Apocrypha – are available to those explorers who uncover and accomplish lots in Necrom.

New Collectibles

• Pets
  • A Graht-Oak Squirrel is available by gathering 25 Lost Graht-Oak Acorns and 25 Unearthed Valenwood Seedlings, and earning the Great Oaks from Little Acorns achievement.
  • An Obsidian Dwarven Sphere is available by earning the Keeper of the Bastion achievement.
• Mounts
  • The Ram of Dark Dreams is available by earning the Sane and Clearheaded achievement.
  • A Berylglow Nix-Ox Steed is available by earning the Savior of Necrom achievement.
• Emotes
  • The Card Conjuring emote is available by collecting ten Heavily Played Tribute Cards and earning the eponymous achievement.
• Mementos
  • The Prism of Moribund Sapience memento is available by finishing the quest “In a Troubled House”.
  • The Meln’s Soul Gem memento is available by finishing the quest “Spirit of Fate”.
• Adornment
  • The Sacred Watcher Hood adornment is earned by finishing the quest “Castoff Destinies”.
• Face and Body Markings
  • Abyssal Cephaliarch's Face Art is earned by finishing the quest “A Hidden Fate”, while the accompanying Body Art is earned by finishing the quest “A Calamity of Fate”.
  • The Whorls of the Dark Dream Visage is earned by completing the Tenacious Dreamer achievement, while the accompanying Body Marks are earned by completing the Sanity’s Edge Conqueror achievement.
  • The Spore Savant Face and Body Markings are found through Antiquities.
• Costume
  • The Fate Scryer costume is available by finishing the quest “Chronicle of Fate”.
• Outfits
  • Shroomtender outfit pages are awarded to adventurers who complete various achievements associated with the exploration of Necrom.
  • Gravegrasp outfit pages come from the Runebound Tome: Gravegrasp, created when combining 20 Siege of Cyrodiil merits and a Siege of Cyrodiil Honor.
    • Using this book will grant one bound style page of the Gravegrasp outfit you do not already own.
    • Once this outfit is completed, you cannot purchase additional Honors.
• Dyes
  • The Telvanni Walnut dye is available by completing the Champion of Necrom achievement.
  • The Sanity’s Orchid dye is available by completing the Sanity’s Edge Vanquisher achievement.
  • The Mora’s Mauve dye is available by completing the Grand Arcanist Slayer achievement.

New Tales of Tribute Deck: Almalexia
We’ve added a new Tribute patron deck to earn during your adventures through the Telvanni Peninsula and Necrom! Revered by Dunmer, Almalexia offers insight into both your and your opponent’s decks while her followers can contain your foes long enough for you to claim victory.

• You’ll unlock fragments of the Almalexia patron deck by completing a wide range of activities but note that in order the unlock the ability to play Tales of Tribute (and your new deck) you’ll need access to the High Isle Chapter.

New Homes
The city of Necrom welcomes its new visitors with options to earn two new homes!

• Journey’s End Lodgings
  • Whether taking part in funerary rites or simply visiting the Dark Elf city of the dead, visitors to Necrom can rest easy within the confines of this spacious room inside the Mourner's Solace Inn. Full privacy—even from ancestral spirits—is guaranteed!
  • This inn room is earned by completing the “Room to Spare” quest in Necrom’s Mourner’s Solace Tavern or can be purchased for 3,000 gold if you’ve already completed that quest elsewhere.
• Emissary’s Enclave
  • Years ago, Tribunal priests requested a Necrom-based residence for an emissary and their staff. Today, this expansive home with scenic terraces is privately owned and seeks a caretaker—perhaps you—until an emissary of the Three needs it again.
  • This home will be available to purchase for 1,300,000 gold upon completion of the “Necrom Grand Adventurer” achievement.

New Furnishings
A bevy of new furnishings can be found in Necrom, including:

• 101 new furnishing plans, which can be obtained from monsters, containers, and more across the Telvanni Peninsula and Apocrypha.
• 5 new book furnishings, and 5 new furnishing plans that can be found in Bastion Nymic.
• 11 new Home Goods furnishings that can be purchased from Murkholg in Necrom, including an array of mushrooms that can be found across the Telvanni Peninsula, along with a selection of Apocrypha style foliage and rocks.
• 12 new achievement furnishings, which can be purchased from Vasei in Necrom once you’ve completed the associated achievements.
• A set of 10 new paintings, which can rarely be found in treasure chests across Necrom.
• 14 new antiquity furnishings, including a new Telvanni themed alchemy station!
• A new bust and trophy celebrating victory in Sanity’s Edge.
• 4 new tapestries featuring the art from two new different Tales of Tribute cards, which can be earned as rare rewards from Tales of Tribute matches.

Achievements & Titles
This update introduces 103 new achievements and 7 new titles.

• The title “Fate’s Chosen” is obtained by completing the “Champion of Necrom” achievement.
• The title “Hero of Necrom” is obtained by completing the achievement of the same name.
• The title “Sanity’s Scourge” is obtained by defeating all the bosses in the Sanity’s Edge trial on Normal, while defeating them on Veteran mode will grant the title “Sanity’s Warrior”.
• The title “Tenacious Dreamer” is obtained by completing the achievement of the same name in Sanity’s Edge.
• The title “Mind Master” is obtained by completing the “Master of the Mind” achievement in Sanity’s Edge.
• The title “Tormentor’s Bane” is obtained by completing the “Sane and Clear Headed” achievement in Sanity’s Edge.
• Added several Mythic achievements, as well as Arcanist achievements.

In this Update, we’re providing two character templates for you to utilize. The first is a max-level CP3600 template that offers all the usual item sets and template goodies, and the other being a level 25; both templates will place you in the Necrom Outskirts. For those who wish to play as an Arcanist (which we anticipate will likely be most of you!) will be able to do so from the class selection part of character creation.

It’s the most exciting time of the year, our big yearly Chapter release! This time around we’re sticking to what we’ve been learning over the years, where we mainly keep large scale changes out of the Chapter update so you can focus more on the meaty new content, and especially so since this year the Arcanist joins the ranks as our 7th playable class. That being said, we still have a handful of adjustments and fixes coming this time around, mainly focused on bug squashing and targeted adjustments based on feedback we’ve seen since Updates 36 and 37.

One of the main callouts we hope will make life easier for our courageous warriors is the update to melee attack range being a default of 7 meters, rather than 5. Some of you have been around long enough to know this was our original standard – which changed quite a while back – but the game has evolved quite a bit since then and we’re confident we can move back to this experience to better align with our combat pacing and feel. This extra 2 meters won’t be astronomical, but we hope that it reduces the likelihood of missing melee attacks in high mobility encounters and gives those who stay up close and personal a few more precious moments to react to in coming threats.

In addition to this, we have some class adjustments coming in primarily focused on Templar and Sorcerer, which we saw a lot of discussion on over the past few months. While the change list below won’t touch every topic or problem space we’ve seen, we hope these adjustments help bolster these classes’ strengths in the right places, without having them go overboard. One main bit of feedback we saw for Templar was that they don’t feel as impactful in their ability to jump into the fray and hold their own, so we’ve looked at improving some of their defensive capabilities to better enable their offensive windows without needing to constantly turtle up as much as they do. To accomplish this, we’re allowing Rune Focus’ heal to partially enable at all times and gain strength when stationary, to help the class gain some staying power while on the move. Speaking of on the move, we’re also adding Major Protection to their main movement skill – Focused Charge – to help enable a better offensive window when they dive headfirst into the fray.

Sorcerers, on the other hand, have been commenting how they lack access to a robust amount of Major and Minor buffs and debuffs with their class kit, which we agree with. While we won’t be adding a ton of access in this update, we’re starting by sweetening the dark deals they make by adding Minor Berserk to Dark Exchange and its morphs, to help reward the risk of activating it and make their spell slinging truly a thing to fear. We’ll also be making their Volatile Familiars a little less volatile by making the stun from the activate only happen once, and sooner to the activation, so it feels more controlled and deliberate while also increasing the chance it applies the Charged status effect, making Minor Vulnerability more reliable to be active.

We’ll have other changes to item sets and some minor class tweaks, like Necromancer’s big damage increase on Flame Skulls’ 3rd cast, but this covers our main focuses in this update outside of the shiny new toys you’ll get between the Arcanist and new sets. We hope this helps give some insight into the changes coming and better arms you when it comes to delivering your invaluable feedback. Stay safe out there, adventurers, and we hope to see you on the roads in Tamriel!


General

• Fixed an issue where swapping bars while blocking and out of resources, while under the effects of Tri Focus or Stormweaver’s Cavort, could disable block until you dropped block and reactivated it.
• Fixed an issue where sprinting while Heavy Attacking could lock you in sprint.
• Melee abilities with a range of 5 meters have all been increased (back) to 7 meters, to aid in their use while moving and to offer more breathing room and reliability in landing.
  Developer Comment:
  We’re reverting the changes to melee attack range from years past to get them back where they were, since many of the original problems that caused that pass to be needed originally have been resolved with other targeted changes over time. It’s our hope that this helps make melee attack abilities far less frustrating to utilize in mobile encounters, as well as helping give melee builds slightly more reaction time to incoming mechanics. Note this does not affect radius sizes of abilities, only ranges.
• Fixed an issue where you could become stuck resurrecting if you were hit by some staggers while resurrecting.
• Fixed an issue where transitioning between zones or relogging could cause your current health to be lower than your Max Health when you had certain sources of Max Health bonuses, such as from Champion Points.
• Fixed an issue where sources of Invisibility from things such as Shadow Cloak or potions could still allow you to be detected by other players in some cases, such as when you were wearing too many pieces of Heavy Armor, or when player targets had increases to Stealth Detection.
• Fixed numerous issues where corpse consuming abilities could or couldn’t interact with corpses that had suffered unique death animations, such as disintegrating into a pile of ash. Corpse consuming abilities can now interact with any corpse that is consumable in nature, regardless of how the owner met their demise.

Buffs and Debuffs

• Empower: Reduced this bonus to 70%, down from 80%.
  Developer Comment:
  Since we've started working on Heavy Attack build viability in the past year, we've seen a massive surge in their use, which is absolutely phenomenal for seeing more players being able to participate in end-game content at a much more digestible pace. While we're happy to see these builds being ran, we're seeing these builds inch a little too close to some of the high end builds with how much more simplified they are, and in some rare cases, they're outperforming a standard build. We're cutting down the damage bonus here ever so slightly in hopes that when you have Empower with a bunch of other Heavy Attack bonus sets, the numbers are still nice and juicy, but not as close to a full-on Light Attack build.

Dragonknight

• Ardent Flame
  • Inferno: Fixed an issue where the visual effects from this ability and its morphs would not disappear when their owner became undetectable with sources such as sneak or invisibility.
• Draconic Power
  • Dark Talons
    • Burning Talons: This morph's Damage over Time effect now will only apply if the target hit by the initial hit does not have a stack of the DoT active, similarly to Acid Spray, to help the skill shine more in Area of Effect situations where you are actively refreshing the skill. Note that it will still continue to stack from multiple targets.
  • Elder Dragon:
    • This passive no longer extends the range of melee attacks by 2 meters, as this is now once again their standard range.
    • This passive now increases your Health Recovery by 129/259 per Draconic Power ability slotted. rather than 2/5% per ability.

Necromancer

• Grave Lord
  • Flame Skull: Increased the damage bonus of the 3rd cast for this ability and its morphs to 50%, up from 20%.

Nightblade

• Assassination
  • Death Stroke: Increased the duration of this Ultimate and morphs’ debuffs to 8 seconds, up from 6.
    Developer Comment:
    For the masters of assassination, the Nightblade class is a little bit further behind in single target damage than we’d like. We’re increasing the uptime on this debuff to help Nightblades get more DPS and kill potential on priority targets.
• Shadow
  • Path of Darkness: The effects from this ability and its morphs will now apply more consistently, rather than having different behaviors for line-of-sight rules across them.
  • Summon Shade: Fixed an issue where this ability and the Dark Shade morph could return as ranged abilities in some cases.
  • Veiled Strike
    • Concealed Weapon (morph): This morph now grants its damage done bonus for 10 seconds if Major Expedition was active while it was cast, rather than for 5 seconds when Major Expedition ends or was refreshed, to ensure the skill is used actively rather than passively. The damage bonus still operates the same for leaving sneak or invisibility.

Sorcerer

• Dark Magic
  • Dark Exchange: This ability and the Dark Conversion morph now also grant Minor Berserk for the 20 second duration they restore resources.
    • Dark Deal (morph): This morph now grants Minor Berserk and Minor Force for the 10 seconds it restores resources.
    Developer Comment:
    These abilities are meant to be the class’s primary resource restores skills, and while they do that just fine, they don’t offer any other reason to run leaving them feeling a bit behind when compared to other class resource skills like Restoring Focus or Bull Netch. To sweeten the dark deals occurring, we’re adding some named buffs for the duration to help the class reinforce their spell slinging nature, while making sure we don’t push them over the top in high end damage production with group compositions.
  • Negate Magic: Fixed an issue with this Ultimate and its morphs where they could not dispel another version of themselves. Previously, Negate Magic would only dispel Absorption Field or Suppression Field but fail to dispel an enemy Negate Magic, or any permutation where the Ultimates were of the same version. Now, any version of these Ultimates will actively dispel any version of the Ultimates they are placed on if they are sourced from enemies.
• Daedric Summoning
  • Summon Storm Atronach:
    • The synergy from this Ultimate and its morphs, Charged Lightning, now grants Major Berserk for 10 seconds, up from 8.
    • Increased the amount of targets the synergy will target to 12, up from 6.
    Developer Comment:
    Since we’ve been slowly improving access to the highly coveted Major Berserk buff type (since we’re pretty generous with Major Protection) we wanted to make sure this source stands out in the pack as a special case and reason to consider bringing a Sorcerer or two to group compositions, without making them feel mandatory.
  • Summon Unstable Familiar
    • Summon Volatile Familiar (morph): This morph’s special active now only stuns on the 2nd tick, rather than the 4th and final ticks, to make the stun less volatile in nature and help reduce the passive feeling of the skill. To make up for this loss, we’re increasing the chance of applying the Charged status effect from the special active’s damage to 5% per tick, up from 1%. Zzzzap!

Templar

• Aedric Spear
  • Focused Charge: This ability and its morphs now grant Major Protection for 4 seconds after reaching your target.
    • Explosive Charge: This morph now also extends the duration of Major Protection to 10 seconds.
    Developer Comment:
    After the adjustments to Templar’s damage to make sure they’re more in line with other classes, we’ve seen them drop down in effectiveness in PvP situations in some areas. Rather than bloating out their damage again, we’re trying to help enable them to stay in the fray longer and keep up the pressure by adding some defensive bonuses when they dive into foes, helping them go all in before needing to peel back and turtle up.
• Dawn’s Wrath
  • Solar Flare: This ability and its morphs now also grant Sunsphere for 5 seconds after casting, increasing your damage done with class abilities by 5%.
    • Solar Barrage (morph): This morph also extends the duration of Sunsphere to 20 seconds.
• Restoring Light
  • Lightweaver: Fixed an issue where this passive’s Ultimate could apply to the caster, rather than only allies, as its tooltip states.
  • Rune Focus:
    • This ability and its morphs now heal you for 2% of your Max Health every second they are active, rather than 4.5% of your Max Health while you are standing within the rune.
    • Increased this healing effect by 200% while you are standing in the rune, resulting in a 33.3% (repeating of course) increase overall while in the rune.
    • Fixed an issue where the heal from these abilities was not properly considered a Restoring Light heal.
    • Fixed an issue where these abilities were not considered as healing abilities in some cases.
    Developer Comment:
    After the changes to these abilities to grant them healing, we’ve seen a slight improvement in their ability to defend their sanctified grounds, but we’re noticing the class really suffers in the majority of content with mobility. While the class is meant to feel empowered while locked to an area, we’re trying to help them feel less clung to an area by offering some passive healing in between and doubling down (well, tripling in this case) when they decide to mark their fighting arena.

Warden

• Animal Companions
  • Scorch: Fixed an issue with this ability and its morphs where they could fail to hit larger monsters in some cases.
• Winter’s Embrace
  • Arctic Wind
    • Arctic Blast (morph):
      • The stun from this morph now fires after a 2 second delay, rather than immediately. Recasting the ability before the delay completes will reset the delay timer.
      • Fixed an issue where the stun ignored line of sight rules.

Weapon

• One Hand and Shield
  • Low Slash: This ability and morphs' secondary effects now last 15 seconds, up from 12.
  • Shield Wall: Fixed an issue where this Ultimate and its morphs’ block functionality would become lost after sprinting.
• Dual Wield
  • Flurry: Fixed an issue with this ability and its morphs where they could sometimes, ever so incredibly rarely, only hit 3 times when weaving in extremely rapid succession (we’re talking within a 1ms time span).
• Bow
  • Arrow Spray
    • Acid Spray (morph): Increased the damage per tick of the Damage over Time effect of this morph by approximately 38%.

World

• Vampire
  • Fixed an issue where feeding on hostile enemies at Stage 4 Vampirism could cause their health bar to become desynced.

Racial

• Argonian
  • Resourceful: Fixed an issue where the heal from this passive was not considered a proc.

General

• All companions now gain an increasing amount of experience based on the level of rapport they have reached with the associated player character. Each rapport tier above Cordial provides an additional 5% absolute experience gain over the base 15% amount received at cordial and below.
  • The amount of experience gained by the companion does not reduce the amount of experience received by the player and experience-increasing effects applied to the player do increase the amount received by the companion as a result.
• Significantly reduced the amount of rapport needed to reach the Friendly, Close, Allied, and Companion rapport tiers for all companions.
• In the companions collections book, search results no longer get into a bad state when your search contains results that the companion can't use.

General

• Fixed an issue where numerous item sets could fail to show their additional telegraphs to enemies in certain situations, which includes the following:
  • Auroran’s Thunder
  • Frozen Watcher
  • Lady Malygda
  • Leeching Plate
  • Plague Slinger
  • Sellistrex
  • Thurvokun
  • Dark Convergence
  • Whorl of the Depths

Ability Altering Weapons

• Frenzied Momentum and Spectral Cloak: These sets will now only apply their effects if you cast their respective ability requirements while in combat.

Crafted

• Death’s Wind: Fixed an issue where this set had a target cap of 6, despite the tooltip stating “all enemies”.
• Morkuldin: Fixed an issue where this set's summoned sword would sheathe itself after you left combat. Too many samurai flicks, I suppose.
• Old Growth Brewer: This set now requires you to be in combat to gain its effects.
• Order’s Wrath: Fixed an issue where this set could not be used in no-proc campaigns.
• Vastarie’s Tutelage: Fixed an issue where this set was reducing the cost of sprint.

Dungeon & Arena

• Crusader: Better optimized the visual effects for this set, to reduce their impact on client performance.
• Runecarver’s Blaze: Fixed an issue where this set did not activate off of Hurricane.
• Storm Master:
  • This set’s bonus damage with Light and Heavy Attacks now only works against monsters.
  • Reduced the duration of the bonus to 8 seconds, down from 20 seconds.
  • Reduced the cooldown to 5 seconds, down from 10.

Monster Masks

• Lady Thorn: Fixed an issue where the synergy granted from this set, Sanguine Burst, did not obey line of sight rules.
• Nunatak:
  • This set now applies a 40% snare to enemies hit, rather than a stacking snare from 25% to 100%.
  • Major Brittle now applies on enemies that have been damaged 4 or more times by the set, rather than only on the 4th hit.
  • Fixed an issue where the snare from this set could stack with other snares and could cause enemies to become unable to move.
• Ozezan's Inferno:
  • Fixed an issue where this set's Armor could fail to reduce damage against procs.
  • Fixed an issue where this set could proc off procs.
  • Fixed an issue where this set's Armor did not appear in the character sheet, despite being active.
• Scourge Harvester: Fixed an issue where this set did not obey line of sight rules.

Mythics

• Stormweaver's Cavort: This set can now be used in no-proc Cyrodiil campaigns.

Overland

• Prisoner’s Rags: Fixed an issue where this set would fail to persist if you bar swapped while sprinting.
• Skooma Smuggler: This set now requires you to be in combat to gain its effects.

PvP Sourced

• Coward’s Gear: Fixed an issue where this set would fail to persist if you bar swapped while sprinting.
• Plaguebreak: This set now will only attempt to apply itself to enemy players, rather than any enemy. Note that the explosion can still damage and be amplified by nearby non-players.
  Developer Comment:
  This change was made to correct a behavior we've been seeing in PvP areas where you could apply this set to entities (such as pets or guards) that lacked critical knowledge of how to counter-play the mechanics introduced. This also hits the truly creative uses of the set in PvE where we have seen some humorous videos that wipe out entire dungeons with relative ease, which while we appreciated the ingenuity, it was *slightly* over performing.
• Twin Sisters: Fixed an issue where this set did not obey line of sight rules.

Trial

• Eye of Nahviintaas: Fixed an issue where this set was reducing the cost of sprint.
• Infallible Mage: This set’s bonus damage with Heavy Attacks now only works against monsters.

General

• Fixed an issue where the Skyshard in Tomb of the Serpents wouldn't appear on the map while standing near it.

General

• Reduced the cooldown on the use of the Antiquarian's Eye tool to 20 seconds, down from 30 seconds.

Quests

• The Gray Host: Tzinghalis's map no longer magically transforms from a Rift map (when you take it) to a Skyrim map (when you place it).

Monsters

• The Dwarven Dynastor Supreme is now properly immune to control and knockback abilities.

Quests

• For King and Glory: Fixed an issue where Kurog stabbed the air after stabbing a dude. He enjoyed it so much he wanted to do it again. That Kurog, such a card. A stabbing, stabbing card.
• Invitation to Orsinium: You will now pick up this quest from the notes rather than talking to the dead body.