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Trade Bar Conversion FAQ

  • virtus753
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    Tornaad wrote: »
    I know that a new benefit of ESO+ is that you are supposed to get trade bars with it, and I know you have plans to get those whose ESO + renewed earlier this year. When is that supposed to happen?

    Seasonal currencies for subs that renewed or were started before March 9 will happen March 30.

    But I didn't recall Trade Bars being granted with ESO+ going forward. I thought it was Caches of Tome Points and the tokens that act as credits towards a Premium Tome upgrade. Did I miss something? Looking here.
  • ZOS_Kevin
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    Tornaad wrote: »
    I know that a new benefit of ESO+ is that you are supposed to get trade bars with it, and I know you have plans to get those whose ESO + renewed earlier this year. When is that supposed to happen?

    Trade Bars is a new currency, replacing Event Tickets. So this is a new currency for everyone. I believe the ESO Plus currency you are referring to are Tome Tokens. But for sake of this FAQ, just wanted to make this distinction before answering your question.

    Tome Tokens are rewarded for ESO Plus membership. Once you have 12, you can trade them to upgrade any active Tamriel Tome to a premium + bonus tier. Depending on when your ESO Plus was purchased, you either should have gotten some currency today or will be apart of the March 31 grant for Tome Tokens. Everyone should have all correct tokens by March 31.
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  • DenverRalphy
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    Elvenheart wrote: »
    shadoza wrote: »
    ZOS_Kevin wrote: »
    Will players be able to gift items with the Trade Bars (or the other new ingame currency)?

    No, you will not be able to gift. But there will be many opportunities for all players to earn Trade Bars in-game. Through events, Twitch Drops, Tamriel Tomes, etc.

    I think offering trade bars for using Twitch is wrong. Drop items is fine, but dropping trade bars is like buying attention.

    I personally don’t really mind it myself. When I get Oroboros Crates for watching a Twitch drop the only reason I’m getting them is for the gems that I can convert the items in the crates into.

    I would SO much prefer trade bars over Ourboros Crates. Heck, I'd prefer a purple treasure item to vendor for gold more than an Ourboros Crate. :lol:
  • shadoza
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    ZOS_Kevin wrote: »
    Tornaad wrote: »
    I know that a new benefit of ESO+ is that you are supposed to get trade bars with it, and I know you have plans to get those whose ESO + renewed earlier this year. When is that supposed to happen?

    Trade Bars is a new currency, replacing Event Tickets. So this is a new currency for everyone. I believe the ESO Plus currency you are referring to are Tome Tokens. But for sake of this FAQ, just wanted to make this distinction before answering your question.

    Tome Tokens are rewarded for ESO Plus membership. Once you have 12, you can trade them to upgrade any active Tamriel Tome to a premium + bonus tier. Depending on when your ESO Plus was purchased, you either should have gotten some currency today or will be apart of the March 31 grant for Tome Tokens. Everyone should have all correct tokens by March 31.

    What is the correct amount? I have zero. I have been subbing for over a year. When does the prorate start?
    If I have to wait an entire year before I can trade them to upgrade, it will be the same as getting nothing at all.
  • Maitsukas
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    Thoriorz wrote: »
    Will we be able to buy items that are normally available in Crown Crates at the bazaar? (such as various styles, radiant apex mounts, etc.)

    I highly doubt it, considering that we have Seals and Crown Gems for that purpose.
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    Posting the Infinite Archive and Imperial City Weekly Vendor updates.

    Also trying out new Main Quests, Companions, ToT decks, Events and Styles on PTS.
  • lillybit
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    Tornaad wrote: »
    I know that a new benefit of ESO+ is that you are supposed to get trade bars with it, and I know you have plans to get those whose ESO + renewed earlier this year. When is that supposed to happen?

    How I understand it you'll get Tome Points with ESO+ not Trade Bars.

    There's a whole other post explaining the coming ESO+ benefits
    https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/689072/update-on-eso-plus-benefits-seasons#latest
    Thoriorz wrote: »
    Will we be able to buy items that are normally available in Crown Crates at the bazaar? (such as various styles, radiant apex mounts, etc.)

    Doubtful, there's already (and will continue to be) Seals (of Endeavour) for that and the whole point of the Bazaar is access to items previously obtainable in-game
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  • Tornaad
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    ZOS_Kevin wrote: »
    Tornaad wrote: »
    I know that a new benefit of ESO+ is that you are supposed to get trade bars with it, and I know you have plans to get those whose ESO + renewed earlier this year. When is that supposed to happen?

    Trade Bars is a new currency, replacing Event Tickets. So this is a new currency for everyone. I believe the ESO Plus currency you are referring to are Tome Tokens. But for sake of this FAQ, just wanted to make this distinction before answering your question.

    Tome Tokens are rewarded for ESO Plus membership. Once you have 12, you can trade them to upgrade any active Tamriel Tome to a premium + bonus tier. Depending on when your ESO Plus was purchased, you either should have gotten some currency today or will be apart of the March 31 grant for Tome Tokens. Everyone should have all correct tokens by March 31.

    Thank you. That's what I was asking about.
  • anadandy
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    The below is my personal opinion based on my personal experience.

    I'm excited for the conversion to Trade Bars. Only event I never did was the very first anniversary event, I have everything I want from most of the repeated ones. So, I frequently find myself at ticket cap with nothing to buy - especially the Molag Bal items and this new Vampire themed ones. Not interested at all. Now, if there's things I don't want, I can just happily keep earning my trade bars until there is something I DO want/need. That's a win, for me.
  • awana4kids_ESO
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    Is there any update to addressing the extra pieces and pet fragments that was said to be coming in a future update? This post was from back in Jan 2026

    https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/8421542/#Comment_8421542
  • ZOS_Kevin
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    Is there any update to addressing the extra pieces and pet fragments that was said to be coming in a future update? This post was from back in Jan 2026

    https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/8421542/#Comment_8421542

    No update yet. A solution for this is still being worked on, but probably will be awhile before there is anything concrete to share.
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  • nightstrike
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    ZOS_Kevin wrote: »
    ... what? What does this change have to do with the ability to remove the cap? You could have changed it at literally any time.

    While Trade Bars function similarly to Event Tickets, how they work behind the scenes is different. The system needed to be built to accommodate no cap limit along with other functional systems. Which is why we don't have the cap for Trade Bars. It was not a simple, remove the cap off Event Tickets fix.

    I mean..... `sed -i s/12/INT_MAX/ EventTicket.h` :)

    (because you just know it's an int instead of size_t.....)
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  • nightstrike
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    Maitsukas wrote: »
    Thoriorz wrote: »
    Will we be able to buy items that are normally available in Crown Crates at the bazaar? (such as various styles, radiant apex mounts, etc.)

    I highly doubt it, considering that we have Seals and Crown Gems for that purpose.

    which should just be combined.... there's no point in having two separate currencies here.
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  • iam_pizzapanda
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    I did submit a ticket in game, but I thought maybe it would get some eyes here as well. When the tickets were changed to bars, I only received 800 when I should have received 1200. I only found out yesterday the exchange rate is 1:100 or I would have submitted a ticket sooner. I know I had 12 tickets at the end of last event. I am very careful about that as I like going into a new event fully loaded. If you need to know my case number, I can provide that. Hope to hear from someone soon. Thanks
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    Maitsukas wrote: »
    Thoriorz wrote: »
    Will we be able to buy items that are normally available in Crown Crates at the bazaar? (such as various styles, radiant apex mounts, etc.)

    I highly doubt it, considering that we have Seals and Crown Gems for that purpose.

    They did say there is a chance of old crown store stuff coming to the bazzar. Caveat there is it was an offhand comment in a stream and a maybe at that so, time will tell. I'm much more interested in bazzar pricing. We will find out today.
  • iam_pizzapanda
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    Sorry to repost this, but i was informed by a fellow player i should ping you. If this is the wrong page to do that, i apologize, but i need to tell someone about the trade bars error, and submitting a ticket did not seem to do anything. I should have gotten 1200 bars at the switch, but i only received 800. Please help.
    Thanks
  • ZOS_Kraken
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    @iam_pizzapanda Do you have your ticket number?
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  • iam_pizzapanda
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    @ZOS_Kevin
    I do have it. do you want me to post it here? or in a different way?
  • ZOS_Kevin
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    @ZOS_Kevin
    I do have it. do you want me to post it here? or in a different way?

    Yes, you can post it here.
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  • blktauna
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    So like I end each event with at least 10 tickets and when I saw my bars I only had 100 on EU and 300 on PC. That seems wrong.
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  • iam_pizzapanda
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    @ZOS_Kevin

    my ticket number is 260323-003092
    thanks for looking into this.
  • NxJoeyD
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    Are there any plans in the future for Trade Bars to be available in the Crown Store? Even if at a daily / weekly purchase cap?

    The reason I ask is although I see we can carry an unlimited amount of Trade Bars now, the 300 per day limit seems to create a reward redemption issue.

    Take style pages, for example. Any full set will include 7 pieces for a total of 3,500 Bars. This would require 12 full days of Trade Bar earning to redeem them all.

    In the course of a 14 day long event this means that players, seemingly have to choose which reward they want to earn and play for and leave the rest.

    In the past, despite being able to only carry 12 tickets, one could purchase extra if, say, there were multiple rewards they wanted to obtain or if they were unable to participate in all of the days of the event. That was a more accommodating system whereas this seems to exclude quite a bit.

    Even though events are seemingly going to run back to back, one assumes the rewards will change with each event.

    I don’t think everyone is going to want to obtain every reward, but I do think that there should be some method or instrument where players can obtain different types of rewards rather than just being committed to one or one type due to the daily Bar limit.

    Even when we had the ticket structure we saw lots of activity and the event merchants and quest providers so I’m also not under the impression that the majority of players were just buying tickets and not playing the content, in fact, more like the opposite. I think the Crown Store simply provided a nice supplement for when those event rewards were particularly of interest for someone.
    Edited by NxJoeyD on March 29, 2026 9:03AM
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    NxJoeyD wrote: »
    Are there any plans in the future for Trade Bars to be available in the Crown Store? Even if at a daily / weekly purchase cap?

    The reason I ask is although I see we can carry an unlimited amount of Trade Bars now, the 300 per day limit seems to create a reward redemption issue.

    They specifically said they are not putting Bars in the Crown Store because they are intended to be earned through gameplay.

    However, events will not be the only source for Bars. We'll get them in the Tomes (I think the free track for Season 0 is set to have 9k, with another 1.5k in the premium version), and they'll be available from other places as well (iirc the new PvP thing will also drop them). Once we get the first Tome to start next week, we should be able to see more earn cases.
  • iam_pizzapanda
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    So, my trade bars have still not been fixed. It's been a week since i submitted a ticket, i've tagged you in this forum and gave you my ticket number... i don't know what else to do. Is this going to be fixed? i feel like i've been left to dry in the middle of nowhere. i'm sure this new system was tricky to implement, but honestly i'm a bit frustrated about the whole thing. If you could shine some kinda light on this, i would be truly grateful. If my trade bars could be fixed before the end of Jester's Festival, that would be ideal. Please. and Thank you.
    If there is a better or more appropriate way to communicate this with you in the future, or if i need to tag someone else entirely, please, please let me know.
  • o_Primate_o
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    Will Schrute Bucks and Stanley Nickels be exchangeable into tomes? I'm sitting on a few thousand so waiting until you can help us with that.

    so, so many currencies.

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    Edited by o_Primate_o on March 31, 2026 1:01PM
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  • WolfStar07
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    NxJoeyD wrote: »
    Take style pages, for example. Any full set will include 7 pieces for a total of 3,500 Bars. This would require 12 full days of Trade Bar earning to redeem them all.

    In the course of a 14 day long event this means that players, seemingly have to choose which reward they want to earn and play for and leave the rest.

    If you participated daily to get that many bars, then you also would've gotten at least 2 of those style pages (you get one a day, but with a chance at duplicates, so we'll say you only got 2 pages). Those pages are not bound, and have dropped in price significantly by the end of the event that you could purchase them for gold or else trade with other players. If you chose not to participate at all and thus not get any bars, but you still want the style pages, again just buy them from players. There isn't a need to pick and choose rewards when most of them are either tradeable or can be purchased from the holiday vendor (the furnishings). If you want the fragments or morphs, that's where your bars would have to go to first as the only source.
  • iPlayOnlyESO
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    ZOS_Kevin wrote: »
    ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

    Yesh, it will be retroactive for previous morphable pets.

    Will the pets be unlocked if we don’t currently have them, but HAD used them into one of their morphs?

    No. You will need the active fragments to get the pet if you currently do not have the pet unlocked.

    @ZOS_Kevin
    What if we have the pet AND the fragments for the pet. What will happen to these fragments that we cannot use for anything now? Will they be deleted, left hanging in the Collections, or converted to Trade Bars?

    Need answer for this great question. @ZOS_Kevin
    Best regards.
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