ESO 1.41 Patch Notes for PS4 and Xbox One, Read What’s New

Books

• The following notes in the Gold Coast can now be read after their associated quest is completed:
  • Arena Note
  • Soggy Note
  • Up High Note

General

• Hildegard and Kor now only appear once each in the Sanctuary. Their identical twins have moved on.

Dungeons

• Falkreath Hold
  • Domihaus’s Pyroclasm ability will no longer leave a telegraph visual behind when it has ended early.

Halls of Fabrication Trial

• Fixed a typo in Cogitation Log 1322331455212478
• Refabricated Spheres will no longer be shielded when they spawn in Normal Difficulty.
• Refabricated Spheres’ Venom Burst ability will no longer apply Venom Injection in Normal Difficulty.

Quests

• Divine Restoration: Fixed an issue where your progress could become blocked if you left the Arch-Cannon’s office before Barilzar appeared.

Maelstrom Arena

• The Argonian Behemoth’s Enraged Scream in the Vault of Umbrage will no longer affect player pets.

General

• The Key to the Greedy Gut item is now an actual Key.

Quests

• The Hand of Morkul: Ashaka is no longer referred to as “MONSTER” in journal and quest step text. That’s a rude way to refer to an Orc.

General

• Fixed an art asset that would allow you to escape the Spiral Skein.

Animation

• The Springbok’s legs no longer shake when dead.

General

• Fixed an issue where the Bow chapter of the Welkynar style motif used the word “esthetics”, instead of the more commonly-accepted “aesthetics”. The pride of Summerset will suffer no less than perfect grammar and vocabulary.

Cloudrest Trial

• Shade of Relequen and Shade of Silaeda now grant experience and gold upon defeat.

General

• Corrected a typo in the name of Andule’s Curiass of the Defiler. It is a Cuirass. Thank you, that is all.
• The Cloudrest Trial’s Leaderboard reward now grants two gold-quality armor pieces, as well as a blue-quality Transmutation Geode.
  • This is an increase from only granting a single gold-quality armor piece.

Books

• “The Scaled Elves” is now found in Pandermalion’s camp.
• “Night Runner Captain’s Journal” can now be read after completing The Abyssal Cabal.
• Removed a duplicate entry for “Message in a Bottle” from the Mysteries and Clues Collection.
• “Wing Rot Curative Trials” now glows properly.

Furnishings

• Fixed a rare issue that could result in certain furnishing plans to require a minimum level to learn.

General

• Due to an outcry of the citizens, “Reman’s Plaza” in Alinor has been renamed to “Rinmawen’s Plaza”. The Kinlady of Alinor regrets this unfortunate episode and assures the good people of Summerset that the responsible party will be reminded of their civic duty.

Quests

• Divine Prosecution Notification: You can take this quest regardless of whether you have already completed a daily quest.
• Illusions of Grandeur:
  • Fixed an issue that caused several NPCs to appear at the wrong location at the end of the quest.
  • Selynia will no longer stand up (and out of frame) in the middle of the conversation.
• Lost at Sea: Curtanos and friends will now move about properly in the post-quest scene.
• Mind Trap: Fixed an issue that prevented some of Cainar’s VO from playing properly.
• Old Wounds: Celan no longer displays full health when he is actually dead.
• Storming the Walls:
  • Re-entering Sea Keep through the underwater passageway will no longer cause Pandermalion to spawn underwater.
  • You are no longer prevented from re-entering Sea Keep through the gate once the quest is completed.
• The Crystal Tower: Werewolf players can now reforge Transparent Law.
• The Hulkynd’s Heart: Fixed an issue that was directing you to the wrong location in Summerset during this quest.
• The Tower’s Fall: You will now be directed properly during the quest step “Talk to Josajeh”.

General

• The Staff Fragments from the quest The Tower’s Remains now have an icon and tooltip text.

World Bosses

• Thrall Cove: The fight against Captain Virindi no longer resets as soon as it begins.

Quests

• Cleaning House: Velsa will now greet you properly in her garden.
• Forever Hold Your Peace: Fixed an issue that could prevent you from entering the Hubalajad Kitchens while on the quest.

Dungeons

• March of Sacrifices
  • Aghaedh of the Solstice will now remember Autumn when calling forth her Lurcher allies.
  • Balorgh no longer has the chance to walk up walls.
  • Balorgh will no longer show a “Disabler” effect after casting certain abilities.
  • Balorgh can no longer charge into walls and periodically reset his fight.
  • Tharas can no longer be affected by player abilities.
  • Moved a mysteriously floating heavy sack to correctly obey gravity.
• Moon Hunter Keep
  • Critters such as rats, birds, butterflies and frogs have infested Moon Hunter Keep.
  • Moved an erroneously placed treasure chest that previously intersected one of the walls.

General

• Fixed an issue where the icons of a number of books in the Lore Library did not match their appearances in the world.

Achievements

• The “Veteran Wispmother Slayer” Achievement now has the correct icon.
• Fixed a number of issues with the Achievement to learn the Huntsman style which prevented the achievement from being earned or displayed properly.

General

• Updated the interaction between Roll Dodge and projectiles.
  • Fixed an issue where a projectile would always be dodged if the target was Roll Dodging at the moment the projectile was created.
  • Projectiles can now only be evaded if the Roll Dodge occurs within one second prior to their impact.

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• Minor/Major Evasion: These buffs no longer grant a passive chance to dodge. They now reduce the damage you take from area of effect attacks by 10/25%. All abilities that previously granted Minor or Major Evasion have been converted to this new effect, and the Blade Cloak ability now grants Major Evasion.
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• Major Expedition: Fixed an issue where the visual effects from this buff were only visible to the caster.
• Minor Brutality: Increased the bonus to Weapon Damage to 10% from 5%.
• Minor Prophecy: Increased the bonus to Spell Critical Strike Chance to 6% from 3%.
• Minor Savagery: Increased the bonus to Weapon Critical Strike Chance to 6% from 3%.
• Minor Sorcery: Increased the bonus to Spell Damage to 10% from 5%.
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• Updated the behavior of all damage shields.
  • You can now deal a Critical Strike against an enemy with a damage shield.
  • Your Spell and Physical Resistance now reduces incoming damage before it is applied to your damage shield.
  • Poisons and Weapon Enchantments can now proc even if the damage done by the Light Attack, Heavy Attack, or Weapon Ability is fully absorbed by a damage shield.
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• Your character will now have a faster knock-down animation when being dismounted.
• Increased the movement speed bonus from the Steed Mundus Stone to 10% from 5%.
• Combat pets will now take 0 damage while in a Dungeon, Trial, or Group Arena.
• Pets now inherit the caster’s Critical Resistance.
• The Swift Jewelry Trait now increases movement speed by 6% at max quality, previously 10%.
• Fixed several issues with Poisons and Weapon Enchantments.
  • All Poisons now correctly proc 20% of the time when any Light Attack, Heavy Attack, or weapon ability deals damage.
  • Food and Drink will now provide the correct stat bonuses if they are consumed while you have a Poison equipped.
  • All Weapon Enchantments now correctly proc 100% of the time when not on cooldown when any Light Attack, Heavy Attack, or weapon ability deals damage.
  • When Dual Wielding, casting a weapon ability can now proc the Weapon Enchantment of either weapon. The system will favor proccing a Weapon Enchantment that is not on cooldown.
• Removed the baseline 100 Spell and Physical Penetration all player characters previously had.
• Refactored the Break Free ability and Crowd Control Immunity buff to increase the consistency and reliability of these mechanics.
• Updated the Skill Advisor for most Stamina builds to suggest the Trap Beast ability at a later level.
• Fixed an issue where you could add or remove abilities on your ability bar while you were in combat.
• Fixed an issue where some Movement Speed bonuses were not additive with each other, resulting in very slight inconsistencies in total Movement Speed when they were used together.
• Fixed numerous ability tooltips for grammar, spelling, formatting, and accuracy.
• Fixed an issue where mounting while taking DoT damage would cause you to be unable to mount or weapon swap.
• Made some improvements to certain knockback abilities, such as Uppercut and Flame Touch, to ensure they correctly knock enemy targets off ledges and walls.
• Fixed an issue where you could still attempt to cast abilities like Petrify or Rune Prison against enemies that were immune to crowd control from the Unstoppable ability or Unstoppable potions.
• Fixed an issue where pets were immune to crowd control at all times. Pets are now only immune to most crowd control effects in Dungeons, Trials, and Group Arenas.

Dragonknight

• Ardent Flame
  • Fiery Grip: This ability now grants Major Expedition for a maximum of 4 seconds instead of 6 seconds.
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  • Lava Whip: Decreased the range of this ability and its morphs to 5 meters from 8 meters.
    • Flame Lash (morph): Removed the stun from the Power Lash special attack.
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    • Power Lash (morph): The Power Lash special attack is no longer free, and now costs half the amount of a regular Flame Lash.
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  • World in Ruin:
    • This ability no longer increases the damage of Poison area of effect abilities by 3/6%. It now reduces the Stamina cost of all Poison abilities by 12/25%. The Flame bonuses of this passive remain unchanged.
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    • Fixed an issue where this passive was not reducing the cost of Trapping Webs and its morphs.
• Draconic Power
  • Dragon Leap: Fixed an issue where this ability and the Take Flight morph did not improve as they ranked up.
  • Elder Dragon: This passive ability now also increases the range of all instant-cast melee abilities 1 meter per rank, in addition to granting Health Recovery for each Draconic Power ability slotted.
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  • Spiked Armor
    • Hardened Armor (morph): Increased the duration of the damage shield from this morph to 6 seconds from 2.5 seconds.
• Earthen Heart
  • Ash Cloud: Increased the healing done by approximately 50%.
    • Cinder Storm (morph): Increased the healing done by approximately 60%.
    • Eruption (morph): Increased the initial damage done by approximately 15%, and the damage over time by approximately 70%.

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  • Molten Weapon
    • Igneous Weapon (morph): Fixed an issue where this morph did not improve as it ranked up. It will now increase by 1 second per rank.
  • Obsidian Shield: Reduced the health scale of this ability and its morphs to 8% from 10%, and reduced the shield bonus for the caster of Igneous Shield from 200% bonus to 150% bonus.
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    • Fragmented Shield (morph): Fixed an issue where recasting this morph would not fully refresh the damage shield value.
  • Petrify
    • Shattering Rocks (morph): Updated the tooltip of this morph to indicate it deals damage.

Nightblade

• Assassination
  • Assassin’s Blade: Increased the cost of this ability and its morphs by approximately 30%.
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  • Mark Target
    • Piercing Mark (morph): Decreased the duration of the detection effect to 5 seconds from 30 seconds. The duration of the Major Fracture and Breach effects remain unchanged.
  • Grim Focus:
    • Fully-Charged Heavy Attacks now grant 2 stacks towards the spectral bow proc for this ability and its morphs.
    • The spectral bow proc is no longer free, and costs half the amount of a regular Grim Focus.
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    • Fixed an issue where you could generate stacks towards the spectral bow proc through unintended means.
    • Added a brief minimum travel time to the Assassin’s Will proc of this ability and its morphs.
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• Shadow
  • Consuming Darkness: Fixed an issue where this ability and the Bolstering Darkness morph did not improve as they ranked up. The duration now improves 0.5 seconds per rank.
  • Path of Darkness: This ability no longer deals damage. It now grants Major Expedition to you and your allies on the path, and for up to 2 seconds after leaving it.
    • Twisting Path (morph): This morph now adds damage. The damage value is the same as what is currently on Live.
    • Refreshing Path: This morph now adds healing. The healing value is equal to the damage value of Twisting Path.

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  • Shadow Image: Fixed an issue where the Shadow Image’s summoned monster would despawn or teleport to unreachable places if you went out of a certain range. The Shadow Image will now never move from their original placement.
• Siphoning
  • Drain Power
    • Power Extraction (morph): Increased the damage done by this morph by approximately 25%.
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  • Siphoning Strikes: Fully charged Heavy Attacks now restore twice the amount of Health and resources for this ability and its morphs.
  • Strife: Reduced the damage done by this ability by half, but it now also heals for 50% of the damage done and can now target you or any ally. The total healing amount remains unchanged.
    • Swallow Soul (morph): This morph now doubles the damage, but decreases the heal to 35% of the damage done and can only target you. The passive Minor Vitality effect has been removed.
    • Funnel Health: This morph will now always heal you in addition to an ally.

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Sorcerer

• Dark Magic
  • Crystal Shard
    • Crystal Fragments (morph):
      • The icon on your action bar now changes when you have an instant-cast proc.
      • Fixed an issue where using the instant-cast proc would cause you to stop blocking, and would prevent you from taking other actions for 0.2 seconds.
      • Increased the damage of the proc from this ability to 20% from 10%.
      • This ability’s proc now has a very brief minimum travel time before it hits your target.
      • You can no longer get a Crystal Fragment proc while you are not actively engaged in combat.
  • Dark Exchange: This ability and its morphs now restore 3600 Magicka instantly, previously 4696, and an additional 2400 over 20 seconds. Total resources restored has been increased by approximately 2%. The Health restored remains unchanged.
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    • Dark Deal (morph): This morph now also has a cost reduction bonus as its morph effect.
  • Rune Prison:
    • This ability and its morphs now stun the target after 1.2 seconds; a new visual effect will display on the target to indicate this effect. The initial application of this effect cannot be dodged, but if the target is dodging after 1.2 seconds they will avoid the stun.
    • Increased the duration of the stun to 3 seconds from 2 seconds.
      • Rune Cage (morph): Increased the damage done if the target fails to use Break Free before the stun ends by approximately 22%.

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• Daedric Summoning
  • Bound Armor: Increased the bonus to block mitigation granted by this ability and its morphs to 36% from 20%.
  • Conjured Ward: The total strength of this ability is now limited to 50% of caster’s max health.
    • Hardened Ward (morph): This morph now only ranks up the damage shield strength, instead of shield strength and caster self-shield bonus.

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  • Daedric Curse
    • Daedric Prey (morph): Decreased the cost of this morph by approximately 20%.
  • Summon Unstable Familiar: Decreased the cost of the special attack from this ability and the Volatile Familiar morph by approximately 15%.
    • Summon Unstable Clannfear (morph): Decreased the cost of the special attack from this morph by approximately 33%.
  • Summon Winged Twilight
    • Summon Twilight Tormentor (morph): Decreased the cost of the special attack from this morph by approximately 15%.

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• Storm Calling
  • Boundless Storm: This ability now grants Major Expedition for a maximum of 4 seconds instead of 7.5.
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  • Mages’ Fury:
    • Fixed an issue where this ability could be cast on corpses.
    • Fixed an issue where the execute explosion would sometimes not trigger correctly when the target fell below 20% Health.
    • Fixed an issue where casting this ability would aggro monsters before actually dealing damage.
    • Fixed an issue where you could cast this ability on a target you did not have line of sight on.
    • Fixed an issue where using this ability was not counting towards the Expert Mage passive.
  • Overload:
    • This ability and its morphs no longer grant a third ability bar when toggled on.
    • Weapon abilities can now be used while in Overload mode, and are no longer hidden.
    • You can no longer generate any Ultimate while this ability is toggled on.
    • You can now toggle this on when you have 25 Ultimate or more, previously 75 Ultimate.
    • Light and Heavy Attacks are now off the global cooldown and can be woven with other abilities.
    • Decreased the damage of the Light Attack by approximately 50%.
    • Increased the damage of the Heavy Attack by approximately 60%.
      • Power Overload (morph): This morph now specifies the bonus range and radius for the Light and Heavy Attacks.

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Templar

• Aedric Spear
  • Blazing Shield: Reduced the amount of damage that this ability deals from a maximum of 42% of the shield size to 30%.
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  • Piercing Javelin
    • Binding Javelin (morph): This morph now knocks the enemy down instead of knocking them back.
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  • Puncturing Strikes:
    • Increased the damage dealt to the closest target by approximately 8%, which also applies to its morphs.
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    • While channeling this ability and its morphs, your character will now always orient the direction of the area of effect towards your reticle. This also allows you to turn and damage enemies with these abilities while you are rooted.
  • Radial Sweep
    • Empowering Sweep (morph): This morph now deals Physical Damage instead of Magic Damage, and also now grants Major Protection for 6 seconds, plus 1 second for each target hit.
    • Crescent Sweep (morph):
      • This morph now deals Magic Damage instead of Physical Damage.
      • This morph now applies the frontal cone damage bonus to the initial hit and all subsequent ticks (was previously the initial hit only), but the damage bonus has been reduced to a 60% bonus from 66%.

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  • Spear Shards: Increased the damage done by this ability and the Luminous Shards morph by approximately 67%.
    • Blazing Spear (morph): Increased the damage done from this ability by approximately 60%.

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  • Spear Wall: This ability now grants you Minor Protection for 1.5/3 seconds after activating an Aedric Spear ability.
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  • Sun Shield
    • Blazing Shield (morph): Fixed an issue where casting this morph would aggro neutral monsters around you.
• Dawn’s Wrath
  • Backlash: Increased the cost of this ability and its morphs by approximately 5%.
  • Radiant Destruction: Decreased the channel time for this ability and its morphs to 1.8 seconds from 2.8 seconds; the damage done has been decreased by approximately 15% and cost by approximately 35%. The total damage per second and cost per second should remain relatively unchanged.
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• Restoring Light
  • Honor the Dead: Added a visual effect to the Magicka restore.
  • Restoring Aura
    • Repentance (morph): Different Templars can now repent the same corpse.
  • Rune Focus: Reduced the cost to match the Channeled Focus morph.
    • Restoring Focus (morph): This morph now costs Stamina and grants Stamina to you every second, and no longer gives Minor Vitality and Minor Protection.
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Warden

• Animal Companions
  • Advanced Species: Increased the bonus to damage done for each Animal Companion ability slotted to 3% at rank II, previously 2%.
  • Betty Netch:
    • Increased the resources restored by this ability and its morphs by approximately 40%.
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    • Fixed an issue where the beam visual effects would not display if you recast the ability or its morphs.
  • Dive
    • Cutting Dive (morph): This morph now also reduces the cost as a morph effect.
    • Screaming Cliff Racer (morph): This morph no longer has a minimum range requirement to obtain part of the 15% damage done bonus. Every meter you are away from the target adds 1% damage done, up to a maximum of 15%.
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  • Falcon’s Swiftness: Fixed an issue where part of the visual effects from this ability and its morphs was still visible to enemies even when you were hidden.
    • Bird of Prey (morph): The Minor Berserk buff is now granted at all times while this morph is slotted.
    • Deceptive Predator (morph): The Minor Evasion buff is now granted at all times while this morph is slotted. This morph no longer grants an increased duration to the active Major Expedition and Major Endurance buffs.
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    • This ability now grants Major Expedition for a maximum of 4 seconds instead of 10 seconds.
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  • Feral Guardian: Decreased the damage done by the bear summoned from this ability and its morphs by approximately 30%.
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  • Scorch: Reduced the cost of this ability and its morphs by approximately 25%.
  • Swarm: Increased the cost of this ability and its morphs by approximately 30%.
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• Green Balance
  • The Warden’s healing abilities will now prioritize targets without Minor Toughness if both targets are at the same health.
  • Maturation: The Minor Toughness granted by this passive now applies even if the target was completely over-healed, and its duration has been increased to 10/20 seconds from 5/10 seconds.
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  • Nature’s Grasp: This ability can now target your Feral Guardian and its morphs.
• Winter’s Embrace
  • Arctic Wind
    • Arctic Blast (morph): This morph now fires a projectile that stuns the target in addition to healing you. It requires an enemy target to cast the ability. This ability also no longer deals damage over time based on your maximum health.
  • Impaling Shards: Fixed an issue where the visual effects of this ability and its morphs did not persist for the full duration of the effect.

Weapon

• Two Handed
  • Forward Momentum: Reduced the duration of the snare immunity from this ability to 4 seconds from 8 seconds.
• Dual Wield
  • Blade Cloak: This ability and its morphs now grant Major Evasion.
  • Quick Cloak: This ability now grants Major Expedition for a maximum of 4 seconds instead of 5 seconds.
• Bow
  • Arrow Spray
    • Acid Spray (morph): Fixed an issue where the damage over time from this morph was breaking the invisibility of Shadow Cloak.
  • Hasty Retreat: This ability now grants Major Expedition for a maximum of 4 seconds instead of 5 seconds.
  • Scatter Shot: Increased the range of this ability and its morphs to 28 meters from 10 meters.
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• Destruction Staff
  • Impulse: Increased the damage done by this ability and its morphs by approximately 25%.
• Restoration Staff
  • Steadfast Ward
    • Healing Ward (morph): Removed the initial heal from this ability.

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Armor

• Light Armor
  • Annulment: The total strength of this ability is now limited to 40% of the caster’s health.
    • Dampen Magic (morph): This morph now also increases the shield cap to 50% of your Max Health, previously 40%.

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    • Harness Magicka (morph): Fixed an issue where this morph was double dipping with its Magicka return based on the Light Armor worn.
  • Evocation: This ability now also increases your Magicka Recovery by 2/4% per piece of Light Armor worn, in addition to reducing the cost of Magicka abilities by 1/2% per piece of Light Armor worn.
  • Recovery
    • Renamed this ability to Grace.
    • This ability’s old effects have been merged into the Evocation passive.
    • It now reduces the effectiveness of snares applied to you by 1/2/4% per piece of Light Armor worn, and reduces the cost of Sprint by 1/2/3% per piece of Light Armor worn.

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• Medium Armor
  • Agility: Increased the Weapon Damage bonus to 7/15% from 6/12%.
  • Evasion: Reduced the cost of this ability and its morphs by 15%.
• Heavy Armor
  • Immovable: Reduced the cost of this ability and its morphs by 15%, and reduced the duration of the crowd control immunity buff granted to 4 seconds from 5 seconds.

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World

• Werewolf
  • Devour: Different Werewolves can now devour the same corpse.
  • Savage Strength: Fixed an issue where this passive ability was not actually increasing your Spell and Physical Resistance.
  • Werewolf Transformation: Fixed an issue where the transformation from this ability and its morphs was being removed from you if you zoned into a new area.
    • Pack Leader (morph): Fixed an issue where using a Heavy Attack against an enemy would not cause your Direwolves to target that enemy.

Guild

• Fighters Guild
  • Silver Bolts
    • Silver Leash (morph): Fixed an issue where you could not cast this morph while you were silenced.
• Mages Guild
  • Meteor: Fixed an issue where the morphs of this ability would cause your character to slide on the ground when knocked back.
  • Volcanic Rune: Fixed an issue where your character could slide on the ground after being knocked by this ability.
• Psijic Order
  • Imbue Weapon: Decreased the cost of this ability and the Crushing Weapon morph by 5%.
    • Elemental Weapon (morph): Increased the cost of this morph by 10%.
• Undaunted
  • Bone Shield: Reduced the effectiveness of the Bone Wall and Spinal Surge Synergy granted by this ability and its morphs to 50% from 100%.
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  • Inner Fire
    • Inner Beast (morph): Fixed an issue where you could not cast this morph while you were silenced.

Alliance War

• Assault
  • Reach: This ability now only affects abilities that have a 28 meter range or more, previously 15 meters.
  • War Horn: This ability and its morphs no longer grant Minor Toughness.
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Champion System

• The Apprentice
  • Spell Precision: Decreased the Spell Critical Strike Chance granted to 9% from 12%.
• The Ritual
  • Precise Strikes: Decreased the Weapon Critical Strike Chance granted to 9% from 12%.

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• The Shadow
  • Befoul: Fixed an issue where placing points into this Champion ability was not updating the tooltip of some Major and Minor defile abilities.

General

• Fixed an issue where a Bind on Equip weapon on your secondary weapon bar would not be bound until you weapon-swapped to that bar. Now, when you equip a Bind on Equip weapon, it will immediately bind – whether or not you are currently using that weapon bar.
• Decreased the effectiveness of poisons that increase Magicka and Stamina costs to a 10% cost increase, previously 30%.
• Item sets will no longer proc when firing Siege at destructible objects or other siege weapons.

Glyphs

• Absorb Stamina Enchantment: This glyph now deals Physical Damage instead of Magicka Damage.
• Crusher: This glyph now always prioritizes the highest value debuff on the target. A lower value Crusher enchantment proc cannot overwrite a higher value one.
• Weakening: This glyph now always prioritizes the highest value debuff on the target. A lower value Weakening enchantment proc cannot overwrite a higher value one.

Item Sets

• Reduced the duration of the Major Expedition buff granted from some item sets to 8 seconds from 20 seconds. The affected item sets include:
  • Dreugh King Slayer
  • Quick Serpent
  • Vicious Serpent

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• Fixed an issue where healing ability tooltips were not being updated when you had an Item Set bonus that increased healing done.
• Affliction: Fixed an issue where the damage from this Item Set was being mitigated by the target’s Spell Resistance instead of their Physical Resistance.
• Arms of Relequen:
  • Fixed an issue where the damage over time from this item set and the perfected version would break your character out of stealth.
  • Fixed an issue where the damage over time effect from this Item Set could proc other abilities and Item Sets that trigger on melee damage.
• Balorgh: Fixed an issue where some Ultimates were not working with this item set.
  • Note: Overload still should not proc Balorgh.
• Hist Bark:
  • Fixed an issue where this item set could stack with other sources of Major Evasion. This set will now override and replace any active Major Evasion when you activate block.
  • Fixed an issue where you could get Hist Bark to temporarily persist without blocking.
• Impregnable: Reduced the maximum bonus of this item set’s Critical Resistance to 2000 with 5 pieces of gold quality from 2500.
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• Jorvuld’s Guidance: Fixed an issue where this Item Set was not increasing the duration of the Major Protection buff from the Remembrance morph.
• Leki’s Focus: The damage reduction no longer stacks additively with Minor/Major Evasion.
• Mantle of Siroria: Fixed an issue where weapon swapping out of this Item Set’s 5-piece bonus was causing you to lose the Spell Damage bonus.
  • This fix also applies to the Perfected version of the Item Set.
• Maw of the Infernal: Fixed an issue where the damage area of the Daedroth’s Fiery Breath ability was smaller than the visual effect area.
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• Merciless Charge: Fixed an issue where the damage over time effect from this Item Set could critically strike.
• Pirate Skeleton: Fixed an issue where the appearance change from this Item Set was not lasting the full duration if you were also wearing the Jorvuld’s Guidance Item Set.
• Powerful Assault: Fixed an issue where the proc from this Item Set would only apply to your group members, and not just any ally.
• Robes of Destruction Mastery: This item set will no longer drop non-Destruction Staff weapons.
• Stinging Slashes: Reduced the bonus granted to each tick of Twin Slashes to 1350 extra damage from 1500.
• Thurvokun: Fixed an issue where the Minor Defile debuff applied was only reducing healing received and not also Health Recovery.
• Vestment of Olorime: Fixed an issue where some player abilities and dungeon boss synergies were incorrectly proccing this Item Set.
• Vykosa: Fixed an issue where this Item Set would not proc Major Maim if the target was taunted by the Tormentor Item Set proc.
• Winterborn: Fixed an issue where the snare effect from this Item Set was bypassing snare immunity.

General

• Niben River is now slightly wider in various locations, and safe shorelines have been removed.
• Crafters take note: Many resource nodes have been moved that were previously in areas where structures have been placed.
• Doubled the damage from Slaughterfish. Nom nom!
• Lunarfang Docks now has a makeshift pontoon bridge which cannot be destroyed.
• Added new tunnels South of Weynon Priory, which leads into “Aldmeri Territory”, and West of Kingscrest Keep, which leads into “Daggerfall Territory”.
• Added new fishing locations near Bravil and Niben Bay, and the fishing locations on the north side of Bravil have been moved.
• Moved the book in Chalman Keep to Zimmeron’s war table.
• Town Guards at Bruma will no longer attack Alliance Guards.
• You are no longer able to mount on Bridge Houses.
• Repair Kits for Milegates and Bridges now properly state whether they can be repaired or not while in combat.
• Using a Repair Kit on keeps, siege, doors, milegates or bridges can now be interrupted even when CC immune.
• If your character gets stuck under Niben River, Niben Bay or Lake Rumare, you will now be moved to your border Keeps.
• Movement abilities will now function properly on bridges in Cyrodiil.
• You can no longer drop a captured Elder Scroll at a Keep until the Elder Scroll that was previously housed at the Keep has found a new home, either at another Keep or back to its home temple.
• Fixed an issue that caused a captured Elder Scroll to become placed at its home temple, causing it to behave as if it were both at its home temple and captured.
• Emperorship bonuses and Keep ownership bonuses will now properly be added and removed.
• Fixed a hole found under Alessia Bridge.

Itemization

• The three Tutorial quests in Cyrodiil will no longer grant Pelinal’s Midyear Boon Boxes during Midyear Mayhem – those boxes are intended to be rewards for Daily quests. However, all three Tutorial quests now grant 3,000 AP each upon completion for a total of 9,000 AP total.

Keeps

• Keep walls now have 410,000 HP when upgraded instead of 305,000 HP.
• Reworked the postern house to be a platform more conducive to siege deployment. This platform also shields the Keep Wall it’s built upon from taking damage until it’s destroyed.

Milegates & Bridges

• Bridges are now slightly more elongated compared to their non-destructible cousins.
• Slightly adjusted the terrain around all Milegates and Bridges to aid in deployment of Siege weaponry.
• The following structures have been moved so the impact from Siege weaponry is more accurate:
  • Ash Milegate has moved South
  • Alessia Bridge has moved Northwest
  • Niben Bridge (the second bridge in Niben River) has been moved North
  • Weynon Milegate has moved to the West
• Made minor adjustments to the southern side of Chalman Milegate to ensure Siege weaponry is more accurate.

Outposts

• Added three new Outposts to Cyrodiil: Winters Reach, Harlun’s Outpost and Carmala Outpost
  • These Outposts have been added to the Keep transit network via Dragonclaw, Drakelowe and Brindle respectively.

Siege

• Siege damage will no longer critically hit against players. This applies to initial damage and secondary damage effects.
• Reduced the damage from Scattershot by approximately 40%.

Towns

• Added Cyrodiil Towns (Bruma, Cropsford and Vlastarus) to the Keep transit network from Dragonclaw, Drakelowe and Brindle respectively.
• Placed new Alliance Guards in respawn locations of capturable towns, which can be accessed after jumping down from the safe platform via doors on their associated structures.
• Cropsford’s “Outlier flag” is now better defended and reinforced with some structures.
• Updated the respawn points for Vlastarus and Bruma.

Battlegrounds

• Made several adjustments to Battleground matchmaking in an effort to improve overall match quality and reduce egregious queue times.
• Everyone will now qualify for the daily Battleground rewards if there are two identical scores between three teams for the final score of a Battleground.
  • When there is a tie between the top 2 teams, they are now both awarded 1st place and the bottom team is awarded 2nd place.
  • When there is a tie between the bottom 2 teams, they are now both awarded 2nd place and the top team is awarded 1st place.
  • When there is a 3-way tie, all teams are awarded 2nd place.
  • In any tie scenario, except for all teams having a score of 0, all eligible players on all 3 teams will receive the daily Battleground reward.
• The Divine Guardian and Chaos Champion medals will now be awarded at a lower threshold.

General

• Fixed an issue where grass and sand textures would appear dark and blocky in certain areas.
• Removed helmets from some Skeletons.

Animation

• The forearms of female characters will no longer float while leaning on their knees in a sitting position.

Figure

• Fixed an issue where your character’s legs could turn purple or even become invisible when the Imperial Hide Leg armor was combined with various foot armor.
• Orc tusks no longer turn black when applying the Sable Man Beast Skin.
• Adornments are now visible when equipped with the Mazzatun Homespun headpiece.
• Fixed an issue where Breton Hide, Leather and Full Leather helms would clip through the back of large female Argonian heads.
• Fixed some visible seams on the back of the Ancient Elf Iron armor torso.

Fixtures

• Improved the collision on some Nibenese structures to better match the actual structure.
• Improved the camera collision in caves to prevent you from seeing through them.

World Bosses

• Zymel Kruz in Stormhaven no longer fails to award credit for the “Kruz Control” achievement depending on where he’s engaged.

General

• Fixed an issue in which certain Master Writ Furnishing Plans were incorrectly labelled as plan types other than what they were.
• Corrected the Artaeum Takeaway Broth to portray itself, and more consistently behave as, a food (rather than a drink). This means it will work with the Green Pact passive, and will not work with the Bone Pirate’s Tatters item set.

Art

• Adornments are now visible when equipped with the Priest of the Green costume.
• Fixed a white texture that would appear on the upper lip of Argonian males after equipping the Blood-Forged Skin.
• Fixed a texture issue that would occur with the Blood-Forged Skin when equipped by male characters.
• The pumpkin being smashed when previewing the Gourd-Gallows Stump will now display properly.
• Made improvements to the visuals of Outfit Weapons when being previewed.

General

• Fixed an issue where you were unable to see hidden or invisible allies when you first loaded into the same zone as them.
• Area of Effect abilities within Dungeons and Trials are now much more accurate when dealing damage from within those effects, reducing those “I was out of that!” moments.

Arenas

• Dragonstar Arena
  • The exit door from Boethiah’s Treasure room will now take you to the location you were previously at when you first entered Dragonstar Arena.

Dungeons

• Blessed Crucible
  • Talres will no longer be left behind if you rush through the gate.
• Crypt of Hearts I
  • Rulanir and Faindor now have nameplates.
  • The dialogue option “What spurred you to found this school?” is no longer an important decision.
  • Quest markers now appear correctly throughout the dungeon.

General

• Fixed an issue where Jahla’s Shield of the Beekeeper (available from by defeating Jahlasri, a World Boss in Greenshade) was misspelled “Sheild”. Jahlasri has never been noted as a particularly keen speller, but he’s learning. Slowly.
• The Help menu now explains the nature and location of the new Event Merchant, and the Event Tickets she accepts as currency.
• The following items have been re-categorized as “Crafting Stations”:
  • Attunable Blacksmithing Station
  • Attunable Clothier Station
  • Attunable Woodworking Station
• Motif Chapters and Survey Reports no longer have a required level displayed.
• Reduced the duration of Major Expedition granted from potions, to be more in line with other powerful Major buffs such as Major Vitality.
  • For a potion at maximum rank, this reduces the duration of Major Expedition from 40.6 second to 12.5 seconds, before any modifications from things such as enchantments or passives.

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• Fixed an issue where attempting to delete the same character multiple times in a row could result in items placed in home storage to be lost.

Achievements

• Fixed an issue where an Aldmeri Dominion quest achievement and a Shadows of the Hist achievement were sharing the same name of “Iconoclast.” The Shadows of the Hist achievement has had its name changed to “Heretic” to avoid confusion.
• Fixed an issue where the Rivenspire Angler achievement referred to the Ruby Tench as a Lake fish. The Ruby Tench is found in rivers, and the achievement now reflects this properly.

Books

• The book “Evacuation Order” in Shadowfen can be read regardless of your quest choice.
• “Note from Khezuli’s Contact” in Grahtwood can now be found after completing the quest Criminal Correspondence.

Mementos

• Fixed an issue where Mementos would not animate properly if your active Personality caused you to fidget while standing still.

General

• Improved the functionality of moving Pets, Mounts, and Training Dummies around one’s house. Such creatures will no longer slightly trail behind your cursor as you drag them.
• Made adjustments to a number of chairs to improve the way characters sit in them, particularly shorter characters.

Furnishings

• Renamed “Redguard Bench, Arc” to “Redguard Enclosure, Arc”, to better match its appearance and behavior.
• It is now easier to select the “Mushrooms, Aether Cup Ring” furnishing.
• The “Alinor Archway, Timeworn” and “Alinor Chalice, Silver Ornate” furnishing plans now require a single Culanda Lacquer, bringing them in line with other Summerset furnishing plans.
• The Woodworking Blueprint for the “Breton Throne, Ruler’s” furnishing now requires Rosin rather than Mastic.
• Crafting stations are now slightly more lenient about allowing you to use them when near other objects.
• Fixed an issue that was causing furnishings to drop below the world after being placed.

Homes

• Exiting the Princely Dawnlight Palace now correctly leaves you facing Abah’s Landing, instead of the door you just walked through.

General

• Fixed an issue in our default graphics settings detection that would cause some hardware to default to Ultra when it should be set to High.
• Fixed an issue with buildings and environments flickering in the distance when going in and out of menus.
• Fixed an issue with shadows artifacting with ambient occlusion enabled.

Performance

• Removed characters and smaller fixtures from reflections in Enhanced Mode on the PS4 Pro to aid in improving performance.
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General

• Fixed various typos and voiceover mismatches.
• Made numerous improvements to quest-related animations and scenes.
• Tweaked the positions or walking areas for several NPCs.
• Fixed various locations throughout the world where you could get stuck in an asset.

Deshaan

• Supply Run: The Healing Supplies will now remain in your inventory until the quest is turned in.
• The Light Fantastic: Fixed a visual error with the light beam puzzle that caused a visual effect to remain once the beam was shut off.
• Vengence of the Oppressed: Although it seemed important at the time, asking Betina Volek “What can I do?” isn’t really that big a deal. The highlight on that line has been removed.
• Vision Quest: The Wand of Finding will no longer appear in your inventory on the wrong quest step.

Greenshade

• Throne of the Wilderking: Wilderking is now positioned properly when you talk to him.

Malabal Tor

• Fulfilling One’s Fate: Spriggan corpses now show quest markers when needed.

Murkmire Prologue

• Blackguards encountered during the Murkmire prologue quest can now be murdered using the Blade of Woe.

Reaper’s March

• Grim Situation: Monsters that spawn while sealing the corruption no longer attack immediately before they are visible.
• Rat Problems: You will no longer be prevented from turning in the quest if you log out before speaking with Tazia.
• Stonefire Machinations: Adds that spawn as part of the temple wave event no longer occasionally have boss stats.

Stonefalls

• The Sapling: Ashreeds and Mudcrab Meat now appear in your quest inventory at the proper steps.

General

• Updated the Daily Rewards screen to better indicate when the month is going to reset before you’ll be able to obtain an item at the end of it.
• Adjusted the order of how Dungeon DLC and Zone DLC game packs appear in the Stories category of the Collections menu. It will now display the most recent additions first.
• Stacks of books found in the world will now have more consistent tooltips.
• Fixed an issue where you would never receive an error message if there was an error in submitting feedback or a bug report.
• Fixed an issue where using a rename token would prevent you from being able to rotate and zoom in on your character in the Character Select screen.
• Fixed an issue where you couldn’t scroll through tooltips in the Daily Rewards screen.

Alliance War

• Siege items in your inventory will now display their current health rather than just their total health.

Crafting

• Fixed an issue where the text could overlap in the Jewelry Crafting Improvement screen.
• Fixed issue where Jewelry Crafting surveys thought they were lorebooks. Spoiler: They aren’t.

Crown Store & Crown Crates

• Gifts will now properly show stack counts.
• Fixed an issue where opening the Crown Store and performing a search would not work correctly if you hadn’t opened the Crown Store before.

Gameplay

• Updated the icons for the Battle Spirit and Looking For Group buffs.
• Added a new icon that displays when you have the Battleground Deserter Penalty.
• Fixed an issue where the Death Recap hint about losing armor durability on death was displaying in PvP zones and Battlegrounds. Armor doesn’t degrade when incurring a PvP death.

Guilds & Guild Features

• Fixed an issue where depositing or withdrawing several different types of items in rapid succession from a Guild Bank might cause the error “No Permission: Item No Longer Exists” to display.
• Fixed an issue where listings at a Guild Trader with identical prices could display on multiple pages, or none at all.
• Fixed an issue if a Guild Trader changed ownership while you were looking at it, the guild name on the unit frame would not update.

Help & Tutorials

• Fixed an issue where the ESO Plus furniture capacity tutorial would show even if you weren’t an ESO Plus member.
• Fixed an issue where text in tooltips for Daily Rewards could shift up and down quickly.

Housing

• Fixed an issue that prevented certain furnishing subcategories from displaying in alphabetical order.
• Fixed an issue where Houses were listing their Gold purchase requirements in the Crown Store.
• Fixed an issue where previewing furniture from a Clockwork Blacksmithing Station could cause unexpected visuals.

Maps

• Fixed an issue where the Aurbis map could be zoomed in, and defaulted to being zoomed in.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where quickly completing quest objectives would potentially cause them to not display in the correct order in the center screen announcements.
• Fixed an issue where quest area pins could disappear after relogging.
• Fixed an issue where the quest share message would continue to display even if you picked the quest up on your own.