Zenimax have outlined the changes they are adding to Elder Scrolls Online for patch 1.1. We will go through the highlights below.
The biggest addition to the game is the new adventure zone Craglorn, made for four player at Veteran Rank. You can access it via a quest in Mournhold, Wayrest, and Elden Root. In connection to Craglorn’s launch, they’re providing character templates to the PTS testers.
There are also newly available trials in the Hel Ra Citadel and the Aetherian Archive. Players can organize in groups of 12 to pick up loot and join the leaderboards. Trials start out with 60 Soul Reservoirs, but watch out. You lose the trial if you run out of those Reservoirs and no team members are left. When you do enter combat, group members cannot resurrect until it ends.
New trials come out weekly. If you manage to finish the quest 1st in each week, you earn special rewards.
Trials also have timer-based leaderboards, with allocations for top 100 times and best times for all trials. Friends and guild members also get notifications when you manage to get in them.
Other additions have been made to gameplay. Veteran Rank has been ramped up to level 12. Chests are shared between groupmates; any teammate within 50 meters of the chest gets a roll on it. Chests have been reduced in number overall, to two chests in each instance in each dungeon. Their locations will be randomized.
The game has added Death Recap, which shares info like recent damage inflicted to you and hints to avoid death. There is also a new population underdog bonus, for when your alliance is outnumbered. This provides double XP for killing enemy players and more XP rewards if you can finish the kill 20 enemy players quest. Finally, all the enemies get high resolution enemy textures.
There’s even more fixes and changes than has been outlined here, but as fans point out, there’s still things Zenimax failed to address. In particular, this fan is unhappy they did nothing about the Nightblade skill trees, and others chimed in to agree. If you want to check if Zenimax has addressed your pet peeve, you can go through the patch notes here.
ESO is playable now in Windows and OS X, and will come June 30 to Playstation 4 and Xbox One.
