The Elder Scrolls: Blades – All Hotfixes March 2023 | Unleash the Power: New Abilities Revealed!

While this first update of the year has quite a few bug fixes and minor tweaks, our main focus was on some iterative work from Update 35 and some long-time coming reworks to abilities or traits that had been languishing in weird states of balance for a while. This update is more targeted with its adjustments, rather than widespread, following through with some remnant work we’ve hinted at in the past.

The largest ‘widespread’ adjustment in this update is some iterative work on Update 35’s adjustments to Light Attacks. One of our main goals in Update 35 was to reduce the impact of Light Attack Weaving in terms of high-end damage production – where it was still a vital tool to incorporate – while simultaneously trying to shorten the delta between those who try and engage with it and those who are masters of it. Through the toils of that update we learned a lot, but had to make some compromises that hurt our overall goals where the end result was just a flat nerf to Light Attack weaving in general.

In this update, we’re trying to keep the power of Light Attacks within a ~5% deviation at their highest production in an optimized build, while drastically increasing their performance for players who aren’t super optimized. We’re also implementing a new feature on all damaging Light Attacks, where their scaling calculations of how they derive their damage will be inflated compared to before, with a cap in how much they can reach with base stats such as Weapon or Spell Damage, and Magicka or Stamina. This base damage cap will be 3850 for melee attacks and 90% of that for ranged attacks, which is within 100-200 damage deviation from the base damage of some of the highest parses we are seeing in game. Note that this “base damage cap” is NOT a cap in terms of how much damage they can do in general; this number is purely how much the damage can reach with your stats, such as Weapon or Spell Damage. This base damage cap will then feed into the rest of the combat calculation system with things such as Critical Bonuses, Damage Bonuses, Mitigation and so on, so that 3850 can still return a MUCH higher value in actual combat situations!

After going over the data that started to come in with U35 and U36, we’re confident that this functionality will help inject a little power to the players who struggle to perfectly weave by inflating their damage values a bit while not having too much of an impact on the high-end ceiling, so everyone’s DPS can either go up or stay around the same as it was from the previous updates!

Outside of this adjustment, we have some usual balance tweaks for sets and abilities, but two in particular stand out: First, we’ve reworked the Harmony trait to no longer be burst oriented and more about what the trait’s name and gameplay tries to incentivize – sustain and group coordination. This trait will now simply grant a chunk of Health, Magicka, and Stamina any time you activate a synergy, similarly to the Undaunted Mettle bonus. Another larger rework is for the infamous Mist Form skill in the Vampire skill line, as a result of all of the back-and-forth issues and balance changes we’ve seen with the skill’s evolution through the game’s history. With this rework, we tried to go back to the drawing board about what the fantasy and identity of the skill was trying to evoke, which is meant to be the iconic feeling of blinking into mist and avoiding attacks, dashing around from foe to foe and taking them down or avoiding damage in the process. In this update, Mist Form is no longer a toggled effect or one that reduces your damage while active or causing you to become immune to crowd control. Instead, it focuses on quick and liberating movement, causing you to quickly travel to your targeted location as a gap closer while simultaneously avoiding incoming projectiles while you do so.

Another area to note is some quality-of-life updates to abilities and functionalities for those who are the vanguard of combat, the lifeblood of success or failure – tanks! In this update we’ve made three changes that should hopefully help make those holding the line feel more empowered to do so. First, block will no longer temporarily drop while bar swapping and instead will stay active throughout, which should help reduce those moments in combat where you get clobbered by a Heavy Attack when trying to prepare yourself. The second is that taunt immunity or “over taunting” will now be harder to reach; it will take 5 applications of a taunt between two members in total before reaching, up from 3, which should give a bit more breathing room in multi-boss encounters.

Last but not least is a new iteration of the “soft taunt” system that pull abilities such as Fiery Grip or Silver Leash had. Instead of soft taunting enemies for 5 seconds like they did in the past, they will now attempt to normally taunt any enemy that is not already taunted. It is our hope that this interaction helps keep these abilities available to use as a tank or any other role for support, where tanks can control enemies more easily at the start of an engagement, while other roles can still use the skill for grouping up foes if their tank has already corralled enemy attention before using the skill. This will also apply to any single target application pull interaction, including item sets. Before you ask though, Area of Effect pulls like Dark Convergence, Rush of Agony, or Void Bash will *not* be affected by these changes.

Of course, this is by no means an exhaustive list, as we have a few smaller adjustments to some skills such as increasing the shield efficacy and scaling functions of Conjured Ward and its morphs for our Sorcerer lovers, some ability iterations on skills that grant Empower, and plenty of other number tweaks and bug fixes. Ah, and for you hybrid stat lovers out there, we have a small tweak to Physical and Spell Harm jewelry glyphs that many have been asking for.

Below, you can find the full list of combat adjustments and fixes in this update.

General

• Fixed an issue where the stun from successful sneak attacks could trigger off other triggered events, such as item sets.
• Fixed an issue where you could Bash and Light Attack simultaneously while using a gamepad.
• Fixed an issue where ground targeted spells were canceled with a Light Attack during their targeting phase while using a gamepad.
  • When attempting to Light or Heavy Attack on gamepad with a ground targeted reticle active, you will now confirm the ability activate instead, making these skills easier to use in a more fluid manner while weaving.
• Fixed an issue where using block would not cancel sprint.
• Updated the tooltips for following player passives to properly mention their scaling effects, arming you with vital combat information:
  • Burning Light
  • Blood Magic
  • Tri Focus
  • Spell Orb
    • This passive also now only deals Magic Damage, rather than Magic or Physical Damage. Note the damage will continue to dynamically scale with your highest stats.
• Increased the scaling of all weapon Light Attacks by 50% and Werewolf Light Attacks by 20%, and introduced a stat scaling limit on these attacks so they stop benefitting from Weapon or Spell Damage and Magicka or Stamina after reaching 3850 damage for weapons and 4813 for Werewolf.
  • Note that this limit is unaffected by bonuses to damage such as Critical Strikes, Berserk, or Vulnerability.

• Fixed numerous issues where attacks were missing invisible targets when they should not have been. Affected attacks are listed below:
  • Burning and Poisoned status effects
  • Lady Malygda
  • Fiery Breath and morphs
  • Impaling Shards and morphs’ first tick
• Bar swapping while you are actively bracing (holding Block) will no longer temporarily disable Block. This should significantly reduce the situations of dying while bar swapping. Tanks rejoice, your power will no longer know bounds!
• Abilities and item sets that pull a singular target will now also attempt to taunt the target for 15 seconds if they are not already affected by a player taunt. This applies to the following sources:
  • Beckoning Armor
  • Fiery Grip and Unrelenting Grip
  • Silver Leash
  • Swarm Mother

• Made some adjustments to taunts sourced from player abilities, such as Puncture or Inner Rage, to improve their user experience when interacting with the taunt immunity mechanic.
  • Enemies will now only become taunt immune after they are taunted 5 times between two unique targets, up from 3 times, to reduce the likelihood of applying it unintentionally.
  • Fixed an issue where a single caster of taunt could apply 2 stacks of taunt on an enemy, rather than only 1.

• Fixed an issue where you could enter a state where you were unable to travel to Wayshrines in some very rare cases.

Buffs and Debuffs

• Added two new help entries under the Combat header to explain named buffs and debuffs in the Major and Minor system. Knowledge!

Dragonknight

• Ardent Flame
  • Earthen Heart
    • Helping Hands:
      • This passive now requires the ability cost of what triggered it to be greater than the restored amount of Stamina, to prevent situations where you could gain more Stamina than you had spent as Magicka.
      • Rank 1 of the ability now shares the same value as Rank 2, but has a cooldown of 2 seconds rather than once every cast.
      • Increased the restored amount of Stamina to 1120, up from 990.

  • Fiery Grip
    • Empowering Chains Chains of Devastation: This morph now grants Major Berserk for 4 seconds after casting, rather than Empower, as Molten Armaments already grants it in a much more effect way. As such, this morph was renamed to better denote its effects. Such devastation was our intention.
  • Lava Whip
    • Molten Whip: Fixed an issue where this morph could fail to activate many conditional requirements that stated, “when casting an ability that costs Magicka or Stamina”. Note that conditional requirements that require only a Stamina ability specifically will still not fire, as this ability is predominantly Magicka oriented.
  • Shackle: Increased the damage of this synergy by 20% to ensure it stands up to other Ultimate synergies’ power.

Necromancer

• Grave Lord
  • Boneyard
    • Graverobber (morph): Reduced the damage of this synergy by approximately 34% to ensure it is of similar power to other synergies of its ilk, such as Conduit or Combustion.
  • Skeletal Mage
    • Skeletal Archer (morph): Fixed an issue where the damage boost from this morph would fail to apply if the damage was blocked.
• Bone Tyrant
  • Death Gleaning: This passive now restores 333/666 Magicka and Stamina when a nearby enemy dies, up from 100/200.
    

Sorcerer

• Daedric Summoning
  • Conjured Ward:
    • Increased the damage shield size of this ability and the Regenerative Ward morph by 10%.
    • Increased the Max Health cap of these abilities to 55%, up from 50%.
    • This ability and its morphs now dynamically scale between the higher of your Max Health or Magicka, rather than only Magicka.
      • Hardened Ward (morph): Increased the damage shield size of this morph by approximately 7% and increased the Max Health cap to 72%, up from 60%.
      • Empowered Ward Regenerative Ward: Renamed this morph to prevent confusion with the buff type.

  • Summon Unstable Familiar: Fixed an issue with this ability and its morphs if another Sorcerer’s version of these abilities attacked a target, your own would rally to their cause and immediately become active in combat as well. However, we still encourage you to use them to aid one another in battle nonetheless!
• Storm Calling
  • Conduit: Increased the damage of this synergy by 20% to ensure it stands up to other synergies’ power when accounting for the fact that it also only does damage.
  • Mages’ Fury:
    • Increased the size of the Area of Effect portion of this ability and its morphs to 5 meters, up from 4.
    • Fixed an issue where the execute damage from these abilities were not properly labeled as an execute.
      • Mages’ Wrath (morph): This morph now deals its execute damage to all targets nearby, rather than dealing an initial hit and a smaller amount of damage to nearby targets. This will result in an approximate 129% damage increase of the Area of Effect, while also causing the ability to appear under the same ability ID for combat logs.
  • Overload: Fixed an issue where this Ultimate and its morphs would not remove themselves when Heavy Attacking with just enough Ultimate for 1 tick.

Templar

• Aedric Spear
  • Radial Sweep
    • Empowering Sweep Everlasting Sweep:
      • Increased the duration of the pulsing Damage over Time to 10 seconds at base, up from 6 seconds.
      • This morph no longer grants Empower, as Solar Flare and its morphs already grant this buff. As such, the name has been adjusted to prevent confusion.
• Dawn’s Wrath
  • Backlash: Fixed an issue where this ability and the Purifying Light morph were considered magical melee damage, rather than magical ranged damage. Note that Power of the Light was already considered martial ranged damage and has not changed.
  • Eclipse
    • Living Dark (morph):
      • Fixed an issue where this ability’s visuals could cause you to appear invisible in some cases.
      • Fixed an issue where this ability’s visual effects would persist in place when the target that used the ability would stealth or become invisible.
• Restoring Light
  • Purify: Fixed an issue where this synergy’s healing was being truncated in some situations. This will result in a minor increase in the healing done.

Warden

• Animal Companions
  • Dive
    • Cutting Dive (morph): This morph no longer requires the enemy to not be Off Balance for the Damage over Time to apply, and will now apply any time it deals damage.
• Winter’s Embrace
  • Crystallized Shield:
    • This ability and the Shimmering Shield morph now grant 2 Ultimate when the shield takes damage, rather than restoring Magicka equal to 22% of the ability’s cost.
    • Increased the cost of this ability and its morphs to 4320, up from 3780.
    • Reduced the shield strength of this ability and the Shimmering Shield morph by approximately 33%.
      • Crystallized Slab (morph):
        • This morph no longer grants Magicka or the new Ultimate restore when the shield takes damage, in exchange for the damage done and stun. This morph does retain the original size of the damage shield.
        • Reduced the damage per hit of this morph by approximately 33%.

Weapon

• Destruction Staff
  • Ancient Knowledge: Fixed multiple issues where the Inferno and Lightning Staff components were applying to incorrect attack types.
  • Elemental Susceptibility:
    • This morph’s secondary effects are now tracked separately, rather than being linked to Major Breach. This will allow the status effects from the ability to continue while multiple applications are active, or when other sources of Major Breach apply and override this.
    • Reduced the tick frequency to 7.5 seconds, down from 6.
  • Wall of Elements:
    • All versions of this ability and its morphs will now display a hostile telegraph to enemies.
    • Wall of Frost and its morphs will now apply Minor Breach and reduce the movement speed of enemies by 40% for 4 seconds when damaging a Chilled target, rather than Immobilized them for 4 seconds.

• Dual Wield
  • Flurry: Fixed an issue with this ability and its morphs where the damage and audio impacts appeared delayed and out of sync with its animation.
• Two Handed
  • Cleave: Fixed an issue where the visuals and sound effects from this ability and its morphs could fail to play properly in some cases.
  • Critical Charge
    • Stampede (morph): Fixed an issue where the initial hit of this morph would only guarantee its Critical Strike against the first target hit, rather than all targets hit. Note that this guaranteed Critical still does not apply to the Damage over Time portion of the ability, which is by design.
  • Uppercut: Fixed an issue where this ability and the Wrecking Blow morph would lose targeting far easier than the Dizzying Swing morph.
    • Wrecking Blow (morph): This morph now also grants Major Berserk for 5 seconds. Now it’s really time to wreck it.

World

• Vampire
  • Mist Form:
    • This ability and its morphs are no longer a toggled ability that reduce your damage taken from players or grant crowd control immunity while active. Instead, they now teleport you to the position of your cursor, up to a maximum of 15 meters away, and reduce your damage taken from the next 3 projectiles by 100% while teleporting. Casting any of these abilities will increase the cost of the ability by 33% for 4 seconds. The base cost is now 4050 per cast, which reduces to 3780 at rank IV of the base ability.
      • Elusive Mist (morph): This morph now grants Major Expedition and Major Evasion for 4 seconds after reappearing, rather than just Major Expedition.
      • Blood Mist (morph):
        • This morph now causes you to deal damage around you and heal for 45% of the damage caused once every 2 seconds over 20 seconds after activating the ability, rather than once every second while active.
        • Increased the damage per tick by approximately 9%.

• Werewolf
  • Piercing Howl
    • Feeding Frenzy (morph): This synergy now grants Minor Force and Empower for 10 seconds, rather than only Empower for 5 seconds.
    • Howl of Despair (morph): This morph now allows the caster to self-synergize Feeding Frenzy.

Guild

• Fighters Guild
  • Trap Beast: This ability and its morphs will now only trigger ability timers after they’ve hit a target, rather than after placing and after hitting a target.
• Psijic Order
  • Concentrated Barrier: Fixed an issue where the shield from this passive could be half of its listed value in some cases.

Alliance War

• Support
  • Guard: Fixed an issue where this ability and morphs’ transferred damage was able to trigger other conditional requirements.

General

• You will now gain rapport with Ember at the end of a Tribute match regardless of winning or losing.

General

• Many distance-based item sets – such as Zaan or Scourge Harvester – will now properly interact with dragons, being able to apply to them when other abilities are meeting their ranged requirements and no longer instantly breaking if they activated. This applies to the following sets:

Consumables

• Glyph of Physical Harm and Glyph of Spell Harm: These enchantments now grant Weapon and Spell Damage, rather than only Weapon or Spell Damage. Physical Harm glyphs now add 10 Stamina Recovery at all qualities, while Spell Harm glyphs now add 10 Magicka Recovery at all qualities.
  

Item Traits

• Bloodthirsty: This trait now grants up to 210-350 Weapon and Spell Damage against enemies under 90% Health, up from 70-350. This will cause the trait to reach the same final results as before, but with less of a power gap between the lowest and highest qualities.
• Harmony:
  • This trait now grants you up to 880 Health, Magicka, and Stamina when you activate a synergy per trait, rather than increasing the healing, damage, and shielding potency of synergies by 20% per trait.
  • Fixed an issue where Harmony did not interact with Companion synergies.

Dungeon & Arena Sets

• Crimson Oath’s Rive: After cracking the code, this set now only fires when you meet its conditions while in combat, in order to prevent it from firing before you’ve actively engaged with enemies and helping prevent those pesky pre-pulls.
• Ironblood: Fixed an issue with this set’s visual effects not being visible to enemies in some cases.

Monster Masks

• Archdruid Devyric: Updated the area effect hit box of this set to be a 7m x 5m rectangle, rather than a cone. This should fix numerous issues where the set could miss the target it was spawned on.
• Lady Malygda:
  • Fixed an issue where this set’s damage was considered single target, rather than area effect.
  • Fixed an issue where this set would miss invisible targets.
  • Did not fix how easy it is to butcher the pronunciation of the set.
• Valkyn Skoria: Fixed an issue where this set’s damage could become desynced from its visual effects and appear to fail in many cases.

Mythic Items

• Faun’s Lark Cladding: Fixed an issue where some of this set’s effects could become stuck on your character.
• Pearls of Ehlnofey: This set now grants 3 Ultimate when you attempt to cast an ability that consumes resources while under 50% of your dominant resource, rather than 5 Ultimate while under 30% of that resource. This was done to make the set more widely available to use, while peeling back some of the raw power of the set.

Overland Sets

• Night Terror: Fixed an issue where the tooltip bonus for this item set was listed as up to 27% sneak radius reduction, rather than the actual up to 10%.
• Seventh Legion Brute: Fixed an issue where this set was not activating off the Minor Resolve granted from Resolving Vigor.
• Stygian: Fixed an issue where this set could activate out of combat in some cases.
• Vesture of Darloc Brae: Fixed an issue where this set’s 4-piece bonus scaled with Night Terror’s quality instead of its own quality.

PvP Sets

• Mara’s Balm: Reduced the healing of this set to 1106, down from 1675, to peel back some of its passive healing potential.

General

• Fixed a lingering issue where some Antiquity Lead drop rates were lower than expected. This will affect the following Antiquity Leads:
  • Collectibles
    • Ebon Dwarven Wolf mount
      • Aligned Dwarven Plates
      • Worn Dwarven Gears
    • Dwarven Scarab pet
      • Dwarven Internal Machinery
      • Dwarven Scarab Head
      • Dwarven Segmented Legs
      • Faceted Dwarven Wings
      • Golden Dwarven Thorax
      • Sloped Dwarven Stalks
      • Thin Dwarven Hinges
    • Barkroot Blessing skin
      • Phoenix Moth Pigment
  • Mythics
    • Stainless Imperial Band for Belharza’s Band
    • Dov-Rha Sabaton Poleyn for Dov-Rha Sabatons
    • Silverweave Cord for Harpooner’s Wading Kilt
    • Malacath’s Brutal Scourge Hoop for Malacath’s Band of Brutality
    • Ruinblood Coil for Markyn Ring of Majesty
    • Bloodshot Oculus and Sclerotic Tentacle for Mora’s Whispers
    • Sacred Resin for Oakensoul Ring
    • Order-Etched Gallery Rail for Ring of the Pale Order
    • Auri-El Metal Carvings for Snow Treaders
    • Clannfear Leather Strapping and Void Alloy Rivets for Spaulder of Ruin
  • Furnishings
    • Anvil of Old Orsinium
    • Brazier of Frozen Flame
    • Carved Whale Totem
    • Dwemer Star Chart
    • Font of Auri-El
    • Golden Idol of Morihaus
    • Prismatic Sunbird Feather
    • Rune-Carved Mammoth Skull
    • Warcaller’s Painted Drum

• The “Scrying for Antiquities” tutorial pop-up no longer appears every time you change zones if you peace out while on the step to learn how to do so.

General

• Fixed an issue where the dirt mound for the Greymoor Caverns Treasure Map I treasure was spawning under a different mound of dirt. It makes sense in context.
• Fixed an issue where an Herbalist’s Satchel in Blackreach could be interacted with but would reward nothing.

General

• Fixed an issue where some visual effects could incorrectly play on hidden followers.
• Clouds will no longer reset in the character creation menu when making changes to the character.
• Fixed an issue where some arrows were not loading their visuals properly when changing outfits.
• Fixed a seam on the Khajiit version of the Short Mussed Wave hairstyle.
• Fixed the distorted appearance of hair behind the ear on male humans when wearing the Short Mussed Wave hairstyle.

General

• The crafted version of Gilane Garlicky Greens now has the correct icon.

General

• Fixed an issue where previewing a mount then previewing an emote would block the emote from playing correctly.
• Fixed an issue where Crown Crates and cards could be positioned incorrectly after equipping certain collectibles while revealing cards.

Customized Actions

• Fixed an issue involving Customized Actions where the cost for repeated recalls was not scaling properly when Recall of the Galen Wilds was enabled.
• Fixed an issue where the visual effects from Recall of the Galen Wilds were blue in first person view instead of green.
• Fixed an issue where the equip status of Customized Action collectibles could become desynced.

Endeavors

• Fixed an issue where sometimes completing an Alchemy Master Writ would not advance the Endeavor.
• Fixed an issue where the group event in the Spire of the Crimson Coin did not advance Endeavors that ask you to defeat said events.

General

• Reading the following Lorebooks will now properly grant Restoration Staff Skill progress rather than Destruction Staff:
  • Notes on Racial Phylogeny
  • Journal of Thracius Mento
  • Cantillon’s Correspondence
  • Precepts of Stendarr
  • Almalexia and the Mudcrab
• Note: The above will only apply to characters reading these books for the first time. Characters who have already read these books will not see any changes to their Skill progress for either Restoration or Destruction Staff.

Dragonstar Arena

• Boethiah’s Blessings mailer for the Dragonstar Arena leaderboard can now contain Destruction Mastery Staves, Shields for all three Dragonstar Arena sets (Footman, Healer and Archer’s Mind) and as well as all weapons for Archer’s Mind.

General

• Updated the error text for when you are unable to travel to a house you own to be clearer.
• A guild’s Message of the Day will no longer appear empty when it contains a whole bunch of housing links.
• Fixed an issue where resuming a game that was suspended while browsing furniture would result in broken controls.

Furnishings

• Fixed an issue that caused the “Sea Elf Galleon Helm” furnishing to not play its sound effects.
• Updated the name of “Tree, Large Galen Pine” to remove an extra space.
• Corrected the recipe name for the “Firesong Bookcase, Tall Lava” furnishing to match the name of the end result.
• Fixed an issue with the “Elsweyr Window, Ritual” furnishing where the light was backwards. Also adjusted the selection point to be at its base rather than its center.
• Added the Light furnishing behavior tag to the “Plant, Hist Bulb” furnishing since it glows!
• Updated the names for “Druidic Statue, Right Hand” and the “Druidic Statue, Left Hand” to accurately match their in-game hand models.
• Removed some extraneous “Level 1” text on certain furnishing materials, as the level didn’t really mean anything.
• Adjusted the “Dwarven Pipeline Cap, Sealed” furnishing so that it aligns flush against surfaces.
• Improved the placement of the selection point for “High Isle Wall, Thin Castle”, “High Isle Pillar, Ornate”, “High Isle Platform, Wooden Rectangle” and “High Isle Platform, Wooden Square” furnishings.
• Sealed a small gap in the bottom of the “Redguard Cask, Sealed” furnishing.
• Added previously missing collision to the bottom of the “Orsinium Statue Base” furnishing.
• Moved the following furnishings to the Workshop -> Tools housing editor category.
  • Nord Basket Trap, Fish
  • Druidic Cage, Ivy Wood
• Fixed an issue that caused Cadwell and Honor to always face South when summoned via Cadwell’s Astounding Portal. We’re not sure what they saw beyond that horizon, but whatever it was, they’ve shaken it off and are back to facing forward.
• Fixed an issue that caused the “Druidic Pillow, Woven” furnishing to appear strangely metallic.
• The following interactable furnishings now correctly have the interactable item tag:
  • Dres Censer, Chains
  • Druidic Incense Burner, Clay
  • High Isle Censer, Metal
  • Hollowjack Lantern, Soaring Dragon
  • Hollowjack Lantern, Toothy Grin
  • Primal Brazier, Rock Slab
• Sealed a number of small gaps in the “Orcish Statue, Strength” furnishing.

Homes

• Fixed an issue in Amaya Lake Lodge that caused some flickering on the wall adjacent to the door to the courtyard on the inside of the storehouse.
• Fixed an issue in Grand Topal Hideaway where the water under at the base of the main waterfall appeared to have a square of water cut out from it.
• Fixed an issue where Doomchar Plateau would incorrectly claim to be available for purchase in the collections menu. This home now only appears in your collections menu once acquired.

General

• All pathways for reporting a player will now also auto-ignore that player. If you already have a full Ignore list, the report will still be submitted but the reported player will not be added to the full list.
  • Note: The only exception to this is when reporting a player from a guild finder application; the player will be blacklisted but they will not be added to your ignore list.
• Fixed a rare crash related to weather effects.
• Fixed a crash in the Chinese and Japanese game clients caused by attempting to type past the character limit with an IME.
• Fixed a rare issue that could prevent access to some previously earned titles.
• Fixed a rare crash related to visual effects that could occur on Macs and PCs with a lower amount of CPU cores.
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when the camera switches to first or third person views.

NPCs

• Fixed numerous issues with bad postures on NPCs during dialogue.
• Fixed a number of issues with NPCs lacking health bars and nameplates.
• Increased the amount of time it takes for a guard to automatically attack you after attempting an arrest to 20 seconds, up from 15 seconds, to account for screen reader speeds and reaction time.

General

• Fixed numerous issues with clipping, sunken, floating, or bizarrely positioned NPCs, resource nodes, books, critters, or monsters throughout various zones.
• Fixed numerous typos and VO/text mismatches throughout the game.
• Fixed an issue where a certain “dark fire barrier” visual effect had disappeared from the game.
• Fixed a number of issues where your character could get stuck on geometry in various places.
• Fixed a number of issues recently introduced where talk-to NPCs in various quests lost their overhead pins.

Alik’r Desert

• A certain dog near Aswala’s Remembrance can now be pet, per request. Whoosa good boy?!
• Fixed issue where the area name was not consistent across Motalion Necropolis in Alik’r Desert.
• Morwha’s Curse: Fixed an issue where the quest bestower might appear twice in the same general area.
• The Scholar of Bergama: Fixed an issue where the compass pin could lead you to the wrong spot while on this quest.

Coldharbour

• The Citadel Must Fall: Fixed a number of issues in and around the Reaver’s Citadel that was directing you to the wrong locations.

Deshaan

• Taleon’s Crag: The Egg Eater Delve boss will now grant kill credit throughout its entire fight arena.
• Vision Quest: Fixed an issue where logging out at certain points while in the jail cell could block your progression.

Eastmarch

• Fixed several issues with zone buffs that could be brought out of the zone and into group content.

Fighters Guild

• The Davon’s Watch Fighters Guild’s Hall Steward, Hilan, now appears properly in all cases.
• The Dangerous Past: Fixed an issue where the compass and map pins were in the wrong place on the step to search Mzeneldt.

Glenumbra

• Bad Man’s Hallows:
  • Fixed an issue where the entrance portal lacked the icon signifying it as a public dungeon when moused over.
  • Fixed an issue where the Point of Interest pin was slightly off the actual entrance to Bad Man’s Hallows.
• Turning of the Trees: Bernard Redain and Wyress Helene will no longer meander about at their respective locations.

Grahtwood

• Lady Solace: You will now gain kill credit even if you pull the boss out of her fight arena.

Greenshade

• Heart of Rootwater: You will now get kill credit even if you pull the boss out of the fight arena.

Main Quest

• Castle of the Worm: Fixed an issue where your compass would go crazy at the top of the stairs in the Tower of Bones.

Rivenspire

• Fixed an issue where two door pins might show up on any quest leading out of the Shornhelm Mages Guild.
• Dream-Walk into Darkness: You will no longer see a defunct debuff icon when affected by the Ayleid Shard’s “Devour Health” effect.

Stonefalls

• Crow’s Wood
  • Fixed an issue where the entrance portal lacked the icon signifying it as a public dungeon when moused over.
  • Fixed an issue where the Point of Interest pin was slightly off the actual entrance to Crow’s Wood.

Thieves Guild

• Partners in Crime: Fixed an issue where Quen would despawn after exiting the cell when you get captured.

Tutorial

• The Gates of Adamant
  • Fixed an issue where you could go back the way you came while in the middle of the combat training segment, causing your progress to get blocked.
  • Upon turning in the quest, you will now receive a reminder that the Help menus exist to reference all tutorials so far.
• Tutorial popups for Soul Gems gained, Mounts earned, and Crafting materials gained for the first time now link to associated Help entries, should you want more information (even in cases where it is the same information, just repeated for reference).
• The lockpicking tutorial now contains more appropriate information regarding exactly how to pick said locks. There is also now a listing in the game’s help entries that duplicates this information.

General

• Fixed an issue where some fixtures would block you from interacting with targeted NPCs.
• Fixed a UI error that could occur at character select in the Mac or Chinese game clients.
• Fixed an issue where the confirmation for declining a ready check would display when dismissing the notice that a group leader queued for Cyrodiil.
• Fixed an issue in the Keyboard UI where a large amount of whitespace could appear in the dialog window when completing a quest that doesn’t show any rewards.
• Fixed an issue where some tooltips, like the Armor Station tooltip, would not always display.
• Fixed a UI error that could occur when double-clicking in the PEGI country selection.
• Fixed a UI error that could occur after changing regions, such as using a Wayshrine or jumping into a dungeon.

Chat

• Fixed a series of errors that could occur if you got into a state where you had multiple chat windows.
• Added an option from the chat options that resets all chat changes, removing all extra tabs and containers and putting chat back to its default position.

Gamepad Mode

• Fixed some word wrapping on the bottom right of the Battleground scoreboard screen.
• Fixed an issue where you could not delete items from the Bank screen.
• The error message in the Crown Store when attempting to purchase above the max cap of an item (such as bag upgrades) now appears more consistently.
• Fixed a UI error in the Zone Guide that was caused by jumping to an entry not currently visible on screen.
• Fixed a UI error that would appear in the bank UI while choosing an amount of currency to deposit or withdraw.
• Fixed a UI error that could occur in the Crown Store UI when starting a preview and quickly changing categories.

Gameplay

• Added a confirmation dialog when using an attribute respec scroll and when committing attribute points.
• Fixed an issue where the ability bar was not displaying the correct slotted skills if the bar changed while zoning, such as when transforming into a Werewolf.

Help & Tutorials

• The Enchanting tutorial now shows the correct keybindings when using a keyboard in Gamepad mode.
• The Lockpicking tutorial now contains more appropriate information regarding exactly how to pick said locks. There is also now a listing in the game’s help entries that duplicates this information.
• Updated the Help Menu entry for Loading Quickslots.