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Welcome to The Elder Scrolls Online v7.0.0 and our next Chapter: Blackwood! Uncover the schemes of the Daedric Prince Mehrunes Dagon 800 years before the events of The Elder Scrolls IV. From the walls of the Imperial city of Leyawiin to the murky bogs of Shadowfen, explore the mysterious region of Blackwood and uncover the Daedric plot at its heart. You can also enter Oblivion Portals scattered throughout the region of Blackwood, fight your way to their heart, and shut down these mysterious Daedric constructs.

We’re also excited to introduce Companions to fight alongside you, keep you company, and tell new stories as you grow your friendships with all-new and unique characters ready to aid you in your quests. Or gather your strongest allies to take on Rockgrove, our newest 12-player Trial. Blackwood also features a number of new item sets, Antiquities, Collectibles, Outfit Styles, Dyes, and Titles.

Update 30, which is a free update as part of the base game, includes several other additions and features as well including ability bar timers, bankable outfit style pages, new Monster Masks, Master Writ quest assistance, adjustments to proc sets and the Champion System (including new stars!), and more. Also included is the new Endeavors system, allowing you to earn a new currency that can be used to purchase items directly from Crown Crates.

This week, we’ve copied over all PC NA characters and have supplied a max level character template. Note that we’ve also enabled the Collector’s Edition items on all PTS accounts, regardless of your pre-purchase status, in order to fully test all items. We look forward to hearing what you think of our latest Chapter which is approximately 5.59GB in size. Thank you and enjoy your time in Blackwood!



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[*] New Features / Updates / Big Changes[list]
[*] Blackwood Chapter[list]
[*] New Zone - Blackwood
[*] Oblivion Portals
[*] Companions
[*] Rockgrove Trial
[*] New Item Sets
[*] New Antiquities
[*] New Collectibles and Outfit Styles
[*] New Achievements and Titles
[*] New Dyes
[*] New Motifs
[*] New Furnishings[/list]
[*] Base Game[list]
[*] Endeavors
[*] Ability Bar Timers
[*] New Monster Masks
[*] Bankable Outfit Style Pages
[*] Master Writ Quest Assistance
[*] New Tutorial – The Isle of Balfiera
[*] New Homes
[*] Housing Editor Update[/list][/list]
[*] Available Templates
[*] Known Issues[list]
[*] Combat & Gameplay
[*] Exploration & Itemization
[*] Housing
[*] Quests & Zones
[*] UI[/list]
[*] Fixes & Improvements[list]
[*] Chapters & DLCs[list]
[*] Clockwork City
[*] Dark Brotherhood
[*] Dragonhold
[*] Elsweyr
[*] Flames of Ambition
[*] Greymoor
[*] Morrowind
[*] Orsinium
[*] Summerset
[*] Thieves Guild[/list]
[*] Combat & Gameplay[list]
[*] Combat & Abilities
[*] Champion System
[*] Itemization & Item Sets[/list]
[*] Base Game[list]
[*] Alliance War & PvP
[*] Art & Animation
[*] Crafting & Economy
[*] Crown Store & Crown Crates
[*] Events & Celebrations
[*] Exploration & Itemization
[*] Housing
[*] Miscellaneous
[*] Quests & Zones
[*] UI
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about 3 years ago - ZOS_GinaBruno - Direct link
FYI: We just added a missed note in the Combat & Gameplay section -

[list][*] The Battle Spirit passive now also reduces your Health Recovery by 50%.
Developer Comment: [spoiler]Currently, Health Recovery is quite powerful in PvP environments as it bypasses the typical penalty of Battle Spirit with healing, enabling those with high amounts of it to easily recuperate tremendous amounts of damage passively. Rather than nerfing Health Recovery as a whole and making it weaker in PvE where it already struggles due to the need of more reactive healing in those encounters, we've decided to utilize this to ensure it only sees a loss of power where it needs it. [/spoiler]
about 3 years ago - ZOS_GinaBruno - Direct link
And one more note added that we accidentally missed:

Updates to Perfected & Non-Perfected Sets
In Update 30, you can now wear perfected and non-perfected sets in combination with each other. Doing so will grant the bonuses associated with the non-perfected set until you wear all 5 pieces of perfected.