Take a peek at the massive wave of new and returning items arriving in the Crown Store this September.
This September’s Crown Store additions are featured below, but you can always review all the items currently on sale by checking out the Crown Store page. Be sure to visit the Buy Crowns page beforehand to pick up however many crowns you need.
Discover some of the items you can claim by logging into The Elder Scrolls Online this September 2023!
Venturing into Tamriel this coming September? There’s a broad selection of in-game goodies you can claim simply by logging into the game and visiting the Daily Rewards screen. Find everything you need to know about Daily Login Rewards in this help article, and check out just some of the upcoming items you can claim below!
Gold ×25,000—Day 7 Whether you’re in the market for materials, gear, or provisions, a little bit of extra gold for Tamriel’s many Guild Traders is always welcome!
Akaviri Potentate Crates ×2—Day 14 Herald the return of the Second Empire with Akaviri Potentate Crown Crates, first introduced way back in 2020. Check out our preview blog (published in December 2020) for insight into some of the items you can find in these crates.
Chaurus Egg Ear Studs Adornment—Day 21 While exploring the dark depths of Blackreach, you wouldn’t want to meet a chaurus in the wild, but their eggs do appear to make for exceptionally fetching earrings!*
Don’t forget, this is just a small sample of some of the useful in-game items you can unlock and claim when logging into ESO next month. If you’d like to see the complete list, be sure to visit the Daily Rewards section of the in-game Crown Store on September 1! Do any of these items catch your eye? Will you be logging in frequently this month to claim them? Let us know via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
*We are reliably informed that the eggs are miniature replicas and pose no danger of hatching.
Update 39 Base-Game Patch Now Live on PC/Mac
Discover the host of additions and improvements arriving with the free Update 39 base-game patch.
The Update 39 base-game patch is now live on PC/Mac and introduces a series of long-awaited improvements and additions to The Elder Scrolls Online, completely free of charge for all existing ESO players. If you’re a console player, don’t worry: Update 39 arrives September 5 for Xbox and PlayStation consoles, too! Update 39 Base Game Improvements
As a base-game patch, Update 39 includes a wide array of bug fixes, but also features a series of long-awaited improvements to your in-game experience.
Quest & Content Improvements for New Players
If you’re a new player feeling overwhelmed when first entering Tamriel, you can enjoy a series of changes that reduce the volume and frequency of quests offered to your low-level characters. This includes quests from NPCs for the main story, Fighters Guild, Mages Guild, Battlegrounds, Undaunted, and others. Instead, these quests are now delivered more gradually as you level up, helping your journal stay in a manageable state for longer!
Tamriel’s navigator NPCs that can transport your characters between destinations have also received some improvements with this update. Now, these navigators indicate whether they can transport you to a location for one of your tracked quests (active or inactive.) When exploring, you now see the “door” pin above relevant navigator NPCs, indicating that they can help you in your journey. In addition, appropriate dialog lines with those same NPCs have similar pins, ensuring you make the right choice and go where you need to go—happy travels! Taking your first steps into Tamriel is daunting
Inventory Management Improvements
If you’re struggling with an overburdened Inventory, Update 39 also includes changes to key item types to help improve management and reduce clutter. Some (but not all) similar Crown Store items that came from separate sources (such as Tri-Restoration Potions) can now all be stacked together using the “Stack All Items” option. Also, this patch adds better communication regarding which items in your Inventory can or cannot be sold, helping you identify and clear out unwanted items and make a little gold in the process!
PvP Additions & New Rewards
This update adds new rewards for Tamriel’s PvP victors in the form of three new monster mask sets: Jerall Mountains Warchief, Nibenay Bay Battlereeve, and Colovian Highlands General. Each grants unique and powerful boons, and you can trade Alliance Points for these new masks with Cyrodiil Elite Gear Vendors within the Eastern Elsweyr Gate, Southern High Rock Gate, and Northern Morrowind Gate. Chase down new PvP rewards
In addition, you can now claim new Unfeathered Battle Body and Face Markings from Gladiator’s Rucksacks (earned by completing Cyrodiil Conquest Mission Board daily quests), and the Imperial City’s hapless Treasure Scamps nowdrop even better loot when hunted down. In particular, Cunning Scamps drop more Tel Var Stones and Trove Scamps drop tradable pieces of Imperial City gear sets.
Finally, while battling in Cyrodiil, the Imperial City, and Battlegrounds, you can now see new death notifications that help you plan your next move (or avoid that incoming zerg!).
Home Editor Improvements
With Update 39, this patch gives you the ability to place a furnishing directly from your Inventory or Collectibles UI while in your home. You can now find a “Place” option when viewing the specific furnishings. In addition, you can preview Crown Store furnishings in your home before you buy, helping you determine how a new item might look when placed. Place furnishings from Inventory and Collectibles
Of course, these are just some of the changes and additions that arrive with Update 39. To see a complete list of everything this new base-game patch introduces to ESO, visit our Patch Notes forum.
As a base-game update, your version of ESO automatically updates on PC/Mac via the ESO Launcher. Note that to run ESO on PC/Mac, your machine needs to meet the game's requirements here: PC, Mac. Don’t forget, Update 39 arrives on consoles September 5.
As mentioned above, this is a free base-game update for all ESO players. Anybody with access to the game can download and enjoy these new additions and changes. There is no previous purchase required (aside from the game itself).
Tamriel Evolves
With the free Update 39 base-game patch, you can enjoy the above improvements and more to help you get the most out of your time in Tamriel. Which of the above changes and additions are you most excited to experience? Let us know via Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.
The Update 39 base-game patch is now live PC/Mac and arrives September 5 for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 consoles. AnnouncementsUpdate 39
Meet the Character—Stibbons
Learn more about loyal Stibbons, Lady Clarisse Laurent’s ever-faithful manservant and victim of a many great misfortunes.
My dear Lady Arabelle,
You ask an interesting question. Do I recommend a manservant to assist you in the everyday tasks that require the attention of noble women such as ourselves? I find that no simple answer springs quickly to my mind.
Now, having a manservant to catalog and care for my clothing, jewelry, and personal accessories is imperative. As is the help provided in dressing and styling my hair. Not to mention packing and unpacking for travel, preparing meals, and serving tea. But if you wind up with the wrong manservant, every day can feel like riding to Oblivion in an ox cart. Let me tell you about the trials and tribulations of my faithful manservant, Stibbons.
Don’t get me wrong. Stibbons is as loyal as a Dark Elf’s nix-hound, but he nevertheless drives me absolutely to thoughts of violence on frequent occasions. For example, he can be lazy and inattentive without constant supervision. He drinks too much. He has an unnatural fondness for your precious Investigator Vale fables. And he tends to always be underfoot, like a sad, little puppy.
As you know, my work takes me to many exotic locations and finds me in numerous adventures. I’m sure you’ve read about them. As much as I appreciate his efforts to assist me, more often than not he blunders into something that I must then extract him from. Should I list some cases in point? For completeness’s sake I think I must!
Whether helping me explore an ancient ruin, study a Daedric relic, or locate a lost treasure, Stibbons inevitably accidentally breaks something, activates a curse, or sets off a trap. I suppose better him than me, but I do wish he would be more careful. Stibbons has been possessed by a ghost, turned into a goblin, captured by a somewhat pretty Daedra, frozen in a block of ice, trapped in an Argonian egg, and multiplied into numerous copies of himself. And I won’t even mention the time he misread a scroll and got entangled in a spider’s web. I spend as much gold and time getting him out of trouble as he spends getting into it!
Still. Now, don’t spread this around, but I’d be lost without him. Stibbons knows exactly how to press my garments and brush my hair. He brews an excellent pot of tea and cooks up a wonderful fish stew. He also knows exactly where everything I need is located and can retrieve it for me relatively quickly when I call for it. He keeps all my research in order, which makes writing my reports and travelogues much easier to compose than you would think. Not that you know anything about getting ink stains out of satin, wink wink.
There is one other thing that I almost decided not to mention. I have come to care for Stibbons in my own way. I suppose you could say I’ve gotten used to having him around, faults and all. Maybe it’s because I know he needs me as much as I rely on him. Or perhaps it’s his most excellent foot rubs. They certainly do the trick after a long day trekking through ancient Dwemer cities and whatnot. If you say a word of this to Stibbons, I will deny it quite strenuously. And then I may be forced to mention that incident you told me about between you and Jorunn the Skald King. Or was it Rigurt the Brash? Nords. Who can tell them apart?
So after all that, I suppose I would recommend you find yourself a good manservant. Perhaps if you seek one with qualities exactly opposite of what I just described, you will be much happier.
As for your other question, certainly not. Stibbons’ contract is not for sale. Do not even jest about such a thing.
Most sincerely,
Lady Clarisse Laurent
If there’s hardship to be had in Tamriel, Stibbons has suffered it in his loyal service to his lady. Have you encountered Stibbons in your adventures? Let us know via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
ESO Community Q&A—Tamriel’s Companions
The Elder Scrolls Online development team took the time to answer some of the community’s most-pressing questions about Companions. Check out their answers here!
Earlier this year, we prompted the ESO community for questions for the development team regarding the Companions system. These questions could be related to almost anything regarding Companions, whether it be the individual NPCs themselves or the design and development of the system. You can check out some of the questions and our developer’s answers below, but be sure to review the original thread to read them all.
What tribe is Sharp originally from? I also would like to know his Jel name. Did he even have one in the first place?
Juli Comstock (Writer-Designer): Sharp's tribe and Jel name were details I had planned but ultimately had to cut from the questline to strengthen the story we wanted to tell. I imagine discovering these things would carry some life-altering gravitas for the character, and Sharp needs a reason after his questline to stick around as a summonable companion. He gets to choose his place in the world, and right now, he's content exploring it with you in his tribe of two.
What is the team's stance on vampire/werewolf companions? Are there any plans to introduce more than two companions per year?
Philip Draven (Lead Systems Designer): Vampire and werewolf companions are not off the table for future companions. There are no plans to increase the companion release rate at this time. (They take a lot of work from many talented developers, and we want to make sure we’re taking the time to get them as good as they can possibly be.)
Would the team consider adding a "stand here" command to companions that makes them stand on the spot for 60 seconds?
Tom Murphy (Zone Lead): We do talk about ways to improve the player experience. There are trade-offs to systems like these that we don’t find to be net positives, so we’ll continue to investigate.
Will older companions (Bastion and Mirri) ever be updated to have more dialogue and quests?
Tom Murphy: I can’t go into too much detail regarding our future plans, but I can say that we have big ideas on how we can expand the Companion system in the future, and those ideas certainly involve revisiting Bastian and Mirri!
How do you decide on rapports for the companions like Bastian hating cheese? (Cheese! All hail Uncle Sheo!)
Janet Priblo (Senior Content Designer): If we can come up with something that seems like an interesting or fun quirk to a character we are developing, and that feels like it fits in with who they are, we love to add these small bits of character flavor. We need to make sure it can work with the companion system, to allow the companion to make relevant comments or reactions.
Thank you to the #ESOFam for providing such interesting questions for the dev team—we hope you learned a little more about Tamriel’s most-trusted allies in the process. Don’t forget, this is just a small sample of some of the questions and answers you can find in this thread on our official forums—go check the rest out! Do you have a favorite Companion? Perhaps one of the new ones that arrived with the Necrom Chapter? Let us know via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook!
Begin Your Legend with the QuakeCon 2023 Free Play Event
Take your first steps into Tamriel and play ESO for free during QuakeCon 2023!
Tamriel Unlimited
The QuakeCon 2023 Free Play Event is now live and continues until Monday, August 21, 2023. During the free play period, you can begin your adventures and experience a world without limit at no cost on PC/Mac (The Elder Scrolls Online Store), Xbox consoles, and PlayStation consoles.
To get started, simply visit our Free Play page and select your platform. The QuakeCon 2023 Free Play Event gets you access to the ESO base game, which includes four of the game’s classes (Sorcerer, Nightblade, Templar, and Dragonknight), 24 zones to explore and quest in, and access to ESO’s PvP game modes such as the Battlegrounds and the Alliance War. In addition, you will also gain access to the Necrom Prologue, a free quest that introduces the Shadow Over Morrowind saga and leads directly into the game’s latest Chapter. Begin your Shadow Over Morrowind adventure
If you’ve played in previous free play events, you can continue your adventures with no loss to progression. All brand-new ESO accounts will also receive 500 crowns to spend in the in-game Crown Store. Even better, from August 10 until August 15, all of Tamriel’s adventures will enjoy a 100% boost to XP gains—go level up!
Once the QuakeCon Free Play Event has concluded on August 21, you can purchase the game via our Buy Now page to pick up right where you left off! Finally, both the ESO base game and the new Necrom Chapter are currently on sale for a limited time. Check this announcement blog for more information, including key dates and platforms.
Free For All
Discover a world without limits for free during QuakeCon 2023 and venture into the ever-growing world of The Elder Scrolls Online at no cost. Are you excited to take your first steps into Tamriel’s Second Era and begin your legend? Let us know via Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.
The QuakeCon 2023 Free Play Event is now live and runs until Monday, August 21, 2023.
Watch Two Top-Tier Teams Race to Complete Sanity’s Edge during QuakeCon 2023!
Tune in to a special QuakeCon 2023 livestream where we host a special competition between two talented PvE teams with some big-time prizes on the line!
Join us on Twitch.tv/Bethesda this Thursday, August 10 at 3:30PM EDT, as Senior Community Manager Gina Bruno is joined by Lead Encounter Designer Mike Finnigan and Stream Team member Eigh1_Puppies to livestream a one-of-a-kind competition between the star-studded teams Genesis (PC NA) and New Watcher (PC EU)!
As part of the excitement of QuakeCon 2023, our two talented teams will be racing through The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom’s new Trial, Sanity’s Edge, and will attempt to complete it with as high a score as possible. To help inspire their best efforts, we’ve put some major prize packs up for grabs!
The winning team members will receive:
Custom Print of Sanity's Edge signed by the ESO Dungeon Team
ESO sling backpack
The Fair Winds in-game home
12-Month ESO Plus™ membership
The runners-up will receive:
5,500 Crown Pack
6-Month ESO Plus membership
During the stream we’ll have Twitch Drops enabled, so don’t forget to link your accounts! Watch the show live for 15 minutes and you’ll receive an Ouroboros Crate. Claim that crate and then watch an additional 15 minutes, and you’ll also receive one Gold Coast Experience Scroll (50% EXP Scroll)!
Two amazing teams battle it out for fantastic prizes in some of the game’s most-challenging content—it’s going to be fun! Are you #TeamGenesis or #TeamNewWatcher? Tune in this Thursday, August 10 at 3:30PM EDT, on Twitch.tv/Bethesda during QuakeCon to catch all the action!
Opt In to The Elder Scrolls Online’s Mailers & You’ll Receive This Free Pet
Verify your account and sign up for ESO marketing emails to receive the fiery Infernium Dwarven Spiderling pet as a free reward.
Want to get your hands on a free pet? Sign up for ESO marketing emails and verify your account from today until Monday, August 21, 2023, and you will receive this combustible contraption free! Here’s what you need to do to get your pet:
Verify Your Email
Confirm whether you have a verified email address by logging in to your ESO account on the official website. If you can log in, your email address is verified.
If you have not verified your email on console, follow the instructions for both PlayStation and Xbox consoles in this help article. If you can’t log in to your account, you can use this account recovery form.
Opting In to Email
Log in to your ESO account, navigate to the Options menu, and select Account. From there, under “Marketing Preferences” you can enable marketing emails.
You can also do this from the official website. From your account page, select “Marketing Preferences” under the Account Summary section, then check the “I would like to receive news about new events and promotions” box and select “Save.”
By opting in to marketing emails, you’ll receive information on the game’s latest news, trailers, sales, and more. You can opt out of marketing emails at any time by changing your Marketing Preferences as noted above (or using the unsubscribe feature included in our marketing emails). Infernium Dwarven Spiderling pet
Receiving Your Pet
Once you have verified your account and opted in to receive marketing mailers by Monday, August 21, 2023, you will receive your free pet code via email. To redeem your code, navigate to the in-game Crown Store and select “Redeem Code.” Alternatively, you can log in to your account on the official website and select “Redeem Code” under Account Summary. At that point, your new pet will be waiting for you in the game!
Should you have any issues concerning your new pet, contact our support team on Twitter or the Help Portal, or reach out to us directly via Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook—we’ll see you AND your Infernium Dwarven Spiderling in Tamriel!
Save on ESO: Necrom & Base Game During the QuakeCon 2023 Sale
Begin your Shadow Over Morrowind adventure with big savings on ESO’s latest Chapter and base game.
QuakeCon 2023 kicks off next week, but we’re getting started early with a big sale on select editions of The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom AND The Elder Scrolls Online Standard Edition. As of right now, you can save up to 35% on the Necrom Chapter or up to70% on the Standard Edition by visiting our Buy Now page.
In the Necrom Chapter, you can explore two all-new zones (the Telvanni Peninsula and Apocrypha), master the new Arcanist class, and delve into a mystery that threatens the Daedric Prince of Knowledge, Hermaeus Mora himself! Venture into worlds unknown
In the ESO Standard Edition, you can discover the game’s original 24 unique zones and five classes while you contend with Molag Bal’s invasion of Tamriel. The Standard Edition also includes access to the Necrom Prologue, a free questline for all ESO players that kicks off the Shadow Over Morrowind adventure and leads directly into the events of The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom.
The QuakeCon 2023 sale is available for a limited time only for select platforms and editions*, so be sure to check the dates and details below and don’t miss out!
Are you excited to visit the bizarre and wonderful worlds of the Telvanni Peninsula and Apocrypha? Maybe you’re interested in the eldritch powers of the new Arcanist class? Let us know if you’ll be delving into the Shadow Over Morrowind adventure with the Necrom Chapter via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook—we’ll see you in Tamriel!
*Sale dates based on EDT timezone. Check your preferred retailer to confirm.
See All the Fun from April’s 2023 ESO Celebration In-Person Event
Get a closer look at the 2023 ESO Celebration with a new recap video and photo gallery.
This past April, we were thrilled to host our first North American community event in years with the ESO Celebration 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Check out some of the highlights and community fun from this two-day event by watching the video below and perusing our photo gallery. Be sure to let us know if you spot yourself or any other members of the ESO community!
To view a full photo gallery from the event, click here.
A big thank you to the #ESOFam for making this return to in-person community events such a great success. We can’t wait to host more in the future! As always, keep an eye out on our official website or social channels (Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook) for future community-related announcements.
