Patch Notes v1.1.3

OVERVIEW

The Elder Scrolls Online v1.1.3 features fixes to quests and blockers, in addition to skill line fixes and improvements. You will also see improved performance in Cyrodiil, and several fixed issues with the Mac client.


FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS

Alliance War
General

• Implemented some memory fixes which will improve performance (decrease latency) in Cyrodiil.
• Fixed an issue with Caltrops – you will no longer be immune to siege damage.
• Fix for an issue where some container rewards received through mail by non-veteran rank players contained items with no level or icon.

Combat & Gameplay
General

• Vampire Nightblades can no longer stealth and feed on boss monsters during combat.
• Reduced the ultimate gain on all critical strikes to 1 from 3.

Dragonknight

• Earthen Heart
  • Magma Armor: Reduced the duration of this ability.
• Arden Flame
  • Standard of Might: Reduced the damage bonus and damage reduction of this ability.

Nightblade
Note: Improvements to the Nightblade are a work in progress, and you will see additional fixes in the coming weeks.

• Shadow
  • Path of Darkness: Increased the damage of this ability.
  • Veil of Blades: This ability can now critical strike.
• Siphoning
  • Catalyst: Increase the effectiveness of this ability to a higher percentage.

Templar

• Restoring Light
  • Radiant Aura: Fixed an issue where this ability could prevent you from swapping weapon sets.
• Aedric Spear
  • Puncturing Strikes: Reduced the post global cooldown on this ability, and slightly increased the cost.

Healing Staff

• Siphon Spirit: This ability no longer generates ultimate. This is a temporary fix until we can resolve an issue where the ability generates more ultimate than intended.

Dungeons & Group Content
Dungeons

• Spindleclutch
  • The Spindlekin Boss will now properly reset if it gets stuck in the world.
• Volenfell
  • The Guardian Centurions will now reset if they become stuck.

Trials

• Fixed an issue with treasure chests so more than one groupmate can now loot the chest before it disappears.

Exploration & Itemization
General

• Fixed an issue that was causing some collected books to disappear or get replaced when you used a wayshrine or reloaded the game.
• Healing Mage Item Set Bonus: Reduced the debuff to weapon damage.

Mac Client
General

• Fixed an issue that was causing blurry textures.
• Fixed an issue where switching between fullscreen mode and windowed mode was not working properly.
• Fixed an issue where the game would sometimes crash once you logged into the game.

Miscellaneous
General

• We have implemented a fix for those who could not see ghosts when using DX9 after patch 1.1.2. However, we encourage you to use DX11 unless playing on Windows XP.
• Fixed an issue where you could fall through the world at Arcwind Point in The Rift.

Quests
Auridon

• Breaking the Barrier: Fixed an issue where you couldn’t use the talisman on the wards.

Bal Foyen

• Breaking the Tide: Captain Rana will no longer become unresponsive.

Coldharbour

• The Cliffs of Failure: Fixed an issue where seeds used on monsters that had turned to ash were not giving you proper credit.

Eastmarch

• Snow and Flame: Thane Mera Stormcloak will now appear.

Fighters Guild

• The Prismatic Core: Aelif and Merric will no longer converse endlessly, preventing you from completing the quest step “Talk to Merric.”

Glenumbra

• Rally Cry: Shaza will no longer become unresponsive.

Grahtwood

• Grip of Madness: You will no longer become blocked after entering the Cathedral.
• The Innkeeper’s Daughter: Nellor can now be found at his quest marker, and the letter no longer spawns inside a crate.

Greenshade

• Shades of Green: Indaenir can now be found with more ease.
• Retaking the Pass: This quest has been reworked to improve stability, and quest pins have been added.

Main Quest

• Daughter of Giants: Fixed an issue where you could not interact with the axe.
• Valley of Blades: Monsters in the event “Defend the Ancestral Crypt” will no longer get stuck and prevent the quest from advancing.

Malabal Tor

• Abamath Ruins: Reduced the difficulty of Arithiel, Cassia Varo, and Igozai.

Reapers March

• Rat Problems: You will now drop down into the well without issue.
• The Moonlit Path: If the Green Lady or the Silvenar become stuck, they will now reset and the event will progress.
• The Arbordawn Cult: Monsters now appear when you are told to protect Telenger.
• Thjizzrini Arena: Debtors will no longer become unresponsive if you have lost a fight to them.

Rivenspire

• The Liberation of Northpoint: You can now interact with Skordo on the quest step “Talk to Skordo.”

Shadowfen

• Trials of the Burnished Scales: You are now able to talk to the NPCs to advance the quest after dueling.

Stonefalls

• Sadal’s Final Defeat: If Walks in Ash becomes stuck, she will reset much quicker so you can find her at the quest marker.

Some simple but good changes there that I think will start to reign in some of the recent silliness.

Caltrops exploit fix in AvA was much needed.

The changes to Ultimate generation from crits and the removal of Ultimate generation from Siphon Spirit will hopefully get Ultimates back under control as they were a massive part of the toolset being used to run the Trials in super fast times.

The DK changes are all going to depend on how much they reduced the duration, damage bonus, and damage reduction.

I know they are working on a lot more for NB and on overhauling Stamina Weapons overall for the future but it was nice to see them push a few changes in now to show they are serious.

Templar Biting Jabs (unintended?) nerf gets rolled back - that's good, hopefully the Magicka increase isn't too much.

Buffing Catalyst seems like an odd choice.  As an Argonian Nightblade with Alchemy trained up, I definitely appreciate it, but it seems like other NB passives deserved more attention than Catalyst.

Agreed, but I don't think it was fixed first because they felt it was more important that the other nightblade changes, I think it was probably because it was simple enough to get done and included in this patch.

I wonder if Zenimax thought that people would be able to complete the trials in 13 minutes.  

Best of all, that patch just fixed the authentication issues that some of us were having (Error 200, 180) which meant no ESO for the past 4 days. Despite support's theory that it was purely a router/firewall issue, no amount of repairing/ port forwarding or exception handling worked for me (I worked on it all night, right up until the servers went down at 8am this morning). The deployment of 1.1.3 instantly restored my access.  I'm so happy I don't even care what else is in this patch. (Okay, maybe I'm a little bit pleased about the disappearing books fix.)   \o/

Very glad to hear the patch fixed your inability to log in, Tyrra!

Last night the lag was so bad in Eastmarch I almost had to log off. Not to assume this patch had any effect on it, but I sure hope things are smoother moving forward.

Thanks for posting the notes - much appreciated.

I opened up a AvA reward that I got last week (but left in my in-box). The item inside it still had the ? icon, though it did have other stats and I could equip it. However, when I put it on, that slot acted as though I was naked. I was able to break it down.

So while a lot of issues with the AvA rewards were fixed, there are still some that remain.

Question!

Are they going to fix the rewards that are broken too? Because I got a couple of no-icon/level 0/enchantment potency 0 pieces of equipment

@Kitty

Ouchie. :(  Were they pre-level 50 rewards, and were they mailed after 1.1.3 was deployed? That top line ( Fix for an issue where some container rewards received through mail by non-veteran rank players contained items with no level or icon) sounded like they had a fix for those, but if you're still getting them on a non-vet toon, maybe it's not fixed. Definitely worth a bug report. 

that or they fixed the rewards going forward but not the ones some of us have been collecting in our mailbox??

I think they fixed the "new" rewards going out but couldn't do anything about the ones that they had already sent.

I had about 15 of them in my mail box and on my character - still unopened - they were still all ? - I just couldn't hold out any longer - they were taking up too much room so I opened them and sold them.  At least the value was greater than 1.  I tried breaking a couple down but got nothing on several of them - not even Exp - so vendor trash.   As long as the new ones coming out have actual equipment I'm not going to sweat it anymore.