ESO Update 43 Overview – Free Base Game Update

Welcome to our ESO Update 43 Overview article, where we will go over everything that is being added in this free base game update. ESO Update 43 releases on August 19 for PC/Mac and September 4 for Xbox and PlayStation consoles. Update 43 fixes bugs, adds quality of life and balance changes, a new housing feature, many collectibles, new furnishing and updates to the Infinite Archive!

Updated ESO Builds for U43: Update 43 ESO Builds

Table of Contents:

• Quality of Life changes
• Home Tours
• 6 New Skill Styles
• Infinite Archive Updates
  • New Class Item Sets
• List of all New Collectibles (Styles, Houses, Markings, Achievements etc.)
• New Furnishing
• Combat and Ability changes
• Grimoire and Script changes

ESO Update 43 Quality of Life changes

• You can preview mount animations like walk, run and rear up.
• Luminous Ink has a chance of dropping from chests and heavy sacks.
• 6 new skill styles from in-game sources.
• The game will remember which guilds bank/store you last used and will remember it during your session.
• Curated Item set drop improvements, which means you will only get gear you have not collected yet:
  • Undaunted Monster Set Shoulder Coffers
    • Now costs 8 Undaunted Keys and is called “Curated XX Coffer”
    • 1 Undaunted Key Mystery coffers are not affected
  • Imperial City Monster Set Shoulder Coffers
  • Weekly Trial Reward Coffers
• Grimoires and Scripts have had a slight buff
  • More Scripts can be used with more Grimoires
• Scripts acquired from Daily Quest Coffers and world drops will no longer have variable levels or sell values. They will always be level 1 and always sell to vendors for 999 gold.
• Scribing Altars can now be found in Cyrodiil base camps and the Imperial City sewers.
• Each Transmutation Geode will now tell you how much it grants in parenthesis in their name. For example Transmutation Geode (1) and Transmutation Geode (50)
• Lucent Citadel: A portal to the top will now appear at the base of the wisp flying section once one member of the trial group reaches the top.
• The No-CP campaign Ravenwatch and No-CP Imperial City now allows Item Set Procs. In addition, the No-CP Campaign Ravenwatch now will include Volendrung.

ESO Update 43 Home Tours

Home Tours is a new housing feature added in the free base game Update 43 which allows you to browse, visit and recommend players homes through a list within your megaserver. You can list your own homes for everyone on the server to be able to visit. The new feature is in the Group & Activity Finder and comes with four categories; Recommended, Browse Homes, Favorite Homes and My Listings. Search for inspiration, marvel at decorators imagination or list your own home for everyone to easily visit!

Read our ESO Home Tours Guide – House repository guide for more details.

6 New Skill Styles in Update 43

6 new skill styles are added to ESO’s base game with Update 43. Three of the new Skill Styles have fragments that you need to chase down and the other three skill styles can be purchased directly from Maj al-Ragath for Undaunted Keys.

You can find all the drop locations and details in our  ESO All 6 New Skill Styles in U43 and How to Get Them guide.

ESO Update 43 Infinite Archive Updates

• Two new arena types; Fire and Ice based Arenas with environmental hazards
  • A fiery pathway fraught with danger as molten lava rocks erupt into the arena
  • An icy room with deadly freezing water
• A New quest giver Esalinwe offers you a new daily quest: Kill either a marauder or specific monster types
• Filer Brax, new vendor which stocks class item sets.
• 10 new bosses. For example: Risen Ruins from Moongrave Fane, Dranos Velador from Cradle of Shadows and Yandir the Butcher from Kyne’s Aegis.
• 8 new verses, Including a new undead avatar.
• 10 new vision, like Quickened Tinctures that reduces potion cooldown.
• 2 new marauders.
  • Bittog, a hulking Werewolf Behemoth
  • Zulfimbul, a charging Minotaur
• New Fabled Monsters.
• New consumable bought with Archival Fortunes, which allows you to turn into a random avatar without requiring visions, once per run.
• 7 new class sets

All 7 new ESO Update 43 Class sets

• Arcanist: Spattering Disjunction
• Dragonknight: Pyrebrand
• Necromancer: Corpseburster
• Nightblade: Umbral Edge
• Sorcerer: Beacon of Oblivion
• Templar: Aetheric Lancer
• Warden: Aerie’s Cry

Be sure to read ESO U43 Infinite Archive Updates overview as well!

ESO Update 43 All New Collectibles list

Update 43 adds Face and Body Markings, a customized action, Outfit Styles, Achievements and new furnishing like the Scribing Altar that you can add to your home!

ESO Update 43 New Furnishing

Update 43 adds 28 new furnishing plans to ESO, which can be acquired via the Skingrad Reward Coffer, obtainable by completing the West Weald World Boss, Incursion, or Delve Daily Quests.

Guide to all available West Weald Dailies: West Weald Dailies guide.

• Blueprint: Colovian Archway, Plaster
• Blueprint: Colovian Archway, Wooden
• Blueprint: Colovian Banister Post, Wooden
• Blueprint: Colovian Banister, Wooden
• Blueprint: Colovian Door, Painted
• Blueprint: Colovian Door, Wooden
• Blueprint: Colovian Doorway, Plaster
• Blueprint: Colovian Floor, Dual-Sided
• Blueprint: Colovian Floor, Small Dual-Sided
• Blueprint: Colovian Pillar, Wooden
• Blueprint: Colovian Roof Gable, Large
• Blueprint: Colovian Staircase, Eastern Landing
• Blueprint: Colovian Staircase, Straight
• Blueprint: Colovian Staircase, Western Landing
• Blueprint: Colovian Trim, Short Wooden
• Blueprint: Colovian Trim, Wall
• Blueprint: Colovian Wall, Plaster
• Blueprint: Colovian Wall, Small Plaster
• Blueprint: Colovian Wall, Wooden
• Formula: Colovian Window, Peaked
• Formula: Colovian Window, Rectangular
• Praxis: Colovian Doorway, Stone
• Praxis: Colovian Fireplace, Stone
• Praxis: Colovian Garden Pillar, Stone
• Praxis: Colovian Garden Wall, Curved
• Praxis: Colovian Garden Wall, Straight
• Praxis: Colovian Platform, Circular
• Praxis: Colovian Wall, Flat Stone

Master Writ Furnishing

Update 43 adds 7 new Master Writ Furnishings, which can be purchased from Rolis Hlaalu in ESO. If you are unfamiliar with Writs or Master Writs, you can read our Master Writ Guide – How to get and how to do Master Writs in ESO.

• Blueprint: Colovian Keg, Gigantic Wine
• Design: Dawnwood Platter, Feast
• Sketch: Colovian Mirror, Standing
• Praxis: Colovian Glassblower’s Furnace
• Pattern: Colovian Tapestry, Red Diamond
• Diagram: Colovian Chandelier, Grapes
• Formula: Colovian Alembic Set, Colorful

Faustina Curio in ESO now offers two new items, the “Tomehold Journeyman Furnisher’s Document” and “Tomehold Master Furnisher’s Document” which contain Blue or Purple Quality recipes respectively from the Infinite Archive. These are available for 30 Writ Vouchers each, provided “Infinite Archive Vanquisher” Achievement has been completed.

Update 43 Combat and Ability changes

This will be an overview of the combat and ability changes that were introduced in the Update 43.

All ESO Builds have been updated for Update 43.

Arcanist

Herald of the Tome

• Abyssal Impact
  • Cephaliarch’s Flail (morph):
    • This morph no longer gains execute scaling damage.
    • The healing from this morph now only occurs if the ability damaged a target, to ensure it can only be used aggressively, rather than at any time.
  • Tentacular Dread (morph): This morph now increases its damage done by 33% per Crux consumed, up from 20%.

Curative Runeforms

• Vitalizing Glyphic
  • Fixed an issue where this ultimate and its morphs could sometimes tick more than once every second.

Necromancer

Added Major and Minor effects to numerous Necromantic abilities to help the class better enfeeble their foes and empower themselves with the taste of death.

The following minions/abilities will now only generate a corpse if their summoner was also in combat, in efforts to reduce the ability to generate Ultimate out of combat:

• Sacrificial Bones and Grave Lord’s Sacrifice
• Skeletal Mage and its morphs
• Bone Armor and its morphs
• Spirit Mender and its morphs

Gravelord

• Boneyard: This ability and its morphs now also apply Minor Vulnerability to enemies inside the area. The chill of death embraces those in its wake.
  • Unnerving Boneyard (morph): This ability’s Minor Vulnerability and Major Breach now persist on enemies for 4.1 seconds each tick, rather than only while in the area.
  • Fixed a bug where the sound effects for the gravestones spawning was missing.
• Sacrificial Bones:
  • This ability and the Grave Lord’s Sacrifice morph no longer require you to be in combat in order to cast them.
  • Fixed an issue where the damage increase from this ability and its morphs did not properly update many ability tooltips.
• Shocking Siphon: This ability and its morphs now also grant you Major Prophecy and Savagery for 20 seconds after casting. Such lack of respect for the dead spurs the spreading of more of it.
  • Detonating Siphon (morph): Fixed an issue where the damage from the explosion of this morph could not be blocked.
• Skeletal Mage: This ability and its morphs now also grant you Major Brutality and Sorcery for their active duration. Such audacious manipulation of death fuels your desire for more of it.

Bone Tyrant

• Bone Armor: This ability and its morphs now also grant Minor Resolve for their duration. The bones must’ve belonged to milk drinkers.
  • Summoner’s Armor (morph): This morph now also lasts 30 seconds, up from 20.
• Bone Totem: This ability and its morphs now also apply Major Cowardice to enemies inside it. Such horrific sights instill hopelessness to even the mightiest of foes.
  • Agony Totem: The synergy granted from this morph, Pure Agony, no longer applies Minor Vulnerability, as Boneyard now applies it.
• Grave Grasp
  • Ghostly Embrace (morph): This morph now also deals damage equal to half of a normal area effect spammable attack to enemies in each patch. The ability now ranks up in 1.1% damage per rank, rather than adding .333ms to each negative effect per rank.

Living Death

• Spirit Mender
  • Intensive Mender (morph): This morph now also heals 2 additional allies within 8 meters of the original target, since the morph did not add direct power to the base ability.

Nightblade

Shifted numerous Nightblade abilities to improve their thematic tie into their skill line, while simultaneously addressing some long-standing balance issues the class has had in PvP environments. These changes are listed below, rather than explaining each change in an isolated bullet point:

• Moved Blur and its morphs out of the Assassination skill line and into the Shadow skill line. Blur is now the first ability in the Shadow line, taking the place of Veiled Strike. This means Blur and its morphs will now be treated as Shadow abilities and interact with augments that come from the Shadow skill line, rather than the Assassination skill line.
• Moved Veiled Strike and its morphs out of the Shadow skill line and into the Assassination skill line. Veiled Strike is now the first ability in the Assassination line, taking the place of Assassin’s Blade. This means Veiled Strike and its morphs will now be treated as Assassination abilities and interact with augments that come from the Assassination skill line, rather than the Shadow skill line.
• Moved Assassin’s Blade and its morphs to the open slot that Blur originally occupied as the 3rd ability unlocked from the skill line.

Shadow

• Shadow Barrier: This passive now grants its Major Resolve for 6/12 seconds, rather than 3/6 seconds. It now increases by 2 seconds per piece of Heavy Armor worn at either rank, rather than extending the duration by 25% per piece worn.

Siphoning

• Strife: Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs’ healing failed to activate if the target was blocking.
  • Funnel Health (morph): This morph now heals up to 3 targets, rather than 2, so its morph power upgrade is similar to Radiating Regeneration.

Sorcerer

• Daedric Summoning
  • Daedric Curse:
    • This ability and its morphs now deal their full damage in an area around the cursed enemy, rather than dealing full damage to the cursed enemy and half damage in an area around them.
    • This damage can now be blocked, as this feature was never messaged on the ability and is not considered a Damage over Time, nor is its damage-based on other damaging events.
  • Daedric Prey: This morph now properly mentions that it also forces your active pets to prioritize the target.

Templar

Dawn’s Wrath

• Radiant Destruction: Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs’ visuals would appear to spill out and reflect on yourself when the abilities triggered the Overcharged status effect on the enemy target.
• Solar Flare: Increased the duration of the Sunsphere and Empower granted from this ability and the Dark Flare morph to 10 seconds, up from 5.

Warden

Winter’s Embrace

• Arctic Wind
• Arctic Blast (morph):
  • This morph now instantly deals damage equal to a normal area effect spammable attack, rather than healing you instantly. Instead, the healing happens if the ability failed to damage any enemies with the initial hit. The Damage over Time now only starts after the 2 second delay, rather than instantly.
  • Reduced the Damage over Time by ~21% per tick, resulting in little to no changes in its total base damage dealt with the initial hit added.
  • Reduced the healing from this ability by ~11%.
  • Reduced the base chance to apply the Chilled Status effect to 10% per tick, down from 15%. The initial hit has a 25% chance to apply the Chilled status.
  • Reduced the cost to 3780, down from 4320
• Piercing Cold: Reworked this passive to grant varying effects based on your Max Health to better align with the passive being for tanks, while continuing to offer something for damage dealers. This passive now grants Piercing Cold for 6 seconds when you deal Frost Damage, up to once every 6 seconds. If you have 30,000 or more Max Health, Piercing Cold increases the damage you block by 6/12%. If you have less than 30,000 Max Health, it grants you 4/8% damage done.

World

Vampire

• Undeath:
  • This passive now reduces damage taken by up to 7/15%, down from up to 15/30%.
  • Requires Stage 3 Vampirism

Werewolf

• Fixed an issue where some passives could be gained in Werewolf form when they should be disabled.
• Roar
  • Deafening Roar (morph): Fixed an issue where this morph’s taunt could apply to multiple targets at once.
• Werewolf Transformation
  • Pack Leader (morph): Fixed an issue where the direwolves from this morph could cause some monsters to despawn immediately upon entering combat with them

Soul Magic

• Soul Trap: Fixed an issue where this skill was not being auto granted to all characters that unlocked the skill line.

Weapon

Destruction Staff

• Ancient Knowledge: Fixed an issue where this passive could cause your Health Bar to glow permanently.
• Weakness to Elements
  • Elemental Susceptibility: Fixed an issue where this ability would break stealth and invisibility each tick.

Dual Wield

• Hidden Blade
  • Shrouded Daggers: Fixed an issue where the bouncing daggers were not being properly treated as a ranged attack in some instances.

Guild

Fighter’s Guild

• Silver Bolts
  • Silver Leash: Fixed an issue with this morph where it could fail to behave like other pull abilities.

Mages Guild

• Entropy
  • Structured Entropy: Fixed an issue where this morph would remove stealth and invisibility from the target each time the healing projectile was sent to the caster of the effect.

Grimoire and Script changes in Update 43

Most significant changes to Grimoires and Scripts will be listed here, but be sure to read the Update 43 patch notes when they’re released.

Grimoire Changes

All Grimoires have received small numerical increases to some of their Focus and Signature script interactions in order to simulate the progression that normal abilities receive as they rank up.

• This is mainly accomplished by increasing damage, healing, shielding, or other stat scaling effects on abilities by 3.3% for Focus scripts (which we treat as a “base ability”), and 6.6% for Signature scripts (which we treat as a “morph decision”). This should help increase Scribed abilities feel more numerically viable when compared to non-Scribed abilities in the high-end experiences, without tipping the scales too much in their favor.
• Check each individual Grimoire section for the specific changes that don’t adhere to the listed 3.3% or 6.6% adjustments.

Elemental Explosion

• Increased all damaging Focus script’s status effect chance to 10%, rather than the default 5%, as the Grimoire has a longer commitment and travel time.
• Reduced the Knockback Focus’ knockback distance to 10 meters, down from 12, when paired with this Grimoire.
• Increased the Druid’s Resurgence Signature when paired with this Grimoire to 470 Magicka per target, up from 441.
• Fixed an issue where the War Mage’s Defense Signature tooltip was inaccurate to the ability functionality when paired with this Grimoire. The ability grants a much larger Damage Shield than it previously stated, and it now properly mentions its scaling of becoming 20% stronger per enemy hit, rather than implying it increases by 100% per enemy hit.
  • Fixed an issue where the Damage Shield was capped at 50% of your Max Health, despite scaling based on number of targets hit. It now properly has no cap to its size, similarly to Brawler.

Mender’s Bond

• Increased the Restore Resources Focus when paired with this Grimoire to 225 Magicka and Stamina per tick, up from 215.
• Increased the Druid’s Resurgence Signature when paired with this Grimoire to 80 Magicka and Stamina per tick, up from 74.
• Updated the tooltip so it properly updates the ability name upon selection of a focus.

Shield Throw

• Increased the Druid’s Resurgence Signature when paired with this Grimoire to 165 Stamina per tick, up from 152.

Smash

• Increased the Druid’s Resurgence Signature when paired with this Grimoire to 200 Stamina per tick, up from 184.
• Increased the Leeching Thirst Signature’s healing done when paired with this Grimoire to 35%, up from 33%.
• Goading Smash, the Taunt Focus pairing, now requires a target to activate, rather than being a freely aimed ability. This adjustment ensures that the enemy you target is now the target of your taunt, rather than only taunting the nearest enemy to you when you activated the ability.
• Fixed an issue where Goading Smash did not properly count as a casting a Taunt ability.

Torchbearer

• Increased the Druid’s Resurgence Signature when paired with this Grimoire to 200 Stamina per tick, up from 74.

Traveling Knife

• Increased the Leeching Thirst Signature when paired with this Grimoire to 25%, up from 20%.

Vault

• Fixed an issue where this Grimoire did not properly activate many sets that stated “When you deal direct damage with a Blink, Charge, Teleport, Leap or Pull ability…” when paired with a damaging Focus script.
• Fixed an issue where the animation for this Grimoire did not properly react when you landed in shallow water. Now you will splish splash, as if taking a bath, when you land in the water after using any version of this ability.
• Increased the Heal Focus by ~55% when paired with this Grimoire, since it was healing for the same as a damage Focus but costing significantly more than it should.
• Increased the Druid’s Resurgence Signature when paired with this Grimoire to 200 Stamina per tick, up from 175.

Wield Soul

• Reduced the Druid’s Resurgence Signature when paired with this Grimoire to 600 Magicka and Stamina, down from 1000.

Script Changes

• Fixed an issue where many Signature scripts that dealt Damage over Time did not properly interact with stealth and invisibility. These effects will now properly damage but not break stealth or invisibility from targets and can no longer miss.
• Scripts acquired from Daily Quest Coffers and world drops will no longer have variable levels or sell values. They will always be level 1 and always sell to vendors for 999 gold.
• Script items now stack properly.
• Anchorites Cruelty and Potency: Fixed an issue where this script would fail to consume Soul Gems in some specific combinations.
• Class Mastery
  • Increased the resources restored from the Nightblade Class Mastery script to 400, up from 333.
  • Increased the resources restored from the Warden Class Mastery script to 1435, up from 1000.
  • Fixed an issue where the Warden version of the Signature did not properly display an enemy telegraph.
  • Necromancer: Fixed an issue where this script could fail to grant its bonuses in some cases.
  • Fixed a typo with the Dragonknight Class Script in several Grimoires.

Added additional Frost Script support to the following Grimoires:

• Shield Throw
• Wield Soul
• Soul Burst

Affix Changes

Affix durations now follow a simpler and streamlined rule where Major buffs and debuffs last for 10 seconds, while Minor buffs and debuffs last for 20 seconds. This results in the following changes:

• Trample’s Major Savagery and Prophecy now last 10 seconds, down from 20.
• Trample’s Minor Heroism and Minor Expedition have been converted to Major Heroism and Expedition since they only apply to the caster. They now last for 10 seconds, rather than 20 since they are Major effects.
• Elemental Explosion’s Major Savagery and Prophecy now last 10 seconds, down from 10.
• Traveling Knife’s Major Savagery and Prophecy now last 10 seconds, down from 20.
• Vault’s Major Evasion now lasts 10 seconds, down from 20.
• Shield Throw’s Minor Enervation now lasts 20 seconds, up from 10.
• Mender’s Bond’s Affixes remain at 10 seconds upon application since they apply each tick from a 12 second duration ability. This technically allows their maximum uptime to be 22 seconds rather than 20, which we’re leaving as-is for now since tethers are a little more volatile than normal abilities.

Added support for 23 existing Affix Scripts to existing Grimoires:

• Vault
  • Berserk
  • Brutality/Sorcery
  • Intellect/Endurance
• Shield Throw
  • Savagery/Prophecy
  • Brutality/Sorcery
• Smash
  • Savagery/Prophecy
  • Brutality/Sorcery
• Elemental Explosion
  • Savagery/Prophecy
• Mender’s Bond
  • Evasion
  • Force
  • Vulnerability
• Traveling Knife
  • Brutality/Sorcery
  • Force
• Wield Soul
  • Savagery/Prophecy
  • Maim
• Soul Burst
  • Savagery/Prophecy
  • Brutality/Sorcery
• Contingency
  • Savagery/Prophecy
  • Brutality/Sorcery
• Torchbearer
  • Savagery/Prophecy
  • Brutality/Sorcery
• Trample
  • Brutality/Sorcery
  • Protection

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