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!

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
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

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

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 changes that were introduced in the Update 43 Public Test Server testing period. Please read the full patch notes on Update 43 from the Elder Scrolls Online website when they’re live to see all the changes that made it through!

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%.

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.

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’s heal will now occur if the ability failed to damage any enemies with the initial hit, rather than if the stun failed to hit any targets.
Reduced the healing from this ability by ~11%.
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 4 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.

Vampire

Undeath:

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

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.

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.

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

Added additional Frost Script support to the following Grimoires:

Shield Throw
Wield Soul
Soul Burst

Related Content:

ESO All 6 New Skill Styles in U43 and How to Get Them
ESO How to get the Scribing Altar Furnishing for your home
How to get the Apocrypha Jewelry Crafting Station in ESO
ESO Home Tours Guide – House repository
West Weald Dailies Guide
Master Writ Guide – How to get and how to do Master Writs in ESO

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