Originally published January 21, 2016. The original article can be found here.
We're excited to kick off the New Year by giving you a sneak peek of what you can expect to see in Thieves Guild - our first DLC game pack of 2016 for The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited.
The Thieves Guild of Abah's Landing, an organization of pickpockets, burglars, robbers, and thieves, is being hunted by a mercenary guard force known as the Iron Wheel. This relentless organization will stop at nothing to see the guild brought to justice for a high-stakes heist that went horribly wrong. As their newest recruit, you'll sneak along rooftops, steal from the shadows, and recover lost treasures to help to restore the guild's reputation.
As with our previous updates, Thieves Guild will come in two parts – the DLC game pack, and the base game patch (hello scrolling combat text and a brand new 64-bit PC/Mac client). Below is a brief summary of what you can expect in each, for all platforms. We'll be going into more detail about the DLC game pack and base-game patch very soon including the release dates, price, and deep-dive articles.
Thieves Guild DLC Game Pack Features & ContentEdit
- Join the iconic Thieves Guild for the first time in ESO
- Hew's Bane, a new zone available to characters of all levels and home of Abah's Landing, the Thieves Guild headquarters, located in the southern peninsula of Hammerfell
- Hours of exciting new story content and quests that will take you through all your favorite areas of Tamriel
- A challenging, new 12-player trial: Maw of Lorkhaj
- Formidable new group bosses and delves to conquer
- The addition of new criminal activities
- A new passive skill line exclusive to members of the Thieves Guild
- Unique costumes, motifs, and item sets inspired by the devious Thieves Guild
Base Game Patch Features & ContentEdit
- A 64-bit client for PC and Mac
- Improvements to grouping including incentives and cross-alliance grouping outside of the Grouping Tool
- Tons of combat and gameplay balance changes
- Scrolling combat text (SCT)
- Improvements and updates to Cyrodiil and its campaigns
- Access to content from other alliances in any order you choose upon reaching Veteran Rank 1
- Prioritization of animations during combat
- Improved facial animations for Mac
- …and more!
In celebration of our announcement, we're giving you a first look at what awaits you in Thieves Guild:
(In original article there is a youtube video titled The Elder Scrolls Online: Thieves Guild – First Look link here)
This is only the beginning, and we've only scratched the surface of the Thieves Guild. Over the next few weeks, we'll be taking you on a journey through Hew's Bane to explain these new features in more detail. Be on the lookout for more articles starting next week!
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