The following are known Events of 2023 in Elder Scrolls Online.
Events in 2023Edit
New Life Festival 2023Edit
The New Life Festival is back! Escape slushy highways and the stress of your workday by throwing mudballs at your friends.
- Per tradition, the first New Life quest you complete each day will award you 3 Event Tickets, and any completed New Life quests will award you a New Life Festival Box.
- This box contains an assortment of crafting materials and toys, along with a chance for motif pages, style pages, furnishings, or special charity writs (Deep Winter or Imperial).
- Added to the Festival boxes this year are a chance to get a tradeable page of the new Morningstar Frostwear outfit style. If you've already earned a Morningstar Frostwear page that day, boxes can instead offer pages of last year's Evergreen armor style.
- This year offers a new grab bag, appropriately titled the New Life Festival Grab Bag. This bag contains a collectible or Memento you don't already possess from among the following:
- Mud Ball Pouch
- Nordic Bather's Towel
- Colovian Fur Hood
- Colovian Filigreed Hood
- Sword-Swallower's Blade
- Juggler's Knives
- Fire-Breather's Torches
- Snowball Buddy Pet
- Powderwhite Coney Pet
- Last but not least, the Impresario has all of 2023's morphing collectible fragments for the Passion Dancer Blossom and its morphs (including the final fragment for the Hoardhunter Ursauk). She also offers bound pages for the Morningstar Frostwear armor style for 5 tickets each.
Capture the Relic Battleground Weekend (December 2023)Edit
The Capture the Relic Weekend took place between December 14 — December 19, 2023. A solo and group queue for Capture the Relic were available for the duration, and all Battlegrounds matches had a 25% bonus to Alliance Points earned.
Gates of Oblivion CelebrationEdit
This event celebrates the year of content for the Gates of Oblivion storyline, including both the chapter and DLC zones as well as all four dungeons released as part of the year (Dread Cellar, Red Petal Bastion, Black Drake Villa, and The Cauldron). Pick up the introductory quest, "Burdensome Beasts," available for free in the Crown Store, or directly from the quest bestower, Plokun out in the wilderness of Blackwood.
- Tickets work a little differently for this event; you can get 2 Event Tickets (and only 2) for the day by doing any one of the following activities:
- Completing a daily delve or world boss quest in Blackwood OR the Deadlands.
- Completing the weekly trial quest (if it happens to be the first thing you do that day) for Rockgrove.
- Killing and looting the final boss of Dread Cellar, Red Petal Bastion, Black Drake Villa, or The Cauldron.
- Event coffers work a little differently as well, compared to previous events of this type. There are zone boxes and dungeon boxes, named in accordance with the location they were gleaned from.
- Zone boxes are found by completing daily quests in their respective zones, killing delve and world bosses, public dungeon bosses, Oblivion portal bosses and the final chest, random enemies, treasure chests, safeboxes, resource nodes, thieves' troves, and pickpocketing NPCs.
- The first zone box each day (from either zone you decide to do first) coming from delve or world boss dailies is a Glorious quality box with higher drop chances of the good stuff.
- The first final dungeon boss of any of the four dungeons will offer a Glorious quality box of its respective type.
- You can earn two total Glorious boxes per day as a result, one from zone content and one from dungeon content. Do all the things to get the best rewards!
- These boxes can contain the following items:
- Crafting materials
- Saleable treasures
- Style items for Gates of Oblivion overland or dungeon zone motifs (depending on box source)
- Set items from Gates of Oblivion overland or dungeon zones (depending on box source)
- Companion gear
- Furnishing recipes
- Treasure Maps or Survey Reports
- Motif chapters for Gates of Oblivion overland or dungeon motifs (depending on box source)
- Pages for the new Y'ffre's Fallen-Wood outfit style
- Note: Veteran Dungeon final bosses drop two boxes to account for their higher difficulty. If one of these would be eligible for being Glorious, you'll get one Glorious and one regular.
- Bosses in Blackwood or the Deadlands, as well as the bosses in Rockgrove, Dread Cellar, Red Petal Bastion, Black Drake Villa, and The Cauldron will drop additional loot during this event. Resource nodes, daily quests, and various activities in all zones award extra loot during the event as well.
- The Impresario will carry bound style pages of the Y'ffre's Fallen-Wood armor style for 5 tickets each. She will also have all three fragments of the Passion Dancer Blossom and two of three fragments for the Hoardhunter Ursauk. Happy hunting!
Domination Battleground Weekend (November 2023)Edit
The Domination Weekend took place between November 9 — November 14, 2023. A solo and group queue for Domination were available for the duration, and all Battlegrounds matches had a 25% bonus to Alliance Points earned.
Witches Festival 2023Edit
Witches Festival is back! This year's Plunder Skulls may contain a myriad of offerings, including spooky furnishings, recipes, alchemy supplies, and saleable treasures. Their Dremora Plunder Skull counterparts, available from the usual sources, have a chance to drop Witches Festival crafting writs (from which you can get Hollowjack style pages for those who need them!), Glenmoril treasure maps, Grave Dancer style pages, or this year's new offerings: the Tome of Forbidden Appetites which will eat your face (seriously), the utterly and terrifyingly adorable Ghost Netch, or pages for the fearsome Crowborne Hunter outfit style.
- The Witches Festival grab bag this year contains the following items:
- Festival masks (Hollowjack Spectre, Pumpkin Spectre, Scarecrow Spectre, and Thicketman Spectre)
- Apple-Bobbing Cauldron Fragments
- Skeletal Marionette Memento Parts
- Throwing Bones Memento Fragments
- Marshmallow Toasty Treat Emote
- Witch's Bonfire Dust Memento
- Ghastly Visitation Memento
- Bonedust Pigment for the Witch-Tamed Bear Dog
- Bound style pages for the Witchmother's Servant outfit
- Event Tickets come from the first boss-type creature that would drop a Plunder Skull. You can get 2 Event Tickets per day this way, all in one parcel, as a drop from the boss.
- This event also introduces the first of three total fragments for the final morph for this year's Dibella-themed options, the Hoardhunter Ursauk.
- The Impresario will carry this fragment as usual, along with bound versions of this year's new offerings.
Deathmatch Battleground Weekend (October 2023)Edit
The Deathmatch Weekend took place between October 19 — October 24, 2023. A solo and group queue for Deathmatch were available for the duration, and all Battlegrounds matches had a 25% bonus to Alliance Points earned.
Secrets of the TelvanniEdit
The Secrets of the Telvanni spotlights the Necrom chapter and the secrets of both Apocrypha and the Telvanni Peninsula. During this event, you can earn the following rewards by participating in various activities in the Necrom chapter.
- Extra rewards for defeating World Boss and Delve Boss enemies
- Extra yield from harvesting nodes in the Telvanni Peninsula and Apocrypha
- Extra rewards for completing Delve and World Boss daily quests
- Extra rewards from bosses in Sanity's Edge
Completing your first daily quest in the Telvanni Peninsula or Apocrypha, or the daily quest for the event ("Turn the Page") will award a Sublime Secret Telvanni Coffer, which contains valuable rewards, with chances to obtain rare rewards from the zone including motif pages, furnishings and furnishing recipes, pages of the new Explorers of Apocrypha outfit style, or pages for the returning Kwama Miner's Kit outfit style and the Ashen Miltia weapon style.
Additionally, you can find additional Secret Telvanni Coffers through subsequent completions of those quests, or by adventuring across the Necrom chapter. These coffers have a slightly reduced chance for the rarest rewards.
Crazy King Battleground Weekend (September 2023)Edit
The Crazy King Weekend took place between September 21 — September 26, 2023. A solo and group queue for Crazy King were available for the duration, and all Battlegrounds matches had a 25% bonus to Alliance Points earned.
Undaunted Celebration 2023Edit
Vanquish dungeon bosses for bonus rewards during the Undaunted Celebration! The first final dungeon boss you defeat in a day will drop TWO (2) Event Tickets and a special Glorious Undaunted Reward Box.
- As with previous years, the Glorious Undaunted Reward Box contains treasures, motif pages, and a guaranteed chance for Opal weapons, which feature Undaunted Celebration Opal gear from Iceheart, Lord Warden, Nightflame, Swarm Mother, and Velidreth along with this year's new style: Sentinel of Rkugamz.
- Defeating the Veteran Hard Mode of the dungeons in which those bosses appear has a chance to drop the Opal shoulder style page for those bosses as well.
- Additional dungeons you complete award purple-quality Undaunted Reward Boxes, which still have a chance to drop those weapon style pages.
- The Impresario offers style pages for this year's Sentinel of Rkugamz Opal equipment for 5 tickets each, as well as the first two fragments for the Passion Dancer Garment costume morph for 10 tickets each.
Chaosball Battleground Weekend (August 2023)Edit
The Chaosball Weekend took place between August 17 — August 22, 2023. A solo and group queue for Chaosball were available for the duration, and all Battlegrounds matches had a 25% bonus to Alliance Points earned.
Experience BoostEdit
Alone, or with a party of heroes, earn additional experience as you adventure across Tamriel. During this event, a passive 100% XP boost was active for all players. Event Tickets were not given for participating in this event.
Zeal of Zenithar 2023Edit
Your hard work is rewarded during Zenithar's holy festival! If you are a returning player, you can complete the introductory quest if you want a refresher, but it is not necessary to dive right into the event's bespoke daily quest "Honest Toil." This quest still awards 3 Event Tickets the first time you complete it per account each day. The Impresario will now have the first fragment for the Passion Dancer Garment costume, the third morphing collectible for this year's Dibella-themed offerings.
- Some changes were made to box sourcing this year and a few other aspects of the event:
- With the quest "Honest Toil," the minimum gold you must spend at a guild trader to complete one of the conditions was increased to 10,000 gold, up from 5,000 gold.
- The Belkarth Festival Grounds are now a "high traffic" area for purposes of suppressing Companions and Assistants (but not, presently, pets and summons).
- Fasaria, the bestower for "Honest Toil," is now also present at any Impresario tent if you've completed the introductory quest. No need to travel to the Belkarth Festival Grounds to pick up the quest if you're already near an Impresario (but you still need to go there to turn in the quest).
- While you still get a gold-quality Zenithar's Sublime Parcel from "Honest Toil" each day, we did make some small changes to the sourcing of Zenithar's Delightful Parcels (the purple quality ones):
- Completing "Honest Toil" on other characters after the first each day.
- Altered for 2023: Completing a basic daily crafting writ – once per day per account.
- Altered for 2023: Completing a Master writ – once per day per account, per crafting discipline (Blacksmithing, Woodworking, Clothier, Jewelrycrafting, Alchemy, Provisioning, and Enchanting).
- Defeating a world boss or world event while grouped with a guildmate (100% drop chance).
- Group Arena rounds, while grouped with a guildmate (50% drop chance on non-final rounds, 100% on final round).
- Stealing them from hard-working civilians of Tamriel (a small chance from pickpocketing, looting safeboxes, and opening thieves troves).
- Either type of parcel can include (with gold-quality Sublime ones having higher chances to drop the good new shiny stuff):
- NEW: Kwama Miner Outfit Style Pages
- NEW: Ashlander Peasant Weapon Style Pages
- Returning: High Rock Spellsword Outfit Style Pages
- Crafting Resources
- Style Items for Motifs
- Crafting Boosters (Blacksmithing tempers, etc.)
- Research Scrolls
- Furnishing Recipes
- Provisioning Recipes
- Repair Kits (equipment or Cyrodiil repair kits)
- Treasure Maps
- Imperial City vault keys
- Companion Gear
- Currency pouches for Gold and Tel Var, which have a very tiny chance for an enormous 100k jackpot.
- During this event, the following global effects are in place:
- Wayshrine travel costs are reduced by 75%. Happy traveling!
- Repair costs on vendors are reduced by 50%.
- Crafting Inspiration gain from all sources is increased by 100%.
- Vendor prices across Tamriel are reduced by 10%.
- These include:
- Vendors that sell items for Gold, AP, or Tel Var stones, including the Golden Vendor.
- Houses purchasable for Gold.
- These do NOT include:
- Bag or Bank Space upgrades
- Currency vendors that do not sell things for Gold, AP, or Tel Var
- Guild Traders, whether it be for reserving their services, collecting from sales, or anything else.
- These include:
- Philius Dormier, the Impresario's Assistant, is revamping his inventory to source some retired collectibles from previous years.
- He will have the Unstable Morpholith pet fragments from 2021, as well as fragments for the Deadlands Firewalker personality from the same year.
- His inventory will change slightly with the season, much like the Indrik vendor at the Belkarth Festival grounds, so check back with him frequently if you missed something from that year or the current offerings aren't to your liking.
ESO Plus Free TrialEdit
Ascent of the ArcanistEdit
Unimaginable power is yours to wield at will with the all-new Arcanist. Reach level 10 with the new class by July 28 to unlock an Ascent of the Arcanist Reward Bundle. Requires ESO: Necrom to participate. The Ascent of the Arcanist event also had three associated Twitch drops, namely two Gold Coast Experience Scrolls and an Ouroboros Crate.
Capture the Relic Battleground Weekend (July 2023)Edit
The Capture the Relic Weekend took place between July 13 — July 18, 2023. A solo and group queue for Capture the Relic were available for the duration, and all Battlegrounds matches had a 25% bonus to Alliance Points earned.
Whitestrake's Mayhem (Summer 2023)Edit
The Three Banners march to war once more! As with previous years, you can get your Scroll of Pelinal's Ferocity from the introductory quest with Predicant Maera or use one leftover from last time if you have it. You will receive Pelina's Boon Boxes from completing daily quests in Cyrodiil or Imperial City districts, or as a bonus reward in Rewards for the Worthy mails you receive. Event ticket distribution remains as it was, with 2 tickets coming from the first Cyrodiil daily quest completed each day, and an additional 1 ticket for the first Imperial City district daily completed each day.
- This season, boon boxes contain the usual offerings plus a chance to receive an unbound, tradeable style page for the Sancre Tor Sentry weapon styles. If you've already earned a Sancre Tor Sentry page that day, you can instead earn pages from the returning Tools of Domination weapon styles.
- Imperial City bosses have a chance to drop pages for the Sancre Tor Sentry armor style. If you've already earned one that day, you can instead find Gloamsedge armor style pages from last Mayhem.
- You will also be able to complete the Meadowbreeze Memories morphing collectible skin with this event.
- This season's Bags of Veteran's Glory can contain the following items and will always give you something you don't already have. All contents of these bags are bound to you.
- Legion Zero Armor Style Pages
- Legion Zero Vigiles Armor Style Pages
- Second Legion Armor Style Pages
- Standard-Bearer Emotes
- Standard-Bearer Staves and Shields Style Pages
- Ebonsteel Knight Armor Style Pages
- Black Drake Armor Style Pages
- Battle-Scarred Body and Face Markings
- Black Drake Warpaint Body and Face Markings
- House Dufort Banneret Armor Style Pages
- This Mayhem continues a passive +100% Tel Var Stone gain throughout the life of the event, no scroll or buff required. Please note that this does not affect Tel Var Stone gains from slaying players.
Domination Battleground Weekend (June 2023)Edit
The Domination Weekend took place between June 15 – June 20, 2023. A solo and group queue for Domination were available for the duration, and all Battlegrounds matches had a 25% bonus to Alliance Points earned.
Whitestrake's Mayhem (Spring 2023)Edit
Whitestrake's Mayhem returns to Cyrodiil and the Imperial City!
- Complete your introduction with Predicant Maera (or do it again this year if you want) to receive your Scroll of Pelinal's Ferocity.
- Pelinal's Boon Boxes are rewarded for completing daily quests in Cyrodiil or Imperial City district daily quests, or as a bonus reward with Rewards for the Worthy mails you receive.
- These boxes contain a variety of goodies ranging from Tel-Var stones to Cyrodiil repair kits or soul gems, as well as a chance for Cyrodiil style pages, Daedric siege weapons, transmute geodes.
- There is also a small chance to receive a tradeable style page for the Tools of Domination weapon style, returning from a previous year's Imperial City Celebration.
- This event re-introduces a passive +100% Tel Var Stone gain from the Imperial City Celebration events, which lasts until the end of the Whitestrake's Mayhem. Note, that this does not affect the Tel Var Stone gains from slaying other players.
- You can earn a total of 3 Event Tickets per day during this event.
- The first 2 come from completing any daily quest that focuses on Cyrodiil or Battlegrounds. You may earn an additional ticket by completing an Imperial City District daily quest. Visit both places if you want to maximize your ticket earnings!
- In addition to the rewards from previous Mayhems, this year's new Outfit Style is the Gloamsedge Armor.
- Style pages for this armor have a chance to drop from bosses in the Imperial City but are also available from the Impresario for 5 tickets each.
- Bosses in the Imperial City also have a small chance to drop an additional page for last Mayhem's House Dufort Banneret armor style.
- The Impresario will have bound style pages for the Gloamsedge Armor for 5 tickets each, as well as the face and body markings (sold separately) for 5 tickets each. Also available will be all three fragments of the Passion Dancer Blossom Pet, all three fragments for the Passion's Muse Personality, as well as the first and second fragments of the Meadowbreeze Memories Skin.
Crazy King Battleground Weekend (April 2023)Edit
The Crazy King Weekend took place between April 20 — April 25, 2023. A solo and group queue for Crazy King were available for the duration, and all Battlegrounds matches had a 25% bonus to Alliance Points earned.
Anniversary Jubilee 2023Edit
Happy 9th Birthday, ESO! Chef Donolon's cake this year is a creepy kiwi-meets-calamari culinary confectionary catastrophe. Completing the event's introductory quest gets you this new cake, consuming a slice of which will give you 3 Event Tickets and a 2-hour duration +100% experience bonus during the event!
- During the event, completing any daily quest in Tamriel will give you an Anniversary Jubilee Gift Box in addition to its other rewards.
- These boxes will have a smattering of potential rewards including crafting materials, recipes, transmute crystals, and a chance to get an outfit style page for the new Bonemold Armor Style, last year's Saberkeel Armor Style, or the Worm Cult Armor Style.
- The Bag of Jubilee Yesteryear can offer you things you don't have from among Saberkeel, Worm Cult, Jephrine Paladin, Imperial Champion, Prophet, Lyris Titanborn, Sai Sahan, and Abnur Tharn outfit styles/motifs. It also has a chance to give you an additional style item for the Worm Cult motif, and if you somehow end up with a grab bag after claiming all of the rewards it can offer, the bag will instead contain a Group Repair Kit.
- The Impresario will offer cake furnishings for all cakes - including the new one - as long as you have the cake for the corresponding year. She will also carry bound style pages for the Bonemold armor style, as well as all three fragments for the Passion Dancer Blossom pet and all three fragments for the Passion's Muse personality. She also carries the first of three fragments for the next morph, the Meadowbreeze Memories skin. The second and third fragments for the skin will become available in later events for that quarter.
Jester's Festival 2023Edit
The Jester's Festival is back with jovial and/or ludicrous prizes! As always, you can complete the introductory quest to acquire your Pie of Misrule, a collectible Tool that grants you a 2 hour 100% experience bonus during the duration of the event.
- The first Jesters Festival daily you complete each day will award you a gold-quality Stupendous Jester's Festival Box and 3 Event Tickets, with subsequent dailies granting purple quality Jester's Festival Boxes that have smaller chances to give you The Good Stuff.
- This year's silly offerings include the Broom weapon style and Bucket armor style, useful for taking out the trash and mopping up after your kills in the battlegrounds (respectively). You will also be able to collect fragments for the utterly adorable and delightfully ridiculous Jester's Daedroth Suit, in honor of a certain terrible lutist you can have perform during one of the event's quests. Last, but not least, is a long-requested "outfit style" for Hide Shoulder – the thing you do, not the thing you wear.
- Fragments for the Jester's Daedroth Suit, as well as pages for the Broom and Bucket styles, can drop from Stupendous Jester's Festival Boxes given out for the first event daily quest you do each day, while the Hide Shoulder "collectible" is available from the Impresario during this event for 5 Event Tickets.
- After Jesters Festival ends, the Hide Shoulder collectible will be on her assistant, Philius Dormier, forever more!
- The Impresario will have all three fragments of both the Passion Dancer Blossom pet and the Passion's Muse personality, along with bound versions of fragments and style pages for the new offerings this year.
Chaosball Battleground Weekend (March 2023)Edit
The Chaosball Weekend took place between March 16 – March 21, 2023. A solo and group queue for Chaosball were available for the duration, and all Battlegrounds matches had a 25% bonus to Alliance Points earned.
Explorer's Celebration (March 2023)Edit
The first Explorer's Celebration of 2023 ran from March 2nd to March 10th, shortly before the launch of the Scribes of Fate DLC on PC/Mac.
Players will receive additional rewards for the following in-game activities:
- Increased drops from harvest nodes (not fishing)
- Increased XP gains from every source (This stacks with other XP boosts such as scrolls or group multipliers)
- Increased gold earned from monster kills, quest rewards, and similar sources
Capture the Relic Battleground Weekend (February 2023)Edit
The Capture the Relic Weekend took place between February 16 – February 21, 2023. A solo and group queue for Capture the Relic were available for the duration, and all Battlegrounds matches had a 25% bonus to Alliance Points earned.
Season of the Dragon CelebrationEdit
Those Dragons keep returning to your homeland! You know what to do. This event includes all of the year's content for the Season of the Dragon, including both the Elsweyr Chapter and the Dragonhold DLC as well as all four dungeons released as part of the year's story: Depths of Malatar, Frostvault, Moongrave Fane, and the Lair of Maarselok.
- Pick up the introductory quest, "Bane of Dragons," either for free in the Crown Store or from Captain Samara at the Impresario's tent outside of Rimmen.
- The first daily quest you complete in Northern Elsweyr or Southern Elsweyr rewards a Glorious Elsweyr Box. Subsequent dailies, as well as activities in the zones or linked dungeons, will award slightly lower quality Elsweyr Boxes.
- These boxes can contain valuable treasures, style items or motif pages from the year-of storyline, Elsweyr-specific crafting materials (such as Dragon's Blood, Dragon's Rheum, or Dragon's Bile), treaure maps, furnishing recipes, or a tradeable style page for the new Claw Dancer armor style.
- The first daily you complete in Northern Elsweyr will award you one Event Ticket. You can get a second Event Ticket for the first daily you complete in Southern Elsweyr as well, for a maximum of two Event Tickets per day per account.
- These include dailies such as the Dragon-hunting quests.
- Bosses and Dragons in both Elsweyrs, as well as bosses in Sunspire, Depths of Malatar, Frostvault, Moongrave Fane, and the Lair of Maarselok drop additional loot during this event.
- As with other celebrations, resource nodes, daily quests, and other activities in the zones are more bountiful during the Season of the Dragon. Don't let the shadow of a Dragon's wings keep you indoors!
- The Impresario will carry bound style pages of the Claw Dancer armor style for 5 tickets each. She will also have three fragments of the new Passion Dancer Blossom pet, the new base item for 2023's morphing collectibles themed around Dibella!
- The Impresario will also carry the first fragment of the first morph, the Passion's Muse personality.
Global Reveal EventEdit
The Developer Direct will happen on 12PM PST/1PM MST/3 PM EST/8PM GMT. The Twitch stream reveal of the next Chapter will happen at 12:45 PM PST/1:45 PM MST/3:45 PM EST/8:45 PM GMT on January 25.[1]
Domination Battleground Weekend (January 2023)Edit
The first Domination Weekend took place between January 12 – January 17, 2023. A solo and group queue for Domination were available for the duration, and all Battlegrounds matches had a 25% bonus to Alliance Points earned.
New Life Festival 2022Edit
The New Life Festival returns to Tamriel! Breda and Petronius are back to help you embark on a festive adventure across the world.
- As always, the first New Life quest you complete each day will award you Event Tickets (3, this year) and any completed New Life quests will award you a New Life Festival Box.
- This box contains an assortment of valuable and flavorful items, along with a chance for motif pages, style pages, furnishings, or special charity writs (Deep Winter or Imperial).
- Added to the Festival boxes this year are a chance to get a tradeable page of the new Evergreen armor style.
- The Impresario has brought back all of 2022's morphing collectibles for the Soulfire Dragon Illusion. She also offers bound pages for the Evergreen armor style for 5 tickets each, as well as the returning Powderwhite Coney pet.