On October 21st we are expecting The Elder Scrolls Online v5.2.4 to be available on PC and Mac. Additional changes have been made for combat abilities, and there are also fixes for Dragonhold quest.
Let’s have a closer look at some of the changes the update brings, according to the official forum of the game:
Fixes & Improvements
- DLCs and chapters: Dragonhold, Elsweyr, and Murkmire;
- Combat and gameplay: Combat and Abilities / Itemization & Item Sets;
- Base Game: Combat & Gameplay, Housing, Miscellaneous, Quests & Zones, UI.
Combat & Gameplay
- Monsters: Fixed an issue where dragons would slide on the ground when out of combat
- Monster Abilities: Swashbucklers no longer break their spines when they backflip away from you
Exploration and itemization
Achievements
- Reduced the rescues required for the “Liberator of the Lost” achievement to 25 from 50.
- Clarified the description of the “Dragonguard Style Master” achievement to correctly describe how to earn the Dragonguard motif.
- Removed the achievement “A New Dragonguard” as it was redundant with the “Call To Arms” achievement line.
- Updated the “Draconic Minion Slayer” achievement to include Frost and Storm Atronach minions, and fixed some instances where minions would not properly give credit for the achievement.
- Updated the descriptions of the achievements in the “Call to Arms” achievement line to indicate that they count all Dragonguard quests in Southern Elsweyr instead of only daily quests.
Housing
Homes
- Improved the names on a number of doors in Potentate’s Retreat and Lucky Cat Landing.
- Corrected several minor visual issues in Potentate’s Retreat and Lucky Cat Landing.
- Improved the lighting for the crystals in Potentate’s Retreat under certain circumstances.
Quest and zones
General
- Mouse-over blobs for Senchal and Tideholm are now visible.
Dailies
- Fixed an issue where the dragon hunt dailies were not counting towards rebuilding the Dragonguard Sanctum.
Quests
- An End to Myth: Khunzar-ri’s eyebrows no longer wiggle suggestively to the player in conversation.
- Added a proper animation for Shirnama to give you the pendant.
- Fixed an issue where archway barrier visual effects were not appearing when they should.
- There is now be proper compass and map pins on the quest step “Listen to Ranza”.
- Fixed an issue where a Go To Waypoint step was not advancing for group members when it should.
- Rotated a barrier effect so that it now properly covers a door.
