The Elder Scrolls Online: Waking Flame & Update 31 Details Announced

Zenimax have released details about DLC Waking Flame dungeon which releases along side Update 31 for Elder Scrolls Online.

The Elder Scrolls Online: Waking Flame & Update 31 Details Announced

The next DLC for the MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online continues the Gates of Oblivion content. After the scheme of the Prince of Destruction end up being obstructed but only temporarily, his influence continues to grow in The Elder Scrolls Online: Waking Flame DLC. The content arrives on August 23rd for PC/Mac and Stadia, followed by Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 consoles on August 31st.

The DLC introduces two challenging new dungeons the Dread Cellar and Red Petal Bastion, which can be taken on in Normal, Veteran, and Hard Mode difficulties. Gain unique rewards including items sets and collectibles, plus continue the Gates of Oblivion narrative which began in the Flames of Ambition DLC, continuing through the rest of 2024.

The Waking Flame DLC will be available for purchase with crowns in the in-game Crown Store, or as part of ESO Plus membership.

Waking Flame – The Dread Cellar

The dungeons contain the most dangerous foes, as the Dread Cellar begins to radiate magical energies which leads to an investigation by the Imperial Legion’s Battlemages.

In this new dungeon, you will team up with Lucilla Caprenia, who is a battlemage in training, along with her master Martus Tullius you will investigate the depths of this once-feared prison and uncover the Daedric cultists origins, as well as the monsters that now lurk there.

Waking Flame – Red Petal Bastion

In the Red Petal Bastion, the noble Knights of the Silver Rose were once sworn to protect Tamriel from the Daedric threat. The warriors of the Red Petal Bastion however have begun pillaging nearby temples recently, stealing their holy relics.

Here you will help Azura, to reclaim the shrine’s stolen artifacts from the once-honourable order. But behind the darkness are terrible secrets and the hoarding of Tamriel’s relics.

Update 31

Launching alongside the DLC Waking Flame is the Update 31 base-game patch, which is a free update for all ESO players. The patch consists of bug fixes, quality of life and performance improvements. Players will be able to use a reply function for in-game mail. There are also new houses, furnishings and houseguests in the in-game Crown Store.

New Sets

The PTS patch notes outlines the new item sets coming with the DLC which adds a new light set, medium set, heavy set and monster set (note these might change as this the PTS patch notes):

Dread Cellar

• • Scorion’s Feast – Light
    • 2 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
    • 3 – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
    • 4 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
    • 5 – When you deal damage with a fully-charged Heavy Attack, you gain an Imbued Aura for 10 seconds, granting you and up to 3 other group members 307 Magicka and Stamina Recovery. This effect can occur once every 20 seconds. If you deal damage with a fully-charged Heavy Attack with an Imbued Aura active, consume it and gain an Overflow Aura for 10 seconds, granting you and up to 3 other group members 307 Weapon and Spell Damage.
  • Rush of Agony – Medium
    • 2 – Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
    • 3 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
    • 4 – Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
    • 5 – When you deal direct damage with a Blink, Charge, Leap, Teleport, or Pull ability, pull enemies within 10 meters to you. After 2 seconds, deal Physical Damage to all enemies within 7 meters. This effect can occur once every 8 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage. The pull will not apply Crowd Control Immunity to a target.

     

  • Crimson Oath’s Rive – Heavy
    • 2 – Adds 1487 Armor
    • 3 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
    • 4 – Adds 1487 Armor
    • 5 – When you use an ability that applies a Major or Minor buff to yourself or an ally, send out a wave of energy that reduces the Armor of nearby enemies within 12 meters by 3541 for 15 seconds. This effect can occur once every 12 seconds and will only occur if an enemy is within range.

     

  • Magma Incarnate – Monster Mask
    • 1 – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
    • 1 – Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
    • 2 – When you heal yourself or a group member with a single target heal ability, grant the lowest Health group member within 28 meters Minor Courage and Minor Resolve, increasing their Weapon and Spell Damage by 215 and Armor by 2974 for 10 seconds. Daedric Energy will then bounce to a nearby group member, up to 3 times, applying Minor Courage and Minor Resolve for 10 seconds. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds.

     

Red Petal Bastion

• • Thunder Caller – Light
    • 2 – Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
    • 3 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
    • 4 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
    • 5 – Dealing damage with a fully-charged Heavy Attack calls a bolt of lightning at your target, dealing Shock Damage and leaving a 4 meter lightning crater at their location for 6 seconds, dealing Shock Damage per second to enemies touching the crater. This effect can occur once every 12 seconds and scales off of the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.
  • Grisly Gourmet – Medium
    • 2 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
    • 3 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
    • 4 – Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
    • 5 – Adds 526 Maximum Stamina
    • 5 – Dealing Light Attack damage grants you a stack of Baker’s Delight for 5 seconds. When you gain 3 stacks, you create a Sweetroll next to your target for 5 seconds. If you or an ally touches the Sweetroll, both you and your ally gain one of the following effects:
      • Restore 1593 Health, Magicka, and Stamina
      • Gain Empower for 10 seconds
      • Gain Major Force for 10 seconds
    • This effect can occur once every 2 seconds.
  • Silver Rose Vigil – Heavy
    • 2 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
    • 3 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
    • 4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
    • 5 – Blocking an attack grants you a stack of Realmshaper for 15 seconds, gaining up to 1 stack every 0.5 seconds. When you reach 3 stacks, you consume them and launch necrotic energy at your attacker, dealing Magic Damage and applying Major Maim for 12 seconds, reducing their damage done by 10%. Once you fire the necrotic energy, you cannot gain additional stacks of Realmshaper for 12 seconds. Damage scales off of max Health.
  • Prior Thierric – Monster Mask
    • 1 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
    • 2 – Dealing direct damage with an Area of Effect ability creates a 6 meter shadowy whirlwind below your enemy for 7 seconds. Enemies within the whirlwind take Physical Damage each second and increase their damage taken from your area of effect abilities by 5%. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds.

PvP Campaign Changes

A notable change in the patch is the change to existing No-CP Cyrodiil and Imperial City campaigns which will  now also prohibit proc sets from firing, increasing the number of sets that were in the initial test a few months ago. The following sets will be affect by this rule in the PTS and when Update 31 goes live:

• Agility
• Amber Plasm
• Armor of the Trainee
• Battlefield Acrobat
• Beekeeper’s Gear
• Crafty Alfiq
• Darkstride
• Draugr Hulk
• Endurance
• Fortified Brass
• Grace of the Ancients
• Hunding’s Rage
• Impregnable Armor
• Law of Julianos
• Leviathan
• Mother’s Sorrow
• Night Mother’s Embrace
• Night Terror (3-piece)
• Plague Doctor
• Relics of the Physician, Ansur
• Robes of Alteration Mastery
• Shacklebreaker
• Shield of the Valiant (5-piece)
• Spinner’s Garments
• Spriggan’s Thorns
• Twilight’s Embrace
• Vesture of Darloc Brae (4-piece)
• Way of Air (4-piece)
• Way of the Arena
• Willow’s Path
• Willpower

Additional sets will be added to be affected by the rule on PTS and in Update 31 when it launches:

• Aetherial Ascension
• Akaviri Dragonguard
• Archer’s Mind
• Armor of the Seducer
• Assassin’s Guile
• Bahraha’s Curse (aka Bahara) (4-pieces)
• Bastion of the Heartland
• Black Rose
• Blessing of the Potentates
• Blooddrinker
• Buffer of the Swift
• Caustic Arrow (Master)
• Crushing Wall (Maelstrom)
• Dagon’s Dominion
• Deadly Strike
• Duneripper’s Scales
• Eagle Eye
• Elf Bane
• Eyes of Mara
• Flanking Strategist
• Frostbite
• Hawk’s Eve
• Innate Axiom
• Jorvuld’s Guidance
• Kvatch Gladiator
• Leki’s Focus
• Light Speaker
• Mark of the Pariah
• Marksman’s Crest
• Netch’s Touch
• Orgnum’s Scales
• Perfected Caustic Arrow
• Perfected Crushing Wall
• Permafrost
• Ranger’s Gait
• Red Eagle’s Fury
• Robes of Destruction Mastery
• Salvation
• Sergeant’s Mail
• Shapeshifter’s Chain
• Shield Breaker
• Shield of the Valiant
• Silks of the Sun
• Spider Cultist Cowl
• Strength of the Automaton
• Swamp Raider
• Sword Dancer
• Sword-Singer
• Syvarra’s Scales (4-pieces)
• Torug’s Pact
• Trial by Fire
• War Maiden
• Witch-Knight’s Defiance
• Wrath of the Imperium
• Ysgramor’s Birthright

Rewards of the Worthy New Sets

Three news sets have been added through Rewards of the Worthy:

Dark Convergence – Light

• 2 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
• 3 – Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
• 4 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
• 5 – Casting abilities that leave an effect on the ground will create an area that applies a 30% snare and pulls enemies every 2 seconds after a 0.5 second delay, and stun them for 1 seconds. After 4 seconds, the area deals Magic Damage to all enemies in the area, and additional Magic Damage to enemies within 3 meters of the center, increasing the damage by 10% for each target. This effect can occur once every 20 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.

Plaguebreak – Medium

• 2 – Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
• 3 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
• 4 – Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
• 5 – Dealing direct damage to an enemy turns them into a Plague Carrier for 10 seconds, dealing Disease Damage over the duration. If the plague is removed early, it explodes, infecting enemies within 8 meters of the carrier dealing Disease Damage. The explosion deals an additional 10% per enemy hit. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds and scales off of the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage.

Hrothgar’s Chill – Heavy

• • 2 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
  • 3 – Adds 1487 Armor
  • 4 – Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
  • 5 – Stunning or Immobilizing your enemy causes them to burst with frost magic, applying the Chilled status effect and dealing 26% of their total Physical and Spell Resistance as Frost Damage to themselves and enemies within 8 meters of them. This effect can occur once every 7 seconds.

Changes to Companions

There also looks to be changes coming to Companions which were introduced with the expansion Blackwood. This includes toning down Bastian’s response to looting high-quality items. Also changing Mirri to no longer gain rapport when looting Psijic Portals because “she’s not fascinated with them the way Bastian is”. There are some various improvements for Companions in this patch, enhancing their overall experience.

The Elder Scrolls Online: Waking Flame & Update 31 arrives on August 23rd for PC/Mac and Stadia, followed by Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 consoles on August 31st.

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