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Scholarly Pursuits
I will ask our guests what they have been working on in the world of TES! This can be game play, wiki work, discord things, anything relevant to UESP/TES that you’ve been working on the past couple weeks / when you were last on the show.

Pylawn
Basically all I’ve done is played greymoor and worked on the video, so we’ll talk about that later
AKB
I really appreciate the fact that ESO went and removed the sub models. I have a hard time focusing on the books and dialogue when there is a timer, it’s frustrating. I like reading at my own pace :)
Alarra got the next TES LootCrate before they even tried to send mine off! Again! Also it says the theme is “Rivalry” for me???
Alarra
LootCrate (“Divine” theme)
Finished Eastmarch; also got my Sovereign Sow
baratron
The UESP Guild on PC-NA completed Veteran Asylum +1 (although I wasn’t there).
And had our 6th Anniversary photograph. Over 30 guildies showed up for it. We were congratulated by Loremaster Leamon Tuttle.
Lost
Spiced Root Cake, very tasty!
Finished Bangkorai! Then realized I missed two sidequests in Stormhaven that were required for some reason. Now onto Gold and had to navigate from Vulkhel Guard to Khenarthi’s Roost. Met Raz!
 
News

Patreon

Shoutout to:
Lillian Summers
Update on the upgrades already underway thanks to our Patrons: Patreon Post

UESP

Server Updates - Daveh's Posts

ESO

Performance improvements plan: News Post
The main thing I notice from this is that Account Database Cold Storage, which was originally going to be in Update 26, Q2 2020, is now being shifted all the way to Update 28 (Q4 2020) or 29 (Q1 2021). All the backend database caching stuff must be harder than they originally thought.
Jester’s Festival event ongoing until Thursday April 2 at 2pm GMT/10am EDT. Get thine pig pet!
Jubilee Event: News Post 
Begins as soon as the Jester’s Festival ends - runs from Thursday April 2 at 10am EDT until Tuesday April 14 at 10am EDT.
Jubilee boxes for doing dailies (crafting writs, Heist/Sacrament quests, Delve/World Boss quests, Dungeon/Trial quests, Alliance War/Battleground quests).  Boxes may include crafting materials, motif pages, transmutation crystals, style pages (including new Jephrine Paladin weapon/armor style).
Event Tickets: 3 for eating a slice of the 2020 Jubilee Cake per day.  Can earn an additional two more per day by defeating bosses (delve, world, dungeon, etc.)  This means a max of 5 per day and 65 total for the event.  New Icebreath Indrik - first two berries will be available. 
Crown Sale: News Post
As predicted by baratron and Wicked Shifty, there is the usual Crown Sale to go with the Jubilee Event. Sliding scale of discounts from 20% off 1500 Crowns to 40% off 21,000 Crowns.
Crown Sale is from 31st March to 6th April on PC, Mac, and Xbox One.
And from 1st April until 15th April on PlayStation®4.
Game Sale: ESO and Elsweyr is on sale until 15th April.
60% on The Elder Scrolls Online Standard Edition and up to 70% on The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr.
Sale begins 31st March on PC, Mac, and Xbox One, and 1st April on PlayStation®4.
Except for Elsweyr on Xbox One, which isn’t on sale until 3rd April. (Don’t ask us why, we’re as confused as you are.)
Free Play Event! News Post
ESO base game and Greymoor Chapter Prologue free to play from 1st April at 2pm GMT/10am EDT.
Until 13th April on all platforms except Steam which is only until 6th April.
PC-EU broke again today. Supposedly it is now fixed.
The Greymoor Prologue quests are now live! Two quests, the first is named “The Coven Conspiracy”. News Post

Legends

March 2020 Monthly Card - Supreme Dragon: 6-cost 7/7  red/yellow (Crusader) card. “At the start of each turn, Supreme Dragon sets each enemy creature with power greater than 3 to exactly 3”.  News Post 
Had Grand Melee this weekend which offered the first run for free and gave the Mages Guild card back. Top 1000 got Premium Thieves Guild!

Blades

Coming to Nintendo Switch sometime this spring. News Post
Progress carries over from mobile if you link your Bethesda.net account.  Has the option to use motion controls. 

Call to Arms

Dev blog 2.5: Modiphius Dev Blog
Delays due to coronavirus.  Their UK warehouse is closed and will review things in 3 weeks; IF reopening then probably shipping preorders in May, otherwise not sure.  Timeline is now based on an as-of-yet-unspecified (due to the reasons above) “launch month”.
Blog post lists what they plan to release in the launch month and following four months, from scenery to expansions, throughout Chapter 1.
April 2: Rulebook and introductory Escape from Helgen quest PDF downloads will be free to all. Quest book will be free to preorders or $5 otherwise. 
Upcoming, campaigns, narrative expansions, and dragons!

Topic: Greymoor Preview

Quick look back
Currently over 15 million players
Last year 13 million
Focusing on improvements
Elsweyr story
Player feedback was very high for the story
Community update
Did lots of travel
Greymoor
Made for all players
Big push not to just be for veterans
Another year long story
All updates tied together
Western Skyrim
Familiar but different than TES 5
Politically different
They had refused the Ebonheart Pact
Solitude main hub of Chapter.
Other towns include Dragon Bridge, Morthal, and Rorikstead.
Chillwind Depths and Shadowgreen Cavern also explorable (delves).
Labyrinthian (public dungeon).
More delves and public dungeons to be announced.
Blackreach
Big differentiator
Get to see more than in TES 5
40% of the playable space is in Blackreach
Unique Biomes within Blackreach itself
Wanted it to not feel repetitive
Some rocky/corral
Some geodes
Some stalagmytes
Mood piece of harrow storms to set mood for story
The Story
Very different than ever before
Sinister and Gothic
Story will all be Vampires, Witches, Werewolves
Harrowstorms have been enthralling people
Turning them into Harrowed creatures or blood fiends
Lyris is back!
More secret characters coming back as well.
Narsis Dren, Rigurt the Brash, some Ravenwatch characters returning.
Very excited about Ravenwatch
Antiquities
Alternate activity
Focus on exploring and lore
Think Indiana Jones
Heavy heavy on lore
Get cool items
Outside Solitude you join the Antiquarians Circle
On preview - very early build for these
Open quest journal to start scrying
List of things you can scry for
You need a lead first to be able to scry (like a recipe or crafting survey).
Journal will be preloaded with some.
Others you need to play the game to collect.
Leads all have qualities (green, blue, purple, gold).
Quality indicates difficulty and reward.
Scrying mini game
Ancient Ayleid device
Need to match shapes
Note that the final build will use both colours AND shapes - Rich was adamant about getting scrying to be colourblind-friendly. So the game will be easier for most of us.
Kind of like a match 4 system (?)
With a cross of minesweeper.
Depending on how you do, you’ll get an area or areas on the map that you need to excavate.
Digging Mini game
Once you find the place you essentially play magical minesweeper to try and dig up an object.
You have passive abilities that make it easier. (e.g. big shovel clears more area).
Every board has at least 1 bonus item.
Something for everyone
Furnishings
Motifs
Body markings
Mementos
Music Boxes
Emotes
Enchants
Siege Weapon
Mount
Mythic Items
Boots that prevent you from being rooted
But you can’t sprint anymore
Kyne’s Aegis Trial
Full trial (12 Player)
2nd Boss takes place on a giant longship
Build ballistas to help you fight
More linear
Takes place on an island north of Solitude
Sea giants have invaded an island
Led by a vampire lord
Lots of new gear, skins, achievements, mementos, etc.
Vampire update
Rethinking what vamps mean in ESO
New abilities
Blood Scion
Turn into big tanky vamp
Can see through walls
New Passives
Undeath still there
Feels more cohesive
Feeding is more impactful
Need to feed to get stronger
More like blade of woe animations
Now part of the Justice system
Like Necromancers
Explore
30+ hours of quests
Dark, gothic
Antiquities
Kyne’s Aegis trial
New tutorial and Music
The return of Finnorian from Unhallowed Grave.
New Quality of life improvements
FINALLY Alliance Change Tokens. Confirmed as legit by official forums today!
Don’t know how they will work - will they change your Alliance ONLY for PvP, or also change your base Alliance for Cadwell’s stories?
Loot loot loot