How to become Undaunted in ESO?

In order to do ESO Pledges you have to become one of the Undaunted members, you have to go into the starter city of your alliance with any level to meet the Undaunted Guild.

The Undaunted are all in the tavern of your Alliance’s starter city, and will have a quest for you called “One of the Undaunted”. In this quest you will have to scout out your first dungeon! Don’t worry though, you can do this alone. All that is needed for you is to enter the dungeon, not to complete it.

Look for the tavern symbol, as Undaunted like to drink to their victories!

Undaunted Tavern Locations for unlocking the Undaunted Skill Line in ESO

Undaunted Ranks and Reputation Progress Points List

As with all the other guilds, you can level up to rank 10 with the Undaunted by receiving reputation. Undaunted Reputation in ESO is gained by completing either Normal or Veteran Pledges as well as Dungeon and Trial Quests. You can also absolve Bolgrul's Daily Delve Quest once per day, which will also give you Undaunted reputation.

Each rank requires more Undaunted reputation than the last.

Rank 1: 0 Reputation
Rank 2: 50 Reputation
Rank 3: 150 Reputation
Rank 4: 300 Reputation
Rank 5: 500 Reputation
Rank 6: 700 Reputation
Rank 7: 900 Reputation
Rank 8: 1100 Reputation
Rank 9: 1300 Reputation
Rank 10: 1500 Reputation

Below you can see the list of how you can earn Reputation points to progress the ranks in the ESO Undaunted skill line.  

Becoming Truly Undaunted in ESO

Daily Pledge Quests

The most important daily quests you can absolve for the Undaunted enclave are the ESO Pledges. With level 45 you will receive an invitation in your inbox to go visit your alliance’s Undaunted enclave in its capital. There you will have to sign your name in a book and talk to each Pledge Master, before they declare you fit to complete Pledges.

ESO Pledges dare you to challenge specific dungeons each day, determined and handed out by the so called Pledge Masters. Maj al-Ragath will give you a quest for the easier dungeons, whereas Glirion the Redbeard will provide more challenging content. Urgarlag Chief-Bane will give you a quest for a DLC dungeon, so you will need to have access to those in order to complete this challenge.

These ESO Pledges are on a fixed rotation and are the same for all players. Also, they can not be shared with group members and must be picked up separately.

Additionally, you have the Daily Dungeon which must be completed randomly in order for you to be granted a huge amount of experience points, depending on your level. This becomes available as soon as you have reached level 10. Just open the group window with P and select “Dungeon Finder” from the left. There it will give you the option to sign up for a Random Normal Dungeon. The rewards will automatically be sent to you upon completing the dungeon in your inbox.

Rewards for ESO Pledges

Undaunted Keys in ESO

Depending on the difficulty level, you will receive a different amount of Undaunted Keys for the completion of a pledge dungeon. Normal and Veteran mode both award 1 key each (2 for DLC). If you do Veteran with Hard Mode, you will receive 2 Undaunted keys. Normal and Veteran mode both award 1 key each. If you do Veteran with Hard Mode, you will receive 2 Undaunted keys.

Undaunted Monster Shoulders in ESO

With the base game Update 43 in 2024, ESO (Elder Scrolls Online) changed its Monster Shoulders to be curated. You no longer need to gamble for Monster Shoulders as the coffers will only drop shoulders you don't already have. You can still gamble on the shoulder piece you want, but it's not recommended unless you're trying to get a shoulder Style Page. 

You can buy mystery coffers which only cost 1 Undaunted key, or Curated coffers which cost 8 Undaunted keys only containing Monster sets you don't own yet.

As you can see in the picture below, there are now only two different kind of coffers the pledge masters sell.

Summary for ESO Pledges

ESO Pledges are a great daily activity that connects you to your guild mates because you have to complete 4-player group dungeons together. At the same time you get plenty of Undaunted Keys, achievements, new sets and materials as reward after completing a dungeon. There is something for everyone, the ESO Undaunted Pledges work in normal and veteran mode dungeons.

Constantly doing ESO Pledges is also the best way to level up the Undaunted skill line, because completing pledges and completing achievements will both give points towards the skill line.

If you want to have the 2 Undaunted passives as soon as possible, unlock the Undaunted skill line as early as possible. As said, you can unlock it when you come out of the tutorial, or when you have chosen to skip it. All you need to do is go into the starter city of your alliance and talk to the Undaunted group leader in the tavern. You don't have to do the dungeon in order to get the first quest done! This is worth mentioning again, as many people don't actually know this and wait until they can queue for the dungeon.

Almost all build guides require you to have the two Undaunted passives, as they allow you to gain more resources by activating a synergy of an ally and increasing your maximum health. So it is quite important to use your Daily Random dungeon to get into a dungeon and do it, or queue for a new dungeon as soon as it becomes available. Or, after you have reached Level 50, complete all the dungeons in a long session.

This is especially useful if you have found friends already in the game that can help you, or a guild which gladly helps out new players. 

An honorary mention for this guide goes to the ESO Golden Vendor. Once a week she sells alternatingly a Monster Helmet or Monster Shoulder in Infused/Impenetrable for 100 000 gold or 200 000 AP in all weights. It's entirely random, so you never know when a Monster set will be available, but it is always worth checking what she has.