Gold Road is a Chapter in the Elder Scrolls Online, released on June 3rd 2024 for PC/Mac, and June 18th 2024 for PlayStation and Xbox.
New Story, Zone and Quests
Gold Road will introduce a new story-arc featuring the lost Daedric Prince Ithelia, who has escaped her imprisonment but does not remember who she is. This turn of events has brought chaos to the West Weald, the new zone in the Gold Road Chapter, featuring the city of Skingrad, not seen since TES IV: Oblivion.
Players will need to navigate the threat of Ithelia's chaotic return, which has warped a region of the West Weald into a dangerous, unnatural landscape filled with twisted creatures, as well as the encroaching wilds of Valenwood in the south.
The new West Weald zone will include all of the usual features you have come to know, such as Public Dungeons, Delves, Points of Interest, and Towns.
West Weald Zone in ESO Gold Road
New 12-Player Trial
Gold Road will add a new 12-player trial, called Lucent Citadel. Venture into a long-forgotten Daedric vault to discover new enemies, rewards and mysteries.
Scribing
Scribing is a new system described as a "precursor to Spellcrafting". It allows players to create new, customisable abilities based on those found in the Weapon, World and Guild skill-lines.
Players will combine Grimoires and Scripts to forge these new spells, and a new currency called Inks will also be consumed when crafting them.
To get started with Scribing, players must seek out Ulfsild, a new NPC who will teach you about how Scribing works, as well as the history and lore behind this form of magic, as part of a new multi-quest story arc.
Skill Styling
Players can further customise their skills with the new Skill Styling system. Unlike Scribing, this is entirely cosmetic and will allow you to change the appearance of some of your skills, also from the Weapon, World and Guild skill-lines. There will be 22 different Skill Styles to collect at launch, with more planned for future content releases.
All of the Skill Styles released with Gold Road will be obtainable by exploring the zone, for example completing certain acheivements or quests.
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina (3 items) Adds 1206 Maximum Health (4 items) Adds 1206 Maximum Health (5 items) Blocking an attack reduces your Damage Taken by 11% for 3 seconds.
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance (3 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance (4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance (5 items) While in combat, each second you stand still grants you a stack of Sentinel's Eye every 1 second, up to 10 stacks. Each stack increases your Critical Chance by 468. Each second you move removes half of your stacks of Sentinel's Eye, rounded up. Exiting combat removes all stacks of Sentinel's Eye. Using charge and teleport abilities do not remove stacks of Sentinel's Eye.
(2 items) Adds 4% Healing Taken (3 items) Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%. (4 items) Adds 1206 Maximum Health (5 items) While you have more than 50% Health, increase the Critical Damage and Healing of your group members by 15%. Group members wearing Lucent Echoes cannot benefit from this effect.
While you have 50% or less Health, reduce your Damage Taken from monsters by 20%.
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage (3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage (4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage (5 items) Adds 150 Weapon and Spell Damage, When you kill a monster they burst with blood magic, dealing 50% of their Max Health to enemies within 6 meters as Bleed Damage, up to 24096 Bleed Damage. This damage cannot critically strike. This effect can occur once every 0.5 seconds.
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance (3 items) Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%. (4 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka (5 items) Increase your Critical Chance by 128 for every Major Buff active on you, up to 1536 Critical Chance.
Increase your Critical Damage done by 1% for every Minor Buff active on you, up to 12% Critical Damage done.
(2 items) Adds 4% Healing Taken (3 items) Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%. (4 items) Adds 1206 Maximum Health (5 items) Adds 1206 Maximum Health, While you have more than 50% Health, increase the Critical Damage and Healing of your group members by 15%. Group members wearing Lucent Echoes cannot benefit from this effect.
While you have 50% or less Health, reduce your Damage Taken from monsters by 20%.
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance (3 items) Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%. (4 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka (5 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance, Increase your Critical Chance by 128 for every Major Buff active on you, up to 1536 Critical Chance.
Increase your Critical Damage done by 1% for every Minor Buff active on you, up to 12% Critical Damage done.
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance (3 items) Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%. (4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance (5 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage, Dealing Critical Damage gives you a stack of Sliver for 10 seconds. You can only gain one stack of Sliver every 0.5 seconds.
When you gain your third stack, the stacks are consumed and the crystals launch at the last enemy you damaged, dealing 1311 Physical Damage. This damage scales off your Weapon or Spell Damage. Once you launch the crystals, you cannot gain Sliver for 5 seconds.
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka (3 items) Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%. (4 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery (5 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka, Increases your Max Magicka and Max Stamina by 1667 for you and up to 11 other group members within 28 meters of you. This bonus persists through death.
(1 item) Activating Block while in combat grants you Steam Guardian for 0.5 seconds, reducing your damage taken by 99%. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.
Blocking an attack while Steam Guardian is active reduces its cooldown by 5 seconds.
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance (3 items) Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%. (4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance (5 items) Dealing Critical Damage gives you a stack of Sliver for 10 seconds. You can only gain one stack of Sliver every 0.5 seconds.
When you gain your third stack, the stacks are consumed and the crystals launch at the last enemy you damaged, dealing 1311 Physical Damage. This damage scales off your Weapon or Spell Damage. Once you launch the crystals, you cannot gain Sliver for 5 seconds.
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage (3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage (4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance (5 items) Adds 200% Status Effect Chance while your Health is above 50%. Adds 10% Healing Done while your Health is 50% or less.
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage (3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage (4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage (5 items) Dealing damage with a fully-charged Heavy Attack grants you Major Berserk for 4 seconds, increasing your damage done by 10%. This effect can occur once every 1 second.
(1 item) While Crouched, you can see Witnesses and Guards through walls.
Successfully pickpocketing a Witness or Guard applies Distracted to them for 10 seconds, stunning your target. Decreases your detection radius in Stealth by 30 meters against Distracted targets.
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina (3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage (4 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka (5 items) Your Light and fully-charged Heavy Attacks gain 100% Status Effect Chance. The Status Effect is based on the damage type of your weapon.
(2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka (3 items) Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%. (4 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery (5 items) Increases your Max Magicka and Max Stamina by 1667 for you and up to 11 other group members within 28 meters of you. This bonus persists through death.
