Welcome to the 2025 Jester's Festival Event Guide for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). The Jester Festival: Publicize the pointless and the preposterous with a pretend party sure to perplex the pretentious and the pessimistic but please your puerile peers who profess a passion for playfulness and princely porcine prizes.
During this year's Jester's Festival Event, you can earn special event-specific rewards and enjoy a 100% XP boost while completing some truly absurd Jester’s Festival quests.
This year introduces new Jester themed furnishing such as the [Jester's Festival Plaque, Queen] and Jester's Festival Plaque, King Boar and hilarious Alliance Mimicry outfit styles such as Jester's Aldmeri Mimicry Helmet.
Jester's Festival Event is active from March 27 at 10AM EST to April 3, 2025 at 10AM EST
Global passive bonuses during Jester's Festival Event in ESO
- 100% Experience Boost passively. The Experience Buff stacks with Experience Scrolls and Ambrosias.
Tips for additional XP boosts at the end of the guide.
How to Participate in ESO Jester's Festival Event
To reap the full benefits from the Jester's Festival you'll first need to complete a short introduction quest. You can pick up the intro quest from the Crown Store, under the Events category. Then you can go to three locations and do some fun quests:
When you complete the intro quest for the Jester's Festival in ESO, you will be rewarded with The Pie of Misrule Memento and a purple Jester's Festival Box.
Jesters Festival Daily Quests
After the introductory quest you will have access to seven different Daily Quests. You will get get a golden Stupendous Jester's Festival box and three Event Tickets when you return your first quest of the day on your account.
- A Noble Guest - Jester's Festival Tent Just South of Ebonheart
- Springtime Flair - North of Vulkhel Guard
- Royal Revelry - East of Daggerfall
- A Foe Most Porcine - A flyer near all Jester's Festival Tents (directs you to Hammerdeath Arena in Stormhaven)
- The King's Spoils - Hammerdeath Arena in Stormhaven (the Porcine flyer directs you here)
- Prankster's Carnival - Jester's Festival Tent Just South of Ebonheart
- Getting the Band Together - Samuel Gourone at all Jester's Festival tents
How can I get Event Tickets in the Jester's Festival in ESO?
During the Jester's Festival Event, you can earn up to three event tickets per day per account for a total of 24 Event Tickets. You receive your tickets when you return your first Jester's Festival quest that day (the intro quest does not count).
How do I get Event Coffers in the Jester's Festival event?
When you complete a Jester’s Festival daily quest in ESO, you’ll receive a Jester’s Festival Reward Box. These wonderful wares can contain goodies such as consumables, recipes, furnishings, usable items, Outfit Styles, Fragments for Mementos and treasures to sell to vendors for gold.
But wait, there’s more! The first time you complete the Jester's Festival daily quest each day, you’ll receive a golden Stupendous Reward Box instead of the regular purple box. Both boxes are explained below:
Stupendous Jester’s Festival Box rewards in 2025
The Golden Stupendous Jester’s Festival Box in ESO has a chance to contain the following goodies.
- NEW Unbound versions of Alliance Mimicry outfit styles: Jester's Aldmeri Mimicry Helmet, Jester's Aldmeri Mimicry Jack, Jester's Covenant Mimicry Helmet, Jester's Covenant Mimicry Jack, Jester's Pact Mimicry Helmet, and Jester's Pact Mimicry Jack Style pages
- NEW Unbound: Jester's Deadly Headband Adornment Runebox
- NEW Furnishing items: Jester's Festival Garland, Long Flags, Jester's Festival Garland, Short Flags, Jester's Festival Plaque, King Boar, Jester's Festival Plaque, Queen Boar, Jester's Festival Rug, Star, Jester's Festival Rug, Swirls, Jester's Festival Sign, Jester's Festival Wreath (These can also be bought with gold from Holiday Achievement Vendors)
- Old Furnishing items: Jester's Coffer and Banner, Jester's Standard
- Recipes for Dubious Camoran Throne, Jewels of Misrule, Candied Jester's Coins and Princess's Delight
- Previous years' Style pages: A random unbound page for: Jester's Seeker Suit, Regal Regalia, Second Seed Raiment, Cadwell's Kitchen weapon style pages, Broom or Bucket styles.
- Ruyneboxes: Cherry Blossom Branch memento, and Jester's Scintillator memento
- "Mirth Shards" for Playful Prankster's Surprise Box memento
- "Revelry Shards" for Cadwell's Surprise Box memento
- 7 different "Sovereign" fragments for Sovereign Sow pet
- " Scraps of Minstrel's Cloth" fragments for Jester's Daedroth Suit costume
- "Festive Noise Maker Parts" for the Festive Noise Maker memento
- “Joke Popper Parts” for the Jester's Festival Joke Popper memento
- Consumable Festive Dazzlers, Cherry Blossom Confetti and Revelry Pies
- High value Treasures that can be sold to vendors for Gold
Purple Jester’s Festival Box rewards in 2025
Purple Jester's Festival Boxes contain some of the same rewards as the golden boxes, but mostly they contain Furnishings, consumable toys, recipes and treasures.
- Consumable Festive Dazzlers, Cherry Blossom Confetti and Revelry Pies
- Recipes for Dubious Camoran Throne, Jewels of Misrule, Candied Jester's Coins and Princess's Delight
- NEW Furnishing items: Jester's Festival Garland, Long Flags, Jester's Festival Garland, Short Flags, Jester's Festival Plaque, King Boar, Jester's Festival Plaque, Queen Boar, Jester's Festival Rug, Star, Jester's Festival Rug, Swirls, Jester's Festival Sign, Jester's Festival Wreath (These can also be bought with gold from Holiday Achievement Vendors)
- Old Furnishing items: Jester's Coffer and Banner, Jester's Standard
- Treasures that can be sold to vendors for Gold
New Rewards in the 2025 Jester's Festival Event
Jester's Alliance Mimicry outfit styles
The Jester's Alliance Mimicry helmets and jacks (head and chest pieces) drop from Stupendous Jester's Festival Boxes. You can also buy unbound pages from other players or bound pages from the Impresario for 5 tickets each. The following styles can drop:
Jester's Deadly Headband
Jester's Deadly Headband has a chance to drop from Stupendous Jester's Festival Boxes. You can also buy unbound pages from other players or bound pages from the Impresario for 10 tickets.
New Jester's Festival themed Furnishing
Jester's Festival also gets new Jester themed furnishing that you can acquire as a drop from Jester's Festival boxes. You can also purchase these furnishings from Holiday Achievement Vendors found in Grahtwood - Elden Root, Stormhaven - Wayrest or Deshaan - Mournhold (in the banks basement).
The Holiday Vendor is always available, meaning you'll be able to purchase the bound furnishing whenever as long as you have the Jester's Festival Achievements listed below.
- Jester's Festival Garland, Long Flags costs 5,000 Gold and requires Royal Jester Achievement to purchase
- Jester's Festival Garland, Short Flags costs 2,500 Gold and requires Royal Jester Achievement to purchase
- Jester's Festival Plaque, King Boar costs 50,000 Gold and requires Lord/Lady of Misrule Achievement to purchase
- Jester's Festival Plaque, Queen Boar costs 50,000 Gold and requires Lord/Lady of Misrule Achievement to purchase
- Jester's Festival Rug, Star costs 10,000 Gold and requires Dazzling Entertainer Achievement to purchase
- Jester's Festival Rug, Swirls costs 10,000 Gold and requires Illusive Dazzler Achievement to purchase
- Jester's Festival Sign costs 10,000 Gold and requires Dazzling Entertainer Achievement to purchase
- Jester's Festival Wreath costs 10,000 Gold and requires Illusive Dazzler Achievement to purchase
All fragments for the Logical Rune Extraction customized action
Jester's Festival is the first event to present you with all three fragments for the Logical Rune Extraction customized action: Exalted Icon of Logic, Flawless Prism and Jhunal's Magnificent Extrication: 10 Event Tickets each. Requires the base pet Stonewisp of Truth and Law.
What does the Impresario sell during the Jester's Festival Event in ESO?
Impresario can be found in Daggerfall in Glenumbra, Vulkhel Guard in Auridon, Davon's Watch in Stonefalls, or Belkarth in Craglorn. She has also been added to all major Chapter zones capitals.
- All Fragments for the Stonewisp of Truth and Law pet - Axiomatic Runestones, Glyph of Law and Powdered Wisp Remains: 5 Event Tickets each.
- All three fragments for the Logical Rune Extraction customized action - Exalted Icon of Logic, Flawless Prism and Jhunal's Magnificent Extrication: 10 Event Tickets Each
- Bound Style Pages: Jester's Aldmeri Mimicry Helmet, Jester's Aldmeri Mimicry Jack, Jester's Covenant Mimicry Helmet, Jester's Covenant Mimicry Jack, Jester's Pact Mimicry Helmet and Jester's Pact Mimicry Jack: 5 Event Tickets Each
- Jester's Deadly Headband: 10 Event Tickets
- Companion Commendations
- Group Repair Kit
What does the Event Merchant's Assistant sell during Jester's Festival Event in ESO?
The Event Merchant's Assistant Philius Dormier has the following items available during Jester's Festival event:
- Bound "Scrap of Minstrel's Cloth" for the Jester's Daedroth Suit: 2 Event Tickets each.
- Hide Shoulders armor style: 5 Event Tickets
- Aurora Firepot Spider pet instructions: 5 Event Tickets.
- Unstable Morpholith pet fragments: 5 Event Tickets.
- Soulfire Dragon Illusion pet fragments: 5 Event Tickets each.
- Sacred Hourglass of Alkosh Furnishing fragments: 10 Event Tickets each.
- Doomchar Plateau house fragments: 10 Event Tickets each.
If you want to learn more about the Impresario and what items were available in the past years please visit the Impresario Merchant Event Guide Page.
Indrik Vendor
Nenuluare, the Indrik Vendor, will also make an appearance in Belkarth, Craglorn. She'll be selling a few different Indriks, a special mount and pet that first appeared as an event reward in previous years.
During this event, Nenuluare will be selling the following items:
- All four feathers for the Nascent Indrik mount (must be owned before using berries to create a different Indrik mount): 5 Event Tickets each.
- All four berries for the Spectral Indrik mount: 10 Event Tickets each.
- All four berries for the Dawnwood Indrik mount: 10 Event Tickets each.
- Springtide Indrik Pet: 10 Event Tickets.
- Haunting Indrik Pet: 10 Event Tickets.
If you want to learn more about how the Indrik Vendor works in ESO, please check our Indrik Vendor Guide.
Crown Store Offerings that are only available during the Jester's Festival Event
During Events, the Crown Store will have limited time cosmetics for you to purchase. Here is a list of all ESO Jester's Festival Crown Store offerings that are usually available:
- Jester Personality
- Cadwell's Kitchen Style Pack (armor only)
- Madcap Jester Monkey Pet
- Catwell Pet
- Jester's Festival Hat Pack which includes three hats: Ass-Ears Jester Cap, Bi-Color Coxcomb Cap and Fool's Cap and Masque.
- Music Box, The Mad Harlequin's Reverie
- Masqued "Unicorn" Steed Mount
- Novelty Stick Guar "Mount" (does not increase movement speed)
- Novelty Stick Horse "Mount" (does not increase movement speed)
- Nightmare Stick Horse "Mount" (does not increase movement speed)
- Jester's Feast Arms Pack
- Jester's Festival Stagecraft Furnishing pack
Tips for extra Experience boost in ESO
Consumables
- Crown Experience Scrolls 50%, 100%, 150%.
- Psijic Ambrosia 50%.
- Aetherial Ambrosia 100%.
- Mythic Aetherial Ambrosia 150%.
Gear and traits (Extra xp only from kills)
- Armor Training Trait up to 11% per armor piece. (Extra xp only from kills.)
- Weapon Training Trait up to 4.5% for one-handed and 9% for two-handed.
- Mora's Whispers Set up to 15% based on how many Lorebooks your character has read. (Enable Lorebooks filter on our interactive map to see where they're located).
- Heartland Conqueror set boost your training weapon trait by 100% (up to for 9% XP Boost one-hand and 18% XP Boost for two-hand weapons).
Other XP boosts
- Rationer Champion Point adds 10 minutes to the duration of Ambrosias.
- Connoisseur Provisioning Passive adds 5/10/20 minutes duration to Ambrosias.
- Active ESO Plus Subscription: 10%.
- Grouped up with one player 10% (a group larger than two will decrease your XP gain).
- ESO Events that include a passive Experience Gain Boost.
- Pledge of Mara Ring adds 10% Experience Gain when worn and grouped up with the player the Ring of Mara is pledged on. (Bought from the Crown Store for 1000 Crowns).
- High Elf Race passive Highborn gives 1% bonus to Experience Gain.
Now you know everything that you need to know about the ESO Jester's Festival Event (Elder Scrolls Online). Make sure to log in daily to at least get the daily special reward box during the event.
