ESO Jester’s Festival Guide (2026): Trade Bars, Quests, Rewards & 100% XP

The Jester's Festival in The Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) is a limited-time holiday event running in late March through early April. It offers short daily quests, exclusive cosmetics, collectible fragments and a +100% Experience buff that stacks with other XP bonuses. This is one of the best leveling windows of the year.

Quick Event Facts

⚠️ Major 2026 Changes: The Trade Bar System

Starting with Update 49, Event Tickets have been removed from ESO and replaced by Trade Bars at a 1:100 ratio. All existing Event Tickets were automatically converted (1 Event Ticket = 100 Trade Bars).

This means:

You can spend Trade Bars at the Impresario, Philius Dormier (Event Merchant's Assistant) and the Indrik Vendor. You can also spend Trade Bars at the Gold Coast Bazaar, a permanent storefront in Crown Store UI. For more details, see the Trade Bars guide.  

What Is the Jester’s Festival?

The Jester's Festival in ESO celebrates pranks, fake royalty and ridiculous entertainment across Tamriel. You assist festival rulers by completing short daily quests that reward Jester's Festival Boxes containing cosmetics, furnishings, mementos and collectible fragments.

It is also one of the best XP farming windows of the year. The global +100% Experience bonus applies automatically to all players during the event and stacks with scrolls, Ambrosia and ESO Plus.

ESO Jester's Festival Event Loop

Global Bonuses and Effects

All players in ESO receive the following bonuses during the Jester's Festival event period. These apply automatically and do not require any activation.

Related: All sources of Experience Boost

How to Start the ESO Jester's Festival

Step-by-Step Start Guide

The +100% XP buff applies automatically during the event. You do not need to use the Pie of Misrule to activate it.

ESO Jester's Festival Quest Locations

Festival daily quest givers are found near the major alliance capital cities and at Hammerdeath Arena in Stormhaven.

Tip: If you own any of the free starter homes (Mara's Kiss Public House, The Rosy Lion or The Ebony Flask Inn Room), the Jester tents are nearby. Use your house as a free teleport.

Jesters Festival Daily Quests

You can complete seven daily quests per day per character. Each quest rewards a Jester's Festival Box.

A Foe Most Porcine and The King's Spoils can be picked up and completed at the same time at Hammerdeath Arena.

Fastest Daily Route in ESO Jester's Festival

If you want to knock out all seven dailies efficiently, follow this route:

Tip: Use the free starter homes (Mara's Kiss Public House near Vulkhel Guard, The Rosy Lion near Daggerfall, The Ebony Flask Inn Room near Ebonheart) as free teleport points. The Jester tents are a short run from each one.

How to Earn Reward Boxes

Event reward boxes (Jester's Festival Boxes) drop from every daily quest completion. There are two types:

You can earn up to 7 boxes per character per day. Only the Stupendous box is limited to one per account per day.

How to Earn Trade Bars

You earn 300 Trade Bars per day (account-wide) by completing your first daily quest of the day. This replaces the old Event Ticket system.

ESO XP Farming Tips During Jester's Festival

The +100% XP bonus and its stacking sources are covered in the Global Bonuses section above. Here are the best ways to take advantage of the event for leveling.

Jesters Festival Event Box Rewards

Jester's Festival Boxes in ESO contain Outfit Style pages, provisioning recipes, furnishings, pet and memento fragments and vendor treasures. The gold-quality Stupendous box has the rarest drops including the new 2026 rewards.

Recipe highlight: The Dubious Camoran Throne recipe is one of the most valuable drops from Jester's Festival boxes. The recipe only drops during this event and sells for 50,000 to 100,000 gold on guild traders year-round, but prices crash during the event itself so buy then if you need one. View on ESO Marketplace.

Purple Jester's Festival Boxes are earned for every daily quest completed after the first. They contain consumables, recipes, furnishings and vendor treasures. They can drop some but not all of the rewards available in Stupendous boxes.

New Jester's Festival Rewards in 2026

Five New Jester's Festival Furnishings

One Bad Knight Outfit Style pages

These drop from Stupendous Jester's Festival Boxes and can also be purchased from the Impresario for 500 Trade Bars per page (bound).  

One Bad Knight style has the following pages available:

Impresario Wares

The Impresario is the primary event merchant in ESO, exchanging Trade Bars for limited-time collectibles and fragments. She appears at event exchange locations in major cities during active events. See the full Impresario and Event Merchant guide for locations and past inventory.  

IMPORTANT: "Morphing" is now "Combining." When you combine fragments to create a collectible like a mount or pet, the base item is no longer consumed. You need it assembled first, but you get to keep both the original and the new collectible.

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.  

Event Merchant’s Assistant Wares

Philius Dormier offers additional event items and fragments in exchange for Trade Bars. His stock rotates quarterly, not per event, so the same combining fragments are available across all events within the same quarter.

Collectible combining works the same way as with Impresario items (see above).

Indrik Vendor Wares

Nenuluare the Indrik Vendor allows you to purchase feathers and berries using Trade Bars to create and evolve classic Indrik mounts. See the Indrik Vendor guide for evolution paths, costs and when her stock changes.  

Crown Store Offerings

During events, the Crown Store stocks limited-time cosmetics. These are the typical ESO Jester's Festival Crown Store offerings:

If you have any questions about the Jester's Festival in The Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) or need help with the event, join our Community Discord!  

Related Guides: Trade Bars Guide | Impresario and Event Merchant Guide | ESO Events Calendar | All ESO Yearly Events | New Player Beginner Guide | Champion Points Beginner Guide