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The Jester’s Festival in The Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) is a limited-time holiday event that runs in late March through early April, offering absurd daily quests, exclusive cosmetics, collectible fragments, and a passive +100% Experience bonus.
Quick Event Facts
- Event Dates: Late March to Early April (TBA)
- How to Start the Event:
- Total Trade Bars: ~2400 (300 per day).
- Event Bonus: +100% experience gain from all sources.
- Requirements: None
- Major Rewards: New One Bad Knight Outfit Style and a chance for the Blooming Saddle fragment for Thorn's Bite Withersteed mount coming later.
⚠️ Major 2026 Changes: The Trade Bar System
Starting with Update 49, Event Tickets have been removed from ESO. Previous tickets are converted to Trade Bars at a 1:100 ratio.
- Conversion: All existing Event Tickets are automatically converted (1 Event Ticket = 100 Trade Bars).
- Vendors: Event items at the event vendors now cost Trade Bars instead of Event Tickets
Related: Trade Bars - Gold Coast Bazaar
What Is the Jester’s Festival?
The Jester’s Festival celebrates pranks, mock royalty, and ridiculous entertainment across Tamriel. Players assist festival rulers by completing short daily quests that reward Jester’s Festival Boxes, which can contain cosmetics, furnishings, mementos, and collectible fragments.
It is also one of the best XP farming windows of the year thanks to the global XP bonus.
Event Loop:
- Accept Jesters Festival Daily quests
- Complete the quests to earn reward boxes and Trade Bars (bars are once a day)
- Spend Trade Bars at event merchants for collectibles and cosmetics.
Global Bonuses and Effects
Active Bonuses During the Event
- +100% Experience Gain (passive)
- Bonus stacks with experience scrolls and Ambrosia consumables.
Related: All sources of Experience Boost
How to Start Jester’s Festival
Step-by-Step Start Guide
- Claim the Quest: Open the Crown Store → Claim the Jester’s Festival Invitation for free.
- Find the Jesters: Travel to the festival tents located outside Vulkhel Guard (Auridon), Daggerfall (Glenumbra), or Ebonheart (Stonefalls).
- Complete the Intro: Finish The Jester's Festival quest to receive the The Pie of Misrule memento and your first reward box.
Where Are the Jester’s Festival Quests Located?
Festival Daily Quest givers can be found near major alliance cities and the Hammerdeath Arena:
- Auridon: near Vulkhel Guard (View on map)
- Glenumbra: near Daggerfall (View on map)
- Stonefalls: near Ebonheart (View on map)
- Stormhaven: Hammerdeath Arena (View on map)
Event Activities and Objectives
- Complete Jesters Festival Daily Quests
How to Earn Trade Bars
You can earn up to 300 Trade Bars per day (account-wide).
- Earn 300 Trade Bars by turning in your first daily quest of the day
- Tickets no longer exist. There is no cap to how many Trade Bars you can hold!
How to Earn Reward Boxes
Event Coffers (Jester’s Festival Boxes) are earned by completing daily festival quests. There are two types of boxes: Stupendous (gold) and regular (purple).
These boxes can contain goodies such as consumables, recipes, furnishings, usable items, Outfit Styles, Fragments for Mementos and treasures to sell to vendors for gold.
- First daily quest of the day (Account-Wide): 1 Stupendous Jester’s Festival Box
- Each additional daily quest: 1 Regular Jester’s Festival Box per quest
There is no hard cap on how many regular boxes you can earn per day. only the Stupendous box is limited to one per account per day.
Jesters Festival Daily Quests
You can complete multiple daily quests per day:
- A Noble Guest
- Springtime Flair
- Royal Revelry
- A Foe Most Porcine
- The King's Spoils
- Prankster's Carnival
- Getting the Band Together
Fast Completion Tips
To minimize travel and maximize rewards:
- Start at your alliance festival tent.
- Accept all available quests.
- Complete Hammerdeath Arena quests in one visit.
- Use wayshrines instead of riding between zones.
- Group with one other player for an extra 10% XP bonus.
2026 Rewards
What Is Inside Jesters Festival Boxes?
You receive one Golden Box per day for the first daily quest completed. These contain the rarest loot:
- NEW: One Bad Knight Outfit Style
- Older Outfit Styles: Jester's Seeker Suit, Regal Regalia, Second Seed Raiment, Cadwell's Kitchen weapon style pages, Broom and Bucket styles. Alliance Mimicry 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
- RNG Mount Drop: A chance to find the Blooming Saddle, the first fragment for the upcoming Thorn's Bite Withersteed mount.
- Recipes: Dubious Camoran Throne, Jewels of Misrule, Candied Jester's Coins and Princess's Delight
- Furnishing: Jester's Festival themed furnishing (View All)
- Costume: Jester's Daedroth Suit Fragments (Scrap of Minstrels Cloth)
- Pets: Sovereign Sow Pet fragments (7 different ones)
- Mementos: Cherry Blossom Branch, Jester's Scintillator, Playful Prankster's Surprise Box (Mirth Shards), Cadwell's Surprise Box (Revelry Shards), Festive Noise Maker (Festive Noise Maker Parts), Jester's Festival Joke Popper (Joke Popper Parts)
- Adornments: Jester's Deadly Headband Adornment
- Consumable Festive Dazzlers, Cherry Blossom Confetti and Revelry Pies
- Treasures that can be sold to vendors for Gold
Purple Jester's Festival Boxes are earned for every daily quest completed after the first. These contain consumables, recipes and event-themed treasures.
New Rewards This Year
- One Bad Knight Outfit Style pages drop from Stupendous Jester's Festival Box and can be bought from the Impresario.
- Thorn's Bite Withersteed mount: The First Fragment (Blooming Saddle) has a very low chance of dropping from for the Festival Boxes
- Roseblood Wings Recall Customized Action (Third and final Fragment)
- Roseblood Bat pet fragments
One Bad Knight style has the following pages available:
| Head | One Bad Knight Helm |
| Shoulder | One Bad Knight Pauldrons |
| Hands | One Bad Knight Gauntlets |
| Chest | One Bad Knight Cuirass |
| Waist | One Bad Knight Girdle |
| Legs | One Bad Knight Greaves |
| Feet | One Bad Knight Sabatons |
Returning Rewards
- Jester's Alliance Mimicry helmets and jacks: 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, Jester's Pact Mimicry Jack
- Jester's Festival themed furnishing (from boxes): 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, Jester's Coffer and Banner, Jester's Standard (These can also be bought with gold from Holiday Achievement Vendors). You can also purchase these from Holiday Achievement Vendors.
- Style Pages: Jester's Seeker Suit, Regal Regalia, Second Seed Raiment, Cadwell's Kitchen weapon style pages, Broom or Bucket styles.
Impresario Wares
The Impresario is the primary event merchant in The Elder Scrolls Online, exchanging Trade Bars for limited-time collectibles and fragments. View her full inventory, locations, and event availability on the Impresario guide.
Available During Jester’s Festival
IMPORTANT! "Morphing" is now "Combining." When you combine fragments to create a collectible (like a mount), the base item/pet is no longer consumed. You get to keep both!
| Item | Fragments | Trade Bar Cost |
| Roseblood Bat pet | Crimson Bat Statuette, Red Rose Petals, Sharp Rosebush Thorn | 1,000 peach |
| Roseblood Wings Recall Customized Action | Sanguine’s Goodbye Kiss (new), Rosy Boutonniere, Embellished Dance Card | 1,000 each |
| One Bad Knight Style Pages (bound) | Armor pages | 500 each |
| Companion Guild Commendations | Fighters, Mages and Undaunted Guild Commendations | 300 each |
| Impresario’s Group Repair Kit | 200 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.
Event Merchant’s Assistant Wares
Philius Dormier offers additional event-specific items and fragments in exchange for trade bars, with stock rotating each event.
Available During Jester’s Festival
IMPORTANT! "Morphing" is now "Combining." When you combine fragments to create a collectible (like a mount), the base item/pet is no longer consumed. You get to keep both!
| Item | Fragments | Trade Bar Cost |
| Hoardhunter Ursauk Mount | Blessed Honeycomb, Gilded and Dyed Saddle, Sorcerous Golden Ink | 1,000 each |
| Doomchar Plateau house | Scorching Pillar, Searing Column, Molten Key, Profane Pedestal, Unholy Tablet | 1,000 each |
| Sacred Hourglass of Alkosh Furnishing | Engraved Glassblowing Tools, Hallowed White-Gold Ingot, Mysterious Time-Lost Sands | 1,000 each |
| Unstable Morpholith pet | Deadlands Flint, Rune-Etched Striker, Smoldering Bloodgrass Tinder | 500 each |
| Soulfire Dragon Illusion pet | Hallowed Hourglass Basin, Illuminated Dragon Scroll, Kvatchian Incense | 500 each |
| Passion Dancer Blossom pet | Chartreuse Lily Petals, Enchanted Silver Flute, Mystical Sheet Music | 500 each |
| Jester's Daedroth Suit | Scrap of Minstrel's Coth | 200 each |
| Aurora Firepot Spider Instructions | 500 |
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.
| Item | Fragments | Trade Bar Cost |
| Nascent Indrik mount | Emerald Indrik Feather, Gilded Indrik Feather, Onyx Indrik Feather, Opaline Indrik Feather | 5 per fragment |
| Spectral Indrik mount | Spectral Berries of Bloom, Spectral Berries of Budding, Spectral Berries of Growth, Spectral Berries of Ripeness. | 1,000 per fragment |
| Dawnwood Indrik mount | Dawnwood Berries of Bloom, Dawnwood Berries of Budding, Dawnwood Berries of Growth, Dawnwood Berries of Ripeness. | 1,000 per fragment |
| Springtide Indrik Pet | - | 1,000 |
| Haunting Indrik Pet | - | 1,000 |
If you want to learn more about how the Indrik Vendor works in ESO, please check our Indrik Vendor Guide.
Crown Store Offerings
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
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 and complete a Festival Quest to at least get the daily special reward box during the event.
