ESO Jester's Festival Event Guide 2025

Jester's Festival Event Guide for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). The Jester Festival Event in ESO offers great new rewards, see the images below. 100% EXP boost included.

Updated: 02/04/2025

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.

Character wearing the new ESO Jester's Alliance Mimicry Style (dyed) in front of King Boar, found inside the Hammerdeath Arena in Stormhaven.
Character wearing the new ESO Jester's Alliance Mimicry Style (dyed) in front of King Boar, found inside the Hammerdeath Arena in Stormhaven.

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.

ESO Jester's Festival Tent location on map for all alliances, image taken from ESO-Hubs interactive map.
ESO Jester's Festival Tent location on map for all alliances, image taken from ESO-Hubs interactive map.

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. 

  1. A Noble Guest - Jester's Festival Tent Just South of Ebonheart
  2. Springtime Flair - North of Vulkhel Guard
  3. Royal Revelry - East of Daggerfall
  4. A Foe Most Porcine - A flyer near all Jester's Festival Tents (directs you to Hammerdeath Arena in Stormhaven)
  5. The King's Spoils - Hammerdeath Arena in Stormhaven (the Porcine flyer directs you here)
  6. Prankster's Carnival - Jester's Festival Tent Just South of Ebonheart
  7. Getting the Band Together - Samuel Gourone at all Jester's Festival tents
Left: Intro Quest Completion for Jester's Festival which awards you with The Pie of Misrule Memento. Right: Your first Jester's Festival Daily quest awards you with a golden box and three tickets.
Left: Intro Quest Completion for Jester's Festival which awards you with The Pie of Misrule Memento. Right: Your first Jester's Festival Daily quest awards you with a golden box and three tickets.

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:

Contents of the Stupendous Jester's Festival box
Contents of the Stupendous Jester's Festival box

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.

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.

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 Alliance Mimicry outfit styles in ESO from left to right: Daggerfall Covenant, Aldmeri Dominion and Ebonheart Pact.
Jester's Alliance Mimicry outfit styles in ESO from left to right: Daggerfall Covenant, Aldmeri Dominion and Ebonheart Pact.

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. 

ESO Jester's Deadly Headband
ESO Jester's Deadly Headband

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.

All new 2025 ESO Jester's Festival Furniture that have a chance to from purple Jester's Festival Boxes
All new 2025 ESO Jester's Festival Furniture that have a chance to from purple Jester's Festival Boxes

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

After years of study, several mages faithful to Julianos developed a less labor intensive method to acquire runes. A practical application of wisdom if ever there was one.
After years of study, several mages faithful to Julianos developed a less labor intensive method to acquire runes. A practical application of wisdom if ever there was one.

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.  

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:  

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:

If you want to learn more about how the Indrik Vendor works in ESO, please check our Indrik Vendor Guide.     

Left to right: Spectral, Onyx, Dawnwood, Crimson, Nascent, Icebreath, Luminous, Mossheart and Pure-Snow Indrik mounts.
Left to right: Spectral, Onyx, Dawnwood, Crimson, Nascent, Icebreath, Luminous, Mossheart and Pure-Snow Indrik mounts.
Left to right: Ebon-Glow, Frost-Light, Haunting, Rimedusk, Rosethorn, Sapling, Shimmering and Springtide Indrik pets.
Left to right: Ebon-Glow, Frost-Light, Haunting, Rimedusk, Rosethorn, Sapling, Shimmering and Springtide Indrik pets.

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:

Tips for extra Experience boost in ESO

Consumables
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.


Past event dates

  • From: Mar 27th 2025, To: Apr 3rd 2025
  • From: Mar 28th 2024, To: Apr 4th 2024
  • From: Mar 29th 2023, To: Apr 6th 2023
  • From: Mar 31st 2022, To: Apr 7th 2022
  • From: Mar 25th 2021, To: Apr 1st 2021
  • From: Mar 26th 2020, To: Apr 2nd 2020

Outfit styles and motifs

Icon icon Broom Obtainable during the Jester's Festival Event
Icon icon Bucket Obtainable during the Jester's Festival Event
Icon icon Cadwell The Cadwell's Kitchen weapons are sometimes available during events. The armor pieces can be purchased in the Crown Store.
Icon icon Jester's Aldmeri Mimicry Obtainable during the Jester's Festival Event
Icon icon Jester's Covenant Mimicry Obtainable from during the Jester's Festival Event
Icon icon Jester's Feast
Icon icon Jester's Pact Mimicry Obtainable during the Jester's Festival Event
Icon icon Jester's Seeker Suit Obtainable during the Jester's Festival Event
Icon icon Regal Regalia An Outfit look for bows in the Regal Regalia style.
Icon icon Second Seed Raiment Obtainable during the Jester's Festival Event

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions from other players
When does the Jester's Festival start in ESO?
The Jester's Festival starts on 27 Mar 2025
Where is the Jesters festival ESO?
You can find the Jester's Festival event location in Stonefalls, Auridion and Glenumbra zone in ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). You will have to visit the pavilions located outside the cities of Ebonheart (EP), Vulkhel Guard (AD), Daggerfall (DC). You can see the locations on the map here.