The Witches Festival is returning to ESO in 2024! Battle Tamriel’s monsters, get double XP, and earn creepy new rewards during the ESO Witches Festival in-game event! learn everything you need to know about the frightening fete here. 

How to Participate in the Witches Festival 2024 in ESO

To get started in the Witches Festival Event in the Elder Scrolls Online, complete the following steps:

Important: You no longer need to use the Witchmother's Whistle for the Experience Buff as the 100% Experience Buff is PASSIVELY applied to your character during the whole event duration.  

The Witchmother's Whistle tool is still required to complete the Sacking Skeletons and Cauldron Conjurer achievements.

How can I get Event Tickets in Witches Festival in ESO?

During the Witches Festival Event, you can earn two event tickets per day when defeating a boss-type creature for the first time that day. The tickets alongside a plunder skull will need to be looted.

What are Plunder Skulls and How to Get Them

Plunder Skulls are reward containers that you will be able to obtain during the ESO Halloween Event. They will drop from defeated bosses and can contain various kinds of rewards, including the following:

See the bottom of this page for a full list of the recipes and furniture that can drop from the Plunder Skulls.

Special Dremora Plunder Skulls

In addition, the first boss of each type that you defeat each day will drop a special Dremora Plunder Skull. 

Dremora Plunder Skulls have a chance to drop:

All ESO Dremora Plunder Skull types

Here we will list all the different types of Dremora Plunder skull types which you are able to obtain once a day per account. The Crowborne and Lord Hollowjack Dremora Plunder Skulls have a very small chance to offer you ALL the new special rewards in a single skull!

List of all different Dremora Motif sources

New Rewards from the Witches Festival Event in 2024

Eltheric Revenant Outfit Style

The Eltheric Revenant Outfit Style Pages drop from Dremora Plunder Skulls during Witches Festival. You can also buy bound pages from Impresario for 5 tickets each.

Plunder Skull Blunder memento

The Plunder Skull Blunder memento drops from Dremora Plunder Skulls during Witches Festival. You can also buy the memento from Impresario for 5 tickets.

Senchal Horned Owl pet

After completing the "What a Hoot!" achievement by gathering and using 10 Horned Owl Feathers, you are awarded with Senchal Horned Owl pet. Horned Owl Feathers have a chance to drop from Dremora Plunder skulls. You can also buy Horned Owl Feathers from Impresario for 2 tickets each.

Lord Hollowjack Trophy and Bust

The Trophy: Lord Hollowjack is awarded to you after defeating Lord Hollowjack and earning the Pumpkin Plunderer achievement.

Bust: Lord Hollowjack has a chance to drop after defeating Lord Hollowjack.

Haven of the Five Companions house

The Witches Festival Event will present you with the two first fragments for the new Haven of the Five Companions house: Lyris Titanborn's Key and Varen Aquilarios's Key.

Quests during the 2024 Witches Festival

There are three unique quests to the Witches Festival. Plucking the Crow and the new The Lord of Fear are daily quests which you can repeat once per day, while The Witchmother's Bargain is the Event's Intro quest that you can only complete once per character.

The Lord of Fear Quest - new in 2024

In 2024 you will need to confront Lord Hollowjack himself! The new daily quest giver Priest Maxien Roudille is found inside the Witches Cove in Auridon, Glenumbra or Stonefalls. He will task you with rescuing three Haunted people in Grahtwood, Deshaan and Stormhaven.

After rescuing the three Haunted people, you will face Lord Hollowjack himself inside his Seat of Detritus. Its is recommended to bring other players with you as the fight has a resource drain and un-breakable stuns. Lord Hollowjack has 6,6 million health and several phases with adds joining him quite often. You don't take much damage from anything except from his Aura of Dread during his search phase. Aura of Dread will kill you instantly, so remember to sneak!

The Trophy: Lord Hollowjack is awarded to you after defeating him and earning the Pumpkin Plunderer achievement. Bust: Lord Hollowjack has a chance to drop as well. 

Remember to loot him as the Lord Hollowjack Dremora Plunder Skull has a very small chance to offer you ALL the new special rewards in a single skull!

Return the quest to Priest Maxien Roudille.

Plucking the Crow Quest

You will find an NPC called Witchmother Taerma at Impresarios tents and the Witches Coven. She will offer you the Plucking the Crow Quest. Your objective is to collect 30 Feathers in order to defeat a powerful Crowborne Horror from the Evergloam. 

You will receive these feathers from the Plunder Skulls whichdrop from all boss monsters. As soon as you have received all the feathers, you can return to Olyve’s Brewery and turn to the alchemy table to craft the effigy. You then have to show Witchmother Taerma the effigy and hand her the effigy.

Following a ritual, a portal will open and lead you to a pocket dimension in which the Crowborne Horror is waiting for you to defeat it. It is absolutely advisable to bring friends!

The Witchmother's Bargain Quest

You can redeem The Witchmother's Bargain Quest in the Crown Store. Witchmother Olyve will appear and offer you a quest which asks you to bring her a boon. You need to acquire Guts and a Pumpkin from the world, guildies or guild store and an Essence of Death from any Delve Boss.  Return to Witchmother Olyve in either Auridon, Glenumbra or Stonefalls.  

Upon completing the quest, you will receive the Witchmother's Whistle memento. The memento is no longer needed for the XP buff as it is passive, but it is still required to complete the Sacking Skeletons and Cauldron Conjurer achievements. 

What is the fastest/easiest way to earn Plunder Skulls during the Witches Festival?

The fastest and easiest way to earn Plunders Skulls is by completing Fungal Grotto 1 with 4 Damage Dealers. Fungal Grotto can be completed very fast when you speedrun it with 4 DDs. The bosses are easy to defeat and the mechanics aren't difficult.

Please read the Fungal Grotto Guide if you aren't familiar with the dungeon.

What does the Impresario sell during the Witches Festival Event in ESO?

Impresario can be found in Daggerfall in Glenumbra, Vulkel Guard in Auridon, Davon's Watch in Stonefalls, or Belkarth in Craglorn.

Witches Grab Bag Rewards

Several rewards from previous Witches Festival events can no longer be obtained from Plunder Skulls. These rewards can however be obtained from the Witches Grab Bag, available from the Impresario for 2 Event Tickets each. Here are the rewards that you can get from the Witches Grab Bag:

What does the Event Merchant's Assistant sell during Witches Festival Event in ESO?

The Event Merchant's Assistant Philius Dormier has the following items available during this event:    

What does the Indrik Vendor sell during the Witches Festival Event in ESO?

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:

Recipes for the Witches Festival in ESO in 2024

You can obtain the following Provisioning Recipes from the Plunder Skulls in the Witches Festival:

Furniture Recipes for the Witches Festival in ESO in 2024

You can obtain the following Furnishing recipes from the Plunder Skulls in the Halloween Event:

Witches Event Festival Furniture

You can obtain the following furniture from Plunder Skulls in the Witches Festival Event:

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