ESO Witches Festival Event Guide 2022

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Boo! 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.

Double EXP: This event has a 100% experience boost bonus.

Participate in the Witches Festival

Navigate to the Holiday section of the Crown Store and acquire the free quest.
Complete the quest “The Witchmother's Bargain" to receive the Witchmother's Whistle memento.
1. If you completed the quest in previous events, you don’t need to acquire the Crow Caller or complete the quest again, and you can use the whistle already found in your Collections menu.
Use the whistle to summon the “Witchmother's Cauldron," which grants you and your party a 100% XP buff that stacks with other XP bonuses.
Use the Witchmother's Cauldron to transform your character into one of the undead.
1. Note that you don't have to use the Witchmother's Cauldron to gain the XP buff, just the whistle. The Cauldron can't be summoned in Cyrodiil.

Earn Horrifying Rewards

During this freaky ESO Witches Festival, you can earn some frightful Witches Festival-themed items, collectibles, and more, simply by defeating boss monsters and looting Plunder Skulls.

When you tear open a Plunder Skull, you have a chance to snatch up some of these items:

Fragments of the new Witch-Tamed Bear-Dog pet called Bonedust Pigments
- Combine 10 fragments to craft this collectible
Hollowjack style items
Dremora style items
Bewitching Alchemy reagents
Witches Festival-themed recipes (Recipe: Sweet Sanguine Apples, Recipe: Crisp and Crunchy Pumpkin Snack Skewer, Recipe: Crunchy Spider Skewer, Recipe: Ghastly Eye Bowl, Recipe: Bowl of "Peeled Eyeballs", Recipe: Frosted Brains, Recipe: Witchmother's Potent Brew, Recipe: Witchmother's Party Punch, Recipe: Bewitched Sugar Skulls, Recipe: Purifying Bloody Mara, Recipe: Corrupting Bloody Mara, Recipe: Pack Leader's Bone Broth)
Witches Festival-themed "green" furnishings and furnishing recipes
- Vampiric Container, Yellow Liquid, Design: Pumpkin, Display, Design: Common Bowl of Stew, Display, Design: Pumpkin, Display, Design: Sugar Pumpkin, Wax, Diagram: Common Cage, Hunting, Diagram: Common Cleaver, Cooking, Diagram: Common Trap, Hunting, Pattern: Common Pack, Backpack, Branch, Curved Burnt, Branch, Curved Laurel, Branch, Forked Burnt, Branch, Forked Laurel, Branch, Sturdy Burnt, Branch, Sturdy Laurel, Crop, Wheat Pile, Crop, Wheat Stack, Gravestone, Small Broken, Gravestone, Broken, Mushroom, Poison Pax Shelf, Mushroom, Poison Pax Stool, Mushroom, Puspocket Sporecap, Saplings, Burnt Cluster, Shrub, Burnt Brush, Vampiric Container, Yellow Liquid
Witches Festival-themed "blue" furnishings and furnishing recipes
- Specimen Jar, Spare Brain, Webs, Cone, Blueprint: Witches Brazier, Primitive Log, Diagram: Vampiric Candlestick, Praxis: Hagraven Cauldron, Ritual, Praxis: Vampiric Sconce, Azure, Animal Bones, Fresh, Animal Bones, Gnawed, Animal Bones, Jumbled, Bear Skeleton, Picked Clean, Bear Skull, Fresh, Hagraven Cauldron, Ritual, Mushroom, Large Puspocket, Mushroom, Lavaburst Bud, Mushrooms, Large Puspocket Cluster, Pumpkin, Frail, Pumpkin, Sickly, Toadstool, Bloodtooth Cluster, Tool, Harvest Scythe, Vampiric Container, Congealed Liquid, Witches Totem, Gnarled Vines and Skull, Witches Totem, Twisted Vines and Skull, Witches Totem, Wooden Rack, Witches Bones, Offering, Witches Brazier, Primitive Log
Witches Festival-themed "purple" furnishings and furnishing recipes
- Hollowjack Lantern, Ouroboros, Vampiric Lamp, Azure Tall, Vampiric Lightpost, Azure Single, Blueprint: Coffin, Lid, Blueprint: Gibbet, Single, Blueprint: Stockade, Blueprint: Witches Totem, Antler Charms, Design: Argonian Totem of Skulls, Design: Wood Elf Bone Chimes, Diagram: Cage, Covered, Pattern: Witches Corpse, Wrapped, Mushroom, Emerging Stinkhorn, Vampiric Lamp, Azure Tall, Vampiric Lightpost, Azure Single, Witches Remains, Hagraven, Witches Skull, Horned Ram, Witches Totem, Bone Charms, Witches Totem, Emphatic Warning
Witches Festival-themed "gold" furnishings and furnishing recipes
- Ruby Candlefly Gathering

....and an assortment of creepy and valuable items!

More Rewards!

In addition to this, the first time you defeat each different type of boss each day for the ESO Witches Festival (detailed below) you’ll receive a Dremora Plunder Skull. This special reward contains the same kind of items in the regular Skulls, but also features a Dremora Motif style page. However, that’s not all! Dremora Plunder Skulls also have a chance to contain the following new items:

Dremora Motif chapter pages
Witches Festival Writs
- Complete these writs to unlock an Achievement that’ll grant you the Witch hat collectible AND the “Witch” title.
Glenmoril Treasure Maps
- Use the map to find Glenmoril Weapon Style pages scattered all over Tamriel
Glenmoril Armor Outfit Style pages
Grave Dancer Weapon Style pages
A new Marshmallow Toasty Treat emote Runebox
A new Bonfire memento Runebox

In addition to the above goodies, this year’s ESO Witches Festival also introduces a new daily quest, titled "Plucking the Crow". This new quest is available each day from Witchmother Taerma, who is within Olyve’s Brewery AND at every Impresario tent in Tamriel. Her daily quest charges you with collecting 50 Cursed Feathers, found within Plunder Skull containers. Once you have collected all 50, you can transform them into an effigy that you can then use to transport yourself into a special realm to battle a new world boss monster—good luck!

Glenmoril Armor Style

What Bosses Give Me Rewards?

Depending on the type of boss you slay this years ESO Witches Festival, you’ll receive one of two different Dremora Motif pages:

Final Arena Bosses drop Dremora Motif pages for Bows and Legs
Dark Anchor, Geyser Bosses, and zone Dragons drop Dremora Motif pages for Daggers and Gloves
Delve Bosses drop Dremora Motif pages for Staves and Belts
Final Dungeon Bosses drop Dremora Motif pages for Helmets and Maces
Public Dungeon, Imperial City Bosses and Quest Bosses drop Dremora Motif pages for Shields and Boots
Final Trial Bosses drop Dremora Motif pages for Swords and Chests
World Bosses drop Dremora Motif pages for Shoulders and Axes

Event Tickets

During the ESO Witches Festival, the first time a boss drops a Dremora Plunder Skull each day, it’ll also drop two Event Tickets. Don’t forget to loot it.

During the event, the Impresario will stock the following goods:

All three Unstable Morpholith pet fragments
- The Deadlands Flint, Rune-Etched Striker, and Smoldering Bloodgrass Tinder
The first TWO fragments for Doomchar Plateau, the morphing collectible house
- The Scorching Pillar and Searing Column
Marshmallow Toasty Treat Emote
Witch's Bonfire Dust Memento
Fragments for the Witch-Tamed Bear-Dog pet
- Called Bonedust Pigments
A host of spooky furnishings
Group Repair Kits
Witches Grab Bags
- Containing collectibles from previous Witches Festival events

What are Grab Bags? These curious containers have a chance to contain a collectible from a previous Witches Festival event. When you open a Grab Bag, it will only ever contain items you don’t already own or know, and once you’ve acquired every possible item within them, they’ll no longer be available for purchase. Be sure to open each bag and remove its items as soon as you acquire it (to avoid duplicate items from subsequent bags).

If you have acquired every collectible but still have Grab Bags to open, they’ll contain Group Repair Kits instead—useful!

For this event, a Grab Bag can contain:

Note that all of the above items, when purchased from the Impresario, are bind-on-pickup and non-tradable. The Impresario is located in Daggerfall (Daggerfall Covenant), Davon's Watch (Ebonheart Pact), and Vulkhel Guard (Aldmeri Dominion).

Quests

Plucking the Crow

With the ESO Witches Festival in 2021, a new quest was introduced called “Plucking the Crow”.

At the Witches Coven, you will find an NPC called Witchmother Taerma. She will offer you the Daily Quest. Its objective is to collect 50 Feathers in order to defeat a powerful Wraith-of-Crow from the Evergloam. She tells you that you will find these among “the most vile creatures throughout Tamriel and hidden among the feathers of crow-like beings.” This sounds more complicated than it actually is.You will receive these feathers from the Plunder skulls which you can find from any 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

You can redeem this Quest in the Crown Store. Witchmother Olyve will appear and offer you a quest which asks you to bring her a boon. When you have collected all ingredients you need to find her in either Stonefalls, Glenumbra or Grahtwood. You will receive a memento, the Witchmother’s Whistle. Upon use it will summon the Witchmother’s Brew and when you drink it you will turn into a skeleton. The most important part though is that you will receive Witchmother’s Boon which will boost your experience gain by 100%.

Crown Store items and Witches Festival Rewards in 2021

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Witches Event Festival Furniture in 2021

Past event dates

From: Oct 21st 2021, To: Nov 2nd 2021
From: Oct 22nd 2020, To: Nov 3rd 2020
From: Oct 24th 2019, To: Nov 11th 2019
From: Oct 18th 2018, To: Nov 1st 2018
From: Oct 20th 2017, To: Nov 1st 2017
From: Oct 13th 2016, To: Nov 1st 2016