Orsinium
Released: November 2, 2015 - PC/Mac, Console - Patch Notes
The Orsinium DLC brought a huge new zone to ESO, making players able to explore the home of the Orcs, Wrothgar, and making them able to help rebuild the city of Orsinium.
Also, for the first time, a single player arena was added to the game. Before we had a 4-player arena in Craglorn, but now players were able to experience the game on a new challenging level, without being able to receive the help of others. Veteran Rank 16 players were able to qualify for the Veteran Maelstrom Arena leaderboard, where at the end of each week the top 100 players of each class would be granted special rewards via in-game mail.
The base game patch included a number of changes and improvements, the largest of which being the significant changes to the Champion Point system. There was no a champion point spending cap and so the maximum number of points any player could spend in the system was 501. Points continue to be earned, but were unable to be spent after the cap had been reached. In addition, players without any Champion Points would earn them very quickly, whereas players already beyond the soft cap would earn them very slowly. This was intended to help the power creep and allow for new players to catch up more easily. This update helped the PvP community considerably, as for the first time players could spend Alliance Points on valuable items that could be traded for gold with other players; Akaviri motifs and their style items, for example.
Orsinium DLC
- Wrothgar, a huge zone to explore alone or with a group
- Rebuild Orsinium
- Quest to shape the city and help to crown a king
- Maelstrom Arena
- A solo arena with ten stages, available in both normal and veteran modes
- Six new Delves
- Each with their own quest
- New Collectibles- One new Hat- Five new Costumes
- New Sets- Three new crafted sets- Six sets from Maelstrom Arena- Three new sets from daily quests
- Daily Repeatable Quests- These are shareable with a group and can be done once per day per character- One Delve quest- Six World Boss quests
Crafting
- Material Nodes- Resources in Wrothgar scale to the player's crafting rank
- New Crafting Motifs- Ancient Orc Style MotifAncient Orc chapters can be found in the two Public DungeonsLoot ten Cassiterite Sand from material nodes to make one Cassiterite Style Item- Mercenary Style MotifFound in Undaunted ChestsLaurel Style Items drop from dungeon final bosses- Akaviri Style MotifBought for Alliance Points from Cyrodiil vendorsPurchase ten Ancient Scales to refine one Goldscale Style Item
- Bought for Alliance Points from Cyrodiil vendors
- Purchase ten Ancient Scales to refine one Goldscale Style Item
New Features
- Subtitles
- Shield Dyeing
- Controller Support for PCGamepad Mode is an optional setting
- Gamepad Mode is an optional setting
- Grouping- The Grouping Tool now buffs players in dungeons- Any alliance can group for dungeons through the Tool- Loot scales to each character's level- Quests are no longer listed on the Grouping Tool
- Champion Points- Capped the spend limit to 501 CP- Scaled XP required to the total CP earned- Low CP take less experience and high CP need more
