Everything new with ESO Blackwood - Preview Impressions

The Blackwood Chapter for ESO will launch in June with the year long story #GatesOfOblivion. ESO-Hub.com and Alcasthq.com had the chance to preview the chapter on the pre-PTS Server, here is what we have learned during the sneak peek!

You can find all content related to the Blackwood Chapter on the ESO Blackwood Overview Page.

New Story in the Blackwood Chapter

New Zone Blackwood (Leyawiin City)

Leyawiin

A New Tutorial Experience

Oblivion Portals

Oblivion Portal

Endeavors

Companions

Bastian and Mirri Companions

New Trial Rockgrove

Rockgrove Trial

New Antiquities

• Death Dealer‘s Fete - The longer you are in combat, the more it increases your resources. If you are out of combat, you will lose those stacks of resources.
• Gaze of Sithis - This adds a ton of Health and Health Recovery, additionally to a great amount of armor. It will reduce your Block Mitigation to 0, though.
• Harpooner‘s Wading Kilt - This will continuously increase your Critical Chance and Critical Damage for every second you are in combat without taking direct damage.
• Harvester‘s Hope-Ring - This ring will apply a stack of bonus material chance from harvesting. It does not apply to Crafting Surveys or holiday events.
• Shapeshifter‘s Chain - This will reduce the cost of your Transformation Ultimate abilites. Additionally, it increases your maximum resources.

New House

New Housing Items

Daedric Threat

New Sets in the Blackwood Chapter

• Stone-Talker (Light) - Adds Magicka Recovery. Gain Minor Aegis at all times. Adds Maximum Magicka. Your fully-charged Heavy Attacks place a soul bomb on your target that charges as the target takes damage. After a few seconds the bomb explodes, restoring a small amount of the damage receives as Stamina and Magicka to 12 group members within a large range of the explosion.
• Bahsei's Mania (Light) - Adds Spell Damage. Gain Minor Slayer at all times. Adds Spell Critical. Increases your damage done to non-player enemies by up to X% based on your missing Magicka.
• Sul-Xan‘s Torment (Medium) - Adds Weapon Damage. Gain Minor Slayer at all times. Adds Weapon Critical. When an enemy you recently damaged dies, they leave behind a vengeful soul for a few seconds. You can only create one vengeful soul at a time. Touching the soul increases your Weapon Critical greatly and your Critical Damage for a long period of time.
• Saxhleel Champion (Heavy) - Adds Maximum Magicka. Gain Minor Aegis all the times. Adds Maximum Stamina. When you cast an Ultimate ability, you and up to 11 group members within a large area of you gain Major Force for a long time, increasing your Critical Damage done by a large amount.

• Frostbite (Light) - Adds Spell Damage, Spell Critical and increases your damage done with Frost abilities. It increases your damage done against Chilled enemies, as well as against enemies afflicted with Minor Brittle.
• Deadlands Assassin (Medium) - Adds Weapon Damage and Maximum Stamina. Deals damage to an enemy within 10 meters of you with a Heavy Attack that causes you to throw a cone of knives, dealing Physical Damage to enemies hit.
• Bog Raider (Heavy) - Adds Maximum resources. When an enemy you have recently damaged dies, you gain Ultimate and increase your Health Recovery.

• Glorgoloch the Destroyer‘s Guise - Adds Health and increases your Armor per second in combat, plus your Critical Resistance. If you move or leave combat, it will remove the stacks.
• Immolator Charr‘s Guise - Adds Armor and Health. While below 50% Health you will gain immunity to immobilization, snares and crowd control effects.
• Zoal the Ever-Wakeful‘s Guise - Adds Stamina and when you Break Free, you will release a wave of Watcher energy, causing enemies in close range to become feared. You will also gain Weapon and Spell Damage for each enemy hit, up to 6 enemies.

• Hist Whisperer - Adds resource regeneration and restores resources upon Light and Medium Attacks. Dealing damage with a fully-charged Heavy Attack will double the amount of resources gained. (Requires 3 traits)
• Diamond‘s Victory - Adds Weapon and Spell Damage, as well as Critical Chance. Dealing direct melee damage grants you Range Supremacy, adding even more Weapon and Spell Damage to your damage over time and ranged attacks for a specific amount of time. (Requires 5 traits)
• Heartland Conqueror‘s Robe - Adds Weapon and Spell Damage, as well as Maximum Magicka and Stamina. Increases the effectiveness of your Weapon Traits. This does not effect Ornate or Intricate traits. (Requires 7 traits)

Champion Point Changes

Ayleid Delve

Proc Set Scaling Changes

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