Tel Var and Multipliers
Tel Var are stones that the Ayleids used to build the White Gold Tower with and which are believed to contain the essence of Creation itself. Nowadays they are used as a currency and can be traded in for a variety of items. You can exchange them for 6 different gear sets, lockboxes filled with random items, teleportation stones that will bring you back to your Alliance's base from any place in the Imperial City, Crafting resources, housing items, Polymorphs and other useful things. Everywhere inside the Imperial City and the Sewers you can collect these, just not in the dungeons. You can either collect them from NPC enemies or players that you kill. Carrying Tel Var will expose you to the same danger though of losing them, as every death will reduce these by half of what you were carrying around with you, so 50%. There will be multiplier in place to make it easier for you to gain even more, but you need to carry these amount of stones on you in order for the multipliers to work:
Amount of Stones | Multiplier | Amount you loot from monsters |
1-100 | x1 | Normal |
100-1000 | X2 | Double |
1000-10000 | X3 | Triple |
10000+ | X4 | Quadruple |
This multiplier applies when you kill a monster solo (not player). If you kill it in a group, these get shared between all players in relatively equal shares. The distribution of uneven numbers is random. If you die to a monster, you will lose half of what you were carrying with you, same as when dying to a player. But this only applies to the Imperial City and Sewers, not to the dungeons or any other place outside of the Imperial City. You can store all your Tel Var in the bank, same as you can store your money. Just choose Tel Var instead of the ingame gold currency.
What to buy with Tel Var?
There are five different vendors in your Alliance base which exchange Tel Var for goods. They are the First Armor vendor, the Second Armor vendor, Equipment Lockbox vendor, General Merchant and Jewelry Merchant. You can find them in your Alliance's base in one of the siderooms. Depending on your Alliance, the names vary, of course, and additionally to the vendors you will also find an Outfit station, as well as a Cooking Fire.
The First Armorer vendor sells these set pieces with the Impenetrable trait: Powerful Assault, Shield Breaker, Meritorious Service, Reactive, Phoenix and Black Rose (5000 Tel Var each)
The Second Armorer vendor sells these set pieces with the Impenetrable trait: Imperial Physique, Harbinger, Galerion and Vicecanon (5000 Tel Var each)
The Equipment Lockbox vendor sells these items, with a chance of getting any set piece from the box: Black Rose Equipment Box, Galerion's Revenge Equipment Box, Imperial Physique Equipment Box, Meteritorious Service Equipment Box, Phoenix Equipment Box, Powerful Assault Equipment Box, Reactive Armor Equipment Box, Shield Breaker Equipment Box, Thews of the Harbinger Equipment Box, Vicecanon of Venom Equipment Box (3000 Tel Var each)
The General Merchant sells these items for various different prices: Alkahest, Ancestor Silk, Charcoal of Remorse, Dragon Scute, Hakeijo, Itade, Jehade, Lorkhan's Tears, Platinum Ounce, Rejera, Repora, Rubedite Ingot, Rubedo Leather, Runebox: Xivkyn Augur, Runebox: Xivkyn Dreadguard, Runebox: Xivkyn Tormentor, Sanded Ruby Ash, Siege of Cyrodiil Recognition, Siege of Cyrodiil Recommendation, Sigil of Imperial Retreat, Soul Gem, Storage Chest (Fortified), Storage Chest (Oaken), Storage Chest (Secure), Storage Chest (Sturdy), Storage Coffer (Oaken), Storage Coffer (Secure), Storage Coffer (Sturdy), Superb Imperial Reward and Waxed Apothecary's Parcel.
The Jewelry Merchant sells these item sets in Legendary quality as rings and necklaces: Galerion, Imperial Physique, Meritorious Service, Black Rose, Harbinger, Phoenix, Powerful Assault, Shield Breaker, Reactive, Vicecanon (100000 Tel Var each)
Sets in Imperial City Sewers Alliance Base
You can acquire 10 item sets in the Imperial City Sewers Alliance base, which are the following:
The Imperial Physique Set
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Imperial Physique Set gets a separate mentioning because it will give you additional benefits when farming Tel Var stones. Not only do all of your primary stats get increased, you will also increase the effect of the 4x multiplier for Tel Var stones by 600%! This is why it's a really good set for farming. The only downside to this is that you light up like a beacon, showing friend and foe alike that you are carrying at least 10000 Tel Var stones.
Crafted Sets
There are also three crafted sets available in the dangers of the Imperial City above the sewers. These are the following:
Key Fragments
As mentioned before, Key Fragments play an essential role when wanting to acquire specific sets. In each of the Imperial City districts you find vaults in which you can acquire these sets with Key Fragments as currency, as well as in the two dungeons. You need 60 to open the city Trophy Vaults , whereas you need 150 to open those inside the dungeons. These are the following:
Monster Sets
In the Imperial City you can also get Monster Sets. The bosses inside the sewers will now drop Monster Masks and there's a Tel'Var Merchant that will sell you coffers with randomized shoulders of the set. The shoulders can be any weight and have any trait. This is a current list of all sets available.