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Wear the cycle of life and death with these free rewards you can claim by logging in to The Elder Scrolls Online this November.

A new month is about to begin, and along with it comes a fresh assortment of free rewards ready to be claimed via the Daily Login Rewards system! Itching to discover what goodies await you this November? Check out a few of the highlights below. And if you are curious to learn how Daily Login Rewards work, be sure to read over this help article that’ll include all you need to know.




Instant All Research Scroll ×10—Days 7

Quickly Master New Crafting Traits

With these Research Scrolls, you can accelerate unlocking new Blacksmithing, Clothing, Woodworking, and Jewelry crafting traits, available on your seventh login this month!




Face Marking: Cycle Behind the Stars—Days 14

Symbolize the wind guardian’s embrace

Update your looks with the Cycle Behind the Stars face markings, ready to be claimed after 14 days of logins this month.




Body Marking: Cycle Behind the Stars—Days 15

Honor the lost with this decorative body marking

Preserve the memory of passed loved ones with these ornamental body markings. Unlock the Cycle Behind the Stars body markings after your 15th login.




Seals of Endeavor ×300—Day 21

Cash in with these Seals of Endeavor

Has a Crown Crate goodie caught your eye? Luckily, you can pick up an assortment of 300 Seals of Endeavor. These can help you acquire whatever Crown Crate item you fancy and are available after logging in for 21 days this month. Learn more about Seals of Endeavor in this guide.




This is just a preview of all the rewards you can claim this November. If you want to view a full list, head over to the Daily Rewards section of the in-game Crown Store on November 1 to learn more! Are you excited to unlock 30 complimentary rewards by logging in to ESO every day this month? Let us know via X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook. 

Find glory in the updated Battlegrounds, recruit new Companions, and develop your mastery of Scribing in the Update 44 base-game patch.

The Update 44 base-game patch is now live on PC/Mac, and it introduces a host of changes, fixes, and additions to The Elder Scrolls Online.




This update is free for all ESO players (and will be automatically downloaded and patched by the game), but note that the two new Companions require either ESO Plus™ membership or purchase from the Crown Store to access. Check out the full patch notes for Update 44 on our official forums. Follow this link for full patch notes.

[h2]New Features[/h2]
The Update 44 base-game patch adds a ton of new features, challenges, and rewards to the game.

Battlegrounds Update

ESO’s fast-paced PvP experience, Battlegrounds, has undergone a series of dramatic changes designed to make the game mode (originally introduced with the Morrowind Chapter back in 2017) more competitive and fun for every type of player.

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Changes include a shift from the original 4v4v4 to the new 4v4 and 8v8-sized matches, the addition of seven brand-new maps of various sizes, new rewards and mechanics, and a unique leaderboard for the 4v4 competitive-styled option.

To jump right into the action, use the Activity Finder, select Battlegrounds, and select your match size. No matter what kind of PvP player you are, you can enjoy the frenetic action of the new-look Battlegrounds—to glory!

New Companions

Update 44 also introduces two brand-new Companions for you to recruit and adventure with: Tanlorin and Zerith-var. The High Elf outcast Tanlorin mixes Dragonknight and Soul Magic abilities (the first Companion to do so). Zerith-var, on the other hand, is a Khajiit Necromancer from the distant past.

Tanlorin and Zerith-var

Both Companions have their own passive abilities to unlock along with their own questlines and stories to tell, giving you the opportunity to discover more about these interesting adventuring allies.

Note that to unlock both new allies, you need to find them within the Companions section of the in-game Crown Store. They are listed as free for ESO Plus members or available for purchase with crowns if you don’t currently have an active membership. Once unlocked, you can find Tanlorin just outside Vulkhel Guard in Auridon and Zerith-var near Moonmont in Reaper’s March.

New Grimoire, Scripts, Skill Styles, and More

First introduced with the Gold Road Chapter and Update 42 in June, the Scribing System also continues to expand with Update 44. This includes a brand-new Grimoire to unlock and customize, called Banner Bearer. Banner Bearer is part of the Support Skill Line and grants you the ability to throw a banner on your back and buff your group’s abilities based on your chosen Focus.

Master new abilities and styles

In addition to this new ability, 14 existing scripts are now applicable to nine launch Grimoires, and a selection of four new Skill Styles help you stand out on the battlefield. Skill Styles include a molten variant for the Puncture ability, a wildburn variant for Force Shock, and more.

You can acquire the new Banner Bearer Grimoire from Chronicler Firandil within the Scholarium. Check the patch notes for a complete list of Scribing additions. Don’t forget, you need access to the Gold Road Chapter to begin your Scribing journey.

Golden Pursuits

A new way to earn in-game collectibles, items, and currencies, Golden Pursuits is a new reward system included with Update 44. Highly variable, a Golden Pursuits campaign asks players to complete various tasks as they adventure in Tamriel with a series of rewards granted for specific milestones.

Earn rewards with Golden Pursuits

The first Golden Pursuits campaign won’t be active until the middle of November, so keep an eye out for an official announcement and get ready to earn new in-game rewards. 

Imperial City Changes

If you enjoy battling both your fellow players AND invading Daedra in the heart of the empire, the Imperial City has also undergone a few changes within its war-torn streets and sewers. This includes improvements to how Imperial Vaults work. For starters, Imperial City keys and key fragments convert to Imperial Fragments, and vault treasure chests become vendors.

In addition, many of the area’s existing vendors have enjoyed upgrades to their wares, including their quality and selection. With Update 44, plundering the capital has never been more rewarding!
[h2]Additional Features & Improvements[/h2]
Arriving in tandem with the above new features are a series of improvements, additions, and features that all ESO players will appreciate. This includes:

• An increase of furnishing base materials in regular harvest nodes
• HDR support for PC players
  • Including various new visual settings such as HDR scene brightness and contrast
• The addition of quest pips for Master Writs
  • Including both quest markers and objective tracking
• The addition of bonus PvP perks for ESO Plus members
  • 10% boost to Alliance Points earned (the currency), your PvP Skill Line ranks, and Alliance rank (not leaderboards or Rewards of the Worthy grant rate)
  • 10% boost to Tel Var Stones gained from killing monsters

These are just some of the changes and additions coming with Update 44. For more on all of the above and info on the bugfixes and balance tweaks arriving with this new base-game patch, be sure to check out the Patch Notes on our official forums.
[h2]New Battles, Allies, and Rewards[/h2]
Whether you’re an experienced veteran of ESO’s fast-paced PvP mode, a humble adventurer seeking new allies, or an explorer of the unknown pursuing new powers and rewards, Update 44 has something for you! Are you ready to rejoin the Battlegrounds? Which Companion will you recruit first? Tell us via X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook.

The Update 44 base-game patch is now live on PC/Mac and arrives on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 on November 13.

In addition to the Battlegrounds update, new Companions, and more, Update 44 also introduces Golden Pursuits, a new reward system that allows you to complete activities to earn additional in-game items, currencies, and collectibles.

This new system will arrive when Update 44 goes live on October 28 for PC/Mac and November 13 for Xbox and PlayStation consoles, but note that the first Golden Pursuits campaign won’t be active until later in November—keep an eye out for details!

[h2]A New Way to Earn Rewards[/h2]
When designing Golden Pursuits, the team wanted to create new reasons to play and new ways for players to earn in-game rewards.

“Golden Pursuits are intended to give players the opportunity to earn extra rewards for trying out different systems and features,” explains Katie Yu, one of ESO’s Systems Designers. “They’re meant to highlight specific aspects of the game, or to support an event or theme. We want to ensure that players know exactly what they have the opportunity to earn and that they feel rewarded for completing the Golden Pursuit.”

While Daily Login Rewards are set every month, almost every aspect of a Golden Pursuits campaign can vary. This includes its ease or difficulty of activities, volume and quality of rewards, and even when they’re active and duration.

“Unlike many of the systems in ESO, Golden Pursuits don't operate on a regular daily or weekly cadence. There may be anywhere from days, to weeks, to months in between them, and Golden Pursuits will vary in length when they are live. They're meant to be exciting, spontaneous events. But don't worry, they're pretty difficult to miss: Golden Pursuits will always appear on the Announcement Panel and in the Group and Activity Finder when they're active.”

[h2]A Variety of Challenges [/h2]
As mentioned above, each Golden Pursuits campaign will vary greatly in size and scope, and this variability will be reflected in the activities and rewards each individual campaign may offer.

“Generally, the activities will be very similar to what players have been seeing from Endeavors,” says Yu. “The number can vary—some Golden Pursuits may offer only a few activities, while others may provide more options for players to peruse before deciding how they want to earn their rewards. Broadly, Golden Pursuits activities are meant to highlight different parts of the game, whether that's encouraging players to engage in some friendly PvP, or try out Housing and Home Tours, or even simply explore what the wide world of Tamriel has to offer.”

Pursue new challenges

When it comes to the individual rewards, it was important to the team that Golden Pursuits campaigns varied the kinds of things you can earn.

“Players can expect to see mounts, pets, costumes, furnishings—the list goes on,” explains Yu. “There’s a wide variety of cosmetics, minor utility items such as potions and meals, currencies, and more from Golden Pursuits, and we're really excited to give players new opportunities to earn them.”

With this broad selection of reward types in mind, the team worked to ensure that the ideal balance is struck between the effort required to complete a Golden Pursuit and what it awards.

“Each Golden Pursuit is designed to be fully completable within the duration that it's active. To give a peek behind the curtain, Golden Pursuits are typically put together by a multidisciplinary group before launch. We have data gathered from player feedback, and we review the performance of similar systems in ESO to inform the design and expected level of investment. Our goal is to make sure playing with an active Golden Pursuit is both exciting and rewarding.”

[h2]Golden Opportunities[/h2]
With Update 44’s Golden Pursuits, the team is adding even more ways for you to earn rewards as you play. Note that at launch, a Golden Pursuits campaign won’t be active, but keep an eye out for an official announcement for the first of its kind around the middle of November. Are you excited to complete your first Golden Pursuit? Let us know via X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, or Facebook.

The Update 44 base-game patch arrives October 28 for PC/Mac and November 13 for Xbox and PlayStation consoles.

Face down the horrors of Tamriel, including Lord Hollowjack himself, for special in-game rewards during 2024’s Witches Festival in-game event!

This year’s Witches Festival begins next Thursday, October 24 and runs until Wednesday, November 6 at 10AM EST. During this spoopy seasonal event, you can claim ghoulishly good event-specific rewards including Plunder Skulls, XP boosts, Event Tickets, and more!

During the Witches Festival, all adventurers will enjoy a passive 100% boost to XP gain at all times. However, the Witchmother’s Whistle, once the source of this bonus (and a skeletal transformation!), is still available. To collect the whistle and down ladles of hag’s brew for frightful fun, simply follow the steps listed below:

• Open the Crown Store and acquire the free quest “The Witchmother's Bargain.”
  • You can also pick up this quest by speaking with the Crow Caller, who you’ll find outside of each Olyve's Brewery in Stonefalls, Glenumbra, or Auridon.
• Complete the introductory quest to receive the Witchmother's Whistle tool.
  • You won’t need to acquire the Witchmother’s Whistle if you finished the quest in a previous year’s event.
• Blow the whistle to summon the “Witchmother's Cauldron,” from which you can drink to polymorph yourself into a spooky scary skeleton.
  • You cannot summon the Cauldron in Cyrodiil.

Drink the witches’ brew straight from the cauldron
[h2]A Wicked Harvest[/h2]
During the Witches Festival event, whenever you defeat a boss monster, you’ll be offered a Plunder Skull container in addition to any regular rewards.

When you open a Plunder Skull, you have the chance to receive the following items:

• Alchemy reagents
  • A festival-themed furnishing recipe
  • A festival-themed provisioning recipe
  • A complete festival-themed furnishing
  • A festival-themed sellable treasure
• A small chance for one of the following:
  • A Hollowjack style item
  • A Dremora style item
• Worms, Crawlers, Guts, or Insect Parts

What’s more, whenever you fell a unique boss type for the first time each day, you’ll be rewarded instead with a special Dremora Plunder Skull that contains some of the above items in addition to a chance at one of the following:

• A Witches Festival Writ
• A Glenmoril Treasure Map
• A Glenmoril armor outfit style page
• A Crowborne Hunter outfit style page
• NEW Plunder Skull Blunder Memento Runebox
• NEW Senchal Horned Owl pet fragment
• NEW tradeable style page for the Eltheric Revenant outfit style

Both varieties of Plunder Skull are offered by arena bosses, incursion bosses (from Dark Anchors, Harrowstorms, Volcanic Vents, etc.), delve bosses, final dungeon bosses, Trial bosses, public dungeon bosses, world bosses, and Tho’at Replicanum in Infinite Archive (new for this year!).

Perilous plunder, yours for the taking

There are two additional Plunder Skulls acquirable by those brave (or foolish) enough to face the worst of the Witches Festival's horrors.

The first of these frightful fiends, the Crowborne Horror, returns to Tamriel to bedevil its denizens. To locate and slay this living nightmare, acquire the daily quest “Plucking the Crow” by speaking with Witchmother Taerma, located inside Olyve’s Brewery and at every Impresario tent found throughout Tamriel.

For your courage, the first time you overcome the Crowborne Horror and turn in your quest each day, you’ll be rewarded with a Dremora Plunder Skull. This creepy container has a small chance to grant you an incredible offering of tradeable Witches Festival valuables instead of regular Dremora Plunder Skull items, including:

• The FULL style book for the Dremora motif
• A folio of ALL Glenmoril treasure maps
• All 10 Senchal Horned Owl Pet Fragments
• Runebox: Plunder Skull Blunder
• All of the Eltheric Revenant Outfit style pages

If even the Crowborne Horror does not daunt you, you may test that fearlessness against the master of monstrosity and sovereign of spookiness, Lord Hollowjack himself. You can acquire the quest to challenge him from the Priest Maxien, located inside Olyve’s Brewery. Once you’ve completed this quest at least once on a given character, you can take it again on subsequent days and skip ahead to challenge Hollowjack directly.

Should you emerge victorious against the Daedric Lord, you’ll find the quest reward each day grants a special Dremora Plunder Skull unique to Lord Hollowjack. It has a chance to contain a jackpot like that from the Crowborne Horror, and it awards a special achievement and trophy furnishing to commemorate your victory. A matching collectible bust furnishing can sometimes be acquired from looting Lord Hollowjack.
[h2]Impresario & Event Tickets[/h2]
During the Witches Festival, you can collect two Event Tickets from the first boss you defeat each day, earning up to 28 tickets by the end of the event. But don’t forget: You can only hold up to 12 Event Tickets at a time.

For this event, the Impresario will stock the following items:

• All three Molag Bal Illusion Imp pet fragments:
  • Anchor Chain Fragment
  • Dark Anchor Pinion
  • Effigy of the Dominator
• The first two fragments for the Haven of the Five Companions house:
  • Varen Aquilarios’s Key
  • Lyris Titanborn’s Key
• Eltheric Revenant outfit style
• Senchal Horned Owl pet fragments
• Assorted spooky Witches Festival-themed furnishings
  • Webs, Cone furnishing
  • Hollowjack Lantern, Ouroboros furnishing
  • Specimen Jar, Spare Brain furnishing
  • Ruby Candlefly Gathering furnishing
  • Vampiric Lamp, Azure Tall furnishing
  • Vampiric Lightpost, Azure Single furnishing
  • Vampiric Container, Yellow Liquid furnishing
• Group Repair Kit
• Companion Guild Commendations
• Witches Grab Bag (This is purchasable only if you haven’t yet collected all the items contained within)
  • Skeletal Marionette memento
  • Spectre Mask collectible
    • There are four variations of this collectible
  • Apple-Bobbing Cauldron fragment
  • Throw Bones memento fragment
  • Marshmallow Toasty Treat emote
  • Witch's Bonfire Dust
  • Ghastly Visitation memento
  • Witch-Tamed Bear-Dog pet fragment
  • Witchmother's Servant outfit style pages
  • Tome of Forbidden Appetites memento
  • Ghost Netch pet
  • Grave Dancer Weapon style pages

Of note: The Witches Festival will be your first opportunity to begin gathering the fragments for the final event morphing collectible of 2024, the Haven of the Five Companions house!

Haven of the Five Companions morphing collectible

Additionally, the Impresario’s colleague, Nenulaure the Indrik Vendor, has the following items available for purchase using Event Tickets:

• Nascent Indrik Feathers
• Pure Snow Indrik Berries
• Crimson Indrik Berries
• Frost-Light Indrik pet
• Rosethorn Indrik pet

Lastly, the Impresario’s Assistant is offering the following, which you can acquire with Event Tickets:

• All three Unstable Morpholith fragments
  • Deadlands Flint
  • Rune-Etched Striker
  • Smoldering Bloodgrass Tinder
• All three Dagonic Quasigriff fragments
  • Smoke-Wreathed Gryphon Feather
  • Black Iron Bit
  • Bridle Black Iron Stirrups

• All three Soulfire Dragon Illusion Imp pet fragments
  • Hallowed Hourglass Basin
  • Illuminated Dragon Scroll
  • Kvatchian Incense

• All three fragments for the Daggerfall Paladin outfit
  • Blessed Rubedite Enamel
  • Captured Dragonflame
  • Sanctified Metalworking Tools

It’s Tamriel’s most frightful time of year, and only brave heroes can bring light to the shadows of the season. Will you step up to strike down Lord Hollowjack? You’ll be rewarded with XP boosts, collectibles, and other boons for your efforts during the 2024 Witches Festival in-game event. Share your spooky stories with us via X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook. 

The Witches Festival in-game event begins Thursday, October 24 at 10AM EDT, and runs until Wednesday, November 6 at 10AM EST.