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Delve into an all-new PvE activity with the Endless Archive, arriving soon with the free Update 40 base-game patch. 
[h2]Endless Exploration[/h2]
Prepare yourself for an all-new PvE challenge in the Endless Archive, a unique unending dungeon-like activity. Whether you go it solo or team up with a fellow player or Companion, your success in the Endless Archive is limited only by your preparation, skills, and determination.

Of all the infinite libraries of Hermaeus Mora’s realm, the archive is one of Apocrypha’s most mysterious secrets. However, a malevolent Daedra now threatens to corrupt everything collected within its myriad halls, and Master Malkhest, its custodian, needs your help confronting this strange new foe.

The Endless Archive arrives with the Update 40 base-game patch on October 30 for PC/Mac and November 14 for Xbox and PlayStation consoles. As a base-game addition, this new PvE activity is completely free for all existing ESO players with no additional DLC or Chapter purchase required. You can enter the Endless Archive via your map (from anywhere in the game) or the physical entrance found in Apocrypha (if you own the Necrom Chapter). Take note, while exploring the archive, ESO Plus members will enjoy a +10% boost to Archival Fortunes gains, a unique currency we share more on below!
[h2]Eternal Challenge[/h2]
In the Endless Archive, you must battle your way through dynamic stages and untold dangers, including monsters and boss encounters drawn from all over Nirn. No two expeditions into the Archive will ever be the same, as each Stage and encounter is randomly generated. Complete four Cycles (each comprised of three Stages and a boss battle) and your fifth boss battle with be against a monster unique to the Endless Archive—thus completing an Arc!

Of course, after you defeat the corruption at the archive’s heart, your expedition doesn’t end there, as you can traverse ever deeper into more Stages, Cycles, and Arcs, with the difficulty gradually increasing as you do! How deep you delve into the Endless Archive is ultimately up to you.   

Survive endless foes

While you have a limited number of deaths (or team wipes) permitted before your run ends, helping you get as far as possible are two unique boons you can collect as you progress: Verses and Visions. Verses are temporary buffs you can select at the end of each Stage that last until the end of the next Stage. Visions, on the other hand, are available at the end of each Cycle and provide a boon that lasts for your entire run. For example, Flame Aura is a Verse that envelops you in fire, damaging nearby enemies, while Crystalline Support is a Vision which explodes for frost damage and snares foes. The Visions and Verses you select as you progress can go a long way to determining how far you can go—choose wisely!
[h2]Infinite Rewards[/h2]
As you battle your way deeper into the Endless Archive and climb the leaderboards, you can loot and unlock a host of unique rewards not found in any other activity in game. This includes a broad selection of collectibles, including a mount, pet, cosmetics, and all-new Class sets.

A new and unique type of item set, Class sets buff the abilities for the game’s seven unique classes, providing synergy with specific Skill Lines. You can collect these powerful new items via loot drops or the Archive’s unique vendor.

Collect powerful Class sets

In addition to the above items and collectibles, the Endless Archive also rewards you with a unique currency, called Archival Fortunes. Fortunes can be traded to vendors in the Archive’s starting area for a host of consumables, Class set items, style pages, and most notably, unique buffs for your excursions.

These purchasable buffs are permanently active for your future Endless Archive runs. For example, some buffs grant additional Vision or Verse choices while others simply increase their power. The more Archival Fortunes you collect, the more you can empower further expeditions into the Archive’s ever-changing halls.
[h2]Unlimited Dangers [/h2]
In the Endless Archive, you can discover a new dynamically generated PvE challenge where no two runs are ever the same. Clear Stages, Cycles, and Arcs, and contend with an ever-growing host of dangers as you climb the leaderboards and unlock unique rewards. Are you ready to delve into this all-new activity? Don’t forget, as part of Update 40, it’s free for ALL existing ESO players. Let us know if you’re ready to begin your expedition into the Endless Archive via Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook, and good luck!

The Endless Archive is a new PvE activity free for all ESO players that arrives with the Update 40 base-game patch on October 30 for PC/Mac and November 14 for Xbox and PlayStation consoles.

Learn about some of the key additions and changes arriving with the free Update 40 base-game patch.

The Update 40 base-game patch arrives October 30 on PC/Mac and November 14 on Xbox and PlayStation consoles. In addition to the Endless Archive PvE activity, this update also introduces a host of new features and additions completely free for all existing ESO players, no additional purchases required.
[h2]New Grouping Tool[/h2]
If you enjoy teaming up with your fellow adventures, the new Group Finder allows you to create parties for almost any group activity in ESO. This includes dungeons, arenas, the upcoming Endless Archive, trials, PvP, and more.

You can choose to make a listing to find players to fill out your existing group (even when starting solo), or you can search for a group that already exists and wants to do the same content that you do. This new tool also allows you to tune the criteria your group members must meet, including these examples:

• Player CP levels
• Whether they use in-game voice chat
• Their playstyle
• A desired group role composition

The Group Finder tool

With the new Group Finder, teaming up with your fellow adventurers should be as easy as ever!
[h2]Grand Master Crafting Stations[/h2]
Update 40 also introduces Grand Master Crafting Stations, allowing you to consolidate all your home’s attuned crafting stations for a crafting skill line into a single furnishing. If your base of operations is packed full of attuned crafting stations supporting many of ESO’s myriad item sets, these new consolidated stations will go a long way to improving the amount of housing slots spent without giving up any of the functionality you enjoyed previously.

You can acquire Grand Master Crafting Stations using Writ Vouchers from the Achievement Mediator, Faustina Curio. There will be a consolidated station for Blacksmithing, Jewelry Crafting, Clothing, and Woodworking—happy crafting!
[h2]Assorted Additional Improvements [/h2]
Jewelry Crafting Rebalance

Also included in Update 40 is a rebalance of Jewelry Crafting to help bring its costs more in line with the game’s other crafting disciplines. This includes completely removing Jewelry Crafting grains and converting them into platings! However, to ensure that Jewelry Crafting’s costs line up with the other crafting types, we’ve also increased the total boosters needed to upgrade your jewelry, too. But don't worry, upgrading your rings and amulets in Update 40 will be easier and cheaper when compared to how it is currently.

Quest XP & Gold Standardization

With Update 40, we conducted a broad audit and standardization of the Experience Point and Gold rewards for many of the game’s quests. This includes those for quests and questlines associated with zones, main storylines, prologues, dailies, guild storylines, and many more. Now, you should receive more consistent rewards for the game’s various quests based on their complexity or length. In addition, the daily quest rewards for Mages Guild, Fighters Guild, and Undaunted have received a general boost.

These are just some of the many changes and additions coming to ESO with the Update 40 base-game patch. You can experience them (and the Endless Archive) for yourself when the update arrives on the PC/Mac Public Test Server in a few days  (Monday, September 18) or when it all arrives on October 30 for PC/Mac and November 14 for Xbox and PlayStation consoles. Are you excited for the Update 40 base-game patch? Let us know via Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.

Update 40 base-game patch arrives on October 30 for PC/Mac and November 14 for Xbox and PlayStation consoles.

Get bonus rewards when you explore Tamriel’s four-player dungeons during the Undaunted Celebration in-game event.
[h2]Group Up for Adventure[/h2]
The Undaunted Celebration begins Thursday, September 7 at 10AM EDT, and runs until Tuesday, September 19 at 10AM EDT. Throughout this PvE in-game event, you and your intrepid band earn special rewards and Event Tickets by delving into any of ESO’s group dungeons.

Once the event begins, you can head into Tamriel’s dungeons via your map, the Activity Finder, or any dungeon entrance. In addition, you can acquire the introductory quest “Glory of the Undaunted” by speaking to Serileth at any Undaunted Enclave, traveling to an Impresario tent, or free from the in-game Crown Store.

Look for Serileth!
[h2]Undaunted Rewards[/h2]
Tamriel’s dungeons are challenging PvE encounters, but throughout the event, big dangers can also lead to big rewards. The first time you complete a dungeon each day throughout the Undaunted Celebration, you receive a Glorious Undaunted Reward Box as an additional loot drop. You can open this unique container to receive various reward items including gold, consumables, style pages, Undaunted Keys, Opal Weapon styles, and more.

Slay bosses for bonus rewards

After you have defeated your first final dungeon boss each day, keep going! Subsequent final dungeon bosses reward regular Undaunted Reward boxes, which can include the following goods:

• A guaranteed drop of an item set piece from the dungeon in which the box was acquired.
• A guaranteed drop of one of the following items:
  • A random motif style page from the following:
    • Ascendant Order
    • Bloodforge
    • Crimson Oath
    • Dreadsail
    • Fang Lair
    • Huntsman
    • Hazardous Alchemy
    • Icereach
    • Mazzatun
    • Moongrave Fane
    • Pyre Watch
    • Silken Ring
    • Scalecaller
    • Silver Dawn
    • Stags of Z’en
    • Silver Rose
    • Thorn Legion
    • True Sworn
    • Waking Flame
• 1,000 Gold
• An Undaunted Key
• A Crown Repair Kit
• A Riding Lesson

The daily Glorious Undaunted Reward Box can contain any of the above items, but it also has a chance to drop one of the following:

• Opal monster weapon styles for:
  • NEW Sentinel of Rkugamz
  • Velidreth
  • Iceheart
  • Lord Warden
  • Nightflame
  • Swarm Mother

Regular Undaunted Reward Boxes can also be earned by complete Bolgrul’s (found within any Undaunted Enclave) Daily Undaunted Delve quest.

Earn Opal style pages

Opal Monster Mask Style Pages

During the event, when you defeat and loot a specific dungeon’s final boss on veteran hard mode, you’ll also enjoy a greater chance to loot its associated Opal Monster Mask style page. This includes the following bosses and dungeons:

• Sentinel of Rkugamz (Darkshade Caverns I)
• Velidreth (Cradle of Shadows)
• Iceheart (Direfrost Keep)
• Lord Warden (Imperial City Prison)
• Nightflame (Elden Hollow II)

Opal Monster Shoulder Outfit Style Pages

If you own a base version of a monster shoulder style, you can also acquire the Opal version of that same style from Undaunted vendors at a cost of Undaunted Keys. Specific Opal style pages cost 50 keys, while special coffers with a random Opal Shoulder style page cost 25.
[h2]Impresario Stocks Up[/h2]
During the Undaunted Celebration, you can earn two Event Tickets for defeating your first final dungeon boss each day. Note that with the Update 39 base-game patch, should you fail to loot your Event Tickets for whatever reason, you will be granted subsequent opportunities to loot your daily Event Tickets from other sources. Don’t forget you can loot only two Event Tickets per day during the event, but now your chances of missing out on your daily allotment are minimized.

During the event, you can spend your Event Tickets at the Impresario vendor to acquire the following items:

• All three Passion Dancer Blossom pet fragments
  • Chartreuse Lily Petals
  • Enchanted Silver Flute
  • Mystical Sheet Music
• The first TWO Passion Dancer’s Garment costume fragments
  • Bolt of Indigo Cotton
  • Bolt of Silver Silk
• Bound style pages for the Sentinel of Rkugamz Opal weapons and Opal masks and shoulders
• Impresario Group Repair Kits
• Companion Guild Commendations

Passion Dancer’s Garment

In addition, the Impresario’s Assistant will stock:

• All three Unstable Morpholith pet fragments
  • Deadlands Flint
  • Rune-Etched Striker
  • Smoldering Bloodgrass Tinder
• All three Deadlands Firewalker personality fragments
  • Vial of Simmering Daedric Brew
  • Vial of Bubbling Daedric Brew
  • Vial of Scalding Daedric Brew
• Finally, the Indrik vendor Nenulaure will have:
  • Nascent Indrik Feathers
  • Onyx Indrik Berries
  • Mossheart Indrik Berries
  • Ebon-Glow Indrik Pet
  • Sapling Indrik Pet

[h2]Undaunted, Undaunted! [/h2]
Who knows no fear of beast or blade? Undaunted! Delve into Tamriel’s dungeons, defeat final bosses, and collect shiny event-specific rewards during the Undaunted Celebration in-game event. Is your party ready to venture forth into some of ESO’s toughest PvE content? Let us know via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

The Undaunted Celebration begins Thursday, September 7 from 10AM EDT, and runs until Tuesday, September 19 at 10AM EDT.

Get ready to tune in to Twitch.tv/Bethesda as we reveal the new challenges and base-game additions coming soon to The Elder Scrolls Online.

Looking to learn more about the Endless Archive and upcoming base-game updates? The New Feature & Update Preview: Endless Archive stream will go live on Twitch.tv/Bethesda on Thursday, September 14 at 3PM EDT.

During the show, Senior Community Manager Gina Bruno will be joined by Creative Director Rich Lambert and Lead Encounter Designer Mike Finnigan to dive deep into the new Endless Archive PvE activity and reveal some of the major changes arriving with the Update 40 base-game patch. This will be your first opportunity to see Endless Archive gameplay, so don’t miss out!

Twitch Drops will be enabled for those watching, so be sure to link your ESO and Twitch accounts to be able to earn the new Tentacular Tome emote!

That’s not all! Keep an eye on this blog closer to September 14 for details on additional livestreams and recap shows from members of the ESO global community team.

Be sure to join us on Twitch.tv/Bethesda Thursday, September 14 at 3PM EDT, to get a first look at what challenges and rewards await you within the Endless Archive—we’ll see you there!

Take a peek at the massive wave of new and returning items arriving in the Crown Store this September.

This September’s Crown Store additions are featured below, but you can always review all the items currently on sale by checking out the Crown Store page. Be sure to visit the Buy Crowns page beforehand to pick up however many crowns you need.