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Since the release of Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1 earlier this year, the veteran MMORPG Elder Scrolls Online has been revitalized, consistently offering new events every month.

A few days ago, on October 13th, the game launched Battle for the Writhing Wall event as a teaser for the upcoming Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 2 and Update 48. You'll team up with other players on your server to overthrow the wall and fight against Worm Cult.

So how can you participate in this event and help thwart the evil forces' plot? What rewards will you receive? We'll explain.

How To Activate This Event?

Starting October 13, 2025, all ESO players will be able to earn rewards by participating in this event. The event will be divided into three phases. Only after completing all campaigns can you enter Eastern Solstice to claim ESO gold, collectibles, and more rewards.

To begin Battle for the Writhing Wall event, travel to Stirk Fellowship Camp or Sunport Rampart Camp and interact with Skordo the Knife to register for the event. Here's how to get there:

• Take a boat from the docks at Vulkhel Guard, Daggerfall, or Davon's Watch to Stirk Fellowship Camp.
• Go southeast of Sunport and find Sunport Rampart Camp near Rampart Camp Wayshrine on Solstice.

You can then claim Support the Fellowship introductory quest from the in-game store for further gameplay instructions.

Completing The Conflict Phase

This phase can be considered a precursor to Battle for the Writhing Wall. During this phase, you'll need to complete daily quests and defeat enemies from Coldharbour to advance the event on your server. This progress will be updated daily on the website.

Note that some daily quests remain available after the main phase begins; completing them consistently will help you earn event rewards. All NPCs associated with the event quests and their key information are as follows:

• General Zasimba: Located in Solstice zone, offers quests to protect Fellowship's Siege Camps.
• Orinde Glenuvon: Located on the islands of Stirk or Solstice, you can give her Vitrified Souls obtained from killing Daedra.
• Nurwalne: Located in Stirk and Solstice, requires you to gather war supplies from various regions.

Also, if you need supplies while completing event-related quests, you can travel to Stirk or Solstice to find Armorer Reistaff, who will provide assistance.

Phase 1

During this phase, you and other players will primarily focus on gathering resources for the larger war effort. During this phase, you may engage in small-scale skirmishes near the siege camps through daily quests.

Note that during Phase 1, Worm Cult will occupy several caves and dungeons as their territory, making these locations more dangerous - and, of course, the rewards for killing enemies there are substantial. You can find them by their unique markers on the map.

Phase 2

Once you enter this phase, you'll need to continue gathering resources to maintain the fortifications of your camp while also preparing for enemy attacks.

Correspondingly, your camp will be invaded more frequently, the enemies will be more difficult to defeat, and the world boss, Daedra Ghishzor, will appear in Solstice.

Phase 3

The start of this phase signals the exposure of Writhing Wall, ushering in the final battle. Phase 3 will last for a week after Writhing Fortress dungeon on your server has been completed until the entire event concludes.

You will then unlock Eastern Solstice, where you'll begin Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 2 storyline and embark on a new adventure.

Note: The start time of Phase 3 depends on the success rate and mobilization level of Elder Scrolls Online players on your server during the first two phases, so the progress of the event will vary between servers.

Finally, please note that while all players can participate in this event, you must own 2025 Content Pass to access the quests in Solstice and complete Phase 3.

Battle For The Writhing Wall Event Rewards

This event not only offers a rich ultimate reward, but also offers Writhing Reward Coffers from various sources as you progress through the event. In addition, you can earn up to three Glorious Writhing Reward Coffers daily by consistently completing daily quests.

Other notable bonuses and how to earn them are as follows:

• Antiquity Leads: May drop from specific bosses in enemy territory dungeons during the event.
• Wall Breaker Title: Complete Writhing Fortress in Phase 3.
• Coldharbour Dremnaken Runt pet and Wormwrithe Bear-Lizard mount: Participate in Golden Pursuits campaign associated with the event.

Additionally, at the start of Battle for the Writhing Wall event, if you've already completed Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1 questline, you can find Prince Azah at Sunport Rampart Camp to receive the quest Crossing the Wall.

This quest is crucial because it helps you connect Parts 1 and 2, allowing you to start your Eastern Solstice adventure more smoothly, so don't miss it.

That's all for this update. The event has only been running for three days, so if you want to claim the ultimate reward, be sure to choose a high-activity ESO server and start working hard now!

As you progress through Battle for the Writhing Wall event, as enemies become increasingly dangerous, you'll need to buy higher-level weapons with gold. To do this, it's essential to stock up on enough gold at the trusted ESO gold store IGGM!

Time flies, and September 2025 will end in a few days. Over the past few months, Elder Scrolls Online has undergone significant changes, attracting many new players and increasing the frequency of events.

Over the past month, ESO has also held several events, offering numerous rewards. We've summarized these events so you can plan how to utilize the rewards in October.

1. The Undaunted Celebration

This event will run until 10:00 AM ET on Tuesday, September 30th, meaning you can still play now.

During the event, you can team up with friends to clear raid dungeons to earn rewards and event tickets. Tickets can be redeemed at the Impresario vendor for the following additional rewards:

• All Stonewisp of Truth and Law pet fragments: Axiomatic Runestones, Glyph of Law, Powdered Wisp Remains
• All Law of Julianos Dwarven Spider mount fragments: Comfortable Spider Chassis, Dwarven Control Rod, Whirring Dwarven Dynamo
• Bound-style pages for the new Scourge Harvester weapons and Opal Masks and Shoulders
• Imresario Group Repair Kits
• Companion Guild Commendations

Each day, you'll earn two tickets upon defeating a dungeon boss for the first time. If you play daily, you can expect to earn up to 26 tickets by the end of the event.

Please note that you can only hold a maximum of 12 tickets at a time. To avoid wasting time, please redeem any tickets you have for rewards before reaching that limit.

Besides playing dungeons, you can also complete the event's introductory quest, Glory of the Undaunted, in three ways during the event:

• Speak with Serileth in any Undaunted Enclave.
• Get it from the in-game Crown Store.
• Get it from Impresario tent.

You can also complete Bolgrul's Daily Undaunted Delve quest daily to receive a regular Undaunted Reward Box.

During the event, you can collect different Opal Monster Mask and Shoulder Outfit variations by defeating dungeon bosses. We recommend prioritizing the following dungeon bosses in Veteran Hard Mode for a higher drop rate.

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

2. Seasons Of The Worm Cult Part 2 And Update 48 Released

As one of the most significant ESO updates of 2025, Seasons of the Worm Cult released its second part in mid-September, along with Update 48.

Part 2 opens up Eastern Solstice, where you can explore new caves, bosses, dungeons, and quests, earning rewards while delving deeper into the main storyline. These new content primarily include:

• Four full-length objectives
• Three delves, each with a skyshard and unique boss
• A new public dungeon: Calvindale Gardens
• Three world bosses
• Two new crafting set locations
• More hidden side quests

Note: If you wish to delve into the new main content, you must first complete Western Solstice questline and participate in the breach of Writhing Wall to breach the wall's defenses and destroy Worm Cult.

To do this, you'll need to travel to Solstice Rampart camp outside Sunport and interact with Skordo the Knife, or travel with your teammates to the western portion of Writhing Wall to find the portal and enter.

Update 48 primarily includes general bug fixes and smaller improvements to ensure a smoother overall gaming experience.

3. Vengeance Campaign For Cyrodiil

This week-long PvP-style event, ending at 10:00 AM ET on Monday, September 29th, allows you to experience the updated Vengeance campaign in Cyrodiil and provides insights for a better Alliance War.

You can participate if your character is between levels 10 and 50. This event will template your available builds, allowing you to test the feasibility of new PVP environments and gameplay in a more stable environment. To participate:

• 1. Open Alliance War menu.
• 2. Press L on your keyboard to find and open Campaigns tab.
• 3. Select Cyrodiil, then select Vengeance Campaign.

Essentially, this event serves as a tested, allowing you to experiment with the new skill lines, progression, and cosmetic systems and test their feasibility, laying the foundation for a more refined Alliance War.

More specifically, this PvP campaign event introduces the meat bag catapults, along with optimized skill lines and an armor skill line for Fighters and Mages Guilds.

These new options deliver devastating combat power while minimizing performance disruption, preventing the lag issues common in previous Cyrodiil runs.

For example, the meat bag catapult retains its damage-dealing function but no longer leaves behind a persistent ground effect.

September's events not only introduced new gameplay features through Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 2 and The Undaunted Celebration, but also further optimized the fundamental Elder Scrolls Online experience through Update 48.

ESO remains robust and committed to providing you with a consistently high-quality experience. Let's look forward to more updates in October!

Among all Elder Scrolls Online changes in September, Season of the Worm Cult Part 2's new dungeons and other additions will still be available in October, but you may not have the gear to handle them.

For this reason, we recommend buying ESO gold that can upgrade your gear for increased combat power and clearing new dungeons and quests as soon as possible to claim their loot. There's no time to lose, so act now!

While nearly all MMORPGs emphasize combat to earn resources and survive, if you’re not comfortable playing with others, a casual approach might be more suitable, especially in a long-running game.

Undoubtedly, Elder Scrolls Online, now over a decade old, is such a game. Even new players will probably be drawn to the casual atmosphere and relaxed after completing the initial quests.

So, what qualities of ESO still allow you to enjoy it casually as a solo player in 2025? We’ll analyze them for you.

Game Overview - Atypical MMORPG

While you can reach the top of Elder Scrolls Online by constantly farming ESO gold or rarer gear, the more you play, the more you’ll find that even casual questing can provide a solid ESO experience.

If you prefer full-on combat, you can team up with guild-mates in ESO to complete raids or slay bosses in large dungeons for loot. You can also gather in PvP zone of Cyrodiil to form an army and fight other players.

If you prefer a more casual solo experience, you can wander around Elder Scrolls Online’s towns, chat with NPCs, or create clothing accessories to accessorize and style your character for a more unique and stylish look.

ESO’s comprehensive crafting system allows you to experience forging, enchanting, cooking, and even crafting furniture to build houses through a variety of crafting skills. Furthermore, you can use the fishing feature to sell rare fish or materials you catch for more ESO gold.

In fact, with the removal of the subscription requirement and more Tamriel updates, such as the recent addition of the subclass feature, ESO becomes more like a pure “Elder Scrolls game” than a typical MMO, allowing you to customize your playstyle to your needs.

Easily Immerse In The Game Story

In MMORPGs, most PvE gameplay and quests involve complex storylines and character backgrounds, sometimes even affecting your quest progress. Therefore, you need to be fully familiar with these details before engaging in combat.

Some MMORPGs, such as World of Warcraft series, often use extensive text descriptions to explain quest backgrounds. While this approach helps ensure that no details are missed, it can be tedious.

In contrast, Elder Scrolls Online sometimes provides key quest information in the form of notes, and most quest dialogue is voiced for quick understanding.

Furthermore, some ESO story content is actually based on the background of other Elder Scrolls games, but the integration is very good. Combined with the engaging narrative style, completing an ESO PVE quest is like immersing yourself in a magical story.

A Large Number Of Completable Quests

ESO PvE quests are diverse, including multiple faction quest lines and various side quests. Completing them rewards skill points, making them perfect for a killing time as a solo player.

A single faction questline takes approximately 50 hours, and if you prefer, you can complete the questlines for two other factions with the same character. This way, the faction questlines alone could fill a whole vacation, not to mention the other smaller quests.

In addition, as you complete the quests, you might unlock more points of interest, find places to fish, gather crafting materials, or even complete your own dungeon. This gives you a constant stream of content to enrich your single-player experience.

Multiple DLCs

If you’ve already experienced all the base game content or are looking for new single-player adventures, Elder Scrolls Online offers a wealth of DLCs to satisfy your needs.

These DLCs typically include different dungeons, maps, and exclusive gameplay options, allowing you to choose the one you want. Each DLC also has its own storyline, which flows seamlessly together, helping you gain a deeper understanding of Tamriel.

Major ESO DLCs include:

• Imperial City
• Orsinium
• Thieves Guild
• Dark Brotherhood
• Shadows of the Hist
• Morrowind
• Horns of the Reach
• Clockwork City
• Dragon Bones
• Summerset Chapter
• Wolfhunter
• Murkmire
• Scribes of Fate
• Necrom Chapter
• Scions of Ithelia
• Gold Road
• Fallen Banners
• Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1

Recruiting NPCs As Helpers

While most of the game can be completed solo, one person’s power is limited, and completing it may require more time and effort. If you’re a solo player and don’t have any friends or don’t want to socialize, you can recruit NPCs as helpers.

Compared to real players, NPCs can complete your requests simply by giving you command, eliminating the need for additional communication. They’re also more cooperative, especially on simpler tasks.

Diversity With Subclass Feature

Newly added in June of this year, the subclass feature allows you to choose from up to two other classes’ skill lines, in addition to your chosen base class, and experiment with a combination of skills.

Based on the total number of ESO classes and their associated skills, this is expected to result in over 3,000 possible combinations. This significantly expands your combat skill-set and allows for even more customized builds and styles.

While this will consume more skill points, as a solo player, you’ll have plenty of time to earn enough skill points by completing quests to unlock the desired class skills, allowing for maximum character customization.

More New Content

Since late 2024, Elder Scrolls Online has laid out several preliminary plans for its next decade. This means that even if you’ve been a ten-year veteran, you can still enjoy new content, much of which is still suitable for casual solo gameplay.

These are the reasons and methods for easily exploring solo play in ESO. We hope this will inspire you to explore your next game plans. Have fun!

In the hot summer, playing games at home may be a more comfortable choice than going out for a trip or exercising! Especially in those MMORPGs, even if you don’t do any quests, just wandering around in the open world can make you have a happy day.

Based on this, some MMORPGs choose to launch many new events from July to August to ensure that you can have a fulfilling summer. According to the July 2025 roadmap, Elder Scrolls Online will be a good choice to kill time.

ESO has arranged so many events that although only one-third of July has passed, some events are approaching or have already ended! But it doesn’t matter, we will introduce those that you can continue to play in time!

July 2025 Daily Login Rewards

This should be regarded as the basic welfare activity of the game. As long as you log in to the game every day in July, you will have the opportunity to get ESO gold, crafting materials, research scrolls and Luminous ink for Scribing as rewards.

And the longer you log in, the better the rewards you get. At least in July 2025, you can even get an adorably spooky pet this way!

Free Scribing Feature

This feature was introduced in Gold Road chapter in 2024. It allows you to customize yourself with more powerful combat capabilities by combining scripts and grimoires, but it requires consuming gold.

However, starting from July 10, 2025, as long as you claim The Second Era of Scribing quest in the crown store, you can unlock and experience Scribing and all related content for free.

July’s Golden Pursuits Scribing For All!

On this basis, Elder Scrolls Online further launched Golden Pursuits event in July. From July 10 to August 7, if you have not experienced Scribing feature before, Scribing For All! event will help you get familiar with it; if you already know how to utilize it, you can directly win rewards.

It is expected that you can win gold, Luminous Ink, and Scribing Altar, a pair of Flame Atronach Crown Crates, and even have the opportunity to master new skill styles through your efforts!

Weekend Mini-Event Crazy King

This event is open for a short time, from July 10th to 15th. To get rewards, you need to join the featured queue and win dominance for your faction through fierce battles to obtain available alliance points. Please note that no tickets are available for this event.

Whitestrake’s Mayhem

This event is a classic limited-time PVP gameplay in Elder Scrolls Online. This return time is from July 24th to August 6th. During the event, you can earn tickets by completing the imperial city district daily quest or Cyrodiil or battlegrounds daily quest.

In addition, Whitestrake’s Mayhem also allows you to gain more alliance points and Tel Var Stone gains, combining event tickets to win more rewards.

More About Update 47 And New Dungeons

Although Update 47 and new dungeons are scheduled to be released on August 18, the game development team revealed the preliminary plans and content to you through Update 47 live broadcast on July 1. The main changes in Update 47 that are known include:

• The much-anticipated Mount Swimming functionality will be available, allowing you to ride mounts in water as usual.
• Stackable survey reports, similar to Update 46’s stackable crafting writs will be brought.

As for the new PVE dungeon pack Feast of Shadows, it will provide you with two four-player dungeons to explore. Although the plots and rewards of the two dungeons are different, they are generally related to the theme of Seasons of the Worm Cult.

Dungeon 1 Black Gem Foundry requires you and your teammates to enter Coldharbor manufactory and eliminate the ability to create terrible soul-stealing armaments here after a series of adventures.

In Dungeon 2 Naj-Caldeesh, a group of Argonian necromancers are trying to corrupt and control the ancient xanmeer’s keystone, and you must work with your teammates to stop them.

It should be noted that, like the dungeons in the previous Fallen Banners DLC, the new dungeon pack Feast of Shadows also requires you to have a 2025 Content Pass, 2025 Premium Edition or ESO Plus membership to experience it.

New Crown Store Items

The crown store in ESO will also bring more available items as the game content is updated. Among the new items that will be available in July 2025 are:

ESO Plus Exclusives:

• Statuette: Redguard Warrior

Crafting and Outfit Styles:

• Alliance Accord Arms Pack
• Militant Monk

Houses:

• Shattered Mirror Isle

Furnishings:

• Furnishing Pack: Heart of the Loom
• Statue, Mistress of Nightmares

Mounts:

• Three Banners Veteran Wolf

Pets:

• War Veteran’s Hunting Dog
• Destruction Dale Fawn

Ended July Events

First is June Golden Pursuits Golden Pursuits that lasted until July 8. Since the new Golden Pursuits have already started, no need to regret missing it.

Another July event that has ended, Zeal of Zenithar, actually started at the end of June. It mainly provides a lot of quests to win you the opportunity to get reward chests.

In general, it is completely in time to play most of the July events of ESO from now on, and you can directly experience update 47 and new dungeons by sticking to August! Act quickly!

Since Elder Scrolls Online changed the update mode of the past annual chapters to the season system, its first official season, Seasons of the Worm Cult, has been launched on PC/Mac on June 2, 2025, and will be launched on Xbox & PlayStation series on the 18th.

The opening of the new season means that you will be able to play more new content and learn more about new plots. At the same time, the game’s update 46 was also launched with the season, and many adjustments were made to the inherent mechanism.

Among the many changes brought by update 46, subclass is undoubtedly worth experiencing-in fact, many MMORPGs have similar functions, which is enough to prove its indispensability.

The emergence of subclass has greatly enriched the playability of each class and the possibility of craftable builds. Based on this, we will introduce you to Heavy Attack Subclass Sorcerer Build.

Features Of Subclass

The main function of this mechanism is to allow you to merge the skill lines of other classes with the skill lines of the class you are currently experiencing, so that you can get a more diverse career experience without changing classes.

This greatly increases the freedom of gameplay, the possibility and strength of your craft builds have been increased, and the efficiency of completing new season tasks and farming Elder Scrolls Online gold has been increased.

It is worth noting that if you want to unlock this feature after Update 46 and Seasons of the Worm Cult are launched, you need to make your character reach level 50. After that, you need double skill points to unlock and upgrade the skills of other classes.

Skills Corresponding To This Build

There is no doubt that this build is first based on Sorcerer class craft. This class can summon and control weather phenomena, such as shooting lightning or creating tornadoes and fog; in addition, it can summon Storm Atronachs and magical armor through Daedric forces.

On this basis, you can continue to focus on one skill line, or you can distribute points to a total of 3 skill lines-the emergence of subclass further enriches this mechanism.

Heavy Attack Subclass Sorcerer Build works by combining Sorcerer’s Storm Calling & Daedric Summoning and Nightblade’s Assassination skill lines. The skills they include are:

Storm Calling

• Overload
• Mage’s Fury
• Lightning Form
• Lightning Splash
• Surge
• Bolt Escape
• Capacitor
• Energized
• Amplitude
• Expert Mage

Daedric Summoning

• Summon Storm Atronach
• Unstable Familiar
• Daedric Curse
• Summon Winged Twilight
• Conjured Ward
• Bound Armor
• Rebate
• Power Stone
• Daedric Protection
• Expert Summoner

Assassination

• Death Stroke
• Assassin’s Blade
• Teleport Strike
• Blur
• Mark Target
• Grim Focus
• Master Assassin
• Executioner
• Pressure Points
• Hemorrhage

Compared to the original third skill line of Sorcerer, Dark Magic, Nightblade’s Assassination can make Sorcerer and the entire Heavy Attack Subclass Sorcerer Build more efficient.

Specific Class Skill Selection

Since skill unlocking and upgrading requires skill points, in order to maximize the effect of points, you need to choose the part of the above available skills that can better cooperate with each other.

The first one worth highlighting is Power Stone passive, which can reduce the resource consumption of your ultimate skill to increase DPS, and also increase shock damage by 5%.

The second is Power Overload, one of the ultimate skills Overload Morph, which can charge your fist with the power of the storm, turning your light attack into lightning to deal 1245 points of shock damage to enemies within a range of up to 32 meters, and heavy attacks can cause 1120 points of shock damage to enemies within a range of 6 x 8.

Summon Twilight Matriarch is a skill from Daedric Summoning that allows you to summon Azura to send a twilight tormentor to help you. The twilight tormentor’s electric shock can cause 478 shock damage, and the kick can cause 478 shock damage.

Guild Skill Selection

In addition to the class skills based on the three skill lines, you can also add mage guild skills to this build as a Sorcerer. The higher your guild level, the more skills you can unlock (up to level 10).

The main ones suitable for this build are:

• Might of the Guild: Whenever you cast it, there is a chance to gain Reinforcement, and increase the critical damage you deal to monsters for 10 seconds.
• Scalding Rune: When triggered, this rune will cause 2323 fire damage to all enemies in the target area, and an additional 2871 fire damage over 22 seconds. In addition, it can continue to cause additional damage over time.

The above are just the skills of this build. If you want to further enhance its power, you need to farm more gear and other available items, such as potions, which can bring you additional benefits.

If you are a Xbox & PlayStation user, there are still a few days before the official launch of the game, and you can learn more subclass content based on this guide! I wish you success!

Nowadays, more and more people have access to video games, which have gradually evolved from the original entertainment and pastime to a new century art with the nature of a cultural carrier. Maybe there are old-fashioned and stubborn people who don’t think so, but this is the fact.

Therefore, some games will publicly promote the ideas they support through other activities based on their own influence while designing inherent gameplay and exclusive worldviews, such as Pride Parade held by Elder Scrolls Online in previous years.

What Is ESO Pride Parade?

The event was first held in 2023 and was jointly initiated by game developers, some game anchors, and other supporters. The main purpose is to provide LGBTQ+ players with an anonymous parade opportunity.

This event has nothing to do with your main game progress and gameplay. It is just a small-scale carnival with political and social colors in the game. However, even if you are not a member of the LGBTQ+ community, you can participate in it out of support and love of excitement.

Every year, Pride Parade will set different parade start times and routes in the game, and last about 45 minutes. During this period, you will see many players gathering together on the route, declaring their identities and positions by launching rainbow-colored props or other means.

Can The Server Support This Activity?

Although not all players will participate, the final number of people is still not to be underestimated, and there is no doubt that this puts a lot of pressure on the game server. As you know, Cyrodiil’s PVP gameplay has been stuck for a long time due to overload.

The good news is that Pride Parade will divide all participants into different groups to reduce server pressure. But in fact, starting this year, ESO’s overall server carrying capacity has increased. For example, after the adjustment test of Cyrodiil Champions, the situation where you lose ESO gold due to lag in PVP mode should be reduced.

Pride Parade In 2025

This year’s Pride Parade is hosted by the LGBTQIA guild Alphabet Mafia in game, which announced that the parade will start at 8:15 pm EST on Saturday, June 14, 2025, and the parade area will be Auridon in the game.

If you want to participate or watch, you can gather at the first fortress signpost in the north of Auridon. The team will go south through Auridon along the main road of Vulkhel Guard and end with a beach party.

There are no requirements for the parade. As long as you are friendly, you can dress your character in any way to join the parade. So you also have the opportunity to meet many interesting players!

Rules Of Participation

The parade has no hard and fast rules for friendly players, but as you know, whether in the real world or in the social environment of the game, the LGBTQ+ community is generally not very recognized, and there are even players who hate this niche group.

Therefore, for the sake of your account security, game social experience, and server stability, if you want to participate in Pride Parade, it is best to follow the following rules:

• Let your character walk instead of running.
• If malicious players join and send unfriendly or even insulting remarks, do not argue with them, just block them and take screenshots of their remarks.
• Turn off the name tag and hide the user interface to ensure that the screenshots you get are clear enough.
• Please do not bring combat pets, as well as unnecessary non-combat pets or mounts.

This parade will only be held on PC-NA server, so be careful not to make a mistake. In addition, according to the news in the relevant Discord group, Alphabet Mafia should hold other Pride events in the future-if there is no unexpected attack.

The Degree Of Friendliness Seems To Be Declining Year By Year

To be honest, it is not surprising at all. There are always some cisgender heterosexual players who are self-righteous, so they do not support or even attack Elder Scrolls Online Pride Parade and other related events. “Negative” and “disgusting” remarks are endless.

But compared with the past, this year’s public opinion environment seems to be worse. You will find that the post announcing the event on the game sub-forum has even been closed, leaving only a bunch of deleted comments.

For this reason, Alphabet Mafia, the person in charge of the parade, had to take precautions on Discord and closed all public groups where you can discuss with other parade participants to prevent bad elements from getting in.

This series of measures undoubtedly killed the excitement of the event. Although Alphabet Mafia has announced that the parade will not be canceled or postponed, you may still be worried.

Should ESO Hold Such Events?

In fact, Pride Parade is not the only event in Elder Scrolls Online that expresses support for the LGBTQ+ community. In update 44, the game also introduced the first non-binary companion Tanlorin, which caused controversy at the time.

In general, games are of course not obliged to promote such ideas, and this will inevitably offend some players who disagree, but ESO still chooses to do so. You can think they are hyping, but after all, it does not harm anyone’s interests.

From a personal perspective, you can disagree with LGBTQ+ and even say goodbye to Elder Scrolls Online because of it, but insulting related players and activities is indeed unnecessary and ridiculous. Playing games is for fun, not for quarrels, right?

With the prosperity of the gaming industry, I believe you have higher and higher requirements for gaming devices, so now there are more devices available on the market, such as PC, mobile phones, Switch and Xbox series game consoles. Although this greatly meets your device needs, it also brings another problem: what should you do when you want to play cross-platform games?

In order to attract more players, many large games have been working hard to develop cross-platform play in recent years to give themselves more advantages, especially those MMORPGs. But to your surprise, as a MMORPG that has been running for more than ten years, Elder Scrolls Online has not launched cross-platform play as of 2024, but it is expected that this situation may change in 2025.

ESO Officially Landed On Xbox Game Pass

Xbox Game Pass is actually a subscription service that was launched on June 1, 2017. It includes a rotating library of games, and as long as you have an active subscription, you can always access your existing games through video game consoles, Microsoft Windows, Android, iOS, etc., and even provide discounts on DLC for some games.

After Elder Scrolls Online landed on Xbox Game Pass, you might think that you will be able to share ESO Gold held by the same game account on most of your devices, but the fact is that this is limited to Xbox consoles. Although PC players can currently play ESO through Xbox Cloud Gaming of Game Pass, it is also limited to PC and cannot be shared across platforms.

Elder Scrolls Online Gameplay

Although cross-platform play has many benefits, it is may not suitable for all gameplay, so we will analyze it for you based on this. First of all, ESO was released in 2014 and has received unanimous praise from many game critics and players since its release, and even won British Academy Games Award and many award nominations in this decade.

The game is set on the continent of Tamriel. The gameplay is mostly non-linear, with a mixture of quests, random events and free exploration, which can provide enough playable content for players of different skill levels, such as:

• Character creation: You can start creating your first character at the beginning of the game, and then you can choose a race for the character, and the choice of race will also determine the character’s alliance, class, gender, appearance, voice and name.
• High degree of freedom of exploration: The continent of Tamriel provides you with multiple quests and free battles to ensure your freedom of exploration.
• Combat system: ESO’s combat system brings you a richer combat experience by effectively combining strikes, spells and abilities.
• Team content: You can get more ESO Gold by teaming up with other players to complete more challenging tasks and defeat more powerful enemies.
• Grand open world: As the main world of the game, Tamriel has many locations, ranging from tropical islands to snow-capped mountains, and the scenery is also very good.
• Diverse content: No matter what your skill level is, whether you like to play PVE or PVP mode, ESO can satisfy you.

Elder Scrolls Online Cross-Platform Rules

The game still does not bring official cross-platform play to this day. Although it is currently available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, and there are some exceptions such as Xbox consoles only, players from different platforms cannot interact with each other whether exploring Tamriel, fighting powerful creatures or completing quests.

However, it is worth noting that Elder Scrolls Online supports cross-generation games, which means that you can play ESO both on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, and the same is true for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.

Will ESO Usher In Cross-Platform Play In 2025?

2024 is the tenth anniversary of Elder Scrolls Online. The game held a related celebration event, and the development team announced in the second half of 2024 that it will make several major changes to the game starting in 2025, such as a new season system and new DLC. So you are likely to hope to hear ESO cross-platform news in the second half of this year.

But given the size of the game world and the sheer number of players, it might be too much of a stretch to bring more extensive cross-platform play to ESO than it already has, and even trickier is the political stance of the major platform owners in the market.

Fortunately, while your hopes for cross-platform play in Elder Scrolls Online will be dashed for a long time, the game is gradually adding more content to play. For example, Update 45, and the new DLC Fallen Banners, which was launched not long ago on March 10, will also allow you to explore two new dungeons called Lep Seclusa and Exiled Redoubt.

Or if you’re an old ESO player, you should know that Cyrodiil, the main battlefield of PVP mode, has been experiencing server overload issues, and it is expected that the relevant bugs will also be resolved through Cyrodiil Champions test, which will end on March 31.

In short, although ESO currently does not offer cross-platform play, its future performance should be more than enough to make up for this, so if you want to experience the game for a long time, you might as well use your favorite device with peace of mind!

Almost all MMORPGs have an open continent as a carrier for the entire game story. For Elder Scrolls Online, this continent is the vast Tamriel. Tamriel consists of 9 provinces, which were ruled by the empire in the past, but this unified situation gradually disintegrated in the second century of the fourth era. Now the 9 provinces belong to different races and forces in Tamriel.

Among them, Cyrodiil, because it is located at the core of the entire continent, used to be the capital of the empire, and it is still the main habitat of humans now-all this is for the game story level. In fact, different provinces also play different roles in ESO’s gameplay. For example, Cyrodiil is a zone that allows players to engage in large-scale PVP battles outside of regular content.

However, it is precisely because of this function that Cyrodiil has to carry many players to enter, so that the zone has long had serious server performance issues. However, after entering 2025, this situation is expected to change through a new test, that is, Cyrodiil Champions.

Introduction To Cyrodiil

As one of the main provinces of ESO, Cyrodiil is not only the capital of Tamriel but also the central battlefield of Three Banners War. In the past, Aldmeri Dominion, Daggerfall Covenant, and Ebonheart Pact fought for control of Imperial City, the Ruby Throne, and Cyrodiil.

On the other hand, when the game was just launched in 2014, Cyrodiil was well received by players and industry insiders as a large-scale open world PVP area. Here you can be a member in one of the three factions in the game, and besiege each other’s territory with hundreds of players from other factions, and earn ESO Gold and even other more precious resources through endless and free battles.

How To Fight In This Zone?

Generally speaking, as long as you reach level 10 in the game, you can enter Cyrodiil and join one of the multiple campaigns. Then in the campaign, if your character is below level 50, the campaign will raise your character’s attributes to the same level as level 50 to eliminate the level difference between players, but it is still recommended to start Cyrodiil campaign after reaching level 50, because your gear and skill level will be better at this time.

During the campaign, you need to fight with players of the same faction and real players of the enemy faction for control of Cyrodiil. There are multiple campaigns in Cyrodiil, but your character can only be assigned to one main campaign and one guest campaign (with different amounts of rewards available). If you want to access other campaigns, this requires 15,000 ESO Gold.

Cyrodiil’s Flaws

Although the campaign gameplay in Cyrodiil and the huge PVP scale it brought made Elder Scrolls Online unparalleled for a while shortly after its launch, the zone soon had many bugs due to the large number of players it had to bear at the same time and the complexity of the entire underlying game, such as poor frame rate and extremely delayed combat, which caused the core highlight PVP siege gameplay to always fail to work properly.

The most direct way to solve these flaws may be to reduce the scale of PVP combat, but then Cyrodiil will undoubtedly lose its greatest value. The only way is to upgrade technology continuously to solve Cyrodiil’s server overload problem. Over the past decade, ESO developers have been working hard on this, and with the arrival of the eleventh year, this embarrassing situation may be expected to change.

What Is Cyrodiil Champions?

Cyrodiil Champions is actually a public test for Cyrodiil bugs that will start running on ESO’s live PC servers on March 24, 2025, and is expected to last for a week to the 31st. This test event will simplify your character’s class skills while retaining all large-scale sieges in Cyrodiil and disable more advanced combat benefits, including passive abilities and armor types.

This simplification will undoubtedly greatly change the class capabilities in Cyrodiil. For example, your character will not be able to cause damage and heal at the same time, which was possible before. In addition, some unnecessary modeling in the battle scenes is expected to be simplified or directly cancelled.

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Although you may doubt whether this approach is only a temporary solution, the development team said that on the one hand, PVE and PVP modes should be strictly distinguished because they provide different experiences, so on this basis, making PVP more distinctive through simplification is a necessary and bold attempt.

On the other hand, simplification will actually be more friendly to players, especially if you are a novice who is afraid of fighting against real people. Simplifying the skill operation in the PVP mode may make you more willing to enter Cyrodiil to experience related campaigns.

The Significance Of Cyrodiil Champions

Since the end of 2024, Elder Scrolls Online has announced and started to implement a number of new initiatives in the hope that you will see a completely different ESO, and the emergence of Cyrodiil Champions is undoubtedly one of the changes.

If the feedback from this test is good enough in the end, it will not only mean that Cyrodiil defects that have troubled players and the development team for many years have finally been solved, but also represent that in 2025, the year when a new era of ESO begins, the game has made another new and representative progress.

In short, Cyrodiil Champions is very worth looking forward to. If you want to know whether Cyrodiil campaign gameplay will get better in the future through it, start to experience it on March 24!

Seeking breakthroughs should be something that any MMORPG that wants to persist in operation must do. Even if the current game development trend is good, it will soon be eliminated by other competitors without maintenance and updates. That is why, in the current prosperous game market, the classic MMORPG Elder Scrolls Online follows the rules and trends and ushered in a new era of its own in 2025.

As the first year after the game held its 10th anniversary event, 2025 has naturally become the best time node for ESO developers to implement various new plans. In fact, at the end of last year, the game gradually announced a number of new plans, such as the game update mode changed from a major annual update to a new season every few months, and the plan will be implemented through the launch of update 45 and the new DLC Fallen Banners.

As time goes by, three or four days ago on March 10th, you can finally start to experience update 45 and the new DLC in ESO first through the PC/Mac platform (Xbox and PlayStation login will have to wait until March 26th). It is worth noting that update 45 is free for all subscribed players, but the new DLC has changed the old mechanism and needs to be obtained separately. Therefore, in order to help you consider whether to experience this DLC, we will focus on introducing you to the overview of the two dungeons in it.

DLC Fallen Banners Overview

The two new PVE dungeons in Fallen Banners DLC are Lep Seclusa and Exiled Redoubt. Although their exclusive plots are different, they have something in common: they will reward you with ESO Gold or other items necessary for playing the game after you complete the relevant tasks.

Generally speaking, as long as you are a subscriber to Elder Scrolls Online, you can enjoy all DLC for free before, but perhaps due to the chain reaction caused by changes in the seasonal update mechanism and other aspects, you must currently have an ESO Plus membership to access the dungeons in Fallen Banners. Or you can just wait and see until the developers reveal other ways to get the DLC during ESO Direct on April 10.

Dungeon 1 Lep Seclusa

Most PVE dungeons in RPGs have a storyline all their own, and Lep Seclusa is no exception. It’s actually home to a little-known group of Redguard monks called Hel Netu, who have long been dedicated to erasing any knowledge of Hel Netu from the rest of Tamriel, making Lep Seclusa the perfect place to hide Elder Scrolls. It’s a method that worked for a long time, as Tamriel all but forgot about Lep Seclusa, Hel Netu, and the mysterious scrolls they held.

But as you might guess, there are no secrets that last forever. As the dungeon content unfolds, Orpheon the Tactician and his deserter army have somehow learned about Lep Seclusa, and they believe that the prophecy on the scroll hidden here is the key to their control of Ruby Throne and the empire, so they will use all means to obtain the scroll, and what you have to do is to stop Orpheon and his army when they attack and defend Lep Seclusa with Moth Priests together.

Dungeon 2 Exiled Redoubt

Unlike Lep Seclusa’s own mysterious story, the relevant plot of Exiled Redoubt is much simpler and the difficulty level will be more friendly. Exiled Redoubt is the underground fortress of a former noble Cato Albus in ESO. He seems to be planning some ulterior conspiracy here, because the plot will tell you that many Alliance War veterans have disappeared here.

What you have to do next is to fight in the dungeon with Battlemage Lucilla while investigating, find out the reason for the disappearance of veterans, and crush Cato Albus’s plan. After completing the dungeon, you will receive gold, unique dye, a monster mask, and three armor sets for each class of equipment as rewards.

Don’t Miss ESO Direct!

In order to let players know the next plan of the game in 2025, as well as the effects and feedback of the recent update rhythm and content changes, Elder Scrolls Online plans to hold an ESO Direct starting at 3:00 pm on Thursday, April 10.

The reason why you are recommended not to miss this Direct and related programs is that on the one hand, it should reveal more new information about Fallen Banners DLC, as well as some content related to update 46; on the other hand, after watching the Direct and the program, you will have the opportunity to get Twitch Drops, including 150% XP scrolls for watching the live broadcast for 15 minutes and Skill Respecification scrolls for watching the program for 30 minutes.

In addition, the one-year ESO 10th anniversary celebration, which started in April last year, has not yet ended, so the event will announce the bonus code set in this live broadcast, which you can use to redeem the 10th anniversary exclusive monkey pet in the game!

In short, whether you are a new or old player of ESO, 2025 is definitely the year you should pay the most attention and energy to the game. I hope you can have a great gaming experience!

Some time ago, ZeniMax, the developer of Elder Scrolls Online, announced that it would no longer release annual expansions for it, but would instead switch to seasonal expansions. This topic caused a widespread discussion among players. But in fact, this confident developer has changed the game that has been released for more than ten years more than we can imagine.

On March 10, you will experience the new Cyrodiil Champions PVP campaign, the revamped starting area, and more complete quality of life improvements in Elder Scrolls Online. These are the features and changes that many ESO players dream of.

Of course, the new features and improvements provided in this ESO Update 45 have not only had some impact on itself, some of them can even affect the current MMO game market, such as the addition of a Xbox Series X|S add-on. This is definitely not an exaggeration. If you don’t believe it, then follow this guide to list the improvements and impacts of you.

General Improvements

First of all, the most important change in Update 45 is the PVP changes in Cyrodiil. Because players have complained too much about server performance during the long-term exploration process, this update brings a new Cyrodiil Champions PVP campaign to all players.

Unlike other campaigns, this Cyrodiil Champions will lock players into a special class build, which means that you cannot make corresponding changes to your attributes, abilities, or even items.

From a developer’s perspective, this will allow the development team to monitor the server’s response to the simplified abilities and collect a lot of game data to help them plan the future of Cyrodiil and character abilities. For those high-level players, this challenging gameplay may make them feel more excited and accomplished.

But that doesn’t mean ZeniMax has given up on the possibility of new players flocking to Elder Scrolls Online, as it has also taken another step in improving the experience for these players in PVE, such as Betnikh, Stros M’kai, Bleakrock, Bal Foyen and Khenarthi’s Roost zones will all undergo a very big improvement.

Brighter game environments, a better overall atmosphere, new organic clutter and updated signage will make this ESO, which has been released for more than ten years, more vibrant. In addition, ZeniMax will also increase the starting speed of current mounts in the game, which will be more beneficial for players who have a very slow movement speed or farm ESO Gold.

Advanced Improvements

In addition to the above regular improvements, you can also expect to see the addition of new item sets and changes to the map: some customizable waypoints may be launched later, and disguises will become your collection in ESO instead of taking up space in your bank. This is great news for players who are not very skilled at picking up Elder Scrolls Online loot that suits them, because they won't often face the situation of running out of inventory space during exploration.

Although not part of ESO Update 45, the two dungeons in Fallen Banners DLC, Exiled Redoubt and Lep Seclusa, may provide a better platform for players who love challenges. Most importantly, the storylines and themes of these two dungeons are completely different, and the gaming experience you have in them is completely different.

In addition, ZeniMax has now announced that ESO’s add-on components on Xbox Series X|S and PS5 are in preparation and have been tested by developers, which may be big news for MMO gaming industry. Because in the long-term cognition of players, such games are more convenient to play with a mouse and keyboard, and a series of explorations with a handle to control the character may catch people off guard. 

So once Elder Scrolls Online, which has been released for more than a decade and is dedicated to updating, successfully makes these add-ons on the game console, it will have a significant reference for other MMOs to improve the player experience on the game console.

Summary

ESO has cancelled the previous annual chapter update in Update 45, but it has brought more frequent seasonal game content updates to players. I think this is also a major change made by this long-standing MMO to adapt to the current game environment. We can fully look forward to what kind of surprises we will have in this game content and mechanism that is changed every 3-6 months.

In addition, we can also look forward to some add-ons that ESO is developing on Xbox Series X|S and PS5. Imagine exploring the vast Cyrodiil and other explorable areas provided by Elder Scrolls Online with a smooth handle. What a pleasure it is!

The above is what this guide speculates that Elder Scrolls Online wants to convey to players and the current game world in Update 45. But no matter what, the spirit of ESO’s pursuit of change is very suitable for various current MMO games to learn from, because only innovation can attract more new players and inject new vitality into itself. I wish you a happy game!