The Elder Scrolls Online - Wrathstone DLC Release Date Announced
-
Category: News ArchiveHits: 1383
The Wrathstone DLC, the first chapter of Bethesda's The Season of the Dragon event for The Elder Scrolls Online, will be going live on PC and Mac on February 25, 2019, and on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on March 12th. This premium DLC will introduce two new dungeons and will be accompanied by a free update for the base game. Here are some additional details:
Today we announced that the Wrathstone DLC game pack will be released for PC and Mac on February 25 and for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on March 12.
This new DLC will challenge players to uncover both halves of the mysterious Wrathstone tablet with two all-new, four-player dungeons: Depths of Malatar and Frostvault. In Depths of Malatar, players will investigate sunken Ayleid ruins and discover the fate of a lost Imperial cohort. While in Frostvault, players must work to navigate the glacial rifts beneath Eastmarch in order to gain access to an ancient Dwarven vault. Both new dungeons will feature challenging monsters and bosses and provide fantastic new rewards including powerful item sets and unique collectibles.
Wrathstone will also kick off the Season of the Dragon year-long adventure, starting a journey that will take you to ESO’s next Chapter, The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr, and continue throughout the entirety of 2019.
At launch, Wrathstone will be available for free for all ESO Plus members or be purchasable with crowns from the in-game Crown Store.
On top of that, this developer blog post describes a couple of new features the free Update 21 will add to the MMORPG. These include a new zone guide tool and an overhaul to the game's guild trader UI. Here are a few paragraphs about the zone guide:
Tamriel is a big place, and ESO’s many zones are filled with lots of things to see and do. With Update 21 and the new Zone Guide tool, we’ve made it easier to discover everything Nirn has to offer.
“With the Zone Guide, we’re trying to help players that want to complete a zone or those that feel lost and want to find something to do,” explains Michael Edwards, ESO’s Senior System Designer. “We want to make sure we help the existing, new, and returning players that might be kind of confused and need some direction to get started.”
This new tool displays the following zone information:The Zone Guide can be accessed from your Activity Feed, Announcement panel, and from your Map UI (underneath the new “Map Completion” list.)
- Featured Achievements
- Zone Story Quests completed
- Wayshrines unlocked
- Delves completed
- Points of Interest visited
- Striking Locales visited
- Set Crafting Stations visited
- Mundus Stones visited
- Public Dungeons completed
- Dolmens / Abyssal Geysers completed
- World Bosses defeated
- Skyshards unlocked
- Lorebooks unlocked
In addition to displaying your progress for all the different locations, activities, and unlocks in a zone, when viewing the Zone Guide from your Activity Finder, you can select the “Start Zone Story” button to be directed to the zone’s quest giver. If you have only completed half of the main quests in the zone, the button will state “Continue Zone Story” and allow you to continue right where you left off. Finally, after you’ve completed the zone’s questline, the button changes again to “Explore Zone”, placing new map indicators.
“If you’re done with the quests, the Explore Zone button will then take you to the next item in the list in order,“ explains Edwards. “And it will eventually tell you how to find everything on the list except for Skyshards and Lorebooks.”
With the Zone Guide, you can discover almost everything a zone has to offer, ensuring you get the most out of your adventures across Tamriel.
