Chris InglisAs part of the Xbox and Bethesda Developer_Direct last week, Zenimax Online’s Studio Director Matt Firor announced this year’s adventure, Shadow Over Morrowind, which takes us back to Morrowind. The first time we saw Morrowind in ESO was with the Morrowind chapter in 2017 where we had the Warden as the newest class at the time (and my favourite class in the game). The Shadow Over Morrowind adventure tells a captivating story across multiple content releases, beginning with Scribes of Fate dungeon DLC in March. The story will then continue in June when the latest chapter will be released titled, The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom. In addition, my most anticipated request has been confirmed and we will be getting a new class! This time, it’s called the Arcanist. The cinematic trailer shows the sheer quality of production that Zenimax Online raises the visual bar each year. I can’t wait to jump into the new dungeons!
The Elder Scrolls Online Scribes of Fate DLC
To begin the Shadow Over Morrowind saga, the Scribes of Fate DLC launches this coming March and will feature two new four-player PvE dungeons. Players will battle their way past the twisted acolytes of the Scribes of Mora in Scrivener’s Hall or contend with the temporal magics of Bal Sunnar. Players will battle their way past the twisted acolytes of the Scribes of Mora in Scrivener’s Hall or contend with the temporal magics of Bal Sunnar. Each dungeon is set to challenge you and your team with Normal and Veteran difficulties (including Hard Mode) and features its own quest and rewards. Scribes of Fate launches March 13, 2023, for PC/Mac, and March 28, 2023, for Xbox and PlayStation consoles.
The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom Chapter
Following the Scribes of Fate DLC, The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom Chapter launches this June. The Necrom Chapter will feature 30 hours of all-new story content, taking players into two new zones along in Eastern Morrowind. First, venture across the Telvanni Peninsula to discover more about the lore of the Dark Elves who call this part of Morrowind home. Then dive deep into the eldritch curiosities held within Apocrypha, the realm of Oblivion that the Daedric Prince of Knowledge claims as his own. In your journeys into the new zones, you can recruit two all-new Companions, the Redguard Arcanist Azandar Al-Cybiades and Argonian Warden Sharp-As-Night. Each companion features their own personalities, abilities for you to unlock, and stories to tell (including their own quests).
The coolest part about this new chapter for me though is the new playable class – the Arcanist! The Arcanist is ESO’s seventh class and will bring powerful new abilities and mechanics drawn from a Daedric Prince in the realm of Oblivion. As a practitioner of this mystical new class, you can harness powerful runes, tomes of ancient knowledge, and the energy of Apocrypha itself to unleash destructive, defensive, or restorative magics in three new skill lines. The Arcanist class also introduces a new combat mechanic: Crux. As you activate certain Arcanist class abilities, you generate Crux, which you can save up and spend when activating other specific abilities. The more Crux you generate before spending (up to a maximum of three), the more your ability is empowered when you do spend it! How you utilize the Crux generating and spending abilities in your combat rotations can have a major impact on your effectiveness.
If you like to play offense, when wielding the destructive magics of the damage-focused Herald of the Tome skill line, you manipulate arcane energies to bombard your foes with damaging blasts, beams, and more. This includes active abilities such as Runeblades, which launches lethal projectiles at your foes, generating Crux as you do. Prefer to play a supporting role? With the restorative Curative Runeforms skill line, you can make use of healing runes to keep your party (or yourself) healthy, shield your allies from damage, or even help them navigate the battlefield via portals with the Apocryphal Gate ability, which summons a passage between worlds. If you like to play defensively and protect your allies, the magic of the Apocryphal Soldier skill line allows you to dominate your foes’ attention, buff yourself or your party’s defensive capabilities, and even conjure an explosive damage shield with Runespite Ward, which can be improved with Crux.
The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom launches on PC/Mac on June 5, 2023, and on Xbox and PlayStation consoles on June 20, 2023. Keep watch for more information on elderscrollsonline.com about this new storyline in the months to come! Missed the Global Reveal livestream? Check out the full show below!
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