As one of the most classic MMORPGs, Elder Scrolls Online has been launched for ten years - in fact, the game also held a grand anniversary celebration in 2024. Although ESO has difficulty maintaining its popularity as more and more excellent RPGs emerge, it has been working hard to ensure the quality of the game by launching various new initiatives.
At the end of 2024, ESO announced that it would gradually implement major in-game innovations in 2025, the most prominent of which was to replace the previous annual chapter updates with more frequent seasonal updates. To fully demonstrate this transformation, Elder Scrolls Online will launch a new DLC and Update 45 in the near future.
Based on this, we will fully introduce these two new changes to you.
New DLC Fallen Banners
According to the latest news, DLC is expected to be officially released on March 10, and will set up two new explorable four-player dungeons for you, giving you the opportunity to earn more ESO Gold through new battles with your friends.
After entering the first dungeon, Exiled Redoubt, you first need to let your character join Lucilla and infiltrate the stronghold of the once powerful Albus family. You will then discover a conspiracy that plunges the people of Cyrodiil into endless war. To do this, you need to fight through multiple battles to rescue these trapped people.
The second dungeon is called Lep Seclusa, where you and your teammates need to protect Moth Priests and their precious relics from the threat of the evil boss Orpheon the Tactician and his minions.
These two dungeons, which will come with DLC Fallen Banners, offer you their own unique storylines, characters, challenges, and unique boss battles, allowing you to earn exclusive rewards by completing them. And the good news is that after March 25, you can even play this DLC on Xbox and PlayStation consoles, but the prerequisite is that you have an ESO Plus membership.
Update 45 Overview
Update 45 is expected to be released together with Fallen Banners, and it will also support multi-platform experience. Unlike the new DLC, Update 45 is completely free.
Starter Zone Refresh
If you follow the developments of Elder Scrolls Online, you will know that it is updated frequently. For example, Update 44 was released on October 28, 2024 and November 13, 2024, on different platforms, respectively. Update 45 is expected to bring more changes and overall improvements to ESO.
Undoubtedly, the most exciting addition in Update 45 will be Starter Zone Refresh, so all starting areas in Elder Scrolls Online will be completely refreshed, making them more consistent with the details of other recent additions to ESO, such as West Weald or Telvanni Peninsula.
PVP Mode Innovation
Of all the playable ESO modes, PVP has always been in a terrible state because of its unstable server performance, but as the main combat mode, PVP needs to provide you with a more refined experience. Update 45 is expected to introduce the first PVP changes in Cyrodiil.
The update will add a new Cyrodiil Champions test event to the game, which will allow ESO development team to better monitor the server’s response to simplified capabilities by locking you into specific class builds including attributes, abilities, and items, and to better plan the future of Cyrodiil regional development and PVP by collecting data, in order to bring you a more complete and smooth PVP combat experience.
Changes In PVE Mode
For PVE, the game is expected to bring a new coat of paint to Betnikh, Stros M’kai, Bleakrock, Bal Foyen, and Khenarthi’s Roost areas in Update 45, so that the lighting, overall atmosphere, and new additions including various sundries and updated signage can be improved, thereby improving the experience of new players on the one hand, and making loyal fans love the basic PVE mode more on the other hand.
Quality Of Life Improvements
This update information has not yet been fully released, and it may be known to you one by one with the official launch of Update 45. However, it is certain that the starting speed of the mount will be increased, but the maximum speed will not be greatly improved, so advanced players may not feel much difference.
Other quality of life changes include several crafting skills in Champion point tree becoming passive skills, new item sets will be added, maps will also receive some improvements, and custom waypoint markers are in development.
Besides Update 45 and the new DLC, ESO developers also said that you will experience new add-ons on Xbox Series XS and PS5 later, and they are expected to be tried on PTS starting next week.
After understanding the above information, I believe you should have an idea of how to prepare for these new contents, but if you have difficulty in resource reserves, such as lack of enough gold coins, you can try to enter IGGM Discord to seek help with relevant giveaway information. Thank you for reading.
