Everything about the new Gold Road expansion, the new scripture system and the 2024 content

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The Elder Scrolls Online will also be provided with new content in 2024. The focus is on the “Gold Road” expansion, which brings the “Scripture” feature to the MMORPG. This allows the character to adapt even better to the individual playing style.

What will TESO bring in 2024?

  • The year begins with Update 41, which includes 2 new dungeons: Pit of the Oathsworn and Shroud of Turmoil. The development team will present the content in more detail on Twitch on January 26, 2024 at 9:00 p.m. Central European Time. The PTS will go live on January 29th, with the full version sometime in March – for both PC and console.
  • The Gold Road expansion for the PC will be released on June 3, 2024. New story content, 3 new areas and the scripture feature await you there. The DLC will be released for PlayStation and Xbox on June 18, 2024.
  • A new housing feature will follow in the third quarter, which fans should be particularly looking forward to. Unfortunately, the development team has not revealed any further details about this. TESO is already one of the MMORPGs with the best housing.
  • A new PvP feature that is not related to Cyrodiil will follow at the end of the year. Furthermore, 2 new companions are added.

    • To accompany the expansion, there is a cinematic trailer that takes a first look at the expansion’s story. The DLC is primarily based on the color scheme of autumn, which is why the development team worked a lot with golden, red and brown tones:

    The Elder Scrolls Online – Gold Road in the announcement trailer

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    In Gold Road the story from Necrom continues seamlessly

    Spoiler alert: In the section “What’s the expansion about?” we’ll go over the story from Necrom and Gold Road.

    What is the expansion about? Gold Road picks up directly from the cliffhanger from the Necrom expansion. We learn in the prologue that a long-forgotten Daedric prince named Ithelia escaped from her captivity.

    A group calling themselves the Recollection wants to restore Ithelia’s powers to their former state. The Daedric Prince is currently wandering around the new area and has lost her memory. It’s up to the player to find out who Ithelia is and what was done to her by the other Daedric Princes.

    The game is played in 3 different zones:

  • The Goldstrasse is a deciduous forest with autumnal colors
  • Twilight wood, on the other hand, is reminiscent of a jungle or rainforest
  • Added to this are the Colovian highlands with their rocky and hilly landscape

    • In Gold Road we end up in Westauen. The area is located west of Cyrodiil and hosts Skingrad as its capital. The area is visually based on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

    In the fight against the Recollection Organization.

    New items, world bosses and dungeons – this is what Gold Road contains

    What does the expansion contain apart from the story and areas?

  • New items
  • New dungeons
  • New world bosses
  • New public dungeons
  • New trials for 12 players
  • World events
  • Actually, there have been new companions in every expansion since Blackwood 2. Unfortunately they are not included in Gold Road, but will be added later in Q4.

    • The big highlight in Gold Road, however, is the new Scripture teaching feature.

    The scripture system individualizes the playing style

    What kind of system is this? Through lore, players can collect unique skills and customize them through primary, secondary, and tertiary effects. At launch, the lore system will focus on the “Weapon” and “World” skill lines. So all classes can take advantage of it.

    Each of these skill lines will have at least one unique unlockable skill that we can configure. We have 3 different resources to choose from:

  • Grimoire: With these we can determine the core of the skill (for example, shooting an arrow at the ground)
  • Script places: Each grimoire has 3 slots. These slots can be filled to change special effects (e.g. healing, specific damage type, …)
  • Inks: The material can be consumed to override an ability

    • The aim of the function is to give players more freedom with their skills. The Scripture Doctrine is only available to those who also own the Gold Road DLC.

    The system can also be used to customize the visual properties of an ability. At launch there will be 22 different color variants. All styles should be able to be unlocked or obtained in-game.

    What do you think about the content of TESO in 2024? Do they speak to you? Are you looking forward to the new feature?

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