This page lists all limited-time events which have taken place in The Elder Scrolls Online. Events can be special occasions that only occur once, or can be recurring every year. Recurring events include:
- Anniversary Jubilee
- New Life Festival
- Jester's Festival
- Whitestrake's Mayhem
- Witches Festival
- Undaunted Celebration
- DLC anniversary celebrations: held around the anniversary of the release of one or more Zone DLCs, such as the Imperial City Celebration, Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood Celebration and Orsinium Celebration. These typically involve additional rewards for playing DLC content, including double drops from certain quests, bosses and resource nodes.
- New DLC celebrations: held some time after the release of a new chapter or DLC, such as Summerfall for the Summerset chapter, Dragon Rise for the Elsweyr chapter, and Dawn of the Dragonguard involving the Elsweyr chapter along with the Scalebreaker and Dragonhold DLCs. These sometimes give additional rewards for playing DLC content, often with added rewards based off the number of players participating in the event that are distributed to all participants once the event has concluded.
The Crown Store usually has special offers coinciding with these events, such as discounts on relevant DLCs and cosmetics, and can include the temporary return of limited availability items such as DLC Collector's Editions, Player Houses and Crown Crates. Sometimes the Crown Store also has additional sales corresponding to various real-world cultural events not otherwise celebrated in-game, such as Valentine's Day ("Heart's Day"), St Patrick's Day, Friday the 13th ("Fatal Fredas/Serpent 13"), a combined dye sale for Canada Day, US Independence Day & Bastille Day, and the annual Black Friday ("Black Fredas") sale.
Since late 2018, most game events have also provided Event Tickets to participants, used to purchase special items from the Impresario.
Four of the recurring events also have their own Achievements, some of which unlock special furnishings for purchase.
Current EventsEdit
Anniversary Jubilee 2024Edit
Happy 10th Birthday, ESO! Chef Donolon has decided to travel the world in search of new recipes and the secret meaning of cake. His adopted son, Apprentice Mogh, substitutes his cake-baking duties for the event. The young Khajiit is beset by envious bakers, and will need some brief help deterring their culinarily criminal caper before giving you your very own celebratory cake! The Molag Bal sculpture is made from 100% pure Black Marsh chocolate with bright blue toxic marsh slug dye, guaranteed to cause instant death to non-Argonians gratification and wonder for all!
- As with other events, such as Witches Festival and New Life Festival last year, the experience bonus previously provided by eating the cake is now PASSIVE during the event. You don’t need to do anything to get it. It applies to everything! There’s no buff to track and no need to summon the cake more than once a day for your 3 Event Tickets (which come from the cake as normal).
- During the event, completing any daily quest in Tamriel will give you an Anniversary Jubilee Gift Box in addition to its other rewards. These boxes will have a smattering of potential rewards including crafting materials, recipes, transmute crystals, and a chance to get an outfit style page for the new Earthbone Ayleid Armor Style.
- The first of these boxes you acquire in a day will be gold Glorious quality (substantially more rewarding than previous iterations of this box), while any subsequent daily done will be a purple-quality one (about as rewarding as previous iterations of Jubilee boxes).
- Glorious boxes also have a guaranteed fragment for the brand-new, event-unique Jubilee Steed!
- This event will run for an extended period next year, and you will be need to expend some event tickets on fragments of this cantering colt as well in order to acquire it – if such is your fancy, of course.
- You can now also get Jubilee boxes from the following activities while playing:
- Killing and looting any final Dungeon boss.
- Killing and looting any final Trial boss.
- Killing and looting World Bosses
- Completing any Incursion event (Dolmens, Geysers, Dragons, etc.)
- Rewards for the Worthy mails
- Tales of Tribute reward bags
- The Bag of Jubilee Yesteryear can offer you things you don’t have from among Bonemold, Saberkeel, Worm Cult, Jephrine Paladin, Imperial Champion, Prophet, Lyris Titanborn, Sai Sahan, and Abnur Tharn outfit styles/motifs. It also has a chance to give you an additional style item for the Worm Cult motif, and if you somehow end up with a grab bag after claiming all of the rewards it can offer, the bag will instead contain a Group Repair Kit.
- In keeping with our 10th year of shenanigans in ESO, certain activities in the game will now offer you some unique, never-before-sourced cosmetic rewards from exploring certain areas or systems of the game.
- As an extremely small chance from any fishing node during the Jubilee, you may find Outfit Style pages for the Trueflame Sword Replica. Yes, really!
- Any Dolmen reward chest has a chance to contain a style page for the Staff of Worms Replica, in recognition (though not honor) of Mannimarco’s dark deeds.
- Any World Boss in Vvardenfell has a chance to drop a style page for either the Sunna’rah Replica or the Barbas Wolf Helmet Replica, as seen during that chapter’s story.
- Any Geyser in Summerset has a chance to drop a style page for the Ul’vor Staff, as seen during that chapter’s story.
- The Impresario will offer cake furnishings for all cakes, including the new one, as long as you have the cake for the corresponding year.
- She will ALSO offer new furnishings for the individual slices of cake representing each of the major cake visual styles. Each of these cake slices are a single Event Ticket.
- She will also ALSO carry bound style pages for the Earthbone Ayleid armor style, as well as all three fragments for the Molag Bal Illusion Imp pet.
- She also also ALSO carries the first and second of three total fragments for the next morph, the Master of Schemes personality. The third fragment will become available in later events for that quarter.
Future EventsEdit
2024Edit
Jester's Festival 2024Edit
The Jesters Festival returns! As always, you can complete the introductory quest to acquire a Pie of Misrule as a delicious memento treat. The first Jesters Festival daily you complete each day will award you a gold-quality Stupendous Jester’s Festival Box and 3 Event Tickets, with subsequent dailies granting purple quality Jester’s Festival Boxes that have smaller chances to give you The Good Stuff.
- As with other events such as Witches Festival and New Life Festival last year, the experience bonus previously provided by eating the pie is now PASSIVE during the event. You don’t need to do anything to get it. It applies to everything and there’s no buff to track.
- This year’s goofy pageantry includes style pages for the new Jester's Seeker's Suit outfit, so you too can dress like a slurpy squid-fella from scenic Apocrypha.
- The Impresario will have all three fragments of both the Molag Bal Illusion Imp pet and Planemeld’s Master body and face markings, along with bound versions of fragments and style pages for the new offerings this year. She will also carry some older offerings for folks who still need to collect them, so be sure to visit her for her latest stock!
Post-Maintenance Experience BoostEdit
- Alone, or with a party of other heroes, earn additional experience as you adventure across Tamriel.
A 100% XP boost concurrent with the 10 Years of ESO event, which was active for all players from 10 AM (EST) March 19 — 10 AM (EST) March 21, following routine maintenance downtime.
Crazy King Battleground Weekend (March 2024)Edit
The Chaosball Weekend took place between March 14 — March 19, 2024. A solo and group queue for Chaosball were available for the duration, and all Battlegrounds matches had a 25% bonus to Alliance Points earned.
Whitestrake's Mayhem (Winter, 2024)Edit
Whitestrake's Mayhem returns to Cyrodiil and the Imperial City! This year, you no longer need to use the Scroll of Pelinal’s Ferocity to get your buffs during the event; all bonuses are now passive in the appropriate worlds while the event is running. Additionally, the previous experience bonus for killing players is now a general +100% XP earned in all Cyrodiil, Imperial City, and Battleground worlds.
- Pelinal’s Boon Boxes are rewarded for completing daily quests in Cyrodiil or Imperial City district daily quests, or as a bonus reward with Rewards for the Worthy mails you receive.
- These boxes contain treasures ranging from Tel-Var Stones to Cyrodiil repair kits or soul gems, as well as a chance for Cyrodiil style pages, Daedric siege weapons, transmute geodes.
- You may also receive a tradeable style page for the new Dovah’s Du’ul outfit style. If you’ve already earned one on a given day, you can instead get pages of the Sancre Tor Sentry weapon style.
- You can earn a total of 3 Event Tickets per day during this event. The first 2 come from completing any daily quest that focuses on Cyrodiil or Battlegrounds. You may earn an additional ticket by completing an Imperial City District daily quest.
- This Mayhem, you will also have a chance to find returning Sancre Tor Sentry armor style and Gloamsedge armor style pages from Imperial City bosses and sweepers.
- The Bag of Veteran’s Glory this season contains the following offerings from previous Mayhems:
- Legion Zero Armor Style Pages
- Alliance Banner Emotes
- Second Legion Armor Style Pages
- Banner-Bearer Shields and Staves Pages
- Legion Zero Vigiles Armor Style Pages
- Black Drake’s Body/Face Warpaint
- Ebonsteel Knight Armor Style Pages
- Black Drake Clanwrap Style Pages
- Battle-Scared Body/Face Markings
- House Dufort Banneret Armor Style Pages
- Tools of Domination Weapon Style Pages
- The Impresario will have bound style pages for the Dovah’s Du’ul outfit for 5 tickets each. Also available will be all three fragments of the Molag Bal Imp Pet as well as the first and second fragments of the Planemeld’s Master body and face markings (a single morph that grants both collectibles).
Crafter's CelebrationEdit
The first mini-event of this type. The following boosts were available for the duration of this event:
- +100% Inspiration gain to all crafting skill lines
- Master Writs earned during the event grant +100% Writ Vouchers when completed. Note that this does not apply to Master Writs that already existed prior to the start of the event.
- Increased drops from harvest nodes. This did not include fishing or creature drops such as leather.
- 50% reduction in Transmute Crystal costs for changing item traits.
- Increased chance of receiving improvement materials such as Tempering Alloy or Mastic when deconstructing equipment of an appropriate rarity.
Chaosball Battleground Weekend (February 2024)Edit
The Chaosball Weekend took place between February 8 — February 13, 2024. A solo and group queue for Chaosball were available for the duration, and all Battlegrounds matches had a 25% bonus to Alliance Points earned.
Guilds and Glory CelebrationEdit
What do Orcs, the Imperial Legion, a shady criminal syndicate, and a cult of murderous assassins have in common? They’re all celebrated in the Guilds and Glory Celebration! And maybe making a pretty solid Activity Finder group while they’re at it. The assassin is a healer, it’s all good.
- This event focuses on the Orsinium, Imperial City, Thieves’ Guild, and Dark Brotherhood DLCs.
- Your Event Tickets from this event come in a single batch of 2 tickets, awarded by completing any one of the following each day:
- Delve and World Boss Quests in Orsinium, Hew’s Bane, the Gold Coast, or Imperial City
- The Weekly Trial Quest for Maw of Lorkhaj
- Killing and looting an Imperial City district sweeper or Coldharbour Elite Guard in the sewers
- Killing and looting the final boss of Imperial City Prison or White-Gold Tower
- Killing and looting the final boss of Maelstrom Arena
- Various bosses, resource nodes, and daily quests in any of the target DLC zones award extra loot during this event. Like with the earlier Gates of Oblivion Celebration, event coffers work a little differently here. There are zone boxes, Imperial City boxes and dungeon boxes, all named in accordance with the location they were gleaned from.
- Zone boxes are found by completing daily quests in their respective zones, killing delve and world bosses, public dungeon bosses, random enemies, treasure chests, safeboxes, resource nodes, thieves’ troves, and pickpocketing NPCs.
- Dungeon boxes come from the final boss of Imperial City Prison, White-Gold Tower, and Maelstrom Arena.
- Imperial City boxes come from Imperial City daily quests, district sweepers, and the Coldharbour Elite Guards of the sewers.
- The first of these boxes each day is a Glorious quality box with higher drop chances of the good stuff. The first final dungeon boss of the two dungeons or the arena will offer a Glorious quality box of its respective type. You can earn 3 total Glorious boxes per day as a result, one from zone content, one from Imperial City content, and one from dungeon/arena content.
- These boxes can contain the following items:
- Crafting materials
- Saleable treasures
- Style items for Guilds and Glory overland or dungeon zone motifs (depending on box source)
- Set items from Guilds and Glory overland or dungeon zones (depending on box source)
- Imperial City key fragments (if from an Imperial City box)
- Tel Var stones (if from an Imperial City box)
- Companion gear
- Furnishing recipes
- Treasure Maps or Survey Reports
- Motif chapters for Guilds and Glory overland or dungeon motifs (depending on box source)
- Pages for the new Bristleback Hunter outfit style
- Note that final bosses from Veteran Dungeons/Arenas drop two boxes to account for their higher difficulty. If one of these would be eligible for being Glorious, you’ll get one Glorious and one regular.
- These boxes can contain the following items:
- The Impresario will carry bound style pages of the Bristleback Hunter armor style for 5 tickets each. She will also have all three fragments of the new Molag Bal Imp pet and the first of three fragments for the Planemeld’s Master face and body markings (one morph that contains both collectibles when completed).
New Life Festival 2023Edit
The New Life Festival is back! Escape slushy highways and the stress of your workday by throwing mudballs at your friends.
- Per tradition, the first New Life quest you complete each day will award you 3 Event Tickets, and any completed New Life quests will award you a New Life Festival Box.
- This box contains an assortment of crafting materials and toys, along with a chance for motif pages, style pages, furnishings, or special charity writs (Deep Winter or Imperial).
- Added to the Festival boxes this year are a chance to get a tradeable page of the new Morningstar Frostwear outfit style. If you’ve already earned a Morningstar Frostwear page that day, boxes can instead offer pages of last year’s Evergreen armor style.
- This year offers a new grab bag, appropriately titled the New Life Festival Grab Bag. This bag contains a collectible or Memento you don’t already possess from among the following:
- Mud Ball Pouch
- Nordic Bather’s Towel
- Colovian Fur Hood
- Colovian Filigreed Hood
- Sword-Swallower's Blade
- Juggler’s Knives
- Fire-Breather's Torches
- Snowball Buddy Pet
- Powderwhite Coney Pet
- Last but not least, the Impresario has all of 2023’s morphing collectible fragments for the Passion Dancer Blossom and its morphs (including the final fragment for the Hoardhunter Ursauk). She also offers bound pages for the Morningstar Frostwear armor style for 5 tickets each.