ESO Update 52 PTS Adds Undaunted Event Test and Moves Jerall Pass Stress Test to Nov. 3

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The Elder Scrolls Online’s Update 52 PTS has moved to v12.2.1, and this week’s build is mostly about event testing, PvP performance, and walking back a controversial tank damage experiment.

The Undaunted Celebration is now on the PTS for testing from November 4 through November 11. ZeniMax is also moving the next Jerall Pass stress test to November 3 at 8pm Eastern, with dev team members expected to be online for at least an hour while the studio tries to hit the player cap.

  • The Undaunted Celebration and Whitestrake’s Mayhem are being adjusted to cover two weekends instead of a strict one-week window. They’ll start on a Thursday, run through the next week and weekend, then end on Monday.
  • Undaunted Celebration is planned as a quarterly event, with four runs per year and reward pools split by season.
  • Solo Dungeons will count for Undaunted Celebration rewards, so final bosses there can drop event boxes just like group dungeons.
  • The first final dungeon boss kill per account each day still awards a gold Undaunted Reward Box, while later kills award purple boxes. Undaunted Pledges will continue giving double keys.
  • The reward focus is shifting toward returning Undaunted outfit styles, including dungeon motifs, monster helm and shoulder styles, and opal variants.

The tank damage changes are the other big piece. After feedback on adjustments to Deadly Bash, Juggernaut, and Cutting Defense, ZeniMax says it’s reverting those changes rather than continuing to tune them during this PTS cycle. The studio said the idea of giving tanks more damage still isn’t off the table, but the current approach needs more work.

Jerall Pass also gets more testing changes in this build. Alliance gates now have additional guards, and those guards should hit harder, take less damage, and respawn more often. Zirtiz the Pyre Lord should also appear more frequently in Fanthor Underkeep Cave, with different respawn timers depending on whether the boss was defeated or recruited.

Smaller combat changes include Solar Barrage and Lightning Form suppressing Stealth and Invisibility while active, several class group buffs going from 20 seconds to one minute, and Inner Beast getting a higher cost and a 20% damage reduction.

Further reading: Official ESO PTS Patch Notes v12.2.1