The Western Skyrim growth to The Elder Scrolls Online is touchdown later this month, taking gamers to the darker aspect of long-ago Nords. Many elements of the brand new map are placing acquainted, however subsequent to Solitude’s Blue Palace is a model new Antiquarian Guild the place you’ll study the artwork of scrying for historic valuables and digging them up. Zenimax have outlined the method in a brand new submit, exhibiting off a closing take a look at the 2 new actions.
After becoming a member of the Antiquarian Guild within the new growth, you’ll robotically be gifted a stack of “leads,” Zenimax say. To comply with up a lead on some uncommon merchandise, you’ll whip out your shiny Antiquarian’s Eye instrument to magically scry for the situation of the shiny factor you need to dig up.
Scrying is a symbol-matching minigame the place you seize tiles on the board by clicking teams of symbols. There’s a little bit of technique concerned in capturing all of the “foci”—the spherical shiny bits—inside your allotted turns through the use of particular expertise that convert symbols and such. I attempted my hand at scrying throughout an earlier preview construct this 12 months and on the time the symbols had been a little bit of a headache to tell apart from each other. It seems like they’ve shored up the design a bit, making it a lot simpler to identify teams of matching tiles.
After scrying for an antiquity’s location someplace on this planet, you’ll skip off to dig it up. The excavation game isn’t fairly as strategic as scrying—extra Battleship-like confidently—however Zenimax appear to love pushing the “Indiana Jones of Tamriel” line so get but trowels and brushes out. Just like scrying, excavating can have its personal set of expertise that you simply’ll throw factors in to enhance the effectiveness of your instruments.
As for what we’ve digging up, Zenimax have already talked a bit concerning the varieties of treasures Antiquarians will discover however included that checklist of their submit as effectively. There are new Mythic Item gear items, a mount, PvP siege weapons, and home decorations for folk like me. My Khajiit’s home stuffed with ill-gotten items will proceed to develop.
You can get the remainder of the main points on the brand new Antiquarian Guild in Zenimax’s post.
The Elder Scrolls Online – Greymoor growth will launch on May 26th. Current gamers can improve to Greymoor for £33/€40/$40, whereas new gamers can purchase it for £50/€60/$60, both of which embrace the bottom game and ESO’s earlier growth chapters from Morrowind, Summerset, and Elsweyr. It’s on Steam and the Bethesda store.
