Ascending Tide Release Date | Dungeons: Coral Aerie | New Sets | Rewards |
New bosses | Furnishings | Legacy of The Bretons |
The release date of ESO Ascending Tide is March 14 for PC/Mac and Stadia, March 29 for Xbox and PlayStation consoles. You can get access to this new dungeon DLC via ESO Plus™ membership or via purchase with crowns from the in-game Crown Store.
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Begin your Legacy of the Bretons year-long adventure with the Ascending Tide DLC game pack.
Coral Aerie is a new four-player PvE dungeon. The Coral Aerie dungeon is coming soon as part of the Ascending Tide DLC game pack, and what you discover within this new PvE challenge will set up and inform the ongoing Legacy of the Bretons year-long adventure.
Race to rescue the dashing Jakarn from the clutches of the mysterious Ascendant Order. Join forces with Captain Kaleen in a daring raid on the Coral Aerie and discover the dark forces threatening the noble Breton people.
Situated along Summerset’s northern coast, the Coral Aerie’s colorful caverns and archaic Elven ruins shelter a secret Ascendant Order hideout. Well-secluded from prying eyes, this unique location was selected by the mysterious organization for a very specific reason.
Ascending Tide Dungeons: Coral Aerie
“The Coral Aerie was chosen because of its access to the sky, allowing gryphons free movement,” explains Mike Finnigan, ESO’s Encounters Lead. “As a result, this allows the local Ascendant Order to use these ruins as a base to launch attacks against their enemies.”
Equal parts enigmatic and dangerous, the Ascendant Order base is a threat in and of itself, but that is not the only reason why you and your party venture into this coral lair. If you’ve played ESO’s Daggerfall Covenant storyline, you will immediately encounter some familiar faces when you enter this new dungeon.
“When you arrive, you’ll discover that Captain Kaleen needs help,” explains Finnigan. “She was hired to find the missing Jakarn, who was on an important mission. What that mission was and why it was entrusted to him is unknown, but Kaleen’s personal history with the handsome rogue is why she was called in.”
Team up with the enterprising captain, infiltrate the base, find Jakarn, and help him escape. It seems simple enough, but as you explore the Coral Aerie, you’ll quickly discover that no shortage of monsters and order agents stand between you and the dashing thief.
In addition to the achievement rewards, the Coral Aerie also contains three all-new item sets and a monster mask set for you to loot, bringing powerful new boons to your characters and builds. These include Gryphon’s Reprisal, a Medium set that inflicts additional bleed damage on your enemies every time you land a critical hit.
“For getting the most out of Gryphon's Reprisal, I'd suggest comboing it with other sets that buff it directly, such as Deadly Strike or Blooddrinker, or key off using a synergy, like Roar of Alkosh or Tooth of Lokkestiiz,” explains Stephen Cerretani, ESO’s combat designer behind the dungeon’s new sets. “Make sure to also put points into the Undaunted skill line's passive Undaunted Command for the extra restore!”
Name | Bonuses | Information |
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Glacial Guardian Set | (2 items) Adds 1487 Armor (3 items) Adds 1096 Max Stamina (4 items) Adds 129 Health Recovery (5 items) When you Block an Enemy within 8 meters of you, tether to them for 8 seconds. While tethered, you deal 368 Frost Damage every second to enemies touching the tether and cause them to have 200% increased Status Effect Chance. The tether breaks if the target moves more than 12 meters away. This effect can occur once every 12 seconds and the damage scales off your Max Health. |
Type: Heavy Armor Style: Ascendant Order Style Location: The Coral Aerie Required DLC: Ascending Tide DLC |
Gryphon's Reprisal Set | (2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance (3 items) Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration (4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance (5 items) When you deal Critical Damage, you or an ally can activate Gryphon's Reprisal on the enemy for 8 seconds, causing a small gryphon to fly by and deal 14952 Bleed Damage over 10 seconds to enemies within 5 meters . This Synergy can be applied once every 20 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon and Spell Damage. |
Type: Medium Armor Style: Ascendant Order Style Location: The Coral Aerie Required DLC: Ascending Tide DLC |
Kargaeda Set | (1 item) Adds 731 Max Magicka, Adds 731 Max Stamina (2 items) On dealing damage with a Heavy Attack, create a whirlwind that slowly moves forward for 8 seconds, growing by 3 meters every 3 seconds. Enemies within the whirlwind take 471 Shock damage and 471 Physical Damage every second. Allies within the whirlwind reduce their Magicka and Stamina costs by 10%. This effect can occur once every 20 seconds and the damage scales off the higher of your Weapon and Spell Damage. |
Type: Monster Helm Style: Undaunted Location: The Coral Aerie Required DLC: Ascending Tide DLC |
Maligalig's Maelstrom Set | (2 items) Adds 1096 Max Magicka (3 items) Adds 4% Healing Done (4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage (5 items) On overhealing yourself or a group member with a Direct Heal, apply Maligalig's Maelstrom to the target for 6 seconds that deals Shock Damage to enemies within 7 meters. This damage is based on 33% of the overhealed amount, up to 3300. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds. |
Type: Light Armor Style: Ascendant Order Style Location: The Coral Aerie Required DLC: Ascending Tide DLC |
Nazaray Set | (1 item) Adds 1206 Max Health (2 items) When you use an Ultimate ability, the closest 6 enemies within 12 meters have all Damage Over Time, Major Debuffs, and Minor Debuffs applied to them extended by 1 second per 25 Ultimate spent. This effect will not apply to Damage Beams or Damage Tethers. This effect can occur once every 20 seconds per target. |
Type: Monster Helm Style: Undaunted Location: Shipwright's Regret Required DLC: Ascending Tide DLC |
Spriggan's Vigor Set | (2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance (3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina (4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage (5 items) When you deal Critical Damage you gain a stack of Wild Growth for 5 seconds and restore 100 Stamina, 10 stacks max. Each stack of Wild Growth increases your Max Stamina by 222. This effect can occur once every 0.5 seconds. |
Type: Medium Armor Style: Dreadsails Style Location: Shipwright's Regret Required DLC: Ascending Tide DLC |
Storm-Cursed's Revenge Set | (2 items) Adds 1096 Max Magicka (3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage (4 items) Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration (5 items) When you deal Shock Damage, you have a 15% chance to deal 1360 Shock Damage to the enemy and up to 2 other enemies within 5 meters. This effect scales off the higher of your Weapon and Spell Damage. |
Type: Light Armor Style: Dreadsails Style Location: Shipwright's Regret Required DLC: Ascending Tide DLC |
Turning Tide Set | (2 items) Adds 1206 Max Health (3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina (4 items) Adds 1206 Max Health (5 items) When you Block, you gain Flowing Water for 10 seconds, causing your next Bash attack to deal 3191 Magic Damage to up to 6 enemies in a 10 meter line, and apply for 10 seconds, increasing their damage taken by 10%. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds and scales off your Max Health. |
Type: Heavy Armor Style: Dreadsails Style Location: Shipwright's Regret Required DLC: Ascending Tide DLC |
Name | Bonuses | Information |
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Nunatak Set | (1 item) Adds 1487 Armor (2 items) On dealing Frost Damage, create a frozen area under the target for 6 seconds. Enemies in the area take 482 Frost damage and gain a stack of Chilling Bite, which applies a 25% snare for 4 seconds. On gaining 4 stacks, the enemy is immobilized and gains Major Brittle for 4 seconds, causing the target to take 20% increased Critical Damage. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon and Spell Damage. |
Type: Monster Style: Undaunted Location: Cyrodiil Required DLC: -- |
Lady Malygda Set | (1 item) Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration (2 items) When you deal Direct Damage to a target within 12 meters, create an area that after 1 second, quickly moves forward and then returns, dealing 2048 Shock damage and applying Minor Enervation for 5 seconds, causing the target to deal 10% less Critical Damage. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon and Spell Damage. |
Type: Monster Style: Undaunted Location: Cyrodiil Required DLC: -- |
Baron Thirsk Set | (1 item) Adds 129 Stamina Recovery, Adds 129 Magicka Recovery (2 items) On dealing area Direct Damage, mark a target for 6 seconds. Every 2 seconds after, an Explosive Scamp is spawned nearby and detonates after 1 second, dealing 915 Magic damage to up to 6 enemies within 4 meters and applying Minor Timidity for 10 seconds, draining 1 Ultimate every 1.5 seconds. Each Explosive Scamp spawned deals 100% increased damage. This effect can occur once every 25 seconds and scales off the higher of your Weapon and Spell Damage. |
Type: Monster Style: Undaunted Location: Cyrodiil Required DLC: -- |
Rallying Cry Set | (2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance (3 items) Adds 1096 Max Magicka (4 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance (5 items) While Battle Spirit is active, critically healing yourself or an ally causes you and up to 11 other group members within 12 meters to gain 300 Weapon and Spell Damage, and 1650 Critical Resistance for 20 seconds. Each group member affected reduces the Weapon and Spell Damage by 15 and Critical Resistance by 83. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds. |
Type: Light Armor Style: Location: Cyrodiil Required DLC: -- |
Hew and Sunder Set | (2 items) Adds 1096 Max Stamina (3 items) Adds 1096 Max Stamina (4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage (5 items) When you deal damage with a Heavy Attack, gain 1236 Offensive Penetration for each enemy within 8 meters of your target for 10 seconds. This effect can occur once every 7 seconds. |
Type: Medium Armor Style: Location: Cyrodiil Required DLC: -- |
Enervating Aura Set | (2 items) Adds 4% Healing Taken (3 items) Adds 1206 Max Health (4 items) Adds 1487 Armor (5 items) When you deal direct damage, you have a 10% chance to create an area under the target that detonates after 1 second, applying Enervating Aura for 10 seconds. Enervating Aura lowers the Health Recovery, Magicka Recovery, and Stamina Recovery of enemy players by 129 per player hit. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds. |
Type: Heavy Armor Style: Location: Cyrodiil Required DLC: -- |
The Coral Aerie is also host to a selection of unique rewards not found anywhere else in Tamriel. These include achievement titles and collectibles:
Rewards | How to get |
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“Gryphon Handler” title | earned by completing the dungeon on Hard Mode difficulty |
Guardian’s Frozen Shard memento | earned by unlocking the Coral Aerie Conqueror achievement. |
The Guardian’s Frozen Shard memento
When designing the Coral Aerie’s environment and inhabitants, ESO’s Dungeon Team relished the opportunity to build something unique for Tamriel’s PvE dungeon delvers.
“We have never used Summerset, its Elven ruins, and gryphons in a four-player dungeon before,” says Finnigan. “So, this dungeon gave us the perfect opportunity to explore those aspects of the game. That said, we also wanted the side or hidden content within the dungeon to tell its own story, too.”
As you endeavor into the dungeon’s coral cove, you’ll clash with vicious sea-born monsters and, as you venture ever deeper, the deadly forces of the Ascendant Order. Of course, these challenges pale in comparison to the dungeon’s three bosses, as giant yaghra monstrosities, Ascendant Order champions, and even more dangerous foes stand ready to push your teamwork and skills to the limit.
When coming up with new mechanics for the dungeon’s boss battles, the designers used the dungeon’s own storyline as inspiration.
“We strive to challenge our players whenever possible, and sometimes that means engaging with monsters they have seen before in new and interesting ways,” says Finnigan. “Yaghra and gryphons are both used in the dungeon, but not in a way players have experienced, and the Ascendant Order, being a clandestine organization with more roguish tendencies, really informed how we would design and develop the encounters and bosses within the dungeon.”
If you plan on diving into the depths of this new dungeon, Finnigan has some simple advice for you and your party: explore! Not only might you find new challenges and rewards, but you might also learn some of the Coral Aerie’s own secrets and history in your investigations.
“Stop and smell the coral,” jokes Finnigan. “There are nooks and crannies and areas to explore that can reward those brave enough to venture off the beaten path.”
Ascending Tide added 73 furniture pieces to the game.
Name | Description |
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Alinor Easel, Carved | This is a standard house item. |
Alinor Maple, Red | This is a large house item. Tags: Animated |
Alinor Trellis, Purple Wisteria | This is a standard house item. |
Altmer Brazier, Cold-Flame Column | This is a standard house item. Tags: Interactable, Light |
Aquarium, Abecean Coral | This is a standard house item. |
Aquarium, Large Abecean Coral | This is a standard house item. |
Blackwood Provisioning Station | This is a large house item. Tags: Crafting Station |
Brittle-Vein Coral, Cluster | This is a large house item. |
Bubbles of Aeration | This is a large house item. Tags: Animated, Visual FX |
Canopy, Netted | This is a large house item. |
Coral Formation, Branching Red Cluster | This is a small house item. |
Deadlands Puzzle Cube | This is a standard house item. Tags: Interactable, Visual FX, Light |
Deadlands Tapestry, Mehrunes Dagon | This is a large house item. |
Deadlands Throne | This is a large house item. Tags: Sittable |
Eerie Lantern, Hanging | The green light emanating from this lantern adds a haunting touch to any space—as well it should given that it came from undead-infested Shipwright's Regret! Tags: Animated, Interactable, Light |
Elkhorn Coral, Branching | This is a standard house item. |
Elsweyr Brazier, Cold-Flame Column | This is a standard house item. Tags: Interactable, Light |
Fargrave Balcony | This is a large house item. |
Fargrave Bridge, Rope | This is a large house item. |
Fargrave Canopy, Massive | This is a large house item. |
Fargrave Colonnade Hall | This is a large house item. |
Fargrave Colonnade Pillar, Tall | This is a large house item. |
Fargrave Colonnade Roof, Barrel | This is a large house item. |
Fargrave Defensive Spike, Corner | This is a large house item. |
Fargrave Defensive Spike, Curved | This is a large house item. |
Fargrave Defensive Spike, Straight | This is a large house item. |
Fargrave Door | This is a standard house item. Tags: Animated, Interactable |
Fargrave Doorway, Stone Frame | This is a standard house item. |
Fargrave Facade, Huge | This is a huge house item. |
Fargrave Platform, Square | This is a large house item. |
Fargrave Post, Garden Wall | This is a standard house item. |
Fargrave Stairway, Stone | This is a standard house item. |
Fargrave Stairway, Wide Stone | This is a large house item. |
Fargrave Wall, Exterior | This is a large house item. |
Fargrave Wall, Garden | This is a standard house item. |
Fargrave Wall, Interior | This is a large house item. |
Fargrave Water Globules, Static | This is a large house item. Tags: Light |
Fargrave Window, Grand Medallion | This is a standard house item. Tags: Light |
Fargrave Window, Medallion | This is a large house item. Tags: Light |
Green Algae Coral Formation, Tree Capped | This is a large house item. |
Gryphon Nest | Hoping to make some gryphon fledglings feel at home? This nest from the Coral Aerie is a perfect starting point! Rest assured that the gryphon it once belonged to won't be causing you any problems. |
Jellyfish Bloom, Heliotrope | This is a standard house item. Tags: Animated, Visual FX |
Kelp Grouping, Robust | This is a large house item. |
Kelp Grouping, Thin | This is a large house item. |
Kelp Stalk, Plain | This is a standard house item. |
Kelp Stalk, Tall | This is a standard house item. |
Lilac Anemone, Sprout | This is a standard house item. Tags: Animated |
Lilac Coral, Strong | This is a standard house item. Tags: Animated |
Minnow School | This is a standard house item. Tags: Animated, Visual FX |
Mushroom, Giant Glowtendril | This is a large house item. Tags: Animated |
Mushroom, Twisted Tufted Cap | This is a large house item. |
Music Box: Bleak Beacon Shanty | When activated, plays a music box arrangement of the eldritch "Bleak Beacon Shanty" composition. Tags: Animated, Interactable, Audible |
Music Box: Wonders of the Shoals | When activated, plays a music box arrangement of the whimsical "Wonders of the Shoals" composition. Tags: Animated, Interactable, Audible |
Nedic Banner, Ancient | This is a large house item. Tags: Animated |
Nedic Bench, Carved | This is a standard house item. Tags: Sittable |
Nedic Bookcase, Filled | This is a large house item. |
Nedic Brazier, Cold-Flame | This is a standard house item. Tags: Interactable, Light |
Nedic Brazier, Cold-Flame Pillar | This is a large house item. Tags: Interactable, Light |
Nedic Chandelier, Swords | This is a standard house item. Tags: Interactable, Light |
Nedic Chest, Bubbling | This is a standard house item. Tags: Animated, Interactable, Visual FX |
Nedic Sconce, Torch | This is a small house item. Tags: Interactable, Light |
Red Algae Coral Formation, Tree Antler | This is a large house item. |
Red Algae Coral Formation, Waving Hands | This is a large house item. |
Redguard Canopy, Striped | This is a large house item. |
Replica Jubilee Cake 2022 | Chef Donolon's Jubilee Cake is the perfect pastry to celebrate any special occasion or awesome anniversary. Relish its luscious flavor—tantalizing to your taste buds! Tags: Interactable, Visual FX |
Sand Drift, Oceanic | This is a large house item. |
Statue, Ancestor-King Auri-El | Ayleid artist-enchanters captured the might of the king of the Aldmer and his avian companion in this commanding statue! Light up this focal piece with the eagle's golden glow, Auri-El's lambent eyes, scintillating sunbeams, or a combination of these. Tags: Interactable, Visual FX, Light |
Stones, Coral Cluster | This is a large house item. |
Target Mudcrab, Robust Coral | This is a standard house item. This may be attacked and, when defeated, will recover. This creature is equivalent to an exceptionally hardy veteran dungeon boss. Tags: Target Dummies, Auto-Revives |
Tranquility Pond, Botanical | This is a large house item. |
Verdant Anenome, Strong | This is a large house item. Tags: Animated |
Waterfall Fountain, Round | This is a large house item. Tags: Animated |
Yokudan Sarcophagus Lid, Gilded | This is a standard house item. |
Set out on a brand-new Elder Scrolls adventure and discover an epic story told across three DLCs and High Isle Chapter.
Discover the beautiful Systres Archipelago in the Legacy of the Bretons year-long adventure, a brand-new storyline told throughout all ESO’s 2022 content releases, including the upcoming The Elder Scrolls Online: Ascending Tide DLC and The Elder Scrolls Online: High Isle Chapter.
Legacy of the Bretons releases: