General:Horns of the Reach – Base Game Update

Originally published August 8, 2017. The original article can be found here.

When the Horns of the Reach DLC game pack launches on PC/Mac on August 14 and PlayStation®4 and Xbox One on August 29, it will come packaged with Update 15, providing a host of free gameplay updates, fixes, and additions. If you'd like to learn more about some of Update 15's base game improvements, read our preview below!

Quality of Life Improvements

Combat Cues Settings

Combat Cue customization has now been added to the in-game Settings, allowing you to customize the colors associated with the different in-game combat cues. This setting will be especially useful to those players who have trouble identifying certain colors in game, but anybody can edit and customize the combat cues however they see fit, including color and brightness for both friendly and enemy indicators.

To customize your Combat Cues, navigate to Settings, then select Gameplay and find Combat Cues and Custom Colors under the Combat section.

Alliance Point and Writ Voucher Storage

If you're a PvP player or a master crafter, you will now be able to store your Alliance Points or Writ Vouchers in your bank. This means you can share both AP and your Writ Vouchers with any of your other characters on your account. To store these items, visit a banker and use the Deposit Currency option. Note that while you can store and transfer AP between characters on an account, a character's Alliance Rank or progress in Alliance War Skill Lines will not transfer.

When you wish to withdraw Alliance Points or Writ Vouchers, you can do so from the Withdraw Currency option as if withdrawing Gold or Tel Var Stones.

Guild Improvements

Invite History

Guild management has been improved with the addition of the guild invite history function. This will allow Guildmasters and other members to check who within their guild invited who, helping leaders better manage their (often very large) rosters.

To access the guild invite history, open the Guild menu and navigate to History, then select Roster.

We know that this was a highly requested feature from many of our trading guilds, so we're very happy to finally make it available. Guild leaders can set the View Guild Bank Gold permission in their Guild's Ranks menu.

Crafting Improvements

Research Cancelling

Ever wished you could cancel some crafting research to free up the spot for a different one? Now you can! Research cancelling allows you to immediately and unceremoniously cancel any in-progress research. Note that if you cancel some research, the item that was destroyed to begin the process will not be restored to you, so choose carefully!

To cancel some currently-in-progress research, use a Crafting Station and navigate to the Research menu, find the item you wish to cancel, select Cancel Research, and finally confirm. You will then be able to research a different Trait!

Equipped Item Improvements

No longer do you have to get naked to improve your equipped gear. With Update 15, you will now be able to improve any currently-equipped items right then and there, and will find equipped items in the improvements crafting menu.

If on PC, equipped items will be indicated with a checkmark in the Improvement menu, and if on console (PlayStation 4 and Xbox One) they will be under the "Equipped" section for the item type.

More Updates and Improvements to Come!

We hope you make the most out of these free additions to The Elder Scrolls Online base game with Update 15. We'll keep working to make the game even better in the coming months, so be sure to check out our Patch Notes for even more details on this and any other future updates. Will you make use of some of the above improvements and additions to the game? Let us know on Twitter @TESOnline and Facebook.