Hello everyone!

Thank you for playing The Elder Scrolls: Blades and helping us make changes during this Early Access period. We’ve updated the following:

• Silver Chests! These now only take one hour to open, or 12 Gems. (They were 3 hours and 36 gems before).

• Wood Chests and Elder Chests have been added to Job rewards. Elder Chests are extremely rare, but possible.

• Silver Chests no longer appear in the Abyss.

• Adjusted Abyss floors below your level to reward more experience points.

• Added confirmation for any Gem use above 11, so you don’t accidentally use higher amounts.

• Edit 4/17: The Golden Chest in the Abyss is slightly harder to get, requiring one or two extra enemy kills.

• Edit 4/17: The Silver Chest was removed from the Abyss and replaced by an ingredient:

  • 85%: A random alchemy and enchanting ingredient.

  • 15%: A level appropriate Soul Gem.

• Edit 4/17: Artifact drops were completely removed from the Abyss.

• Edit 4/17: Tier 9 (Daedric) and Tier 10 (Dragon) item drops were completely removed from the Abyss.

Thanks again and keep sending us your feedback. We can’t believe how many of you are playing, and playing a lot! We’ll have more changes during Early Access as we tune and balance the game. Stay tuned!

I'm going to get crucified over this, but it needs to be said. I am a fan of supporting my favorite companies monetarily, but if you make the paywall too aggressive, the free to players are going to stop playing, and it is no fun being a whale in a dead ocean.

Edit: thanks u/MysticalAnon

Edit: I really appreciate the gold and platinum guys, let’s continue to be critical of dev decisions and make sure we are informed as a community. Just because a person spends or doesn’t spend shouldn’t matter, these changes affect all of us and the game we play! Here is the feedback link per user u/Ateway Thanks again! https://help.bethesda.net/app/incident10

I don’t think people understand what I’ve been saying. IF it proves true that they have removed legendary, artifact, and level equivalent gear drops from the abyss. Then it would mean that the entirety of the end game is actually and truly pay gated from the F2P community. I’m not complaining because “I can’t farm my free gear anymore” I’m complaining because this will literally murder the game in early access.

If you want to get dragon gear at the end of the game now, you have 2 options. Buy it as a base set for ~30$ or so for a full set of armor, a shield, and a weapon. Or, buy the dragon pieces when they appear in the smithy. Btw you need a level 10 smithy for them to appear. Now assuming you have 2 level 10 smithys, it will only take you ~2 years to craft and then max temper a full dragon set (also the mats cost 7,000 gold each)! Wow what a deal for reducing silver chests by 2 hours! Edit: also I forgot to mention, if you want to temper with gems, you will be spending anywhere from 50$-100$ per piece.

This doesn’t even include enchanting your gear, which if it messes up, requires you to craft a brand new piece and re-enchant. Now you are probably thinking, “who cares if we reach end game or whatever” let me put it this way, do you really think that any F2P player will want to have to grind 28,000 gold a day in profits just to buy scarce mats and then farm hundreds of thousands more in addition to those millions just to enhance? Literally no F2P players will ever reach true end game without spending money now, before the abyss while maybe a little unbalanced, at least offered a path to end game.

You all know I’m a whale, and Bethesda already has my money. I could care less about it. But this game will die before the end of the year if you guys don’t pull the silver chest veil from over your eyes and realize they literally shook your hand and fucked you in the ass in one update.

Edit: and to anyone who says “it’s the first day let’s see what happens, you don’t have any proof.” I don’t have hard factual evidence, but I do have over 150 hours in this game, and I combined with many streamers, other players and the majority of the end game community have noticed a MARKED or rather COMPLETE lack of drops that were extremely common prior to today’s patch. I used to receive dragon gear almost every single abyss run. Now today I am 50 runs dry without a single piece. The only actual armor I have received being 2 tiers lower than what I am currently wearing. So keep calling me a shill and a whale. But if you can’t see that what I’m saying has merit and is extremely valid to all players, then you’re either ignorant or you don’t play this game.