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After a month-long build-up to Battle For The Writhing Wall event, Elder Scrolls Online finally released Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 2 and Update 48 on November 12th, continuing from Part 1 five months ago while further optimizing the game.

However, to experience all the updated content, you not only need ESO 2025 Content Pass and 2025 Premium Edition, but you must also ensure that Battle For The Writhing Wall event on your server has been completed.

We've already provided a detailed introduction to this event. Whether you participated or not, you can now check your current server's progress and follow the guide below to experience the new content.

Seasons Of The Worm Cult Part 2

As Elder Scrolls Online's core update for 2025, this season expands and continues the game's original main storyline through two parts of gameplay and story.

Part 1, Western Solstice, launched in June, introducing the new zone Solstice and new content including dungeons, trials, and bosses. After a five-month wait, Part 2, Eastern Solstice, is finally here!

From a narrative perspective, Battle For The Writhing Wall event serves as a transition between Part 1 and Part 2. This wall divides the island in two, and only by winning the battle and destroying the wall can one venture deeper into the eastern part of Solstice.

New Playable Content

If your server has already completed Battle For The Writhing Wall event, you can start playing Part 2. This update brings new main story content, but it can only be experienced after completing Part 1 main story quests and Crossing the Wall story quest.

Please note that the latter story quest needs to be claimed manually. If you haven't completed it yet, you can find Prince Azah at Sunport Rampart Camp to claim it - provided you have completed Part 1 main quests.

The conflict between the forces of good and the evil Worm Cult is expected to escalate to its peak in Part 2's main storyline. If a new themed season series is subsequently released, Part 2 could very well be the graveyard for Worm Cult.

Part 2 also expands Coldharbour map, allowing you to explore new delves and dungeons, fight new bosses, and potentially encounter Stone-Nest Argonians, the native inhabitants of Eastern Solstice. Specific details include:

• Four full-length objectives
• Three delves, each with a skyshard and a unique boss
• New public dungeon Calindvale Gardens
• Three world bosses
• Two new crafting set locations
• Hidden side quests

Exploration Rewards

As you progress through Part 2 main storyline and complete enough battles, you can unlock generous rewards! These include Elder Scrolls Online gold, new item sets and collectibles, and more. The collectibles are extensive, including:

• Outfit Style: Scythe Knight outfit style
• Emote: For My Alliance emote
• Memento: Meridian-Blessed Bread memento
• Mount: Coldharbour Death Hound
• Pet: Slothcerer pet
• Adornments: Azure Plasmstone Earrings, Solstice Pinned Bloom
• Markings: Stone-Nest Xanmeer body tattoos, To Know the Void quest matching face tattoos
• Skill Style: Soul Trap, Wormwrithe skill style

Of course, obtaining all of this requires owning a version of the game that includes Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 2 and completing the corresponding quests or achievements.

Update 48

This update is part of ESO's regular game schedule, so as long as you own the base game, you can load the update package for free and experience it.

Update 48, as usual, brings optimizations and changes to various aspects of the in-game systems, introduces new events, and previews more events to be released during Christmas and New Year's.

Mechanics And System Optimizations

Update 48 first introduces changes aimed at reducing the size of combat animations, avoiding excessive memory usage that could impact the game and the smoothness of your device's performance. These changes will not significantly degrade the game's graphics.

Furthermore, Elder Scrolls Online has made all in-game leaderboards except Cyrodiil account-wide in this update and removed class-specific leaderboards. This makes the entire leaderboard system more streamlined and efficient.

More detailed optimizations can be experienced in-game or checked through official announcements, such as optimizations to skill effects for each class. The two points we've introduced above are particularly noteworthy.

Hearts Week Event

Although this event is part of Update 48, it has not yet officially started in the game and is currently just a pre-event announcement. ESO is expected to hold Hearts Week in February 2026, at which time the event will also begin.

During the event, Belkarth festival grounds will be transformed into a home to the priest of Mara, Kuzam-jo. You can find this NPC, interact with him to receive and complete event quests, earning more Companion XP and affinity.

In addition, you may receive various reward boxes, including Heart's Day reward boxes, which may contain gold-quality Companion jewelry! Good luck!

Starting in December 2025, Elder Scrolls Online will host a New Year's celebration. During this time, you can explore the entire game map to complete daily quests and earn new styles or houses as rewards.

Compared to last year, Elder Scrolls Online in 2025 has undoubtedly achieved new success through its transformation. Hopefully, it will continue this success and improve in 2026, bringing you an even better gaming experience.

Halloween is approaching, and various games have already started their Halloween events, including Elder Scrolls Online. This Friday's update also features updated items for Luxury Furnisher and Golden Vendor.

Both vendors appear for a limited time, and the items they sell have some practical value. If you have enough gold in your wallet, you might want to check out what they have in the 43rd week, 2025.

Luxury Furnisher

Luxury Furnisher is located at Cicero's Food & General Goods in Coldharbour. Note that he only appears on weekends. Last week, he offered statues, while this week he's offering darker items like skeletons and witch totems.

Note that the items he sells are unbound, so you can sell them to other players, provided they don't depreciate in value. Let's take a look at some interesting items.

• Bone Sculpture, Circular: 3,000 Gold. Perfect for room decoration if you are a bone and skull enthusiast.
• Crow Totem, Gruesome: 4,000 Gold, value decreases over time.
• Reach Totem, Gathered Staves: 2,000 Gold, new item, but a bit ugly.
• Reach Totem, Twig Crescent: 3,000 Gold, somewhat ugly furniture, may depreciate.
• Reach Totem, Twig Raven: 3,000 Gold, decent decoration, can appreciate in value.
• Tree, Treehenge Green Lady: 50,000 Gold, large and cool, but requires a lot of gold.
• Warning Totem, Skulls: 2,500 Gold, also somewhat ugly furniture, may depreciate.
• Witch's Torch, Wretched: 5,000 Gold, looks nice, but there are many similar shiny items in the game.
• Witch's Totem, Bog: 50,000 Gold, although less valuable than before, it creates a green miasma effect and is a rather creative piece of furniture.
• Witch's Tree, Captive: 35,000 Gold, value has decreased slightly, but the fluctuation is minimal.
• Witch's Tree, Charred: 5,000 Gold, value fluctuation is minimal.

Golden Vendor

Golden Vendor sells the BIS set, but requires significantly more Elder Scrolls Online gold than Luxury Furnisher. Golden Vendor is located at Western Elsweyr Gate and will disappear on October 27th.

Crafty Alfiq (125,000 Gold)

Source: Northern Elsweyr

Set Benefits:

• (2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
• (3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
• (4 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
• (5 items) Adds 2550 Maximum Magicka

Provides a considerable amount of Magicka, making it an excellent PvP set in metas dominated by Max Stat builds. However, in the current meta, Max Stat builds are becoming less popular, with Max Crit and high-burst builds becoming the mainstream. Furthermore, the related skills have been nerfed, causing its status to decline. However, it remains a top-tier set in suitable builds, though its utility has been reduced in the current meta.

Frozen Watcher (200,000 Gold)

Source: Depths of Malatar Dungeon Set

Set Benefits:

• (2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
• (3 items) Adds 1206 Maximum Health
• (4 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
• (5 items) Summon a blizzard around you while you are Bracing, inflicting Frost Damage (damage scaled with your maximum health)

This armor set is quite cool, but the damage isn't great. The health stacking mechanic doesn't mesh well with other mechanics, and Chilled Status Effect removal isn't very practical. Overall, it's a bit flashy and lacks practicality.

Mighty Glacier (200,000 Gold)

Source: Frostvault Dungeon Set

Set Benefits:

• (2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
• (3 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
• (4 items) Adds 129 Stamina Recovery, Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
• (5 items) When you use an immobilize or root skill, grants you and your allies a Major Resolve buff, increasing resistances.

The core drawback of this set is that Major Resolve buff is a named buff that doesn't stack, making it easy for players to gain it from their own abilities or team support, thus overriding the set's benefits and wasting them.

Senchal Defender (125,000 Gold)

Source: Southern Elsweyr

Set Benefits:

• (2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
• (3 items) Adds 1206 Maximum Health
• (4 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
• (5 items) Builds stacks through non-heavy attacks, then restores a significant amount of mana and stamina with a Fully Charged Heavy Attack.

Senchal Defender is suitable for resource-intensive PvE tanks or PvP players who need to restore both mana and stamina. It's not a mainstream (non-meta) item in the current meta, as players have more alternative resource recovery methods, such as potions and other set items.

Balorgh (100,000 Gold)

Source: March of Sacrifices Monster Set

Set Benefits:

• (1 item) Increases weapon and spell damage by 129.
• (2 items) After using the ultimate ability, gain significant weapon and spell damage and physical/spell penetration for 12 seconds.

This monster set is widely considered the BIS for PvP. Because Ultimate abilities are frequently used in PvP, its effects are fully utilized, resulting in high burst damage and easy builds for both beginners and veterans.

Black Gem Monstrosity (100,000 Gold)

Source: Monster Set from Black Gem Foundry event

Set Benefits:

• (1 item) Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
• (2 items) After using Soul Magic ability in combat, your next light or heavy attack launches a fragment, dealing magic damage based on the target's maximum health.

Black Gem Monstrosity is a gank set, suitable for playstyles that seek instantaneous bursts. It can be reliably triggered by scribing skills and easily combined with other guaranteed proc effects to create a powerful burst. However, some players feel that its damage type (magic damage) is not as good as oblivion damage. Overall, even if it is not as good as Balorgh, it is still a worthwhile set.

The above is the general content of this week's merchants. If there are furniture or sets that you don't have yet, you can supplement them. You can also invest in some popular furniture to earn some gold, but remember to hurry.