Elder Scrolls Online Seasons Of The Worm Cult Part 2 & Update 48 | New Content, Rewards, And Optimizations
Posted: Nov 22, 2025 Views: 29
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.
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