The Elder Scrolls Online’s latest expansion Orsinium is out today for PC and Mac and it’s a doozy, being labeled as the largest content expansion to date. In it players are being given the opportunity to visit the Orc homeworld of Orsinium. Creative director Rich Lambert had a message for fans on their official site:

Welcome, everyone, to our second DLC game pack – Orsinium! This is by far our largest DLC to date, and one of the largest zones we’ve ever built. There is a huge amount of content to discover with tons of new quests, group bosses, delves, public dungeons, new items, and of course the PVE game mode – the Maelstrom Arena. The team has really outdone themselves with Orsinium and I know you are going to be amazed when you get in and experience what has been built.

Orsinium isn’t just a new zone, however. The base game patch for this DLC includes a large number of quality of life improvements that everyone gets access to including controller support, battle leveling updates, subtitles, shield dyeing, LFG improvements, and the Champion Point cap and catch-up system. We’re committed to the continual improvement of the game and making sure we’re delivering a high quality, fun experience for all.

I know a lot of you are already asking, “What’s next for ESO?” Well… aside from a short, well deserved holiday break for the team, our focus is on the Thieves Guild DLC. With it comes a new Trial as well as a myriad of other bug fixes and quality of life improvements. We will have more details on the Thieves Guild and the other DLCs in the new year.

Here’s to an exciting Orsinium launch and to even more exciting things to come! -Rich

Orsinium DLC Game Pack Features & Content

With the purchase of the Orsinium DLC game pack, you get access to the full city of Orsinium and zone of Wrothgar. That includes the following:

• Over 20 hours of captivating story content and Quests
• A long-awaited exploration of the culture of Tamriel’s Orcs
• A colossal new zone available to characters of all levels
• A new single-player progressive challenge, The Maelstrom Arena
• Available in Normal and Veteran versions
• Grants special rewards only obtainable by completing arenas
• Includes class-specific leaderboards, so you can see how you match up against your fellow combatants
• Quests and objectives that contribute to rebuilding the city of Orsinium, returning it to its former glory
• Two large public Dungeons, Old Orsinium and Rkindaleft, featuring all-new challenges for both solo and group play
• Special harvest nodes that scale to the most advanced material type your character can use for Crafting
• Six all-new, challenging world Bosses
• Powerful new Equipment, unique crafting styles, and other rewards inspired by the history and denizens of Wrothgar
• Four new Provisioner recipes, only available in Wrothgar
• 18 powerful new item Sets including 6 ability-altering Weapons, 9 sets obtained by participating in activities in Wrothgar, and 3 new craftable sets
• The Ancient Orc crafting Style
• Six new collectible costumes only available in Wrothgar
• Over an hour of brand new in-game musical score

Take a look at the Orsinium Sets in anticipation of questing through this frigid landscape. As Rich mentioned, there’s also a new patch to coincide with the expansion, featuring several tweaks.

Orsinium Base Game Patch Details

The Orsinium base-game patch includes gamepad support for PC, subtitles for all platforms, shield dyeing, improvements to battle-leveling, fixes and improvements to existing game systems and content, and more! Here are some of the highlights:

• Gamepad support
• Subtitles
• LFG improvements – cross-alliance dungeons
• Champion Point cap & catch-up system
• Shield Dyeing
• Improvements to battle-leveling
• Akaviri crafting style
• Ability balance and bug fixes
• New ways to spend Alliance Points
• Increased item drop rates

There’s a lot coming down the pipeline for the MMO, and now players are experiencing a completely different game from the one at launch. Xbox One players get the expansion on November 17th and PS4 owners join the party on the 18th. The time of the Orc has come!

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