Through our tradition of trying to catalog the consistent update and changelogs coming from a wide range of popular titles, we turn our efforts toward Bethesda's much-awaited venture into the MMO marketplace with The Elder Scrolls Online.

While millions cried out for the game to become a reality due to just how each Elder Scrolls game lends itself to non-existent co-op gameplay, once pleas were fulfilled, the game wasn't quite the crowd-pleaser Bethesda was banking on - though our reviewer was much more keen. Now, however, through years of continued love, The Elder Scrolls Online is one of the most popular MMOs on the market. Lets see the latest culmination of those continued efforts;

The Elder Scrolls Online: Patch 2.6.9

If you're not into Mythical Aetherial Ambrosia, hopefully you're a fan of Apothecary's Parcels. But why wouldn't you be into the Ambrosia? It's a more potent form of Psijic Ambrosia, meaning it gives a hefty 150% EXP bonus while in effect. You can even trade your Tel Var Stones for Apothecary's Parcels - small packages of herbs and assorted regents.

Other than that, there's performance fixes, the stoppage of a certain Firefrost Keep boss healing herself incorrectly and some slight localisation changes. Here's the lowdown:

Changelog:

• The rear entrance of Cracked Wood Cave has been flooded and, therefore, temporarily sealed shut. That's one way to prevent you from encountering a black screen!
• Partially fixed the issue where you could not pass through whirlpools in Quickwater Cave, and would become stuck before reaching the bottom. We will make sure this is fully fixed in a future patch.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing player characters with long names from receiving duel or trade requests.
• Drodda of Icereach will no longer heal herself after her Sapping Freeze spell has been broken.
• Fixed an issue where world bosses in Deshaan were occasionally granting Feet items for the Plague Doctor set. They will now instead grant Leg items for that set, as originally intended.
• Fixed an issue where Runeboxes and their contents were not consistently translated in the French game client.
• Changed the names of the collectibles that remove the Hair Style and Facial Hair at character create in the French and German game clients.
• Celestial Investigator: Adjusted the wording for this achievement in the French and German game clients to specify the quest “The Shattered and the Lost" is intended for a group.
• Improved the memory usage of character models, significantly reducing the amount of memory they require.
• Fixed an issue where you could get a server timeout error when trying to create or link an account after switching between the NA and EU servers.
• The Corrupted Scion in Balamath now appears when activating the switches.

The Elder Scrolls Online: Patch 2.6.8

Another 'incremental' patch sees a variety of bug fixes and the extension of the Witches Festival on both PC and Mac to allow those affected by its, now fixed, issues to grab that Plunder Skull achievement. The fixes stretch from the Imperial City DLC pack to the Thieves Guild and base game. Lets take a look;

Changelog

• Meritorious Service: Fixed an issue where the Supporting Soldier Trigger ability could stack onto your character, rendering you unable to perform other tasks such as casting abilities or mounting.
• Fixed an issue where Exulus, the boss of the Hrota Cave delve in the Gold Coast, was dropping the wrong Assassins League chapters. She now drops Chests, Boots, Bows, Maces, and Swords, as originally intended.
• Trials

• Trial denizens have removed Treasure Chests from the entrance of Aetherian Archive and Sanctum Ophidia to better protect their valuables.
• Increased the amount of Treasure Chests found within each Trial.
• Yokeda Rok'dun will no longer disappear and fail to return, blocking progress within the Trial.
• Restoration Staves of the Red Mountain will no longer drop from bosses, monsters, and chests in Stonefalls.

• Changed the names of the collectibles that remove the Hair Style, Facial Hair, Body Marking and Head Marking chosen at character create as follows:
• Bald Pate is now No Hair
• Cleanshaven is now No Facial Hair
• Fixed an issue where Daedra Hearts were not dropping from humanoid daedra. Daedra Hearts will now occasionally drop from humanoid daedra, as Daedra who are not heartless are rare indeed.
• This includes creatures such as Xivilai, Dremora, and Seducers, but not Scamps and other non-humanoid Daedra.
• Adjusted the loot received from the following world bosses:

• Thickpelt, The Rift
• Longstride, The Rift
• Caecilia Attius, Bangkorai
• Watcher Tyrant, Bangkorai

• Fixed an issue that was preventing advancement of the Plunder Skull achievements associated with the Witches Festival.
• Celestial Investigator: Adjusted the wording for this achievement to specify which of the associated quests are intended for a group.
• They Were Just Rusty: This achievement will now be awarded only after defeating The Guardians in Volenfell after reading the Scroll of Glorious Battle.

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• Vision Quest: Fixed an issue where you were unable to complete the quest step to examine the gate.
• Fixed an issue where you would receive an error message when you deleted an in-game mail, then immediately closed/reopened the mailbox.
• Fixed an issue where stacked quest rewards would not display the number within the stack.