ESO’s next Dungeon DLC is called Waking Flame and should be set to release in late August, but with this paid DLC also comes the free Update 31. In a recent article posted to the ESO Forums combat designer gilliamtherogue gave players a detailed preview of what to expect with this free update from a combat perspective. We’ve outlined some of the biggest changes below.

Champion Points:

• Three new Constellations added to the Fitness Tree: Wind Chaser, Survivor’s Spite and Walking Fortress

Passives:

• Class passives will be adjusted to offer hybrid stats. For Example, Balanced Warrior from the Templar Class now gives BOTH Weapon Damage and Spell Damange and Armor instead of just Spell Resistance.

Reworked Sets:

• Sithis Touch: Focused on zipping around the battlefield
• Nikolas’ Armor: Improved ability to shrug off attacks
• Crusader: Enables a bruiser style of combat
• Pelinal’s Aptitude: blood lust fitting of Pelinal’s lore

Player Abilities:

• Stealth and Cloak: Damage over Time no longer removes these effects
• Flame Skull: Improved damage
• Buffs to Two-Handed and Frost Staff abilities

PVP:

• Battle Spirit Changes: characters will take 60% less damage in an effort to increase Time To Kill (TTK) in PVP.

Gilliam goes on to note that, “The list of changes coming for Update 31 is quite long, but it’s built up from many little changes rather than huge ones, so our hope is it will be less disruptive than some of our more recent updates.”