First look at The Elder Scrolls Online’s ‘Thieves Guild’ DLC

Bethesda shares details for TESO's first DLC of 2016

Bethesda and Zenimax Online today gave us our first look at The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited's first DLC of 2016 — "Thieves Guild."

"The Thieves Guild of Abah's Landing, an organization of pickpockets, burglars, robbers, and thieves, is being hunted by a mercenary guard force known as the Iron Wheel. This relentless organization will stop at nothing to see the guild brought to justice for a high-stakes heist that went horribly wrong. As their newest recruit, you'll sneak along rooftops, steal from the shadows, and recover lost treasures to help to restore the guild's reputation."

As with previous updates, Thieves Guild will come in two parts — the DLC game pack with new features and content revolving around the Thieves Guild, and a base game patch with overall game features and content improvement.

While more details, such as pricing and release dates, regarding Thieves Guild will come "very soon," you can take a look at the overall bullet points for the upcoming expansion.

Thieves Guild DLC Game Pack Features & Content

  • Join the iconic Thieves Guild for the first time in ESO
  • Hew's Bane, a new zone available to characters of all levels and home of Abah's Landing, the Thieves Guild headquarters, located in the southern peninsula of Hammerfell
  • Hours of exciting new story content and quests that will take you through all your favorite areas of Tamriel
  • A challenging, new 12-player trial: Maw of Lorkhaj
  • Formidable new group bosses and delves to conquer
  • The addition of new criminal activities
  • A new passive skill line exclusive to members of the Thieves Guild
  • Unique costumes, motifs, and item sets inspired by the devious Thieves Guild

Base Game Patch Features & Content

  • A 64-bit client for PC and Mac
  • Improvements to grouping including incentives and cross-alliance grouping outside of the Grouping Tool
  • Tons of combat and gameplay balance changes
  • Scrolling combat text (SCT)
  • Improvements and updates to Cyrodiil and its campaigns
  • Access to content from other alliances in any order you choose upon reaching Veteran Rank 1
  • Prioritization of animations during combat
  • Improved facial animations for Mac
  • …and more!