Slay Tamriel’s foulest beasts, celebrate the spooky season, and claim special in-game rewards during the Witches Festival event! Boo!
Tamriel’s Spooky Season Returns
The Witches Festival in-game event begins next Thursday, October 20 at 10AM EDT, and runs until Wednesday, November 2 at 10AM EDT. During this spoopy spectacle, you can acquire unique event-specific rewards including Plunder Skulls, boosts to XP gains, Event Tickets, and more!
Follow these simple steps to take part in the frightening festivities:
- Navigate to the Crown Store and acquire the free quest, “The Witchmother's Bargain.”
- You can also pick up this quest by speaking with the Crow Caller, located outside of each version of Olyve's Brewery in Stonefalls, Glenumbra, or Auridon.
- Complete the introductory quest to receive the Witchmother's Whistle tool.
- You don’t need to acquire the Witchmother’s Whistle if you completed the quest in previous years’ events.
- Use the whistle to receive a two-hour +100% XP buff and to summon the “Witchmother's Cauldron,” which you can use to polymorph yourself into a suitably scary skeleton.
- Note that you do not have to use the Witchmother's Cauldron to gain the XP buff, just the whistle. You cannot summon the Cauldron in Cyrodiil.
Become a monster during the Witches Festival
Gain Ghoulish Goodies
During the Witches Festival, when you defeat a boss monster, you pick up a Plunder Skull container in addition to your regular rewards, which contains some of the following items:
- A chance for one or more of following items:
- Witch-Tamed Bear Dog pet fragment
- Alchemy reagents
- A festival-themed furnishing recipe
- A festival-themed provisioning recipe
- A complete festival-themed furnishing
- A festival-themed treasure
- A chance for one of these items:
- A Hollowjack style item
- A Dremora style items
- A heap of gross creepy items:
- Worms, Crawlers, Guts, Insect Parts
Even better, each time you overcome a different type of boss for the first time that day, you’ll receive a special Dremora Plunder Skull that contains the above items in addition to these:
- Dremora motif chapter
- A chance for one of the following items:
- A Witches Festival Writ
- A Glenmoril treasure map or Glenmoril armor outfit style page
- A Grave Dancer weapon style page
- NEW Ghastly Visitation memento runebox
- NEW tradeable style page for the Witchmother's Servant armor style
The different types of bosses include arena bosses, invasion bosses (from Dark Anchors, Harrowstorms, Volcanic vents, etc.), delve bosses, final dungeon bosses, public dungeon bosses, and world bosses. That’s a lot of unique monsters to slay, but keep reading to see how you can collect even more repulsive rewards.
Collect creepy new event-specific rewards
During the Witches Festival, you can also acquire the daily quest titled “Plucking the Crow” by speaking with the Witchmother Taerma, located inside of Olyve’s Brewery and at every Impresario tent found throughout Tamriel. The Crowborne Horror Dremora Plunder Skull is offered as a reward for completing this quest and provides a small chance to grant you a massive trove of tradeable Witches Festival goodies instead of regular Plunder Skull items, including:
- 10 Witch-Tamed Bear Dog fragments
- The FULL style book for the Dremora motif
- A folio of ALL Glenmoril treasure maps
- A Ghastly Visitation memento runebox
- A random Witchmother's Servant style page
Impresario & Event Tickets
Throughout the Witches Festival event, you can earn two Event Tickets from the first boss you defeat each day, allowing you to earn up to 28 tickets total. Just remember: You can hold up to 12 Event Tickets at any one time, so if you earn more while already at the ticket cap, you’ll lose them!
For this event, the Impresario will stock the following items:
- All three Soulfire Dragon Illusion pet fragments
- Hallowed Hourglass Basin
- Illuminated Dragon Scroll
- Kvatchian Incense
- The first fragment for the Sacred Hourglass of Alkosh furnishing
- Engraved Glassblowing Tools
- Ghastly Visitation Memento
- Witchmother's Servant armor style pages
- Bonedust Pigment
- Event-specific furnishings
- Ruby Candlefly Gathering furnishing
- Webs, Cone furnishing
- Specimen Jar, Spare Brain furnishing
- Hollowjack Lantern, Ouroboros furnishing
- Vampiric Lamp, Azure Tall furnishing
- Vampiric Lightpost, Azure Single furnishing
- Group Repair Kit
- Companion Guild Commendations
- Witches Grab Bag
- This is purchasable only if you haven’t yet collected all the items contained within
Of note: This is your first opportunity to begin collecting the fragments for 2022’s final event morphing collectible, the Sacred Hourglass of Alkosh, a furnishing that allows you to change the time of day in your home!
Additionally, the Impresario’s colleague, Nenulaure the Indrik Vendor, has the following items available for purchase with Event Tickets:
- Nascent Indrik Feathers
- Pure Snow Indrik Berries
- Crimson Indrik Berries
- Frost-Light Indrik Pet
- Rosethorn Indrik Pet
Celebrate the spooky season and become the monster hunter Tamriel needs during the 2022 Witches Festival in-game event. Are you excited to make use of the XP bonus while collecting Plunder Skulls and Event Tickets? Let us know via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
The Witches Festival in-game event begins Thursday, October 20 at 10AM EDT, and runs until Wednesday, November 2 at 10AM EDT.