ESO: New Life Festival Event Guide

Event Details

Dates: December 19th-January 7th 

Earn 3 Event Tickets every day of the event and instantly receive a Double XP boost. In previous years, you would need to use the Breda’s Bottomless Mead Mug tool but now it is instant. You can still get the tool for completing the introduction quest.

How to Get Started

You only need the base game to be able to participate in the event. Head to Eastmarch or go to the Crown Store and pick up the free introduction quest from the Quest Starters tab. Speak to Breda under the New Life Festival tent in Eastmarch. The Impresario Tent also has a portal that can directly take you to the New Life tent. 

Activities

During the New Life Festival, there are nine quests available to do for Breda. You can get New Life Festival gift boxes when you turn these quests in. Once a day during the event, you can also complete an Old Life Observance quest for Petronius Galenus.

New & Old Life Quests:

• Mudball Merriment– Head to Skywatch and pelt NPCs and alliance ambassadors with Mudballs!
• Fish Boon Feast – Fish for a Black Marsh Cucumber, a Creeping Leech, and a Histmuck Blobfin in Shadowfen.
• Castle Charm Challenge – Perform at the Old Goat Inn, Market and Throne room in Alcaire, Stormhaven.
• Lava Foot Stomp – Dance at The Watch House, The Fish Stink Tavern, The Ebony Flask, and Hlaalu House. (Davon’s Watch and Ebonheart)
• Stonetooth Bash – Collect food for Matron Borbuga and deliver it to her at the Stonetooth Fortress in Betnikh.
• Signal Fire Sprint – Go to Bergama (Alik’r Desert) and speak with Aubatha. Light the signal fires and head back to Aubatha.
• Snow Bear Plunge – Take a plunge into the chilly water at 3 locations in Windhelm and then warm up by the fire.
• Five-Clawed Guile – Unlock chests in Rawl’kha (Reaper’s March) and collect the coins. Return them to Tumira when complete.
• War Orphan’s Sojourn – Go to the Temple of the Eight in Grahtwood and choose between donating gold or time for completing a task to assist Ormurrel.
• Old Life Observance – Locate the Old Life Shrine and perform the ceremony.

New Life Festival Writs: 

Imperial Writs and Deep Winter Writs drop from the reward boxes during the event. To begin the writ, consume it and complete the activity. Once you have finished the writ, you can turn it into Selvari Abello at the New Life tent. 

 You will receive Writ Vouchers that you can spend at the Writ voucher vendor. From these Writs you can get a Refugee’s Gift that can contain Skal and Rhikindaleft style pages. You are able to sell or trade these writs and style pages with other players.  

Rewards & Achievements

New Life Festival gift boxes contain fun festive rewards like style pages, furnishings, ingredients and more. This year you can get The New Life Winter Storm costume by collecting 15 Bolt of Winter Storm Cloth fragments in order to create the costume. A new memento, the Snow Globe Surprise will also be available from New Life gift boxes. The Evergreen and Morningstar Frost Wear style pages can also drop from these boxes! Below I have highlighted some of the best achievements you can get during this event that come with cool stuff.

Achievements:

Newly Charitable:  Complete 12 Imperial Writs or Deep Winter Writs. These writs drop from new life gift boxes.

• Crystal Frost Skin Collectible

Snow Bear plunge Achievement: Complete the Snow Bear Plunge with no gear or collectibles on.

• Purchase New Life Bonfire furnishing from Holiday Achievement Vendor

New Life Celebrant Achievement: Complete all the New life quests (10) 

• New Life Cerulean dye 
• New Life Celebrant Standard furnishing 

Glory of Magnus Achievement: 

• Earn the Title: Magnanimous

Impresario Vendor

Make sure to check out the Impresario this holiday season for New Life Grab bags, fragments for the new costume and more! You can purchase all the rewards from the event vendor with Event Tickets.

Haven of the Five Companions

All of the fragments for the Haven of the Five Companions Player Home will be available from the Impresario Event Vendor during the New Life Festival. The Impresario Tents outside all of the Alliance’s major cities (Daggerfall, Vukhel Guard, and Davon’s Watch). Each fragment is available for 10 Event Tickets.

To create the house, you will need the base Non-combat Pet: The Molag Bal Illusion Imp from the Impresario. You need three fragments for this, each fragment is worth 5 Event Tickets. This pet can then be morphed into the Haven of the Five Companions home with the five Companion’s keys (fragments). The total tickets needed for the morphable imp and the home are 65 tickets.