ESO Dynamic Encounters Guide

How They Work

• You join automatically when you enter the active area. A unique icon marks it on the map, and some encounters move as they go, so follow the icon if you arrive late.
• Difficulty scales with how many players are nearby. It's not just more enemies, the whole encounter ramps up.
• Each moves through several stages, tracked by a progress bar in the top right where your quest tracker sits.
• Stages mix in putting out fires, leading animals to safety, gathering, or following an NPC across the zone.
• There is a chest partway through and another at the end.
• A new encounter spawns roughly every 30 minutes.

Challenge Difficulty makes overland tougher, but it does not improve Dynamic Encounter chest drops, so don't crank it up expecting better style pages or fragments.

The Three Encounters

Three Dynamic Encounters launch with Season One, one in Auridon, Glenumbra, and Stonefalls. All three are in base-game zones, so any character can reach them. Pick one to see its walkthrough.

Short

Auridon

Flowervine Farm

Five stages at a farm under bandit attack: clear the bandits, put out the fires, free the trapped horses, and defeat the bandit captain.

5 stages

Medium

Stonefalls

Bilsa's Delivery

Gather ingredients for Granny's eel pie and escort the delivery to her house, where Granny turns out to be a Werewolf Behemoth. Source of the Werewolf Form styles.

3 stages

Long

Glenumbra

Vampire Hunt

Protect the vampire hunter Nimineh and her companion Daisy while you track and defeat the vampire Orilo. Source of the Blood Scion style.

5 stages

Auridon

Flowervine Farm

Auridon Start

Fail ConditionEach stage has a 5-minute fail timer.

Stage 1 of 5

Defeat the bandits

A set group of bandits to clear out.

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Stage 2 of 5

Eliminate the reinforcements

Waves of adds that fill a progress bar to 100%.

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Stage 3 of 5

Put out the fire & free the horses

Use water buckets twice on the fire at the barn entrance, then interact with the three horses inside to free them.

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Stage 4 of 5

Lead the horses to the corral

The horses scatter across the area. Interact with each one to make it follow you, then walk them to the pen.

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Stage 5 of 5

Extinguish all the fires

The boss, a 1 million health Bandit Swashbuckler Captain, spawns here. There are four fires to put out, each taking two buckets of water.

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Stonefalls

Bilsa's Delivery

Stonefalls Start

Stages 1 2 3

Fail ConditionStage 1 has a 15-minute fail timer. After that, the encounter fails if Bilsa dies.

Stage 1 of 3

Gather ingredients for Braylis

Pick fetid herbs off the ground and fish up viper eels, then hand them to Braylis. Herbs fill the bar by 5% each, eels by 10%. This stage has a 15-minute timer; after it, the rest of the encounter is untimed.

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Stage 2 of 3

Escort Bilsa & Braylis to Granny's house

Escort Bilsa and Braylis. They will be attacked 4 times.

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Stage 3 of 3

Defeat Granny

Defeat Granny Tarani Areth (4.3 million health) after she turns into a Werewolf Behemoth. She also attacks Bilsa, so keep Bilsa healed up.

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Glenumbra

Vampire Hunt

Glenumbra Start

Stages 1 2 3 4 5

Fail ConditionThe encounter has a 20-minute fail timer and fails if Nimineh dies.

Stage 1 of 5

Collect Stendarr's Gifts

You grab Stendarr's Gifts scattered around and carry them back to Nimineh. While you're holding a gift your normal abilities are locked: Light Attack shoots flares, Heavy Attack channels a beam. Each gift you hand back fills the bar by about 10% solo, and she only takes it when she's out of combat, so you have to kill the Vampires that constantly attack them to hand Stendarr's Gift in.

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Stage 2 of 5

Defend Nimineh & Daisy while they track Orilo

Follow them and keep them alive. They stop three times, and each stop spawns waves of adds you clear to fill a bar to 100%.

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Stage 3 of 5

Destroy the Inhibitor Stones

Four Inhibitor Stones spawn, each with 119.5k health. You can only damage them with Stendarr's Gift, so grab one and use the flares and beam to break all four.

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Stage 4 of 5

Defend Nimineh & Daisy while they track Orilo (again)

Escort them again, this time they'll be attacked 2 times instead of 3.

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Stage 5 of 5

Defeat Orilo

She's immune while four stones are up, so use Stendarr's Gift to destroy them, then kill her. Keep Nimineh alive or the fight fails

In my solo clear the stones came back when she hit around 34% health, I don't know yet whether that's health-based or on a timer.

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Rewards & Skill Styles

Every encounter drops a chest at the end, plus some chests are specific stages, though those don't contain any good loot. The final chest can reward fragments for skill styles, style pages of a new outfit, fragments of a new house, and the usual fodder like gold, overland set pieces, enchants, soul gems etc.

Skill Styles

Werewolf Form, Black

Werewolf Form, Ashen

Werewolf Form, White

Blood Scion, Coldharbour

Skill Style	Unlock Item	Source Encounter
Werewolf Form, Black	Bitten Chew Bone (x1)	Bilsa's Delivery (Stonefalls)
Werewolf Form, Ashen	Bitten Chew Bone (x5)	Bilsa's Delivery (Stonefalls)
Werewolf Form, White	Bitten Chew Bone (x10)	Bilsa's Delivery (Stonefalls)
Blood Scion, Coldharbour	Shard of Parched Stone (x10)	Vampire Hunt (Glenumbra)

Alessian Rebel Outfit

A 7-piece outfit style, with pieces dropping across all three encounters.

Other Rewards

• Fragments for Rogue's Refuge, a free player home you piece together through the Get Away from It All achievement.
• The recipe for Granny's Eel Pie and Red Lichen, an ingredient used for crafting it are both dropping from Bilsa's Delivery encounter.
• the usual fodder - gold, overland set pieces, enchants, soul gems etc.

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