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Sometimes you just wish to know what it is you need access to in order to get into a dungeon, to start digging up antiquities, to obtain a particular Tales of Tribute deck, or even to access a certain land. This is precisely what this guide will do for you, listing the content alongside what is required to access it.

* Cyrodiil and Imperial City are 100% free to all players. You do, however, still have to pick up the DLC via the crown store before you can access it.

** Vvardenfell became free to all players effective April 06, 2022.

• Dolmens - Also called Dark Anchors; these are open world group or solo locations with waves of enemies that build up to a big boss.
  
  
• Infinite Archives - This is a special base-game endless dungeion in which two players or one player with a Companion defeats waves of enemies. The only stopping point is dying too many times or the player's choice.
  
  
• Home Tours - Take a walk through others' open houses and check out their builds and creativity.
  
  
• Housing - Build a house from scratch or buy one pre-furnished! Read the Housing article for more information.
  
  

An Arena is an instance in which you are faced with a series or waves of one large or a buch of smaller enemies in an enclosed area until you have defeated them all.

Though some arenas can be entered with a group, the arenas listed here are those in which you may only enter them alone, without even a Companion or other player to assist you.

The group instance arenas have been included with the Dungeons list.

These dungeons and group arenas initially require four people in a party to go through them -- unless you are able to handle them solo or with only one or two others in your party.

Unlocking the ability to enter one of these four-person dungeons is very easy: Reach level 45 and have access to the DLC from which the dungeon comes. For example, you can go to the Icereach DLC dungeon in Wrothgar if you have access to the Harrowstorm DLC.

If you do not have access to the required DLC, you cannot access the dungeon in question unless you purchase the DLC or have ESO+.

Trials are 12-person instances in which muliple difficult bosses are faced and knowing mechanics is important.

Officially a trial unlocks full access once you reach level 50, allowing you to complete its achievements and its quests, which are not available prior to that level.

All content listed under this heading requires a DLC Purchase OR ESO Plus.

When new Chapter content is released, everyone must purchase the content in order to play it. However, after one year it becomes free for all ESO+ subscribers.

When new DLC content containing DLC Dungeons is released, it is immediately free for all ESO+ members. However, non-ESO+ members must purchase the content in order to play it.

After an unset amount of time (which is determined by Zenimax), Chapter content may be released into the Base Game as free for all users, such as when the Morrowind chapter containing Vvardenfell was released to all players in April 2022.

Chapters consist of large-scale content releases, such as Blackwood, High Isle, and Necrom. Regular DLC usually consistes of smaller releases, such as Ascending Tide and Dark Brotherhood. Both can be purchased via the Crown Store. The latest chapter may also be purchased via your gaming platform (Steam, etc.). These labels are not used in the DLC sections of the stores.

Note: Mentions of multiple DLC requirements only means that you can access a portion of that activity by obtaining that DLC. For example, you can kill dragons in either Northern Elsweyr (Elsewhere DLC) or Southern Elsweyr (Dragonhold DLC). The exception to the rule is Tales of Tribute. In order to unlock Tales of Tribute you must have the High Isle DLC. Beyond this, any of the other mentioned DLCs will give you access to certain card decks.

* Unlike the other activities, this is not a repeatable activity unless you perform it on another character. Once you have achieved one of the items on the list, you will be unable to turn the item in a second time on the same character.

** In order to unlock Tales of Tribute you must have the High Isle DLC. If the name of a DLC/Chapter is mentioned beside the name of the deck in parenthesis, this means that you must also have the mentioned DLC in order to obtain that particular deck.

Companions are NPC characters that, once unlocked via an introductory quest given by the NPC, can assist you in PvE content.

• You can level each companion to level 20 and choose which skills, weapon, and armor it equips.
  
  
• You can build Rapport with each companion by doing things such as taking them certain places and performing certain actions.
  
  
• You can perform personal quests given by Companions to learn more about them at you reach certain Rapport levels. Completing the second Companion quest will unlock it for use as a houseguest inside a house.
  
  

If you are interesting in companions more as Houseguests than as helpers that travel with you across Nirn, check out the Houseguests article!

An Arena is an instance in which you are faced with a series or waves of one large or a buch of smaller enemies in an enclosed area until you have defeated them all.

Though some arenas do not allow groups, the arenas listed here are those in which you can have up to three other players or Companions assist you.

An Arena is an instance in which you are faced with a series or waves of one large or a buch of smaller enemies in an enclosed area until you have defeated them all.

Though some arenas can be entered with a group, the arenas listed here are those in which you may only enter them alone, without even a Companion or other player to assist you.

These dungeons and group arenas initially require four people in a party to go through them -- unless you are able to handle them solo or with only one or two others in your party.

Unlocking the ability to enter one of these four-person dungeons is very easy: Reach level 45 and have access to the DLC from which the dungeon comes. For example, you can go to the Icereach DLC dungeon in Wrothgar if you have access to the Harrowstorm DLC.

If you do not have access to the required DLC, you cannot access the dungeon in question unless you purchase the DLC or have ESO+.

Trials are 12-person instances in which muliple difficult bosses are faced and knowing mechanics is important.

Officially a trial unlocks full access once you reach level 50, allowing you to complete its achievements and its quests, which are not available prior to that level.