The MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online has received 36 updates by now. With each new dungeon DLC (every 6 months) new monster sets are introduced as well. We at MeinMMO show you which monster sets are currently available with Update 36 Firesong and where you can find them.
What are monster sets? These are two-piece sets consisting of a head and shoulder piece. You get the head from dungeon final bosses. The corresponding shoulder is obtained from the Undaunted. More on that shortly.
In total, there are these categories of item sets:
- Craftable Sets (5 pieces)
- Dungeon Sets (5 pieces)
- Sets from Non-DLC Dungeons
- Sets from DLC Dungeons
- Monster Sets (2 pieces)
- Sets from Raids or Trials (5 pieces)
- Sets from Arenas (2 pieces)
- Open World Sets (5 pieces)
- Sets from the Aldmeri Dominion
- Sets from the Ebonheart Pact
- Sets from the Daggerfall Covenant
- Sets from DLC areas
- PvP Sets (5 pieces)
- PvP Sets from Cyrodiil
- PvP Sets from Battlegrounds
- PvP Sets from the Imperial City
- Mythic Items (1 piece)
In this article, we will cover all monster sets. A monster set always consists of a head and shoulder piece; there are no other parts. You obtain the head from the final boss in a dungeon when you complete the veteran difficulty mode. However, hard mode is not necessary for that.
Whether you receive a hood (light), a helmet (medium), or a spaulder (heavy) is random.
You obtain the corresponding shoulder from the associated quest giver of the Undaunted. You will find the total of 3 quest givers for dungeon quests in the Undaunted Enclave. The enclave is located in the capital city of the respective alliance: Daggerfall (Deshaan, Ebonheart Pact), Wayrest (Stormhaven, Daggerfall Covenant), and Elden Root (Glenumbra, Aldmeri Dominion).
To obtain the shoulders, you need a special currency: Keys of the Undaunted. You receive these upon completing a dungeon quest from the Undaunted. Depending on the difficulty level, you will receive a different number of keys:
- normal / veteran difficulty mode = 1 key
- veteran difficulty mode with hard mode = 2 keys
If you want to earn particularly many keys, it is best to complete the two quests for Non-DLC dungeons with as many characters as possible. The DLC dungeons take significantly more time and are sometimes considerably more difficult.
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Overview of the locations of the 2-piece monster sets
Here is an overview of all monster sets and their locations
| Set Name | Dungeon | Last Set Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| Balorgh | March of Sacrifice (DLC) | When you use an ultimate ability, you are granted magic & weapon power equal to the total amount of ultimate power used for 12 seconds, and 23 times that amount as offensive penetration. |
| Baron Zaudrus | Kettle (DLC) | If you apply a status effect to an enemy, this grants you up to 3 stacks of Zaudrus’ Ambition for 10 seconds. With 3 stacks, they are removed, and you gain 4 ultimate power. If you gain ultimate power, you cannot receive any further stacks of Zaudrus’ Ambition for 1 second. |
| Scourge | Volenfell | When you activate a taunt ability on an enemy, after 1 second, a Dune Breaker will emerge from the ground beneath them, dealing 2,303 physical damage to all enemies within 4 meters and decreasing their physical resistance by 2,311 for 8 seconds. This effect can occur once every 8 seconds and scales with your physical or magic resistance, whichever is higher. |
| Bloodspawn | Spindleclutch II | When you take damage, you have a 6% chance to gain 13 ultimate power and increase your physical and magic resistance by 3,601 for 5 seconds. This effect can occur only once every 5 seconds. |
| Domihaus | Falkenring (DLC) | If you deal damage, you create a ring of molten earth around you for 10 seconds that deals 355 flame damage or 371 physical damage every second. While inside the ring, you are granted 289 magic & weapon power. This effect can occur only once every 15 seconds and scales with your magic & weapon power, whichever is higher. |
| Iceheart | Castle Frost | When you deal critical damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a damage shield that absorbs 4,825 for 6 seconds. While the damage shield is active, you deal 364 frost damage every second to all enemies within 5 meters around you. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds, and the damage scales with your magic or weapon power, whichever is higher. |
| Encratis’ Behemoth | Black Drake Villa (DLC) | If you deal flame damage to an enemy, you gain the aura of the Behemoth for 12 seconds, which extends 12 meters. You and up to 11 group members within the aura receive 5% less flame damage. Enemies in the effect area receive 5% more flame damage. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds. |
| Bloodletter | Bloodwell Forge (DLC) | If you heal yourself or a group member with less than 50% health, you summon a pool of blood under them, instantly removing all harmful area effect from the enemy and healing the group member with the least health after 2 seconds for 3,526 health every 2 seconds for 8 seconds. This effect can occur once every 20 seconds and scales with your maximum magicka / stamina, whichever is higher. |
| Archdruid Devyric | Earthroot Enclave (DLC) | If you deal damage with a heavy attack, after 1.2 seconds, you deal 2,966 shock damage to up to 6 enemies in a cone up to 7 meters behind your target, applying greater vulnerability to them, increasing the damage that enemies take by 10% for 7 seconds. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds and scales with your magic or weapon power, whichever is higher. |
| Euphoric Guardian | Kentertiefen (DLC) | When you perform a dodge roll, you create a Hadoliden capsule afterward. If you are within 5 meters of the Hadoliden capsule, it absorbs all direct damage directed at you. After 1 second, the Hadoliden capsule explodes and deals 5,271 poison damage to all enemies within 5 meters. This effect can occur once every 20 seconds and scales with your magic or weapon power, whichever is higher. |
| Lady Thorn | Castell Thorn (DLC) | If you perform a life-costing ability, a blood orb appears for 10 seconds. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds. You or an ally near the blood orb can activate the sanguine explosion synergy, dealing 3,625 plague damage to nearby enemies and applying greater cripple effect on them for 8 seconds, reducing their damage dealt by 10%. Enemies can only receive greater cripple effect once every 20 seconds. The damage scales with the maximum health of the one activating the synergy. |
| Groundwulf | Moongrave Temple City (DLC) | When you deal critical damage, you restore 675 magic or stamina, depending on which maximum is higher. You also receive 337 of the other resource. This effect can occur once every 5 seconds. |
| High Warden / High Warden Dusk | Imperial City (DLC) | When you take damage, you have a 50% chance to summon a shadow orb for 10 seconds, increasing your physical and magic resistance and that of your group members within 8 meters by 3,069. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds. |
| Ilambris | Hearts Crypt I | When you deal flame or shock damage, you have a 33% chance to summon a meteor shower, dealing 570 flame damage and 596 shock damage every second for 5 seconds to all enemies within 4 meters. This effect can occur once every 8 seconds and scales with your magic or weapon power, whichever is higher. |
| Infernal Guardian | City of Ash I | If you apply a damage shield to yourself or an ally, you have a 50% chance to drop 3 mortars on the farthest enemy from you over 2 seconds, dealing 2,512 flame damage to all enemies within 5 meters around the impact area. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds and scales with your magic & weapon power, whichever is higher. |
| Kargaeda | Coralhtorn (DLC) | If you deal damage with a heavy attack, it creates a slowly moving, 6-meter large whirlwind for 8 seconds that grows by 3 meters every 3 seconds. Enemies in the whirlwind receive 664 shock damage and 664 physical damage every second. Allies in the whirlwind have their magic and stamina costs reduced by 10%. This effect can occur only once every 20 seconds, and the damage scales with your magic or weapon power, whichever is higher. |
| Kjalnar’s Nightmare | Unholy Crypt (DLC) | When you deal damage to an enemy with a light attack, they are marked with a bone stack for 5 seconds, up to once every 0.5 seconds. At 5 stacks, an inevitable skeletal hand attacks your enemy, knocking them into the air after 1 second, stunning them for 3 seconds. If they cannot be stunned, they instead take 10,288 magic damage. Enemies will then be immune to Kjalnar’s Nightmare for 4 seconds. The damage scales with your magic & weapon power, whichever is higher. |
| Maarselok | Hort of Maarselok (DLC) | If you deal damage with a heavy melee attack, you unleash a cone of corruption that deals 5,052 plague damage to enemies within 4 seconds. This damage increases for each negative effect on a target by 2%. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds and scales with your weapon power. |
| When more updates come out for ESO, this guide will, of course, be updated. |
All effects of the monster sets from Non-DLC Dungeons
Scourge (Volenfell):
- (1 item) Grants 1,058 maximum stamina.
- (2 items) When you activate a taunt ability on an enemy, after 1 second, a Dune Breaker will emerge from the ground beneath them, dealing 2,303 physical damage to all enemies within 4 meters and decreasing their physical resistance by 2,311 for 8 seconds. This effect can occur once every 8 seconds and scales with your physical or magic resistance, whichever is higher.
Bloodspawn (Spindleclutch II):
- (1 item) Grants 124 stamina regeneration.
- (2 items) When you take damage, you have a 6% chance to gain 13 ultimate power and increase your physical and magic resistance by 3,601 for 5 seconds. This effect can occur only once every 5 seconds.
Iceheart (Castle Frost):
- (1 item) Grants 634 critical rating.
- (2 items) When you deal critical damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a damage shield that absorbs 4,825 for 6 seconds. While the damage shield is active, you deal 364 frost damage every second to all enemies within 5 meters around you. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds, and the damage scales with your magic or weapon power, whichever is higher.
Scourge / Malubeth the Flayer (Sewers of Wayrest):
- (1 item) Grants 1,164 maximum health.
- (2 items) When you take damage, you have a 10% chance to create a beam that steals 2,681 health from the attacker for 6 seconds. While the beam is maintained, you gain greater vitality, which increases your healing received by 16%. The beam is interrupted if the target moves more than 8 meters away; it can occur once every 6 seconds and scales with your maximum health.
Grothdarr (Chambers of Madness):
- (1 item) Grants 1,058 maximum stamina.
- (2 items) When you deal damage to an enemy within 8 meters, you have a 10% chance to create lava pools that whirl you and deal 1,033 flame damage to all enemies in the vicinity for 5 seconds. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds, and scales with your magic & weapon power, whichever is higher.
Ilambris (Hearts Crypt I):
- (1 item) Grants 1,058 maximum stamina.
- (2 items) When you deal flame or shock damage, you have a 33% chance to summon a meteor shower, dealing 570 flame damage and 596 shock damage every second for 5 seconds to all enemies within 4 meters. This effect can occur once every 8 seconds, and scales with your magic or weapon power, whichever is higher.
Infernal Guardian (City of Ash I):
- (1 item) Grants 1,058 maximum stamina.
- (2 items) When you apply a damage shield to yourself or an ally, you have a 50% chance to drop 3 mortars on the farthest enemy from you over 2 seconds, each dealing 2,512 flame damage to all enemies within 5 meters around the impact point. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds and scales with your magic & weapon power, whichever is higher.
Kra’gh (Mushroom Cave I):
- (1 item) Grants 1,435 penetration.
- (2 items) When you deal damage, you have a 10% chance for Dreugh limbs to appear that create shockwaves in front of you, dealing 1,020 physical damage every 0.6 seconds for 2.4 seconds. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds and scales with your magic & weapon power, whichever is higher.
Machine Guardian (Shadows of Darkness):
- (1 item) Grants 124 health regeneration.
- (2 items) When you use an ability that costs resources, you have a 10% chance to summon a Dwemer automaton that restores 531 stamina or magicka or 2,037 health to you every 0.5 seconds for 6 seconds. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.
Mephalas Brood (Mushroom Cave II):
- (1 item) Grants 1,058 maximum stamina.
- (2 items) Your heavy attacks at full strength create a web beneath the target for 10 seconds, dealing 856 poison damage every second to all enemies within 4 meters. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds and scales with your magic & weapon power, whichever is higher.
Nightflame (Eldengrund):
- (1 item) Grants 1,058 maximum stamina.
- (2 items) When you heal yourself or an ally, you have a 20% chance to create a totem that heals you and your allies within 5 meters for 1,934 health every second for 6 seconds. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds and scales with your maximum magicka or stamina, whichever is higher.
Nerien’eth (Hearts Crypt II):
- (1 item) Grants 124 magic & weapon power.
- (2 items) When you deal direct damage, you have a 15% chance to create a lich crystal that explodes after 2 seconds for 5,330 magic damage and hits all enemies within 4 meters. This effect can occur only once every 3 seconds and scales with your magic & weapon power, whichever is higher.
Shadow Rift (Prison Cells):
- (1 item) Grants 124 magic regeneration.
- (2 items) When you take damage, you summon a shadowy clannban for 15 seconds. The attack of the clannban deals 915 magic damage and applies a minor cripple effect on enemies, reducing their damage dealt by 2 seconds by 5%. The clannban can appear once every 15 seconds, and its damage scales with your maximum health.
Slimebloom (Sewers of Wayrest):
- (1 item) Grants 744 critical rating.
- (2 items) Grants you minor frenzy, increasing the damage you deal by 5% permanently.
Gullet of the Infernal (Prison Cells):
- (1 item) Grants 1,058 maximum stamina.
- (2 items) When you deal damage with a light or heavy attack, you have a 33% chance to summon a fire-breathing Daedroth for 15 seconds. Its attacks deal 2,776 flame damage every 2 seconds. The Daedroth can be summoned only once every 15 seconds, and its damage scales with your magic & weapon power, whichever is higher.
Swarmmother (Spindleclutch I):
- (1 item) Grants 1,058 maximum stamina.
- (1 item) Grants 1,058 maximum magicka.
- (2 items) When you block an attack from an enemy between 2 and 22 meters away, you weave threads of spider silk to pull the enemy towards you. This effect can occur once every second.
Selene (Selene’s Web):
- (1 item) Grants 1,058 maximum stamina.
- (2 items) When you deal damage with a melee attack, you summon a primordial spirit that deals 8,187 physical damage to the next enemy in front of you after 1.3 seconds. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds and scales with your magic & weapon power, whichever is higher.
Sellistrix (Arx Corinium):
- (1 item) Grants 1,058 maximum stamina.
- (2 items) When you deal damage, you summon an earthquake under the enemy, breaking through after 1.5 seconds and dealing 2,858 physical damage to all enemies within 4 meters and stunning them for 3 seconds. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds and the damage scales with your magic or weapon power, whichever is higher.
Skeleton Pirate (Blackheart Hideout):
- (1 item) Grants 1,435 armor.
- (2 items) When you take damage and lose health, you transform into a skeleton and gain greater protection and minor debilitation for 15 seconds, thereby reducing the damage you take and your health regeneration by 8%. This effect can occur once every 20 seconds.
Stormfist (Hurricane Island):
- (1 item) Grants 124 stamina regeneration.
- (2 items) When you deal damage, you have a 10% chance to create a crushing thunder fist, dealing 1,137 shock damage every second to all enemies within 4 meters for 3 seconds, and an additional 13,949 physical damage upon closing the fist. This effect can occur once every 8 seconds and scales with your magic & weapon power, whichever is higher.
Troll King (Blessed Fire Trial):
- (1 item) Grants 4% healing done.
- (2 items) When you heal yourself or an ally, the health regeneration is increased by 893 for 10 seconds if the target is still below 50% health.
Valkyn Skoria (City of Ash II):
- (1 item) Grants 1,435 penetration.
- (2 items) When you deal damage over time, you have an 8% chance to summon a meteor that deals 6,215 flame damage to the target and 1,752 flame damage to all enemies within 5 meters. This effect can occur once every 5 seconds and scales with your magic & weapon power, whichever is higher.
Velidreth (Womb of Shadows):
- (1 item) Grants 124 magic & weapon power.
- (2 items) When you deal damage, you have a 20% chance to summon 3 plague spores in front of you after 1 second, dealing 7,211 plague damage to each enemy hit. This effect can occur once every 8 seconds and scales with your magic & weapon power, whichever is higher.
Vykosa (Moonhunter Fortress):
- (1 item) Grants 4% healing received.
- (2 items) When you hit an enemy that you have taunted with a heavy attack, you terrify them with a deafening howl, applying greater cowardice to them, reducing their magic & weapon power by 430 for 8 seconds. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds.
Zaan (Summit of the Scaled Caller):
- (1 item) Grants 634 critical rating.
- (2 items) When you deal damage to a nearby enemy with a light or heavy attack, you have a 33% chance to connect through a beam of fire as long as you remain within 8 meters of each other. The beam deals 1,415 flame damage to your enemy every second for 6 seconds, and the damage increases by 100% each second. This effect can occur once every 18 seconds and scales with your magic & weapon power, whichever is higher.
This guide will, of course, be updated with new updates.
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