The latest expansion for The Elder Scrolls Online, starring the secret assassin guild the Dark Brotherhood, is now available for PC and Mac. The content, which is also headed to the console versions in a few weeks time, introduces new areas to explore, towns to visit, and quests to complete. And with the name of the new zone being the Gold Coast, probably some heavy drinking too. Hiyooo!

The Dark Brotherhood has always been special for Elder Scrolls fans, including many of us here, and we are excited to finally be able to bring it to Elder Scrolls Online. The Dark Brotherhood DLC game pack introduces the Gold Coast zone, where you can explore the towns of Anvil, Kvatch, and the landscape between them. This DLC is jam-packed with fun new quests, a new skill line, new delves, group bosses and all new ways to murder NPCs with executions and poisons.

In addition to the new content this patch also brings a slew of changes and updates to the base game.

Veteran Ranks have finally been removed, which simplifies and unifies leveling into one system. In addition to Veteran Rank removal, we've added in a number of new systems and improvements, including things like:

• Quality-of-Life: Nameplates, Item Locking, Repair warnings, Enchanting updates, Class balance adjustments, Trait Improvements, Poison making, Hats and Personalities
  
• Grouping Tool/Activity Finder: Vote to Kick, Ready Check, and Deserter Debuffs
  
• PVP: Cyrodiil latency improvements, Imperial City district capture, and new vendors with scaled gear