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ESO Necrom Esoteric Environment Greaves: All Leads & Locations

Tank builds can capitalize on the damage mitigation perks from the Esoteric Environment Greaves Mythic item, so here's how to get it in ESO
ESO Necrom Esoteric Environment Greaves: All Leads & Locations

Damage mitigation is a powerful buff that is prominent among tank builds which reduces damage from incoming attacks commonly popular among powerful Sorcerer and Necromancer builds. It’s more likely to be seen with Arcanist builds following the release of the Necrom chapter for The Elder Scrolls Online (ESO), thanks to power gear like Mythic items.

A few Mythic items were added with the Necrom chapter, including the all-powerful Esoteric Environment Greaves can be obtained from dungeon bosses across Tamriel. This guide details where to acquire leads and for which Esoteric Environment Greaves piece in ESO: Necrom.

How To Get The Esoteric Environment Greaves Mythic In ESO: Necrom?

The Esoteric Environment Greaves is a Mythic leg piece added to ESO through the Necrom chapter. This Mythic item can be obtained, like with previous items, through the game’s Antiquities system by collecting and scrying all its leads and uncovering the items using the Antiquity and Excavation Skill Lines.

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Players can acquire the Antiquity and Excavation Skill Line by completing the Antiquarian Circle questline in Solitude, Western Skyrim. (Picture: ZeniMax Online Studios)

Should players not have either Skill Lines, you’ll need to speak with Verita Numida inside the Antiquarian Circle in Solitude, Western Skyrim. You must complete the questline to unlock both Skill Lines before leveling them up to reach Level 7, allowing you to scry Mythic items.

The Esoteric Environment Greaves, when equipped, aids you with damage mitigation you may take from enemies. As such, this Mythic item will reduce damage taken by 50%, but you will lose stamina each time enemies inflict it upon you every 0.3 seconds.

This item will significantly support certain builds, given that the Necromancer class is the only class that specializes in damage mitigation, according to one Redditor on The Elder Scrolls Online Reddit forum. Nevertheless, finding this Mythic item will contribute towards the progress of earning the Antiquarian Chase: Necrom Achievement in-game.

All Esoteric Environment Greaves Mythic Leads & Locations In ESO: Necrom

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The lead for the Harvester-Scale Plating can be acquired by defeating a specific boss inside the Gorne Public dungeon in the Telvanni Peninsula. (Screenshot: ZeniMax Online Studios / Ashleigh Klein)

With its function and benefits covered, we can now turn our attention to how to obtain the Esoteric Environment Greaves. However, before you can receive it, you’ll need to locate and find all its leads before excavating each item in locations across Telvanni Peninsula.

There are five pieces to excavate for which its leads can be found in various ways throughout Tamriel. If you plan on obtaining some of the leads from dungeons, you may need to do a few runs before the leads are dropped and you can start scrying each lead to uncover its excavating location.

Below we’ve detailed how to find all leads and Mythic pieces for the Esoteric Environment Greaves in ESO: Necrom:

Lead: Location: Item Scryed:
Lead: Thras-Crafted Breeches An enemy drop after defeating Z’baza at the Coral Aerie dungeon (Normal mode) in the Summerset Isles. Thras-Crafted Breeches
Lead: Nonreactive Cincture An enemy drop after defeating Xzyvilain, Defense Crawler, at the Graven Deep dungeon (Normal mode) in the High Isle. Nonreactive Cincture
Lead: Biome-Proof Plating An enemy drop after defeating Nchunthand Far-Hurler at the Nchuleft Delve in Vvardenfell. Biome-Proof Plating
Lead: Harvester-Scale Plating An enemy drop after defeating Zygiite at the Gorne Public dungeon in the Telvanni Peninsula (make this the last lead to locate). Harvester-Scale Plating
Lead: Tonal Pivot Joints An enemy drop after defeating the Group Event boss, Mountain-Caller Hlaren, at the Forgotten Wastes Public dungeon in Vvardenfell Tonal Pivot Joints

Once you have all the leads, scry each one to uncover their found locations in the Telvanni Peninsula and begin excavating them. Once all pieces are found, it will assemble the Esoteric Environment Greaves and unlock the Esoteric Environment Greaves Achievement.