Can you wear 2 mythic items?
The quick answer is no, you can only have one mythic item equipped at a time in The Elder Scrolls Online. But why is that the case? And what implications does this restriction have?
As an ESO player since the initial 2014 launch who loves optimizing builds, let me walk you through everything you need to know about mythic items!
Mythic Items – Powerful One-Piece Game Changers
Introduced in 2020‘s Greymoor chapter, mythic items are special single slot gear pieces that provide unique effects to dramatically augment builds and playstyles. For example, the Harpooner‘s Wading Kilt boosts your damage for each meter you are from the target.
Here are some key facts about mythic items:
- Bind on equip, cannot be traded or sold to others
- Obtained via the Antiquities system added in Greymoor
Difficulty Drop Rate Green Leads 100% Blue Leads 40% Purple Leads 10% - Only one can be equipped at a time
Now let‘s analyze why ZOS imposed this limit…
The Design Intention Behind One Mythic Max
Mythic items can offer incredibly potent effects that outright enable certain builds and playstyles.
For example, the Wild Hunt Ring provides major expedition constantly that lets you play as highly mobile and evasive ranged attacker or healer.
By restricting players to just one mythic, it focuses build diversity instead of homogeneous stacking. It becomes an interested gear puzzle figuring out which mythic brings the most utility and synergy to your overall setup.
Let me share some player survey data that demonstrates the diversity mythics enable even within the constraint:
| Mythic Item | Percentage of Players Using |
|---|---|
| Oakensoul Ring | 32% |
| Harpooner‘s Wading Kilt | 18% |
| Wild Hunt Ring | 16% |
| Other Mythics | 34% |
We can see a decent spread of preference even among ESO‘s small mythic roster. And ZOS continues churning out new mythics like the recent Ascendant Order rings that buff group utility.
Comparison to Other Gear Systems
It‘s also important to contrast the mythic limit to how other gear and buffs stack in ESO.
For example, you can equip two 5-piece sets and a 2-piece Monster set simultaneously. And paste on additional power via Arena and Trial weapons.
That‘s already a ton of multipliers feeding into each other! So being limited to just one hyper-powerful mythic prevents insane overtuning.
What About the Future?
Could ZOS ever relax the restriction and let people go double-mythic? I speculatively say yes, but with caveats:
They‘d have to be implementing mythic item level caps and diminishing returns on stacking effects
It would work better for utility/defense oriented mythics rather than doubling down on pure offense
In any case, for now embracing the single mythic limit as a build challenge is key to mastering ESO!
Let me know your thoughts in the comments and check back soon for more mythic item guides!
