So turns out that today's patch didn't go through (or partially applied)

Thestrain

The original patch note

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/139302/patch-notes-v1-5-3#latesthttp://

What was actually patched.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/139445/patch-v1-5-3-partially-applied-to-the-na-megaserver

So other than some minor UI and animation changes the most crucial stuff didn't make it through. They didn't realise this till players reported that none of the changes or fix are working. Zeni had no idea what soever.

And to make things even more comical..1.5.3 was accidentally released to EU clients while the server was still running 1.5.2, causing an invalid version error for all EU players that tried to log in after downloading the patch. It took an entire day to revert clients to 1.5.2. 

Bigboo

Maybe they used an Elder scroll for patching and not a newer one 

SaunZ

maybe Trion is helping them with patches now?

 

Sz

EQBallzz

They really need to get their shit together with the patch process. I thought things improved with 1.5.2 but 1.5.3 seems like a major backslide towards incompetence.

d_20

An update from ZOS:

 

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/139480/patch-v1-5-3-what-happened#latest

 

At least they tried to explain what happened.