Enlightment issue

henryabelarwb17_ESO

I logged on my alt (v14) and I had a full bar of enlightment, when I switched to main (v14) my enlightment bar was like only 2/3 full why does this happen?

dodgehopper_ESO

Because each character builds up enlightenment separately. Once they achieve a point, it goes into the total pool of champion points. There is an account based level of enlightenment you accrue daily, which can then be used by any of your characters.

henryabelarwb17_ESO

dodgehopper_ESO wrote: »

Because each character builds up enlightenment separately. Once they achieve a point, it goes into the total pool of champion points. There is an account based level of enlightenment you accrue daily, which can then be used by any of your characters.

But when I revert to old character it should be full bar no? this way by switching to alt i got penalised...

henryabelarwb17_ESO

Just to make it clear I didnt earn any points between the switching...

Takhistis

Where can you even see the enlightenment bar? I can only see the champion point exp bar, which just says im enlightened...

nerevarine1138

It seems like you're actually referring to the CP bar, as there is no separate bar showing enlightenment. But the same thing holds true.

CP are shared account-wide, but each character's progress toward CP is separate. This isn't really a "penalty," as it allows you to continue earning CP by cycling through enlightened alts instead of feeling compelled to spend all your time on one character.

Takhistis

Weird thing is that I've been perm enlightened since I hit VR1 friday... OMW to filling my 7th CP atm...

nerevarine1138

Takhistis wrote: »

Weird thing is that I've been perm enlightened since I hit VR1 friday... OMW to filling my 7th CP atm...

That can easily happen if you aren't logged in 24/7. If you only play with that character for a few hours at a time, then all their inactive time simply adds enlightenment back on, and it will just appear to be an infinite supply, which is how the mechanic works to keep players with lives from feeling totally left out of Champion progression.

Takhistis

Okay, but earning 6 CP at enlightened rate, in 3 days, on my first VR char seems... weird? Wasn't it 1 point for 100k every day, stored up for 12 days max?

nerevarine1138

Takhistis wrote: »

Okay, but earning 6 CP at enlightened rate, in 3 days, on my first VR char seems... weird? Wasn't it 1 point for 100k every day, stored up for 12 days max?

There is no point-per-day limit, just a 12-point maximum. And as I mentioned above, one can pretty much permanently stay enlightened if you're cycling through alts. It does seem strange to me if you got to VR1 and didn't stop playing through those 6 CP. But otherwise, your case sounds normal if you were taking breaks from playing that character.

Takhistis

I did take breaks, but I do not have any alts...

Suru

You get ONE full bar of enlightenment a day. Say I use half on my Sorc. My DK will have half of that bar left. i used some on my DK then my NB. You can not bug it out and each character has their OWN CP PROGRESSION that is not account wide as in my Sorc has 300k, my DK has 50k my NB has 130k, I dont get a CP till each gets 400k EXP.

Takhistis

But I've been enlightened for 6 CP's straight, since friday. every time I hovered my mouse over the CP bar, it said enlightened and everytime I got exp, I got 4x more toward my CP gain. This is my first and only character, and friday I hit VR1.
This doesn't seem normal, and although most people would stay quiet about it and enjoy it, I'd rather make sure I don't misunderstand it.

nerevarine1138

Suru wrote: »

You get ONE full bar of enlightenment a day. Say I use half on my Sorc. My DK will have half of that bar left. i used some on my DK then my NB. You can not bug it out and each character has their OWN CP PROGRESSION that is not account wide as in my Sorc has 300k, my DK has 50k my NB has 130k, I dont get a CP till each gets 400k EXP.

Last I checked, enlightenment is also character-specific.

Edit: Never mind, it looks like it is account-wide, but it can only be used up by VR characters. So if you aren't playing a VR character, you'll get enlightenment.

nerevarine1138

Takhistis wrote: »

But I've been enlightened for 6 CP's straight, since friday. every time I hovered my mouse over the CP bar, it said enlightened and everytime I got exp, I got 4x more toward my CP gain. This is my first and only character, and friday I hit VR1.
This doesn't seem normal, and although most people would stay quiet about it and enjoy it, I'd rather make sure I don't misunderstand it.

When did you hit VR1? And how much time do you spend playing that character per day?

Takhistis

Last friday I hit VR1. Don't have alts to play on.
I think I played everyday from about 3PM till 7PM and than 9PM till 2AM GMT+1? Seems a lot but I'm taking a break from study stuff this weekend to relax from test week
This includes quite a bit of aiding around Wayrest looking unsuccesfully for pledge groups, and in the evening doing Alliance
And yesterday I did some cadwells' on Khenarti's Roost.

nerevarine1138

Takhistis wrote: »

Last friday I hit VR1. Don't have alts to play on.
I think I played everyday from about 3PM till 7PM and than 9PM till 2AM GMT+1? Seems a lot but I'm taking a break from study stuff this weekend to relax from test week
This includes quite a bit of aiding around Wayrest looking unsuccesfully for pledge groups, and in the evening doing Alliance
And yesterday I did some cadwells' on Khenarti's Roost.

If you mean "last Friday" as in three days ago, then that does sound odd. You should only have been able to accumulate 3 CP worth of enlightenment since then. If you mean "last Friday" as in 10 days ago, then that's different.

Takhistis

Nope. Last friday=last friday xD 3th of April 2015 ATM I got 2 of each CP and when I logged off yesterday and hovered over my CP bar, it still said enlightened.

Leeric

It only counts toward enlightenment when you are gaining xp. If you are just role playing, or sitting in town selling items, things like that. It doesn't consume your enlightenment. You also gain enlightenment when you are logged off of your VR character. Its working normally.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/158785/enlightenment-how-it-works

henryabelarwb17_ESO

Just to make it very clear...

1. The enlightened bar is right on the CP bar you will see it as a different shade of color (depending wether its thief, magus etc..)

Now to re-explain my problem I log on my 1st Alt i had like 10k Xp so dark blue and full bar enlightened all lighter blue. I log on to my main like 2min right after, no dmg no quest no nothing.... The bar now changes to like 80kxp and 2/3 light blue enlightened. I played a bit till like 100k xp and enlightenment was over and went back to alt and instead of having full bar I got nothing... If they gonna do this accountwide... we should have a common system otherwise we will lose the enlightments points this way... Also no CP was gained and I should have a day worth of enlightment as i didnt play yesterday.

Leeric

Read the link i provided, its all there.
Each character tracks cp gain separately. The cp point is account wide.

onlinegamer1

There are 3 "things" that have to do with Enlightenment:

1. Your "Enlightenment Pool": how much bonus XP is available to all your VR characters towards Champion XP
2. Champion Points: the amount of CPs you've earned across all VR characters
3. Your current Champion XP: the current XP total, expressed as "x out of 400,000"

Items 1 and 2 are account wide. Item 3 is "per character".

Hope that clears it up.

henryabelarwb17_ESO

onlinegamer1 wrote: »

There are 3 "things" that have to do with Enlightenment:

1. Your "Enlightenment Pool": how much bonus XP is available to all your VR characters towards Champion XP
2. Champion Points: the amount of CPs you've earned across all VR characters
3. Your current Champion XP: the current XP total, expressed as "x out of 400,000"

Items 1 and 2 are account wide. Item 3 is "per character".

Hope that clears it up.

Problem is with the Pool, the pool should be account-wide... but it seems it is not s it s the pool that decreased when switching between alts.

onlinegamer1

henryabelarwb17_ESO wrote: »

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onlinegamer1 wrote: »

There are 3 "things" that have to do with Enlightenment:

1. Your "Enlightenment Pool": how much bonus XP is available to all your VR characters towards Champion XP
2. Champion Points: the amount of CPs you've earned across all VR characters
3. Your current Champion XP: the current XP total, expressed as "x out of 400,000"

Items 1 and 2 are account wide. Item 3 is "per character".

Hope that clears it up.

Problem is with the Pool, the pool should be account-wide... but it seems it is not s it s the pool that decreased when switching between alts.

It is not. You should use either a different addon which is more accurate, or write your own (like I did) to see the current "Pool" total (the default ESO UI never shows you the Pool).

henryabelarwb17_ESO

onlinegamer1 wrote: »

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henryabelarwb17_ESO wrote: »

onlinegamer1 wrote: »

There are 3 "things" that have to do with Enlightenment:

1. Your "Enlightenment Pool": how much bonus XP is available to all your VR characters towards Champion XP
2. Champion Points: the amount of CPs you've earned across all VR characters
3. Your current Champion XP: the current XP total, expressed as "x out of 400,000"

Items 1 and 2 are account wide. Item 3 is "per character".

Hope that clears it up.

Problem is with the Pool, the pool should be account-wide... but it seems it is not s it s the pool that decreased when switching between alts.

It is not. You should use either a different addon which is more accurate, or write your own (like I did) to see the current "Pool" total (the default ESO UI never shows you the Pool).

It does show u the pool... press B and hover over CP bar there is bright color, if enlightened there will be a lighter color after and rest is black

onlinegamer1

As I said, there is no bug in the "Pool". The "Pool" is fixed at 100,000 for 1 (24-hour) period, and you gain another 100,000 for each additional period you do not play/gain Champion XP, to a cap of 12 periods, or 1,200,000 Pool.

There is no bug in this pool.

nerevarine1138

henryabelarwb17_ESO wrote: »

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onlinegamer1 wrote: »

henryabelarwb17_ESO wrote: »

onlinegamer1 wrote: »

There are 3 "things" that have to do with Enlightenment:

1. Your "Enlightenment Pool": how much bonus XP is available to all your VR characters towards Champion XP
2. Champion Points: the amount of CPs you've earned across all VR characters
3. Your current Champion XP: the current XP total, expressed as "x out of 400,000"

Items 1 and 2 are account wide. Item 3 is "per character".

Hope that clears it up.

Problem is with the Pool, the pool should be account-wide... but it seems it is not s it s the pool that decreased when switching between alts.

It is not. You should use either a different addon which is more accurate, or write your own (like I did) to see the current "Pool" total (the default ESO UI never shows you the Pool).

It does show u the pool... press B and hover over CP bar there is bright color, if enlightened there will be a lighter color after and rest is black

To my knowledge, the enlightenment coloring will never cover just part of the bar.

henryabelarwb17_ESO

onlinegamer1 wrote: »

As I said, there is no bug in the "Pool". The "Pool" is fixed at 100,000 for 1 (24-hour) period, and you gain another 100,000 for each additional period you do not play/gain Champion XP, to a cap of 12 periods, or 1,200,000 Pool.

There is no bug in this pool.

This stuff is so hard to explain... lets say i logge don my 1st alt and had 100,000 pool, when i log on 2nd alt like 2min after with no exp gain etc... the pool becomes like 20k... hope u understand

Takhistis

I did not have any enlightened levels stored, as that can only happen once you're VR1 and I only hit VR1 friday 3th of April, yet in 3 days, i earned 7 CP'S ALL AT AN ENLIGHTENED RATE.
How I Know? I'm on 70% to VR2, meaning I earned 700k EXP, And I also have as many CP's

henryabelarwb17_ESO

You can see the enlightment pool here:

http://www.maleth.com/pool.jpg

onlinegamer1

henryabelarwb17_ESO wrote: »

You can see the enlightment pool here:

http://www.maleth.com/pool.jpg

There is your problem. That is NOT THE POOL AT ALL.

That is your current character's Champion XP Bar. That is PER CHARACTER as I said in my first post.

You are confused.