Gear scaling on non-veteran characters in veteran campaigns

Serenityx

I must be misunderstanding how battle leveling works on veteran level characters that are under vr16 but still scaled to vr15 in cyrodil. For example I have a vr10 whos "scaled level" is 15 and this does seem to show in his stats, but his gear is worse when compared to my level 24 alt in cyrodil. Ive compared the stats of both characters gear and in all cases (except jewelry) the gear that is level 24 was superior to gear that is vr10.

Here is a quick example

Level 24 greatsword first on my v10 main then on my level 24 alt

On my Vr10 in scourge: https://i.imgur.com/nv32gdE.png

On my Level 24 in skeleton key: https://i.imgur.com/3XMbCr5.png

Okay, now here is my veteran level 10 greatsword that is also blue as opposed to green quality(yet has lower weapon damage): https://i.imgur.com/oN2F1Tc.png



Why is veteran level gear not scaled the same way as non-veteran level gear in the same campaign? I thought the idea of battle leveling was to make the fight fair, not give lower level players an advantage.

Both were in veteran campaigns. If players below level 50 want to play with the high levels, higher levels shouldnt get gimped gear in comparison. I say gimped, the stats are not all that much worse until you consider the quality of the weapons in comparison here and also add up all the trait bonuses as those seem to be scaling higher on a non-veteran character also.

Toc de Malsvi

Your v10 has a blue sword true, but it is a v9 sword while the level 24 is wearing a level 24 sword, so for scaling calculations your v10 is wearing out of date under level gear while your 24 is wearing appropriate gear for his level. At least that is my understanding of how things scale now, from my understanding it looks at your gear and scales based on your gear matching your level and the quality of that gear.

Johngo0036

I do also believe that there are calculations that are being done,
On your vr10 the calculations only have to span 5 VR ranks,
while
with your lvl24 it spans a lot more levels and with rounding off etc this could skew the result just slightly..

but what @Toc de Malsvi said is also true.

Serenityx

Okay, I did not know that gear scaled that way. I will craft new weapons next time im on thanks this is good to know

EDIT: Just made new v10 gear to match character level..this solved it thanks again for the info! I really hope others find this useful as well, I was a bit concerned for a moment here.

Waffennacht

I know that cause of the way it works, a non-vet can actually achieve higher stats than a Vet. I think this only really has on effect on the non-CP campaign.