Future Gear and Future CP?

Eliran · July 2016

I was curious, is it relevant to craft legendary gear right now? I've heard that CP are about to raise every single patch and next patch is going to raise by 30 CP.

My question is, will the craftable gear be higher than 160cp or stay like that till a major DLC?

I am not talking about new sets, I know new sets are added every DLC, talking purely on Gear CP.

Thanks in advance!

Enemy-of-Coldharbour · July 2016

With so many changes and the inability to 'upgrade' an items 'level' I only craft purple armor. Although I my weapons and monster sets are always gold.

acw37162 · July 2016

Raising max CP is seperate then raising gear level.

Current CP max is 501.
Current gear level max with VR removal is CP 160.

On test they raised the max CP by 30 to 531 essiently 10 per tree.

The gear level on test is the same as live is now.

On a gear note if they do what they did with Orsinium with a significant hike in gear cost and no adjustment to the drop rate of tempers in particular gold tempers and the removal of VR ranks, i.e. going from three end game toons needing gear to eight, I will be taking some time off for a quite awhile.

I enjoy parts of the game very much but not enough to grind our eight more sets of gear just to get to the same point I was the day before. I'll play the game, I'll gather materials, I don't want a gift but going back to square one on eight characters with the amount of time I can spend is more work then fun and more then I am willing to invest.

Eliran · July 2016

Armm ... Actually I see no problem with that, it's kinda make sense like every other game no content ...

Only difference is that the content in this game come super often, maybe once a year and so?

Just wondering ..

wayfarerx · July 2016

Enemy-of-Coldharbour wrote: »

With so many changes and the inability to 'upgrade' an items 'level' I only craft purple armor. Although I my weapons and monster sets are always gold.

This is what I'm doing for the moment. After Shadows of the Hist it will have been a year since the last gear cap increase, I'm expecting we'll see another in Q4 or shortly after. Until then I'm hoarding my gold tempers, all of them except Kuta at least.

Taleof2Cities · July 2016

Definitely no gear increase from CP160 for Update 11 which is good.

The earliest they would increase gear is Update 12 ... so October or November. Even then, however, there's no sign from ZOS that they would up the gear to CP180 any time soon.

Incidentally, CP180 mats (e.g moonstone ingots) were created for the Thieves Guild update per a prior data mine thread. However, ZOS decided not to implement the change before the Thieves Guild PTS session started.

Personally, I hope it's a while before they up the gear cap. I'm just like any other player who needs to outfit Alts that will soon be level 50.

imnotanother · July 2016

I would craft your gear now. You shouldn't have to craft any for at least 4 months.

Eliran · July 2016

Just upgraded my guild, not going to wait 4 months, oh well!

TheTraveler · November 2016

Can't wait for the next CP upgrade. (Not on gear, tho, I hope - that would really make a lot of legendary mats go waste).

AzraelKrieg · November 2016

Knootewoot · November 2016

Enemy-of-Coldharbour wrote: »

With so many changes and the inability to 'upgrade' an items 'level' I only craft purple armor. Although I my weapons and monster sets are always gold.

Indeed. I only make my weapons golden. My gear is just purple because I cannot afford to make it golden with all the constant changes and possible CP gear increase. I used to have golden gear V16. But when one-tamriel came half of that armor decided it should be CP150 instead of CP160. I was sad.