Talks of raising gear levels to CP 180?

Cously

Raise CP gear max to 180

I'd be happy with CP cap increase each trimester and gear cap change every year.

Teronell

Raise CP gear max to 180

It is going up eventually. The release of One Tamriel would be a good time to find out which sets aren't scaling correctly, if any. Plenty of eyes would be on them as we re-farm old sets and try out the ones that would then be dropping at 180.

Shadesofkin

Raise CP gear max to 180

Ghost-Shot wrote: »

Fallen_Ray wrote: »

If this happens then there's no difference between veteran levels system and the current champion point system and the veteran levels shouldn't have been removed. I thought the idea of removing veteran levels was to minimize the exp grinding and give smoother access to end game gear to everyone both new and old school players.

By raising a cap they will be going back and be repeating the same mistake. That's what I think at least.

The difference is that you only level your CP once, they never at any point said that removing VR meant you would gear up once and never worry about it again. Welcome to MMO's.

In fact they said the opposite, removing the gear scaling from the overall leveling system was intended and made it so they could increase difficulty of content by introducing new gear.

I_killed_Vivec

Raise CP gear max to 180

Start stockpiling materials now!

majulook

I_killed_Vivec wrote: »

Start stockpiling materials now!

yep because it would be something like: 400 -600 ingots for 1 piece of Heavy Armour

jhharvest

I think all gear should be down scaled to level 50.

altemriel

Raise CP gear max to 180

yes, raise the gear cap like every half a year or so !!

idk

OhAmex wrote: »

I am hearing this will happen in november but i dont know. If they do, ill be mad id have to farm all over again on monster gear, new mats + gold mats maelstrom weapons, it'll just take so long again. What do you think?

Have not heard the devs say anything and players like to speculate about most anything.

Games often increase level cap, usually for a reason though Zos does it just because. Regardless, it is inevitable gear level will be increased, when it merely a guess for now.

FloppyTouch

Raise CP gear max to 180

SleepyTroll wrote: »

Do it.

You won't

nine9six

Keep it at 160

I would love it if there was a way to "upgrade" your gear to the new level.

IDK how to go about implimenting this, haven't thought about it enough.

Leandor

The plot thickens. 3 more threads about this and it will evolve from rumor to proven fact.

ADarklore

OhAmex wrote: »

I am hearing this will happen in november but i dont know. If they do, ill be mad id have to farm all over again on monster gear, new mats + gold mats maelstrom weapons, it'll just take so long again. What do you think?

I'd like to know the source that you're "hearing" this from? People are talking about it because it was part of a datamining collection, but there was absolutely NO DATE mentioned and I doubt they will raise it prior to One Tamriel nor shortly after... I expect it to be raised at some point but more likely a couple of months after One Tamriel. ZOS is counting on NEW players coming to experience One Tamriel, and raising the gear cap and battle leveling from CP160 to CP180 would not be a help to those new players.

RebornV3x

Keep it at 160

No to raising the gear cap

Xems

Keep it at 160

I would be okay with them maybe introducing a 5th temper that may be hard to acquire that can upgrade your gear from 160 to 180 (whether its's 1 CP level at a time or in increments of 5 or something).

Rayya_Blackheart

Keep it at 160

I'd rather wait until cp200

Brittany_Joy

Keep it at 160

The grind to make 160 CP gear is massive and to increase the CP cap on gear to 180 so soon is a huge waste of all that time. You need downtime on gear lvls, it needs to be long enough for people to not feel like they wasted time and expensive materials for their set of gear. Let people enjoy their gear for awhile then increase the CP gear cause it has to happen eventually.

FriedEggSandwich

Keep it at 160

I'm saying keep it at 160 based on the current availablity of upgrade mats. If it was reasonable for the average player to farm 72 gold upgrade mats in a couple of months I would be fine with a gear-cap raise. As it stands the current system is just making the rich richer. PC EU it costs 50k for 8 dreugh wax, this is a problem imo.

Yolokin_Swagonborn

Keep it at 160

Before the Imperial City, the max level was VR14 (or CP140). The imperial City was released almost a year ago. To this very day, there are underleveled sets in the game that ZOS has REFUSED to update to CP160. Hell there are even some CP 120 gear that still drops from dungeons scaled to 160.

There are so many sources of gear, the Cyrodill vendors, the Tel var vendors, the Undaunted Helm Vendor, the Rewards for the worthy emails, the open world drops and treasure chests. What are the chances that ZOS will update all of those in a timely manner? Its been almost a year and gear has not been updated since the last level cap increase stole all our gear and forced us to regrind for no other good reason then to force us to buy Imperial City.

Do you remember when Agility, Endurance, and Willpower were the ONLY V16 Jewelry available for MONTHS? Say NO to this nightmare ever occurring again.

The last level cap raise was terrible, it destroyed build diversity, and it took 10 months for the gear availability to recover.

If ZOS ever thinks they can get away with making us relive that greedy terrible nightmare again I will drop this game so hard and never come back. Its a true abuse of the playerbase. It would be better if ZOS could be trusted to update gear but they have shown over this last year that they love to control gear sources and create artificial gear diversity shortages where the lions share of the level cap gear can be only found in the new DLC. It's P2Win and its despicable.

Travy_2Hype

Keep it at 160

If a cap is raised, then players should have be given the ability to increase their current armor they've already created/farmed.
Because if gear goes to 180 then it'll be only as drops, or they'll have to release new crafting materials as well.

However, personally I still think you should be able to increase current gear via the related skill.

SPE825

Keep it at 160

I want to play the game and enjoy the content. Not grind mats. I have a job. I don't need another one.

Edit: The only exception would be if there were a way to upgrade 160 to 180. It would be stupid to have to farm new mats to just make a 180 version of the 160 armor set I already have.

juhasman

Depends what sets and gear changes will come with it.

Oakmontowls_ESO

I would be Ok with if there was a way to upgrade. Cp160 gear to this new level.

PURPLE245

for me it depends if its still 130+ leather/ore/silk for one piece of armor no way who wants to farm all of that again was a dumb idea in the 1st place but its its like 20 then yeah sure why not

Wolfchild07

Keep it at 160

It's false progression, and adds nothing more than re-grinding/re-crafting gear.
Then everyone will be back to where we are now and people will be asking for cp200 gear raise.

k9mouse

Keep it at 160

s7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »

They will raise the gear cap eventually.

However, I would rather them go the route of only dropping CP180 gear from certain encounters, and disabling the option to craft any gear higher than CP160. This means that there won't be outrage from players having to upgrade all of their crafted sets. And they won't have to upgrade Maelstrom weapons. And players would have to choose to either use the new CP180 gear or stick with their crafted sets.

I love crafting! I complete disagree with that logic. Crafting Grater then Loot drops that is how it should be!

Shadesofkin

Raise CP gear max to 180

It has been a year since the last time gear level was increased, it's totally within the realm of reason to expect it within the next 6 months or so (Perhaps with Q1 of '17). The only way this would really be a "grind" is if they made the mistake of Imperial City, which only allowed for mats to be gained through Tel Var and Decon. So long as content has been created where properly scaled nodes are spawning, no one will have to grind.

magnusthorek

Keep it at 160

Keep it at 160 at least until more than just sick farmers have their Trial gears -AND- a DLC of decent size, like Wrothgar be planned

sadskull

Keep it at 160

Without adding a way to upgrade our current gear to CP180 stats : No.

With adding a way to upgrade our current gear to CP180 stats : Yes.

SteveCampsOut

Keep it at 160

Unless they fookin' plan on leveling the existing CP 160 gear when they raise the cap I say Fook No! It was hard enough making 6 sets of CP 160 gear as it was. I'm OUT of legendary tempers!

Sile

Keep it at 160

When they did the VR14->16 gear change it was one of the worst things they did. The were people who said stuff it and quit. I know I did.

It's also a huge barrier to re-entry to have to farm up mats and grind CP for endgame content. I know it's a major roadblock for a lot of players who would otherwise be playing ESO, but are turned off by the grind.