Should CPs Really Carry Over to New Characters?

Daimmyo

Yes

Grind addiction is a mother ***

brandonv516

I'd rather see this:

1. Remove the leveling system (1-50). It's a complete joke that is only necessary because of attribute points.

2. Keep Champion Point levels shared.

3. Add a Skill Point level that remains individual to each character - not terribly hard to accrue, but a good indication of game completion.

Abeille

Yes

Tandor wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

ADarklore wrote: »

jedtb16_ESO wrote: »

i don't think that anything should be account wide..... it should be character by character.

I take it you don't play a lot of alts, because if you did, I think you're response would be very different. It seems to me that those voting NO are players who play a single character versus players who have several alts.

Not at all, those voting NO are more likely to be altaholics, people who enjoy leveling up a number of characters for the journey through the game rather than simply looking to make a different build and get it to the endgame as quickly and effortlessly as possible.

Grinding a grand total of 3500 CP isn't necessarily "part of the journey". Lots of us who have many characters enjoy exploration, questing and such, and consider that to be the "journey", not the leveling.

I'm an altaholic and I will always vote for more alt-friendly mechanics.

The "exploration, questing and such" is all part of the leveling.

"Alt-friendly" means different things to different people. For some, it means being able to get additional characters to the endgame with as many shortcuts as possible, for others it means doing so without any shortcuts at all. The former play a main plus alts, the latter play multiple characters.

The exploration, questing and such isn't part of the leveling, leveling is a consequence of doing them. The leveling - the mechanical of going up a level, through any means - is leveling. If the exploration, questing and such were an intrinsic part of leveling, it would be possible to reach the cap by doing them, which is not true.

Alt-friendly means that someone who has multiple characters won't be on a big disadvantage as opposed to someone who focus on only one character. This is what it means. You might want to attribute a different meaning to it, but you will see that the meaning you are trying to attribute to it isn't what the expression is used for at large.

I play multiple characters, not a main and some alts, and I still think a game should be alt-friendly. And by "alt-friendly", I mean the actual definition of it, the one used on MMOs for years, the one I gave you on the last paragraph. That means that the actual power of the character in game is meaningless, it is a hollow mechanic that barely supports the actual growth of the character. Because it is such a secondary thing about a character, something purely mechanical, it doesn't have to be a nearly-eternal character-locked grind.

ArrerBoy

Yes

brandonv516 wrote: »

I'd rather see this:
3. Add a Skill Point level that remains individual to each character - not terribly hard to accrue, but a good indication of game completion.

At this point I think that's all the leveling system is around for.

RavenRoxie

No

Wollust wrote: »

Are you insane?

Edit: voted wrong

I voted wrong too! D; LoL

Yes, CP should and probably will always carry over.

Tannus15

Yes

brandonv516 wrote: »

I'd rather see this:

1. Remove the leveling system (1-50). It's a complete joke that is only necessary because of attribute points.

2. Keep Champion Point levels shared.

3. Add a Skill Point level that remains individual to each character - not terribly hard to accrue, but a good indication of game completion.

I think swap over to the secret worlds level progression. X many XP till you get another attribute points, Y many XP until you get your next skill point.
Ditch character levels all together.
Change gear levels to be attached to your skill level in that item.
Change all CP level items to just be level 50 (equivalent cp160)

But since I don't think that will happen and to address the OP.
The only think I would like to see is your CP displayed on characters level 50 and under.
a level 20 / cp600 is much stronger than a newbie level 20.

Avran_Sylt

Yes

When I first started playing the game, I only used one char, and got that character to CP120 before I thought about making an alt. I was hesitant at first, the grind to level 50, then the inevitable grind to CP160 which i had yet to do on my main char.but I wanted to experience another class and play style. So I got that character to level 50, and was surprised, pleasantly though, that my CP progress was shared between characters. I then immediately hopped back onto my main character, which I was more familiar with, and leveled up to 160. I then promptly made another character, now knowing that I only had to do the level 50 grind to experience endgame gear and builds on other play styles.

I look at the CP sharing as a way to "skip the tutorial" of CP, allow players quicker access to trying out different classes/races in end game content. This does mean though, that CP10-CP140 gear will barely be used, and perhaps from a sales perspective will likely have an impact on character race change/class change tokens.

kargen27

I don't apply my character points on new characters until I get to vet level. For me I think it helps me figure out how to play my character better. I suck with my rotations so making the fights last a little longer gives me a chance to work on them without just standing in front of the practice dummy.

Champion points are one of the few things I like being account wide. It isn't like one character earned them all anyway. I have close to 800 points but I play a lot of characters. I might have one character that earned 200 but that would be pushing it probably.

KochDerDamonen

Yes

I do like the way alts work right now where-in one only has to hit level 50 after obtaining CP on their veteran characters.

I never did understand why we can use them on non-50 characters though, eh.

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