Catch up mechanics

Osodon736

I have recently moved back to PC after being over on Xbox for some time.
Really enjoying the PC version however I have a long way ahead of me until I reach Max CP!

Now this isn’t one of those “why is it so damn hard to catch up” posts. Many players have been on PC since launch and of course it should by no means be easy to catch up. In fact I welcome the long road ahead of me as it gives me a goal

My question is this, with the current catch up mechanic of progressively harder CP gain, how much of a task is it to catch up?
I’m not really into grinding and will likely be gaining most of my cp from daily’s, dungeons, and a mix of other content

I also like to vary my playstyle so my plan would be to work on CP with my main, whilst enlightened and once enlightenment runs out start levelling my other classes

Playing this way how long should I expect to reach the milestones of CP600 and C1000

I realise that I only need CP160 for max gear and will get diminishing returns from CP gain past a certain point

I know that what I am asking is very subjective to the circumstance / gear / playstyle / scrolls etc.. I am more interested to hear your personal experience with how you play and how long it took you

Thanks in advance

D0PAMINE

Enlightenment, daily xp scroll rewards, and lower levels actually gain more xp help boost people at a decent rate already. Just keep playing the game normally but efficiently. I met some new players 3 months ago, and they're already at CP 300-460. Me and my buddy put them through hell, and we had one girl solo the second to last boss in vCoH II on her first vet run (we had 3 people all dps). So find the kind of players you rolled with before, do the dailies like quest, BG's, normal randos and pledges and you'll get there before you know it.

El_Borracho

This is purely from memory, but I recall I could regularly get a level an hour or so from 1-50 with overland questing, then a little longer from 50-CP160, with CP160-CP300 was just a little longer than that. After that, it turned into a grind, especially at CP600. I'm approaching CP700 on my main. Maybe 2-3 levels over a 4 hour period doing primarily trials and dungeons.

Don't think I'm going to go overboard trying to level my alternate past CP160 as that character will just get the CP from the main.

validifyedneb18_ESO

CP160 is max gear sure, but...

CP300 is max stat benefit

CP 500 - 600 is where people start taking you more seriously for vet trials

Osodon736

So theoretically, would it be possible to reach cap just by using enlightenment?

For example, using englightenment on my Mag DK until it runs out

Then levelling my alts up to CP level until my enlightenment has replenished

Rinse, repeat.

(I guess this would only be until all my desired classes/alts are at cp level anyway, at which point all gameplay will be towards CP)

Vanthras79

I would relish some mustardy ketchup mechanics.

xan4silkb14_ESO

Since enlightment caps out at 12 days worth, you don't even have to play your main every day. I don't play my main everyday except maybe for the crafting dailies, and I've made it to CP552 in about 7 months. I play a little bit of just about everything. Questing, dungeons, daily's and PvP. I did resort to grinding some Dolmens for a couple of hours once when I was getting pretty close to CP160. But I also took a couple mini vacations of 5-6 days each without playing at all. I often forget to use any xp scrolls I pick up. Most of them are sitting in my bank that I intend to use for some quick xp once I've got a few more master writs that I can finish stockpiled.

So, if you aren't going to grind and want to level other characters as well, even with all the catch up mechanics, it will take quite a bit to get to max CP. The weeks I play my main consistently I can get about 10 or so CP without doing any specific grind. I'm guessing that I can probably get to CP 810 by the 1 year mark of when I started playing if I focus a little more on getting there but I'm not that worried.

DeadlyRecluse

Yeah, that's not a terrible plan. With all the free XP scrolls you get from monthly rewards, you should be able to keep one of those ticking whenever you are grinding CP, too.

MyKillv2.0

I actually think OP has the right idea. Create the characters that they wish to level up, play on the alts while your englighten buids up. Then once a week/ten days, just grind out CPs.

I am actually surprised that ESO does not offer a cash catch up mechanic in the cash shop. Espeically with the amount of people who switch between consoles and PC. Games like WoW & Everquest offer "catch up tokens", neither game takes you up all the way up to max level but rather just below it. In EQ the catch up level is like 80 out of 100 and WoW is like whatever the level of the last expansion is... I may be slightly mistaken on these. Don't hold my feet to the fire and roast me for be slightly off, if I am. However neither of these games offer shared CPs, so it isn't like this a game breaking deal.

Trinity_Is_My_Name

Well, you could go to the extreme and have someone craft you gear sets with everything in the Training trait. Then...gold it out. One person in my guild did this when he got in game about two years ago. He wanted to catch up so much he did exactly that. Only took him a few months to hit CAP. Think it was 630 or so? Been a while. Today he is close to 1100 CP but of course doesn't run with Legendary Training gear.

AlienatedGoat

I had a bud recently move over from Xbox.

He went from level 1 to over c700 in 3 months, just him playing normally every day and using pots/scrolls+plus+event xp, for daily random, pledges, etc. He'll probably hit cap before the next patch.

You really don't have to do any grind to catch up, the 400k enlightenment per day + xp boosts are more than enough with just a little time and patience.

Chelo

It will take you like 6 months playing everyday…