Is it possible to change the time of day for Enlightenment buff?

Bat

MIne kicks in at 23:26, which to those of you who are unfamiliar with the concept is 11:26PM, which of course is a rather suboptimal time for such a buff to be activated.

What determines the time of day when Enlightenment kicks in and is it possible to have the time changed?

MisterKarnos

Enlightenment refresh is determined by the timestap you first reached lvl 50 and unlocked the cp system

phaneub17_ESO

Mine is an hour, 30 before the daily reset so I burn it all doing the daily writs, its perfect! But I'm close to 1700 and except for Green Tree have no use for extra CP so Enlightenment is pretty much useless at this point.

Dagoth_Rac

Why would it matter when it kicks in? You don't lose it like a daily reward or event ticket. It'll be waiting for you the next day if you log off before 11:26pm.

vsrs_au

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Why would it matter when it kicks in? You don't lose it like a daily reward or event ticket. It'll be waiting for you the next day if you log off before 11:26pm.

Yes, and it also accumulates.

Bat

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Why would it matter when it kicks in? You don't lose it like a daily reward or event ticket. It'll be waiting for you the next day if you log off before 11:26pm.

Do you mean it's not time limited but my character will stay enlightened until the stated number of experience points have been accrued?

Bat

I mean that it could matter because I might want to use it up each day.

Bat

For instance if I plan to stay away for a while and I want to make use of it on the day before I'll have some time off, I'd have to wait until night because of this arbitrary system to make use of it.

PeacefulAnarchy

Bat wrote: »

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Why would it matter when it kicks in? You don't lose it like a daily reward or event ticket. It'll be waiting for you the next day if you log off before 11:26pm.

Do you mean it's not time limited but my character will stay enlightened until the stated number of experience points have been accrued?

Yes, it accumulates up to 4.8 million, so 12 days.

Bat wrote: »

I mean that it could matter because I might want to use it up each day. Why do I feel like people take a problem with this "just to be contrarian" about it.

They're not trying to be contrarian, they're trying to be helpful. There are hundreds of little inconveniences in the game. When one of them, like this one, have no real material effect on anything people like to point that out in case you didn't know. This bothered me too at first, because I thought maybe I was losing XP by having it at a suboptimal time, but after looking into how it works I realized that unless I let it accumulate to the 4.8 million it doesn't actually matter at all. Enlightenment is completely separate from all other XP buffs, so there are no synergies to worry about with it.

Bat

PeacefulAnarchy wrote: »

Bat wrote: »

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Why would it matter when it kicks in? You don't lose it like a daily reward or event ticket. It'll be waiting for you the next day if you log off before 11:26pm.

Do you mean it's not time limited but my character will stay enlightened until the stated number of experience points have been accrued?

Yes, it accumulates up to 4.8 million, so 12 days.

Bat wrote: »

I mean that it could matter because I might want to use it up each day. Why do I feel like people take a problem with this "just to be contrarian" about it.

They're not trying to be contrarian, they're trying to be helpful. There are hundreds of little inconveniences in the game. When one of them, like this one, have no real material effect on anything people like to point that out in case you didn't know. This bothered me too at first, because I thought maybe I was losing XP by having it at a suboptimal time, but after looking into how it works I realized that unless I let it accumulate to the 4.8 million it doesn't actually matter at all. Enlightenment is completely separate from all other XP buffs, so there are no synergies to worry about with it.

It feels wrong that we have a buff tied down to our characters, which we can't control in terms of when it goes into effect.

Bat

But so to the topic; there's no way to change this timer?

vsrs_au

Bat wrote: »

But so to the topic; there's no way to change this timer?

Create new character, and as you approach level 50, be careful to trigger the transition to level 50 at the precise time of day you wish your future enlightenments to be triggered.

SeaGtGruff

MisterKarnos wrote: »

Enlightenment refresh is determined by the timestap you first reached lvl 50 and unlocked the cp system

Huh, I never realized that, but it makes perfect sense. The weird thing is, it means I hit L50 on both servers at approximately the same time that the daily repeatable quests reset.

vsrs_au wrote: »

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Why would it matter when it kicks in? You don't lose it like a daily reward or event ticket. It'll be waiting for you the next day if you log off before 11:26pm.

Yes, and it also accumulates.

I never realized that, either. Now I don't feel so bad about those nights when I went to bed early. This has been an interesting and educational thread. Thanks!

Bat

vsrs_au wrote: »

Bat wrote: »

But so to the topic; there's no way to change this timer?

Create new character, and as you approach level 50, be careful to trigger the transition to level 50 at the precise time of day you wish your future enlightenments to be triggered.

Thank you, I will try this out with one I'm currently levelling (but slowly)

Ippokrates

Bat wrote: »

vsrs_au wrote: »

Bat wrote: »

But so to the topic; there's no way to change this timer?

Create new character, and as you approach level 50, be careful to trigger the transition to level 50 at the precise time of day you wish your future enlightenments to be triggered.

Thank you, I will try this out with one I'm currently levelling (but slowly)

I don't think it will work, because I have 9 Alts and time of Enlightment is still exactly the same as set by 1st character who reached lvl 50.

SeaGtGruff

Ippokrates wrote: »

Bat wrote: »

vsrs_au wrote: »

Bat wrote: »

But so to the topic; there's no way to change this timer?

Create new character, and as you approach level 50, be careful to trigger the transition to level 50 at the precise time of day you wish your future enlightenments to be triggered.

Thank you, I will try this out with one I'm currently levelling (but slowly)

I don't think it will work, because I have 9 Alts and time of Enlightment is still exactly the same as set by 1st character who reached lvl 50.

That's what I was going to say.

The only solution I can think of would be to relocate to a different time zone.

Real Estate Agent: "So, what made you decide to move to our beautiful state?"

You: "I wanted my Enlightenment to kick in 3 hours earlier."

Real Estate Agent: "Um... okaaaaaaay!"

Kwoung

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Ippokrates wrote: »

Bat wrote: »

vsrs_au wrote: »

Bat wrote: »

But so to the topic; there's no way to change this timer?

Create new character, and as you approach level 50, be careful to trigger the transition to level 50 at the precise time of day you wish your future enlightenments to be triggered.

Thank you, I will try this out with one I'm currently levelling (but slowly)

I don't think it will work, because I have 9 Alts and time of Enlightment is still exactly the same as set by 1st character who reached lvl 50.

That's what I was going to say.

The only solution I can think of would be to relocate to a different time zone.

Real Estate Agent: "So, what made you decide to move to our beautiful state?"

You: "I wanted my Enlightenment to kick in 3 hours earlier."

Real Estate Agent: "Um... okaaaaaaay!"

Hahahaha... Awesome post!

vsrs_au

Ippokrates wrote: »

Bat wrote: »

vsrs_au wrote: »

Bat wrote: »

But so to the topic; there's no way to change this timer?

Create new character, and as you approach level 50, be careful to trigger the transition to level 50 at the precise time of day you wish your future enlightenments to be triggered.

Thank you, I will try this out with one I'm currently levelling (but slowly)

I don't think it will work, because I have 9 Alts and time of Enlightment is still exactly the same as set by 1st character who reached lvl 50.

Good point. I'm only using 1 character, so wasn't aware of that.

AlnilamE

Bat wrote: »

But so to the topic; there's no way to change this timer?

What is the practical effect of changing the timer for you? Sure, your enlightenment kicks in late at night, but it will still be there in the morning when you wake up. It will still be there if you don't play the game for a week (plus all the other enlightenment you got in the other days).

As others said, your enlightenment accumulates up to 4.8million XP, or 12 days. As long as you log in to the game once every 12 days and spend it all, you are not losing any of it.

And if you stop playing the game for a few months and come back when a new DLC is out, you'll have 4.8 million in enlightment when you first log in.

My enlightenment kicks in at 12:30pm, which is the time I first logged in with a 50+ character when they implemented it.

There is no expiry date on it, as long as you don't go over the cap. That's what people are trying to tell you.

Kwoung

AlnilamE wrote: »

Bat wrote: »

But so to the topic; there's no way to change this timer?

What is the practical effect of changing the timer for you? Sure, your enlightenment kicks in late at night, but it will still be there in the morning when you wake up. It will still be there if you don't play the game for a week (plus all the other enlightenment you got in the other days).

As others said, your enlightenment accumulates up to 4.8million XP, or 12 days. As long as you log in to the game once every 12 days and spend it all, you are not losing any of it.

And if you stop playing the game for a few months and come back when a new DLC is out, you'll have 4.8 million in enlightment when you first log in.

My enlightenment kicks in at 12:30pm, which is the time I first logged in with a 50+ character when they implemented it.

There is no expiry date on it, as long as you don't go over the cap. That's what people are trying to tell you.

I was wondering the same thing, as it isn't a use it or lose it sorta thing, especially if you are making a point of using it every day.

ZOS_GregoryV

Greetings!

We have decided to close this thread as it seems to have run its course.

Thank you for your understanding,
-Greg-