AlnilamE wrote: »

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

AlnilamE wrote: »

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

In my mind, if the level 50-VR14 characters were not VR level restricted by one mob that is VR10 or 11 in Crag so the new VR character is forced to play VR dungeons, or Silver quests until they reach a much higher VR level.....

Also there is not a VR1 - VR10 zone... (well I guess if you do the other factions content there is) but then why are there factions and why are we at war?

You don't have to be VR10 to go to Craglorn. My main started going to Craglorn with my guild soon after she hit V1. At V4 I did my first quest, and at V7ish I decided to work on the quest line, which turned out to be quite fun and I got to V14 helping guildies through the various stages and completing other Craglorn areas.

My alt got to V1 and I would have loved to take her to Craglorn right away, but I figured I'd never finish Coldharbour that way, so I made an artificial barrier of "she has to defeat Molag Bal first". Having done that, I started working on the Craglorn quests with some friends and mostly our group is in the V2-5 range (sometimes one of us isn't available and someone with a higher level character jumps in to help).

My alt is currently V4.

You don't IF...as you comment, you have a group of people and are able to effectively grind the exp nerfed content.

the LFG tool doesn't work and standing in the zone chat trying to find an exp grinding group is hardly effective way of leveling in Crag today.

I think a lot has changed since you've done this in the past months based on my experience and many others as I read through the forums.

It only works for a few who have the friends and have info on where what to do....I've lost that as my friends are all VR14 or have quit the game/guilds

You misunderstand me. I did not do any of that with the specific intention of leveling. I did it because it was a fun thing to do.

And my alt is running around Craglorn right now, so that information is current.

If you want to grind in Craglorn, you can certainly find a partner for Spellscar. If you want to quest, there are people in zone looking for groups all the time.

I'm not sure what your friends being VR14 has to do with them not helping. I have friends who have been VR14 for ages who will not hesitate to join us for an excursion if we need help. And I will take my VR14 out to help others as well.

angelyn wrote: »

vid here Here is the question that was asked and the answer given. I will now amend my previous post since it looks like 70CP=VR14. I have dutifully typed out Paul Sage's entire answer.

@Grasshopper was this you?

53:25 Question
This question comes from Grasshopper, who says people are confused about changes to stats, quite a bit of us understand that "stat losses" are actually regained through the champion system, but what about base stats like health, magicka and stamina?Are the mobs getting toned down to our levels or is there other plans?

53:48 Answer:
"Ok, there's some complex questions. I'm gonna answer a question that wasn't asked first, so I apologise.So there was some question about why we did what we did with the numbers to increase the scale.So going to that question, which is , you know, multiplying out all the numbers. The reason we did that is, it has to do directly with the Champion System and people being able to see progress for the numbers that they have put in. Um, I will say that if my past history teaches me anything, it's that if people are told ""you've gained progress"", but they don't see it reflected in their character stats, that doesn't feel very good.

And so that's one of the reasons we did that, is because the Justice System does alter things numerically in the backgend but we wanted to make sure that that's represented in the front end. So that's why that was so important to do, and was part of the impetus for it

54:40(cont)
Furthermore, as I've talked about earlier,not in this podcast, or rather earlier when we had a guild summit,um, one of the things we talked about was the ways we would implement the Champion System and I said we couldn't just put it on top of what already existed, but actually had to make room for it.

Now what we made room for is really what a veteran rank 14 character would get, which is now 70 Champion Points. And so we've kinda balanced the game to that.

55:13(cont)
However, we've also made a number of other changes, not just to the scaling of the abilities, but to the way that you know, crit works, and crit is handled,the way crit defense is handled,um and a lot of these things required us to adjust even the multiplier on how we multiplied out the numbers or the very fine detail of the scale of the numbers and that's some of what we're seeing, and I think that's what your question is directly asking,but that had to do more with the overall global balance and changes to the way we handled various fundamental changes to the game itself, which were actually a lot of, derived from a lot of suggestions from the players we had. Which is you know, things like, ""Hey, we want light armour and medium armour and heavy armour to be a more significant choice. We don't want light armour tanks"".

So all of those changes really came out in 1.6, which some of it is related to the Champion System, and some of it is related to the more global changes to the systems.

angelyn wrote: »

vid here

@Grasshopper was this you?

53:25 Question
This question comes from Grasshopper, who says people are confused about changes to stats, quite a bit of us understand that "stat losses" are actually regained through the champion system, but what about base stats like health, magicka and stamina?Are the mobs getting toned down to our levels or is there other plans?