12 days now?

I cannot type "Thank you" enough. Work takes me on the road for a week or two at a time. Now, I can catch up again by playing obsessively when I'm back. Woot!

Well... 12 days is actually 1.2million xp now (100k, 1 CP per day).. as before, 3 days would net you 1.2 million enlightenment(400k, or 4 CP of enlightenment per day).

Essentially you gain it 4x slower per day, but you can stack 4x more days total.

Works out better for casuals this way.

I am happy for the 12-day Enlightenment reserve. I could not get Enlightened for anything when Update 6 came out. I think it had to do with my logging into alts and mules and all that while playing the Inventory Management Minigame. That must have been repeatedly resetting my Enlightenment timer. The patch came out on a Tuesday and I think it took me until Saturday to get Enlightenment! The irony is that now I can get Enlightened every day but I have trouble getting through my Enlightenment! Dungeons and Trials and quests just do not give enough XP/hour to get through your Enlightenment unless you are speed-running or playing many hours per day. It is certainly not one CP per hour when Enlightened, as was hinted at before Update 6 dropped. So if I can actually play the game for 11 days and just reserve one day of every 12 to go through that soul-crushing grinding-through-my-Enlightenment drill, that would be great.

But I'd still prefer normal game activities give better XP as opposed to spacing out the grind sessions!

Prizax wrote: »

HungryHobo wrote: »

Well... 12 days is actually 1.2million xp now (100k, 1 CP per day).. as before, 3 days would net you 1.2 million enlightenment(400k, or 4 CP of enlightenment per day).

Essentially you gain it 4x slower per day, but you can stack 4x more days total.

Works out better for casuals this way.

Uh? before 4 CP per day? it was never like that or was it?

It was like that very briefly after Update 6 dropped. They hotfixed it within a few days. It was a bug. You were supposed to get 100K "real XP" at the 4x rate = 400K "Champion XP". Instead they gave you 400K "real XP" at the 4x rate. But it has not been that way for about a week and a half. The 12 days of Enlightenment reserve sounds new, but your first 100K XP of the day at a 4x rate towards CP has been in place for a while.

I''ll take credit for suggesting the increase from 3 days enlightment storage in the official champion point feedback thread

Great news. Handy for people who can only play couple of nights per week.

While storing up Enlightenment for up to 12d sure is nice, it still doesn't change that it's just 1CP a day that's used up in 20 minutes and the steep drop in progression makes me not want to play the game any further than that. Still gonna take 10 years. Yay.

technohic wrote: »

If I understand correctly, it means you are earning 100k real XP (which would be counting toward your level) and 4x that is going toward enlightenment as you see in your screen.

Okay, that's right. The 400,000K goal threw me, but I've still only earned 50K XP. Thanks

Wow, the 12 day thing is great. It's only been like 15 days since 1.6 launched so, even if you haven't been actively gaining much XP, you haven't wasted any enlightenment.

Caroloces wrote: »

Still a little bit confused:

If you end up not using up all your Enlightenment while you play, it will continue to accrue for a maximum of 12 days. Once you hit the limit, you will not gain any additional Enlightenment until you begin to use it by gaining XP.

Day One (the first 24 hours): You log in and play for awhile but you don't gain enough for a CP even at the accelerated rate of enlightenment.

Day Two (the 2nd 24 hours): You log in and play (and here's where I'm confused!). The clock has reset itself to provide enlightenment again, but are you gaining xp for the accrued enlightenment from Day One, or are you gaining xp for the enlightenment for Day Two, since the clock was reset?

From my understanding, enlightenment is just a state that is dependent on the player actually doing things in the game to gain xp. What's confusing about the quote above is that there is the implication (through the word "accrue") that the enlightenment continues to add up over the course of time (like interest on an investment). So if you don't play for 5 days, have you accrued 5 days of enlightenment that will give you 5 cps at an accelerated rate? My gut tells me that that is not the case. I think the real situation is that the enlightenment is sustained over 12 days as you gain xp towards the goal of 100,000 xp, and then it is reset in the next tick of the 24 hour cycle (after you reach the goal). If you don't reach the goal of 100,000 xp at the end of the 12 day period (the limit), then, whatever you have achieved remains for the standard 400,000 xp progression.

@ZOS_GinaBruno Can you tell me if I've gotten this correct?

Hopefully I'm answering this correctly for you...

Day 1 enlightenment xp, day 2 enlightenment xp, day 3... etc.. all get lumped into your enlightenment pool. This pool can only hold 1.2 million enlightenment xp... If you gain extra enlightenment xp BEYOND 1.2 million, it is nullified and you essentially wasted it, because you will hold at 1.2 mil.

Now, this is where I'm going to confuse you, but if you have multiple veteran rank characters who you play regularly.. it is theoretically possible to use an enlightenment pool of 799k, across 8 Vet Rank characters, and NOT get 1 CP.... This is because each character's progression towards a CP is different. If you gain 97% of a CP on Char #1, and you log onto Char #2, he will have 0% of a CP gained... You can get him to 99% of a CP point, then play Char #3, who would be at 0% too...

Basically, you need to break everything down into XP rather than Champ Points... Every 24 hours = 100k enlightenment until you have 1.2mil enlightenment accrued, then you don't save any beyond that point. If you play everyday, and consistently use 50k of the 100k enlightenment, you would be netting +50k enlightenment per day, so it would take you 24 days to hit the enlightenment cap of 1.2mil....


Edit: I re-read the quote from Gina, she did make it seem like you should be counting your days... but since 1 day = 100k xp, and 12 days = 1.2mil xp, your cap is at 12 days, or 1.2mil xp. Just think in terms of xp... not time or CP's. lol

Yeah this is nice and all but they still need to address the fact that there is no way to earn XP in the first place if you have completed all your quests. I have yet to run out of enlightenment because I have nothing to do that eats up enough XP.

Thats awesome