For all replies and comments, keep in mind I'm a console player and have the average amount of game experience that that entails.
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Does Veteran rank affect being able to play on non-Veteran campaigns?
I've taken part in a guild made with the express purpose of attempting to assist all it's guild members with the acquiring of the "Emperor!" achievement. Recently, the leader of the guild brought up an issue related to veteran ranks and such.
I've only recently found out that once you hit Level 50 in the game you can only play Veteran rank PvP campaigns and some of our better players have already gone over that, now we have two options that we can chose from
1.) We all wait to hit Level 50 and then go into Veteran PvP campaigns to get Emperor
or
2.) We all just make new characters, get to Level 10, and then go for Emp.
While talking to a friend in-game about me wanting to get all the skyshards in Cyrodil before being forced into a veteran campaign where I'd presumably get beaten to death constantly, that same friend said being a Veteran didn't matter and he still plays in his non-veteran campaign.
So the question is, does Veteran rank affect being able to take part in non-Veteran campaigns?