If the scaling remains similar to how it is for veteran rank gear now then the difference between v14 and v16 gear will be quite minimal. Some will argue that they absolutely need that extra 6 magicka regen or 8 spell damage but that's a bit dramatic.
This will be great for up and coming pvpers though because v14 gear will be much cheaper to find.
Some people just like to be perfect for the sake of being perfect though and they will work incredibly hard (or at least long) to get those fractions of percents but that too will drive down the cost of the perfectly fine v14 gear.
I'm no developer or anything but there is pretty much no chance that they will refund your AP after increasing the level cap.
So...for those of us who spent ungodly amounts of AP on VR14 Elite gear from the vendors in Cyrodiil, will there be anything to bring either bring these up to VR16 or refund the AP we spent on those items?
For those of us who can't PvP every night, 250k AP per piece is an extremely painful process. It might take a month or so to gather enough AP to buy 1 piece.
(Sometimes far less.)
No.
Everyone asks for refunds on everything everytime vet levels moved from v10-12 and from v12-14. It doesn't happen. In fact, one of the reasons they do it is as a money(ap) sink.
I'd also bet that Imperial City will be v15 and drops from there that level and v16 won't come until Wrothgar. Maybe I'm way off, but I'm betting only crafted gear will get to v16 right away (maybe arena/trials if they scale that up) and we might not even see v16 gear for sale right away in cyrodiil. (Which is probably why the leaked ring someone saw was a v15 ring of cyro light and not v16).
100k ap a night is easy, i have 7 million ap saved up just in case, so i dont have to beg my friends like when 1.6 came out xD

bertenburnyb16_ESO wrote: »prob not because
jeanbulinckxub17_ESO wrote: »No refund and No scaling!
I think that's good for economy and I wish raising cap level can ocurr every month.
Of course I'm a very rich farmer/crafter/trader and profit a lot on these events (no, not kidding, maybe just a bit sarcastic).
I already got a lot of golden materials in stock and ill sell it the second prices sky rocket.
I don't care about that whinny pvp kids, if they got no gold to spent at my shop let them die.
So...for those of us who spent ungodly amounts of AP on VR14 Elite gear from the vendors in Cyrodiil, will there be anything to bring either bring these up to VR16 or refund the AP we spent on those items?
For those of us who can't PvP every night, 250k AP per piece is an extremely painful process. It might take a month or so to gather enough AP to buy 1 piece.
(Sometimes far less.)
Tonight, I am going to refund my notebook I bought last year. Coz there is a new model coming out.

In all the time in pvp i have never been in a situation where the gear i was using seemed to matter much. It is far less important than having tactical awareness (i.e knowing when to stack or to flee) or having the right skill like barrier and purge on your bar
I think having legendary gear maybe gives people confidence and lets them do heroic (and often stupid) things
The only difference being nirn gear, i can notice i survive longer and more often since i use that
About 18 others were standing back spamming rapid regen or just sitting in sneak. So i qq ed in zone, realised nobody cared and went one to make my own group with people in ts and had a good time taking many blue keeps.