Champion Ranks will replace Veteran Ranks. So once you hit 50 your champion rank will determine what equipment you can use.

If you have 160 Champion Points you will be able to equip you vr16 shield breaker pieces once you hit 50.

Kungfu wrote: »

So am I wasting my time getting my vr7 sorc to vr16 before may 31?
Would I be better off just leveling others to 50?

Pretty much. I've given up grinding my templar, DK and magblade to V16 and just grinding toons to vet1 and be instamax level CP 720 by my estimate when it drops.

It's not a waste of time to keep levelling vets IMO. You'll still get CP and more importantly, skill points from the process.

I would not say they are so much "replacing it" as removing a superflous one. We already gained CP points once we hit Veteran Ranks so now instead of grinding them both (even though they grinded simultaneously) we only have 1 "grind" and the nice part of it is that it removes the Veteran Rank leveling process from all of your other characters.

Now oonce you hit level 50 you begin accruing Champion points and those are shared across your account. Thus if you already have a character with 160 champion points every single time you level a character on that account to level 50 they are essentially "capped" and can begin being geared for end game content until they raise the champion point "standard" probably next DLC.

So are they removing one grind for another? In essence you can say that, however this is more of an account-wide grind then a per character grind which makes for muuuuuuuuuuch smoother leveling of other characters beyond just one.

Ok thats nice, but this means that going through caldwels slver and gold is pointless and thats not the end, because now effective lvling skills up will be possible only in certain areas which are going to be overpopulated for sure because of CP farmers.