CP: 188

I do understand that the Dark Brotherhood patch will make me "max level", but I'm looking at the 3 extra skill points.

It was on the live stream, something about extra skill points if you are vr16 to make it fair for people that leveled to vet16

Anasatsudo wrote: »

It was on the live stream, something about extra skill points if you are vr16 to make it fair for people that leveled to vet16

Attribute points are more important, are they capping those too? Will be a mess if they don't.

This is from Patch notes 2.4.0 on PTS


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NEW FEATURES / UPDATES / BIG CHANGES

Base Game Patch

Veteran Rank Removal
Veteran Ranks have been completely removed from the game in this update! Your strength after level 50 is now simply your number of Champion Points. As Champion Points are gained much faster than Veteran Ranks, this will allow you to advance more rapidly and start getting the best gear in the game faster.
You’ll keep all your hard-earned attribute and skill points you received from gaining Veteran Ranks, and new players will instead earn them while leveling up to level 50.
You will receive 2 points every level that ends in a 5
You will receive 3 points every level that ends in a 10
You will continue to get 1 point for levels 2-49
You will receive 10 Champion Points as soon as you hit level 50 if your account doesn’t have any Champion Points already.
We will be awarding a one-time bonus of 2.5 Champion Points per Veteran Rank gained on your highest level character when you first log in when Dark Brotherhood is released!
Each Veteran Rank will grant 2.5 Champion Points, up to a maximum of 40 points at VR16.
Reaching level 50 with a second character means you can immediately equip gear up to your account’s Champion Point value since Champion Points are shared across all characters on an account.
Old Veteran Rank Items and monsters will now display Champion Points.
For items, this describes the number of Champion Points required to equip them.
For monsters, the number of Champion Points describes the monster’s strength.
Every Veteran Rank is equivalent to 10 Champion Points.
For example: A monster that used to be VR12 will now be Champion Point 120.
Monsters will now scale up faster in difficulty through veteran zones.
Experience gain rules will continue to function as they did for Veteran Ranks:
Mobs 40 Champion Points below your level will grant 75% of their normal XP.
Mobs 50 or more Champion Points below your level will grant 30% of their normal XP.
Abilities no longer increase their cost by 1% per Veteran Rank, but will now increase at their normal rate for every 10 Champion points, up to a cap of 160.
Most abilities will cost about the same, but cost reduction abilities should return more predictable results.
Core mechanics (sprint, dodge, block, CC break) will now be slightly more expensive.
Silver and Gold zones have been releveled to account for the increased speed at which you gain Champion Points.
The Champion Point cap will remain at 501 for this update.
The Character Select screen now indicates how many Champion Points your account has.
Item tooltips have been updated to support the removal of Veteran Ranks.
Level requirements for items previously referencing Veteran Ranks will now reference Champion.
Gold Value has been moved to the bottom of the tooltip.
Guild, Friends, and Group lists now display Champion Points for anyone above level 50, rather than their Veteran Rank.
The XP bar has been modified to show Champion progression after hitting level 50.
Loot history will now include the enlightenment bonus when showing XP gains.

@Anasatsudo
You are just fine where you sit at vr13 because you have the requisite CP 160 to wear what is currently vr16 gear.

My advice: go pvp or pve for fun or (better yet), see if you can get another character to 50 before DB drops.

That way, your current vr13 will be as fully functional as any vr16 after the change and your new level 50 will too.

As others have said, you'll still get all the skull points and all the attribute points that any current v16 will get / would have gotten. You just get a second char jumped to max level and all without having to grind the worst 3 levels in the game.

True, you'll be lacking a couple of champion points (only 30) but just like wayfarerx said: you'll make those up someday just by playing. Only now you'll have two chars contributing.