DynastyIXII wrote: »

With DB a week away, there should be a fair number of players returning and even more joining for the 1st time!

That depends though. The Champion point system is going to keep out players who aren't at cap. This meta is highly competitive and those not at or near cap are going to feel very left behind quickly. Here is to hoping people at least try to fill up Azura's Star. If not, the lower level CP peoples are going to get together inside of Zergs just so they can feel like they can accomplish something.

To give you an example of what thats like, try reading this thread. This thread is a good example of how it feels to not be at cap and not understand how PvP works.

Takes-No-Prisoner wrote: »

DynastyIXII wrote: »

With DB a week away, there should be a fair number of players returning and even more joining for the 1st time!

That depends though. The Champion point system is going to keep out players who aren't at cap. This meta is highly competitive and those not at or near cap are going to feel very left behind quickly. Here is to hoping people at least try to fill up Azura's Star. If not, the lower level CP peoples are going to get together inside of Zergs just so they can feel like they can accomplish something.

To give you an example of what thats like, try reading this thread. This thread is a good example of how it feels to not be at cap and not understand how PvP works.

That thread is a poor example, the player could be on a v16 with 501 cp, inadequate gear and no pvp experience and get rekt by a v16 with sub 300cp with decent experience. I would take a semi experienced player with 300cp over some PvE hero (not a hardcore Pver mind you) that's capped for literally every role in group, and its not even close. CP is merely a scapegoat in most situations for what is a gear or simply know-how issue. Once you've reached max rank with the current catch up system you will be on a decent level to compete well with about anyone you run into in cyrodiil.

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It took me a month after launch to get to V1 and now CP 303. Average 2 hours per weeknight and 6 hours on weekends with 3 kids and other responsibilities.

In the PUG or Guild Chats, I hear so many who are still living at home without jobs, who play 8-12 hours per day. I'm sure they hit 501 in 3-6 months.

I remember learning what gank was because I didn't know about fast travel in Cyrodiil. Remember when the gates were always open before ZOS finally fixed them? Yeah, I got killed a lot just riding to the gate in Rislav or Juliek.

So based on what was said, on a fresh new account from LVL 1 to CP 501 takes around maybe 2-3 months to hit the cap give or take IRL stuff and Champion Point EXP Boosts. That seems about average from my past MMO experiences. That is good information to know, so in the event I help train new people for Cyrodiil, I can give them a real estimates as to how long that takes.

Obviously we didn't include things like beefing up Crafting traits on a new players toon. It took me well over a year and a half to get a 9-trait crafter set up. But I wasn't exactly always running out to go research Nirn for my stuff every chance I got. I had to wait til the money was there. Outside of Nirnhone research, with regular materials it took around 9 months to get 6-7 trait options unlocked.

You forgot to throw Sorcs in there too @DannyLV702 they'll have to equip some Impen now once DB gets on PS4

So what was the defensive ticks at Chalman on Scourge? Shout outs to the blues at Nikel, those fights were fun. I am not surprised you came down to hang out with yellow seeing as how crowded Chalman was. Holy moly.