Path to 561 CP

LeeroyGankins · September 2016

How long is it expected to take? From CP 230 to CP 561.

Currently grinding in IC sewers I get a CP every,,40-50 min. Seems like quite a while till I can hit 561.

andreasranasen · September 2016

I get about 1-2 cp a day.

LeeroyGankins · September 2016

andreasranasen wrote: »

I get about 1-2 cp a day.

Sounds about right, if you finish the pledges with enlightment.

andreasranasen · September 2016

LeeroyGankins wrote: »

andreasranasen wrote: »

I get about 1-2 cp a day.

Sounds about right, if you finish the pledges with enlightment.

Yup! You'll get it fast. I've been playing since console launch and I have about 620cp.

Rohamad_Ali · September 2016

I get about 5 cp a day just questing .

Bouldercleave · September 2016

I'm a tad less playtime than Rohamad, but I pick up between 2 - 3 CP a day doing Cadwells Silver (almost to gold)

Volrion · September 2016

LeeroyGankins wrote: »

How long is it expected to take? From CP 230 to CP 561.

Currently grinding in IC sewers I get a CP every,,40-50 min. Seems like quite a while till I can hit 561.

What's your goal? Just to get max cp? Or Pvp/PVE end game?

You're at a pretty good place for PVE right now. If I were you I'd just enjoy some dungeons and normal trials. The CP will flow...

Aside from a couple of vet dungeons (depending on your group) and hard mode trials, group PVE is easy from about 200 with the right set up, and you're good to go in Pvp from about 350. (Based on my experience).

I grinded up to about 200 cp originally, then just started doing a random normal daily dungeon four times (one on each of my characters) and then either log off, or go pvp in black water with friends.

The amount of bonus XP from randoms plus a silver/gold key was plenty for me, and I think it's a better return than traditional grinding if you have efficient groups. Each character would earn 2-4 CP per dungeon clear when I was around 200 CP.

10 CP a day average for maybe an hour or two of gameplay was a pretty good return and was quite enjoyable.

Grinding 300 CP in the sewers will burn you out quick!

LeeroyGankins · September 2016

SourishWhale wrote: »

LeeroyGankins wrote: »

How long is it expected to take? From CP 230 to CP 561.

Currently grinding in IC sewers I get a CP every,,40-50 min. Seems like quite a while till I can hit 561.

What's your goal? Just to get max cp? Or Pvp/PVE end game?

You're at a pretty good place for PVE right now. If I were you I'd just enjoy some dungeons and normal trials. The CP will flow...

Aside from a couple of vet dungeons (depending on your group) and hard mode trials, group PVE is easy from about 200 with the right set up, and you're good to go in Pvp from about 350. (Based on my experience).

I grinded up to about 200 cp originally, then just started doing a random normal daily dungeon four times (one on each of my characters) and then either log off, or go pvp in black water with friends.

The amount of bonus XP from randoms plus a silver/gold key was plenty for me, and I think it's a better return than traditional grinding if you have efficient groups. Each character would earn 2-4 CP per dungeon clear when I was around 200 CP.

10 CP a day average for maybe an hour or two of gameplay was a pretty good return and was quite enjoyable.

Grinding 300 CP in the sewers will burn you out quick!

Lol ya grinding can be pretty boring at times. That's a good idea tho, I do my daily silver/Gold but maybe I can just complement it with a few runs of random. I wanna be pretty good PVP too. Max CP players in Cyrodil is too strong lol.

Jsmalls · September 2016

If you REALLY want to grind CP make yourself or have someone make you a full set of training gear, pop potions and go to cracked wood cave on a non alliance owned campaign and use experience options. Hands down best exp in the game. You'll be getting champion points left and right, like at least 1 every 5 to 10 minutes.

It's effective but boring.

I'm at 710~ CP since console release.

Edit: I said opposite Alliance owned campaign because those that come to grind you can kill versus those on your alliance coming and just stealing your experience with you unable to do anything.

If you were lucky and got the cave to yourself on an alliance owned campaign you'd get 15% more experience which is awesome. But unlikely.

acw37162 · September 2016

Or you could just play the game.

Clear the zones, run dungeons, collect skyshards, get skill points from completed quests.

And arrive at 561 CP with enough skill points to buy all your abilities, crafting, and passive you need to make sure ready for everything that is coming.

Or you could just mindlessly grind in the sewers and not have the skill points you need to be detective but hey it's a big game lots of ways to play.

WalksonGraves · September 2016

Been playing since launch and only now hitting 400. I refuse to grind it's so mind numbing.

Trublz · September 2016

Cap is 531 not 561 FYI
Unless I've missed something new

Ackwalan · September 2016

Trublz wrote: »

Cap is 531 not 561 FYI
Unless I've missed something new

Next week, cap is raising to 561 (on pc).

Biro123 · September 2016

I'm sure it isn't, but it feels like the cap keeps rising just as quick as I'm getting CP's (300ish here). Doesn't feel like i'll ever 'catch up' unless I stop having fun PvPing and just grind instead. :-(

I'm sure the cap increase is great for the older players who are already capped - but its a bit disheartening for us newer players - esp. from a pvp perspective where the CP gap between me and those I'm fighting (which is more important than the actual amount of CP's) will suddenly grow.

Asardes · September 2016

Gained ~200 CP in 2.5 months (~75 days) from the dime TG went live to a week before DB went live just doing random dungeons with random groups: 100K for the 1st, 33K for the next ones. That's about 3 a day on average. But my purpose was not purely CP gain, but monster set farm. I achieved both in the end. I still make about 1-1.5 CP a day on average now, but I'm well over the cap and a CP has almost the same cost as an old VR past the enlightenment bonus.

Beardimus · September 2016

I would say dont grind that far off, will drive you nuts.

its not just CP that makes players tough - learning the PvP side of the game, build, rotations, having all the shards you need for the skills etc etc - so grinding only gives you one aspect and once you catch up on enlightment its going to get slow and wreck enjoyment.

Just play the game, do the dailies sure, random dungeons quests etc - it will all just come.

sure if you take a week away from the game, and bank enlightment hitting XP heavy activities makes sense. but honestly I just dont know how much longevity comes from grinding. you miss all the decent content

(though OneTam will help level stuff later)

SlayerTheDragon · September 2016

@LeeroyGankins

Just forget about CP and focus 100% on what you enjoy doing in the game.

It is also much easier for PVPers because you can join either of the Non-CP campaigns and forget about CP entirely.

Bryanonymous · September 2016

Wtf is with the number... why not 540, or 570... 561, because our cap is some weird number which makes our game special.

Asardes · September 2016

Probably at first they wanted to put a number that does not easily match the number of CP needed to get the perks.
For example 540 CP would be 180 in each branch. That would have allowed you to have 120+30+30 or 75+75+30 gaining the maximum number of perks.

GreenhaloX · September 2016

SourishWhale wrote: »

10 CP a day average for maybe an hour or two of gameplay was a pretty good return and was quite enjoyable.

Grinding 300 CP in the sewers will burn you out quick!

10 CP a day.. Holy crap! Do you work or sleep?! Geeze.. Lol! For average working folks and if you play 2-4 hours a day, you can expect to get 2-4 CP.

@LeeroyGankins, you would need 331 CP. Just divide 331 with how many CP you think you can get per gameplay. For example, take the minimum of 2 CP a day, you would need about 165 straight days of non-stop playing. If 4 CP a day, then half that. Plus, of course you don't stop leveling beyond 531 or 561. I'm just hitting 600 and I've seen others in the 800s and even over 1000 CP. I'm sure those who have been playing non-stop since day one are probably over 2000 CP, given they stick with that toon.

Asardes · September 2016

IMO it's useless grinding CP as a goal in itself. I hate grinding and it's bad in an objective way. I've met a lot of people who probably did it because despite the fact that they were close or at the cap they still had serious L2P issues. I've done good runs on IC dungeons with people barely above 250 CP that knew how to play, and tear your hair out wipe-a-thons with CP500+ people that spammed Jesus beam at the inhibitor portals and one even threw flares during that fight (on gray screen they look just like the portals).

Don't do it, just play the game, and especially play challenging PVE group content and small scale PVP to really learn. Learn more classes in order to know each strength and weakness they have.

Soundwave · September 2016

Bryanonymous wrote: »

Wtf is with the number... why not 540, or 570... 561, because our cap is some weird number which makes our game special.

Because at 561 its 187 for each section in the champion tree. At 561 u also can divide that unto 62 for 9 trees. Its not because we r special, its called balance.

Bryanonymous · September 2016

Soundwave wrote: »

Bryanonymous wrote: »

Wtf is with the number... why not 540, or 570... 561, because our cap is some weird number which makes our game special.

Because at 561 its 187 for each section in the champion tree. At 561 u also can divide that unto 62 for 9 trees. Its not because we r special, its called balance.

Hard to tell if this was a joke. Brilliant!

Juhasow · September 2016

LeeroyGankins wrote: »

How long is it expected to take? From CP 230 to CP 561.

Currently grinding in IC sewers I get a CP every,,40-50 min. Seems like quite a while till I can hit 561.

@LeeroyGankins so You get cp very slow. Are You wearing full training gear , using ambrosia and running in 2 person group on campaign dominated by Your alliance? Because all that stuff together gives additional 165% exp from kills.ESO+ and rings of mara are another 10%. Also get ready for witches festival where You'll be able to get event consumable item that increase Your exp by 100% if i good heared.

At cp 230 I assume You need ~ 220k exp to get next cp and 220k in 50 minutes is very slow. You should get 800k-1M in that time if grinding with full potential offered by the game.

Also with One Tamriel number of grind spots wil be increased by alot because now all maps will be scaled so You'll be not restricted to certain grind spot on certain lv but You'll have acces to all grind spots on all maps with any lv.

If I counted it correclty You'll need ~120M exp from cp 230 to 560 so with 1M per hour it can take 2 weeks of hardcore 8h/day grinding to get cp cap or 1 month of 4h/day. I assume it'll be pissible to get cp cap during wicthes festival , if grind spots will not be full of people.

Juhasow · September 2016

Bryanonymous wrote: »

Wtf is with the number... why not 540, or 570... 561, because our cap is some weird number which makes our game special.

@Bryanonymous cp's cap need to be always divided by 3 due to fact You have 3 colours (blue/red/green). Zenimax employees even said that on 1 of ESO lives. 1st we had 501 because it's closest number to 500 divided by 3 and now we get additional 30 cp with each cap increase so 531 , 561, 591 etc until they decide to increase cap by larger number then 30 , but that number will be also divided by 3.

Danksta · September 2016

Bryanonymous wrote: »

Wtf is with the number... why not 540, or 570... 561, because our cap is some weird number which makes our game special.

531 is divisible by 3, so you can put an even number of points into each tree.

Bryanonymous · September 2016

Wow, people really state the obvious. 1 out of every 3 numbers is divisible by 3, that doesn't make every number divisible by 3 have some significant meaning. Are there 100 passives for 3 points each? No. There are 30 point, 75 point, and 120 point. How are people not understanding what I am saying? I don't care if the number evenly fits into three branches, the total amount in each branch make no sense.

AlnilamE · September 2016

Biro123 wrote: »

I'm sure it isn't, but it feels like the cap keeps rising just as quick as I'm getting CP's (300ish here). Doesn't feel like i'll ever 'catch up' unless I stop having fun PvPing and just grind instead. :-(

I'm sure the cap increase is great for the older players who are already capped - but its a bit disheartening for us newer players - esp. from a pvp perspective where the CP gap between me and those I'm fighting (which is more important than the actual amount of CP's) will suddenly grow.

Keep in mind that when the cap changes, the amount of XP you need for your current CP will go down as well because of the scaling formula.

OP, if you already are at 300 CP, you may want to switch to doing stuff you enjoy, and maybe running the daily random for a bit of an XP top up.

I pretty much keep on top of my enlightenment by attending guild activities and running pledges/randoms.

Nestor · September 2016

Bryanonymous wrote: »

I don't care if the number evenly fits into three branches, the total amount in each branch make no sense.

It is more than likely a value chosen just to stop people from getting too many passives in too many constellations.

Lightninvash · September 2016

I think grinding sewers is somewhat bad exp. There are other spots that give more xp for time spent if you know the routes providing there isn't too many people there haha. I grind a lot and once one tamriel comes out I will be doing all the quests from the zones that I didn't do because of being such a higher level haha so I can get more skill points.

Juhasow · September 2016

Bryanonymous wrote: »

Wow, people really state the obvious. 1 out of every 3 numbers is divisible by 3, that doesn't make every number divisible by 3 have some significant meaning. Are there 100 passives for 3 points each? No. There are 30 point, 75 point, and 120 point. How are people not understanding what I am saying? I don't care if the number evenly fits into three branches, the total amount in each branch make no sense.

Cp's was introduced 1st and caps camed later. How much cp's in certain tree You need to unlock certain passive have nothing to do with cp caps. Caps are based around dividing by 3 to have same numbers of cp's in each colour.