How long did your first 160 CP take

BossXV · November 2016

How long did your first 160 cp take from level 50?

Mic1007 · November 2016

I got them when it was 400,000 XP for each CP, with Enlightenment giving one every 100,000 XP. I think I passed 160 when I was Veteran Rank 10 or so. And I was given 70 for free to start with. Those were dark days.

Now I suspect getting to 160 is much easier.

rosendoichinoveb17_ESO · November 2016

from lvl1 to v16 (160CP) took me arround a year with no grinding. Just enjoying quests.
From lvl 50 to 160cp took as long as from lvl1 to lvl50 i believe, but it might be easier now.

Nestor · November 2016

Mine were back before there was any catch up mechanism, other than the points allocated for having Vet Ranks that were added in after the whole thing started. I don't remember if I had reached CP160 before the Vet Ranks were removed or not.

But I was around when CPs were first introduced, and I am at CP670 right now.

summitxho · November 2016

BossXV wrote: »

How long did your first 160 cp take from level 50?

Took me about a week of casual play to get from cp10-cp160. It was almost too fast with the experience boost, as I did not have any chance to grab the mats between cp10-cp140, it was a really quick level up, but at the same time I was happy as any gear I got in that time I just deconstructed as it was out leveled too quickly, now that I am 160, I can keep the good stuff until they raise the level cap.

IrishGirlGamer · November 2016

A long, long time. You don't even want to know.

In my defense, I started out playing ESO like other TES games and was an altoholic. Then the day after version 1.5 dropped, I deleted ALL my characters, gave everything away in HUGE Glenumbra garage sale ... and started over at level 1 with nothing.

To this day, I don't know what I was thinking. But I hear some people level up to 160 in about 40 hours.

Korah_Eaglecry · November 2016

I actually got them right before the transition from VR to CP. I had two VR2-3 characters and simply farmed them. Something like 80 CP per. I was already well on my way with 70 or so CP when the announcement was made. So it didnt take too long or too much.

ArchMikem · November 2016

I don't even remember. Back when the system changed from Veteran Levels to Champion Levels, I was still a Vet 14 working my way to 16. When the change finally happened, I had already earned about 200 or so points. At that time I think I had been playing for half a year?

deevoh1991 · November 2016

3 weeks thanks to the plunderfest event

Usually otherwise I'd have taken over 2 months at my pace

Loralai_907 · November 2016

My first completed character took me roughly forever. I dawdled a lot. Listened to every single quest. Got lost. Crafted a bunch. Worked on so many alts. Deleted 75% of the alts I worked on. Started new alts. I now have 3 done characters, and 3 more that are done-ish (CP leveled, but still need to get more skyshards, lorebooks, and work on some skills a bit).

Orjix · November 2016

my first cp 160 was instant, logged in and BOOM my vet 16 is now cp160+. my first lv 1-VR16 took 6 months i think

JamieAubrey · November 2016

CP 160 Instant it was introduced :P

But VR1-14 ( then 16 ) I did in PVP Only back in yee old days of the Cellairis campaign and when *** was a big PvP guild, I would ask LFG and would always get invited by Shido and at the time most of then where all VR10+ and I was only VR1, they didn't mind but I worked my way up the ranks ended up joining the guild and meeting some great players, most I still speak to on Discord

Sorry for the longish post

Kram8ion · November 2016

About 9 months for me no grinding
I enjoyed it though will not do again for a while which is probably why im still on the same toon

phbell · November 2016

In the early days of this game each vet rank took increasingly larger amounts of XP to move to the next level. I may have this a little wrong but as I recall going from V11 to V12 took about 5M XP. Then ZOS added 2 more vet levels but lowered the XP requirement to 1M XP per level, then after another update added 2 more vet levels getting us to V16 with each level requiring 700K XP (or something like that) and adding Champion Points in the process.

Then they eliminate vet ranks and champion points are the only leveling mechanism. This seems to me to be a bit of slight-of-hand because all that has really happened is that 16 vet levels have been replaced with 561 champion levels (and counting), which I find a bit funny actually.

So... I cannot answer your question as to the first 160CP, but it came to me slowly in comparison to what it is today. Now I can level an alt to level 50 in about 15 hours, after which it immediately goes to my account CP level of 680+CP and that is very convenient. My advice to the new players is to take your time and enjoy all three story lines. Play every quest and explore every zone. Play the game the way it was originally designed with the stories flowing across zones. If one is in too big a hurry to max out their CP they miss so much of the game. There is a lot more to this game then button-mashing.

Runs · November 2016

It won't take you long at all.

This question is really flawed though because not everyone had it as easy as it is now. And even then some people only played in enlightenment(4xExp) while others played after it ran out.

My alt account got it how it is now. The only insight I could give from that account is that from a brand new 50 to 70cp was 2-3 hours of playing time. I believe I was 160 within a week or two, using only Ambrosia and training gear(no event bonus exp). This was pure grind and I wasn't grinding efficiently.

So you can get there pretty fast if you grind. Or you can play through the quests, have fun, and learn the mechanics as you do. CP isn't the be all end all people make it out to be

Rastoide · November 2016

Member Since July 23, 2016.
CP160 Since November 19, 2016.

Lvled up to 30ish and left before september, came back for OT release and here i am.
So from 30 to 160cp in almost 2 months.

TheShadowScout · November 2016

Longer then it would today, since I did them before they added the catchup mechanics. But I did take 2 CP per day on average, so... not that much of an issue, especially since one could do them spread over multiple characters and rake in the CP 'en passant' while getting them through cadwells...
And it was less of a hassle then going through the veteran ranks back when they were still costing more then doing a whole region gave you - all those days in cyrodil doing the town circuit...

Lylith · November 2016

you mean v10 or all the v's that came after?

yeah, it took a while.

lillybit · November 2016

I'm on console so had vr and cp from when I started playing. Tbh never paid that much attention to CP's before VR's were removed so can't say exactly but I know I just played one character at first, just questing, and she got to VR16 somewhere around the same time I finished gold

lardvader · November 2016

Well I can't remember but I'm pretty sure aprox. 2 months. I think it took me 3 weeks to level 50 and about another month up to V16. Not sure how many points I had at that point but prob. around 200 cp.

I grinded for some of my vet levels (at least the last 4 to get to V16) but I never grinded for cp. With the catch up mechanism you got now you earn them quick through normal playing.

leepalmer95 · November 2016

It took a long time, each cp was 400k xp , this was before the sewers grind as well back in console release.

Sadly console players weren't given free 70 cp to start off with.

Cherryblossom · November 2016

Difficult one to answer, before VR16 hit the Game I had 5 VET toons none of which were max Vet Level, so when it hit and they did all the jiggery pokery I had 5 Vets VR16. although I obviously took me from launch to get to this state.

My last Alt took about 2 weeks to max level!

susmitds · November 2016

VR16 and 160 CP is a totally different deal. VR16 was originally 360 CP without inspiration. 160 CP is well just 160 CP. Also CP gains take a lot more XP in the higher levels. VR16 took around 5-8 times more XP. 160 CP actually meant V5 by the original calculations.

pattyLtd · November 2016

I don't know the exact time it took but i do remember reaching VR16 really felt like a great achievement, silly i guess but it did.
It was close to year i think lol

Ravena · November 2016

I played for about 40 days 'til I got to Veteran.

Then I stopped playing for a while. Came back back and got automatically leveled to CP 170-ish or so.

Ravereth · November 2016

First character, from lvl1 to V16 - almost 4 weeks. Last character, from lvl1 to lvl50 - almost 3 hours.

Grabmoore · November 2016

Ravereth wrote: »

First character, from lvl1 to V16 - almost 4 weeks. Last character, from lvl1 to lvl50 - almost 3 hours.

... 3 hours, surely wrong, since you have a char without skyshards, skills maxed or passives.

@op: It took me 6 month casually playing to Vet 14. I got to cp
200 instantly.

DurzoBlint13 · November 2016

I had 5 vet level toons before I had 1 vr16. I just could not decide at first and did not focus on just one. I know when they took vr ranks away I had 6 vet toons. Now my stam-sorc and my mag-plar each have more than 60 days played. .....Wow, more than 120 days of play time in this game. I need to get out more! Lol

Lolssi · November 2016

From lvl 1 to cp 160 around two years with six month break.
From lvl 50 to cp 160 maybe month or two. I was around Rank 5 then they added cps and I was cp 160.