Champion 150 vs 160

Dharmabum · December 2016

The material requirements for champion level 160 gear are about 10 times more than the requirements for champion level 150 gear yet the stats are the same. Why bother? Am I missing something? Thanks.

DannyLV702 · December 2016

Makes a difference in weapons and your damage I believe. Plus, it gives you that extra edge if you're competitive it pvp or pve ends game content.

Dharmabum · December 2016

What's the difference though? In the item preview, the stats are identical.

Taleof2Cities · December 2016

The stats are slightly different ... but as @DannyLV702 said it's not a large issue unless you are a min/max player in competitive PvP or end game PvE.

If you do want to maximize your gear to CP160 work on golding out your weapons first, armor second.

Dharmabum · December 2016

Can a 150 weapon hold a 160 enchantment?

disintegr8 · December 2016

For armour, the main benefit comes in enchanting - putting a CP160 enchantment on a gold CP160 item gives a decent boost over CP150 gear and enchants.

For Weapons, simply improving CP160 weapon from purple to gold gives you a 200 damage increase on top of any additional benefit a CP160 enchantment adds.

Beardimus · December 2016

It's all the marginal gains, its the same with the gold uplift, on gear and Jewellery its hardly worth it, it if you are truly end game and settled on your gear choice you may as well.have that last few %

Taleof2Cities · December 2016

Dharmabum wrote: »

Can a 150 weapon hold a 160 enchantment?

No, but there are separate potency runes for CP150 and CP160 ... so you can craft glyphs for either CP150 or CP160 level armor and weapons.

threefarms · December 2016

Its a huge difference.

Ghettokid · December 2016

threefarms wrote: »

Its a huge difference.

Cannot tell that is this sarcasm or not.

Nestor · December 2016

With Enchanting, the difference is about 540 of an Attribute, if your running Infused on your Large Pieces, so even less if your running Divines on those. Since most people are around 30K on their main stat, this is not a game changing difference

Bonus and Armor Stats, it's not much either.

failkiwib16_ESO · December 2016

Depending on what how and what you do in ESO, it may have great or no impact.

Superb Glyph of Magicka Champion 150

white 585
green 615
blue 666
purple 702
gold 761

Truly Superb Glyph of Magicka Champion 160

white 630
green 657
blue 763
purple 802
gold 868

Those tiny differences do add up, but it doesn't matter if you don't do anything competitive.

F0urPac · December 2016

I just hit 160 and decided it was time to upgrade, I thought it was a glitch so I came here looking for help, wish I was right about the glitch. I'm just a casual player (Work, wife, kids, school) so seeing those requirements was a punch in the chest.

summitxho · December 2016

I too thought it would take a long time to save up almost 1000 of each material, but if you have a couple other characters its not too bad. Do tier 1 woodworking/blacksmith/clothing writs on 2 alts with tier 1 materials, the rewards will always give tier1 materials back to that character almost replacing what you used to complete the writ, the surveys then start to add up pretty quick. Turn the surveys you amassed with the low level crafting character with your high level crafting character and the tier 10 materials add up in a hurry. Took me about 2 weeks of casual play to save up enough to craft the 160 gear using 2 alts.

Dagoth_Rac · December 2016

CP160 weapons upgraded to gold are a very big boost over CP160 weapons at purple (and everything sub-CP160). Armor and jewelry? Differences are noticeable, but small. For a casual player, CP150 gear is fine.

The increase in materials was because farming endgame dropped gear was a time-consuming process while crafting endgame dropped gear was super easy. So they made endgame crafted gear require a lot more materials and thus a similar time commitment as farming dropped gear. Although endgame materials are much easier to get now. They originally only dropped in Imperial City DLC and only from deconning trash gear with very low rates of material return or by buying the material with Tel Var stones at high prices. It took weeks or months of difficult Imperial City play to get materials for a CP160 set.

Now, CP160 materials are everywhere and from resource nodes that give 3-8 per node. You can have a CP160 character run in circles just about anywhere and collect hundreds of materials in an hour.