CP is going to differ based on playstyle, @KharnTheUndying. What's yours?

I can list a few ...

- Raid Support
- Ganking (Solo)
- Small Group
- Melee

... and so on.

The good news is that with 550 CPs you’re going to pull about 90% as much power from the trees as a 720 character.

Alcast has good build advice. I mostly agree with his stamblade PvP allotment, so that’s a good site if you need to refer to something on an ongoing basis with new info as things get updated. Alcasthq.com.


In reds, you want to focus on elemental defend and hardy in equal amounts (one is magic damage, the other is physical). Ironclad should receive ~40-50. If this is primarily a PvP character you can also pile 40-50 into crit resist. If you’re going to do heavy PvE too and want to skip this since it only helps in PvP, you can.

The one that might depend on your playstyle is thick skinned...dot reduction. As a bow build I don’t tend to suffer from DOTs, so I put a little less in these than alcast. But my allocation is probably pretty close.


In green, you’ll go 75 in stam recovery. I also put 30-50 into magic recovery. I don’t tend to use heavy attacks to restore resources in Cyrodiil, so I bypass that one. The rest are dependent on your needs. There are a ton, ton, ton of stupid snares in PvP right now, so I tend to favor break free reduction. Dodge roll reduce is also important. Those are probably the four I’d pick w 550 points...then as you accumulate more maybe a few in before or sprint.


In blue, alcast is using a very specific strategy which you can probably ignore until you’re max cp. he pushes points into the ateonach, which wastes a few, to unlock the passive that sets enemies off balance when you dogde roll. Then he gets 10% more damage from the ritual. So this requires max cp to make it work well without huge sacrifices...ignore it for now.

I’d distribute pretty evenly between mighty (all stam based damage boost), precise strikes (crit damage), master at arms (direct damage) with maybe 50 in each. Then you can toss a few into penetration. As you pile up CPs you can put some into shattering blows.


It’s pretty easy...the CPs listed above are powerful, while the others are niche passives. Unless you have a really specific build, the powerful CPs are always going to outperform the niche stuff.