It might also be helpful to cover core CPs for both PvE and PvP and explain why they’re so powerful.

Green - recovery, self explanatory. Most builds would push to 75 in their fighting resource, then branch out to other passives.

Blues

In blue, there’s a stamina and magic counterpart for the core passives. I’ll list them together because they’re essentially the same.

Elemental expert / mighty: These boost your base damage for all mag/stam attacks. Max cp character put 50+ here.

Elfborn / precise strikes: boost crit damage. Another important passive, but more important the more you're a crit build. But most builds go 50+ here too.

Piercing / spell erosion: increase your penetration, which essentially ignores the resistance built into an opponent’s armor. What’s sometimes not understood is that the system calculates penetration *after* it calculates hitting a damage shield. Therefore, the portion of an attack that hits a shield is wasted in terms of a penetration buff. So this passive is important, but the more shield-stacking builds in PvP you face, the less helpful it is.

Thaumaturge: for any build, increases DOT damage. The more you do of this, the more important it becomes.

Master at Arms: a confusing passive that boosts direct damage. What is direct damage? Everything that is not a DOT or AOE...so quite a lot. Some abilities that seem like a DOT can have a direct damage component. Like bow’s Poison injection. It lands for damage the. It procs it’s DOT. So master at arms increases tha portion of poison inject. This is an important passive...look to stack quite a few here.

Reds

Your most important are hardy and elemental defender. These mitigate incoming magic and stamina based damage. They’re the opposite of elemental expert and hardy.

Ironclad. This mitigates incoming direct damage from either stam or magic. These three passives are the core of the red tree...you will put a majority of your points in them.