yes.

some folks just want to watch the world burn.

if you mess with item coding (the jumble of letters and numbers you get if you "link" an item), you can actually find code for CP180 gear. probably hearkens back to the 2014-2015 days when they were doing those crappy veteran ranks. they probably planned to up the VR cap to 18 at some point after Craglorn.

THAT SAID, I am a twisted sack like some of y'all and I'd be fine with this.

Your suggestion doesn't make sense. You want to KEEP the gear cap at 160 but also want all gear to have 170 version, basically making that version BiS, so that would mean rasing the gear cap.

If you want perfected versions of stuff please decon all your gear, mail me your mats then go and grind everything again.

I can see the desire to improve after you maxxed out everything.

But then I'd rather see stuff you can spend your CP > 810 on, like:

• faster swimmming
• extra housing item allowance
• less falling damage
• vanity mount

i could see this happening. it seems in-line with a lot of zos' decisions.

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Most people cry because they might have to farm new gear( completely optional) but they farm it anyway with your quarterly nerfdates anyway so its kind of a stupid argument.

Yes... Let's compare farming 1-2 sets because of modifications made to farming 50 sets.........

Hell no. That's one of the main reasons I like this game is I dont have to grind new sets of gear constantly.

Yes, in a way but not as adding CP170 items.

Giving players to chance upgrade their sets as Perfected Versions at CP810 in a way;
- Extra set piece bonus as most Perfected sets currently have (maybe make it customizable for diversity) or
- Double traited items/weapons or
- All around increased set bonuses or
- Increased Flat Stat bonuses or
- ...

And this may require a master crafter to do, or behind a quest from master crafter NPC, or both.
Call this system, say, 'Master Crafted System', Drop Sets gets 'Perfected' name on them with the crafters name in below like crafted sets (" Perfected by 'Adil' "), Crafted Sets gets their crafters name in their name ("Adil's Inferno Staff of Julianos").
All perfected items bound to account.
This does not have to be at CP810 of course, could be in earlier CP or multiple times until CP810 to give players a chance to gradually improve their sets as they level up in certain CPs (like 300-600-810?)

And I know this is not something very original but I think this would be a nice addition and would not cause any harm to anyone really. I think this is better than increasing CP level of items or, say, (Rant-on) making players to re-farm their nerfed items as their pre-nerfed forms behind an RNG system in the exact same content they've already done (Rant-off)

DarcyMardin wrote: »

To the OP, why not 300 CP gear, 600 CP, and 810 gear as well? (J/k in case anybody takes me seriously).

810 or even 1000 makes more sense than 170, not that any are practical, the rescaling of everything is outside the reach of ZOS (probably for financial reasons)

No, CP 1000 or nothing.

Sange13 wrote: »

shaielzafine wrote: »

Let's get cp170 gear or whatever they are doing with CPs now. Since we have to re-farm our old sets constantly depending on which way the combat team decides nerfs, I don't see a problem. Say you farm gear today with Greymoor launch, you will have to farm again after the inevitable balancing patch. Might as well be done with increased item levels so it's okay to decon and get some of our materials back.

Increasing ilvl is utterly pointless. You get another 2-3% increase in stats, the content gets readjusted to the new CP level, your increased stats are essentially meaningless, and you have to regrind all your stuff again for no reason and no benefit. Absolutely STUPID idea and the "but they nerf things" argument doesn't hold up because they buff things too, metas shift, and the gear set you kept in your bank from a couple months back may suddenly be very useful without you having to re-grind it.

There are precisely zero good reasons to increase item CPs.

Why are you pretending this game doesn't make you farm gear anyway? They just literally did the same thing with vMA weapons and nerfed things like my perfect vAS destro for fun. I have at least 6 ESO storage boxes in housing of useless sets that aren't arena weapons. Let's be real here it's always going to depend whichever way the combat team feels like. In a couple weeks I bet the new patch nerfs and unnerfs things for balance as usual, I've changed gear 4x more in ESO compared to other actual horizontal progression MMOs. It's basically the same grind as vertical progression MMOs but more random as you don't know which sets will be useless in a future patch. They want you to keep buying dlcs in ESO and provide new sets to experiment with while changing old ones. Since a bunch of us are already regrinding stuff for no reason, no benefit and not even an extra level of difficulty in vM, we might as well get ready that they will be doing this for other items in our inventory. One of the lead devs even made a 2020 car analogy lol. I for one would like to see perfected monster sets seeing how they nerfed nearly all of them while introducing the new mythic item. Why pretend this game doesn't make you re-farm gear?

I have so many different sets all of them gold different weapon types to them sets why would anyone in my position want to re farm all of that I have played for 5 years imagine all the golded out sets I have.