When they roll out the new Champion system in 1.6 we will get 30 Champion Points if we have at least 1 Vet character. This led to a lot of questions and speculation. Is 30 just for current VR1's? Does it scale up for higher VR's?
A few months ago, it was said that we were tracking XP. However, this was still early in development and through internal testing and feedback, found that we needed to change our plans (and, honestly, this quite normal through the course of development). We understand that this was, indeed, a major change from what we were originally planning. In an effort to be open with everyone about how things were going and what was planned, it caused a great deal of confusion, and we sincerely apologize for that.
As it has been said a number of times, we certainly encourage you to hop on the PTS once this is available in January and try out the system. This is also a great chance to plan how you'd like to build your character once it's live!
Hope you all are enjoying the holidays, and we'll see you in the new year.
Kai Schober posted this in a German thread and it was translated for us:\
Kai: "To clarify again : Any account that has at least one character in the Veteran Rank, does not start with a pool of 30 points champion increase in Update 6. Force veteran ranks or more characters with veterans ranks on the same account the pool. There are either 30 points or anything. Subsequently , each of your characters , divide these 30 points individually . Each character beyond level 50 can collect more points champion for the account. This is in contrast to earlier statements made that there will be more points champion and that this number would be based to a certain upper limit on the account far earned experience. The plan has changed in the meantime and we apologize for the confusion."
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Leijona: "And we can probably assume that there are no plans to credit the account wide experience earned at a later date on the points champion , correct?"
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Kai: "This is not planned. As initially written , says that has occurred in the design process reducing the maximum possible points champion and increasing their importance to the originally planned generous distribution of start- Champion points for existing players . But we want to make sure that players who have already completed most of the content , are not disadvantaged in earnings of other points champion ."
So there we have it. It doesn't matter if you are VR14 with every quest in the game completed or you just turned VR1 the moment 1.6 hits live....you get 30 Champion Points. It won't be too painful when 1.6 comes out because we will still have the Vet system in place and we will still have our gear. We will just be limited in how we gain CP going forward. When 1.7 comes and VR is wiped....well.....right now, VR1's have a heck of a lot more ways to gain CP than a VR14 that reached level cap by questing. This feels like I have really screwed myself by doing all the quests through VR14 w/ my main.
Thankfully I have started getting prepared. I have started working on my alts to level up to VR and that is all I will be doing for the near future. If anyone wants to join me in grinding up your lowbies hit me up in game