Champion Point System
Released: March 3, 2015 - PC/Mac - Patch Notes
With
this update, we finally get to experience the game on several new
levels. We were getting introduced to the Justice System, which allows
us to commit criminal actions throughout Tamriel such as theft,
pickpocketing, and assaulting and murdering NPCs and getting punished
for it. There are many moving pieces to this system including locked
houses, a bounty system, outlaw refuges, safeboxes, NPC and guard
reactions, consequences, and a new skill line, among other facets to the
system. If you want to read more about it, you can check out this article.
There was also a massive gameplay rebalance, in which Soft Caps were removed from the game. Diminishing returns on stats such as resource recovery were in place before this, and Heavy/Medium/Light armors now have different physical protection values. Many stamina morphs have been introduced to make stamina builds more viable. Update Six brings us the long-awaited Champion System, complete with an entirely new interface in which you can use points to unlock passive abilities. This introduces a whole new level of player progression to the game. There are three guardian constellations of The Warrior, The Mage and The Thief. In total there are 36 passives you can invest points into, and an additional 36 passives that unlock as you invest more into each constellation.
This patch also brought us a major revamp of the Provisioning system, alleviating inventory capacity burdens significantly. It also introduced the Collections UI, which took pets and costumes from inventories and put them in their own interface along with Mounts. Prior to this update, provisioning ingredients were leveled items. You could only find certain ingredients at a low level and only certain ingredients at a higher level. Provisioning recipes would only use items from the appropriate level, but it was complex and confusing, as well as being difficult to manage. With the changes made to the system, ingredients can be used at any level and the tiered system is gone, as well as all alliance-specific recipes.
In addition to these major changes, developers went to effort to make interactables in the game more intuitive. If you interact with an apple basket, you get apples. This may seem clear, but before Update 6 you would get a random ingredient from provisioning containers, so something that would appear to be a basket of melons could instead yield red meat. 40 new provisioning interactables have been added to the world, such as hanging game and loose produce. These efforts contribute to making Tamriel feel much more immersive.
Justice System
Steal/Pickpocket/Assault/MurderBreak & EnterSafeboxes
- Safeboxes are chests of stolen goods, lockpick to loot
Heat and Bounty
- Bounty and Heat decay over time, or can be paid off
- Bounty is assigned if you're witnessed committing a crime
- Heat is separate, and indicates how much trouble you're in with the law
- At “Disreputable”, guards will apprehend you if you get too close
- At “Notorious”, guards will pursue you
- At “Fugitive”, guards only want to kill you
- If killed by a guard, any bounty will be deducted from the character's carried gold as well as any stolen items
Launder and Fence
- Launder stolen goods if you want to keep them
- Fence valuables you've taken for gold
Legerdemain
- A new "World" passive skill line, unlocked by thieving
Champion System
The Champion System is a new progression and development system
Available to an account after one character has reached Level 50C
hampion Points are earned passively by gaining experience on a Level 50+ character
Champion Points are account-wide and can be spent individually on each character
Accounts with the Champion Point System unlocked will generate "Enlightenment"
- Enlightenment accumulates across the account, until used up will provide bonus experience when gaining Champion Points
- Points can be spent in nine constellations arranged into three groups: the Warrior, the Mage, and the Thief
- Each point earned will be tied to one of the three on a rotating basis
- Points spent in the Warrior will improve your health and overall defensive capabilities
- Points spent in the Thief will improve your stamina and provide an array of useful utility bonuses
- Points spent in the Mage will enhance magicka and provide bonuses to offense and damage dealing
- A maximum of 100 points can be spent per star in each constellation, with diminishing returns (lower points give higher bonuses)
- Passive bonuses unlock once 10 points, 30 points, 75 points, and 120 points have been spent in a constellation
Provisioning Overhaul
- The new system no longer uses tiered or Alliance specific ingredients, and instead relies on combinations of base materials
- This reduces the amount of materials required by almost two thirds
- Food made with the following ingredients will increase the respective attribute:
- Meat will increase your health
- Fruit will increase your magicka
- Vegetables will increase your stamina
- Drinks made with the following ingredients will help you regenerate stats:
- -Alcohol regenerates your health
- -Tea regenerates your magicka
- -Tonics regenerate your stamina
- There are also food and drink additives, which simply add variety to the recipes and do not have a mechanical impact on buffs
- -Recipes involving a single type (not counting additives) are green quality and produce green quality food
- -Recipes involving two types (not counting additives) are blue quality and produce blue quality food
- -Recipes involving all three types of base ingredients are purple quality and produce purple quality food
- -Benefits are combined, so a green food will buff one of your resource pools, blue will buff two, and purple will increase all three
- Ingredients can be found:
- -In the world as interactables
- -In crates, sacks and other food containers
- -As purchasable stock from grocer NPCs
- -From harvesting critters and beasts
- -Through fishing; any non-trophy fish can be skinned for meat
- -From Hireling mails (the quantity of which has been increased with this patch)
New Features
- Introduced interactable food itemsMeals and drinks can be taken and/or stolen from the world
- Meals and drinks can be taken and/or stolen from the world
- Improved interactable ingredientsBags and crates that display a food type will now contain that food
- Bags and crates that display a food type will now contain that food
- Updated Tutorial
- The Wailing Prison tutorial has been completely revised
- Basic combat skills are covered more thoroughly
- Collections System
- Pets, Mounts and Costumes have been removed from inventories and are now account-wide
- Mounts no longer have mechanical bonuses (speed, stamina, capacity) and instead scale to each character's Riding Skill
- Adjusted Trial Leaderboards
- Reduced death penalty
- Time, enemies killed, and group deaths contribute to scores
- Final points plus time bonus make up the overall score
- Removal of attribute caps (Overcharge)
- The only stats that now cap are:
- Impenetrable, reducing the Critical Strike bonus damage to 0%
- Armor and Spell Resistance, which are capped at 50% mitigation
