ESO Champion Point Milestones: CP160, 300, 810 and the Long Climb, Explained
✓ Current as of Update 50 (2026)🎮 Works on console (no add-ons)
New players hear ‘get to CP160,’ then ‘CP300,’ then ‘CP810,’ and it sounds like an infinite grind with no explanation of why those numbers matter. Here's what each milestone actually unlocks, why CP160 is the one that really counts, and why the old ‘810 cap’ talk is out of date.
CP160 — the one milestone that truly matters
Gear scales with your CP up to CP160. At CP160 your equipment hits its maximum stats, so this is the real ‘start of endgame’: below it, perfect gear keeps getting outscaled, so it isn't worth chasing yet. Getting to CP160 should be your first and main goal — after that, gold gear and meta sets are worth investing in.
Everything before CP160 is ‘play the game you enjoy and accumulate points.’ Don't over-optimize gear here.
Why you hear 300 and 810
Those are historical or convenience numbers, not hard walls. CP300 is often cited as ‘enough slotted stars to feel complete’ for general play, and 810 was the old total cap before the Champion Point rework. Neither is a gate that unlocks a feature the way CP160 caps gear scaling.
The real cap is 3,600 — and your earned total never stops
After the rework, the spendable cap is 3,600 total: up to 1,200 in each of the three constellations (Craft, Warfare, Fitness), with 4 slottable stars active per constellation. Meanwhile your earned CP keeps climbing forever as you play, so you'll see accounts with totals in the thousands — that earned number isn't a cap, and you still can't spend past 3,600. (Cap current as of Update 50, June 2026.)
How to spend as you climb
You don't need to be near the cap to be effective. Prioritize the slottable stars for what you do — damage/penetration stars in Warfare for DPS, sustain/health in Fitness, gold and gathering in Craft — and re-slot freely as you switch activities. A CP400 character with the right slotted stars outperforms a CP2000 character with the wrong ones.