Welcome to our ESO Champion Point System Guide! This is a guide for players in the Elder Scrolls Online who are looking for easy-to-understand information about the ESO Champion Point System.
ESO Champion Point System Guide
This guide assumes you have very little understanding of the system and will discuss the basic mechanics of CP, which ones you should take, and how to earn CP quickly. For specific builds and champion points per character and playstyle, clickHERE. Also come check me out live onTWITCHif you want to see my play specific builds or ask me questions. Thanks for reading!
Last updated for Necrom Chapter, Jul 16, 2025
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Champion Point Overview
The champion point system is an alternative form of progression and is a bit confusing for a lot of new or returning players. I’m going to give you some bullet points on how the system works and show you how you can use CP effectively.
Now you have a sense for what the system is, let’s break it down further into specifics.
The three-constellation system limits you to four slottables per constellation which is shown on the top of your bar. Consider the active perks the most impactful performance perks and what distinguishes your build from another player. You can highlight and see what are slotted and/or take them out for a cost of 3,000 gold. You can also save presetsvia the Armory system. If you leave a blank armor slot, you can have a free respec.
This addon I have on PC called Dynamic CP shows the names of the CP ‘stars’ which can be helpful when navigating. An example of an active perk or slottable isArcane Supremacywhich Increases Max Magicka per stage. Consider only taking active perks if you have enough points per stage. If one costs 25 for stage one, don’t spend 18 points and receive zero benefit. It’s much better to spend points elsewhere.
Now you have the passive perks, which add power to your character but do not require a slot on your CP bar. This is the real advantage to having a lot of CP. A good example isEldritch Insightwhich grants 260 Max Magicka per stage from Blue Warfare. You can get a decent boost to max magicka on top of the active CP perk Arcane Supremacy. The actual appearance of the slottable is noticeable and if you read the tooltip of each, the CP will tell you if it needs to be slotted for power or if it’s passive.
Now, if you scroll through the CP system, you’ll start to notice a limited number of passives and the majority of the system is slottables for specific roles like healing, tanking, and damage dealing.
Take the left portion of the blue Warfare tree. This is mainly for healers. The bottom of the Warfare tree, mainly tanking. Then the upper middle and right tree, mainly for DPS. The reality is this, what seems like a complex system is very easy to understand once you realize, almost all roles for both PvE and PvP take nearly the same CP slottables with little variation. (Green of healer, yellow for tank, red for DPS).
Now, let’s say you start earning some CP, and you can use or equip them by stages. You need to take the minimum of one stage to move along the constellation to get the next passive or slottable. Some have 1 to 5 stages. These stages can be anywhere from 8 to 120 points. Once you start navigating, you’ll also notice stars which are a purpleish color and these are called sub constellations. Think of them like a drop-down menu for CP. You can go in here and find more slottables and a few additional passives.
An important tip here is what I call independent or unconnected slottables in your constellation. This is especially helpful for new players because you won’t have to move along the CP tree in order to start using them, assuming you have the CP. There are also CP slottables without stages and each point increases your power. Ideal for new players – example would be CPBoundless Vitalitywhich increases Max Health per point spent.
Important Slottables
In the green tree, I’d recommend taking the independent slottableSteed’s Blessingwhich increases your out of combat Movement Speed. Now make your way through the constellation up toTreasure Hunter, which Increases the quality of items you find in treasure chests. This will dramatically increase your ability to find weapons and jewelry in chests and help fill out your sticker book.
Performance Based slottables to consider
Gold Savings slottables to consider
Next up is the blue Warfare constellation, your go-to for damage, healing, and tanking. The most important passive to consider for new players in PvE isPreparationwhich Reduces your damage taken from non-player attacks by up to 10%. Follow the path along, taking the minimum CP to move on the spider web and drop down into the sub constellationStaving Death, at first using the least possible amount of points to get access to this and max it out straight away. You can also select the unconnected active perk likeUntamed Aggressionstraight away which can help your damage and/or healing. When I started over on PC EU, this was the first thing I did to dramatically increase my survivability and damage.
Here are some other active perks to consider and why:
Damage Dealers
There are plenty more like damage over time, AoE damage, and direct damage. I almost always take a damage producing active perk that effects my main spammable. My magplar uses Puncturing Sweeps and I want to ramp that ability up greatly, soBiting Auramight be best. If you want to know if an active perk increases your damage, check your tooltip on the ability, take the slottable and see if it went up. For example, a magplar DPS loadout might looks like this:
Tanks want to take each damage reduction slottable because well, less damage = good. A simple tank loadout would look like this:
Similar to tanks, you can take the default increasing healing from area of effect, single target, and over time. But there’s an additional CP that I love and that is:
The other healing ones are
Miscellaneous slottables
Now moving on to Fitness or red constellation. Consider this the resource sustain, movement and PvP’ish tree. This tree has three very useful unconnected active perks you can access straight away:
Content Per CP
Now people constantly ask me at what Champion Point level should I be doing dungeons, vet dugeons, hard mode dungeons, trials, vet trials etc.? Here are general recommendations for PvE:
Now let’s break it down for PvP:
Earning CP Quickly
Great Deltia, I’m fired up to earn 3,600 CP, but how do you do this quickly. Step one is to increase the amount of CP you earn per hour with boosters or modifiers. Here’s a list if you’re unaware:
Now you have the modifiers, there’s a couple of ways to grind out XP and CP. The “fastest” way to earn CP is by grinding mobs. I prefer instanced based grinds with one other player because the XP is reduced the more players you have in your group.
There are two great spots currently, Skyreach Catacombs in Northern Craglorn and normal mode Blackrose Prison (or BRP) in Murkmire. Skyreach is base game, you may earn fighters guild and is good XP but is less than BRP. In Skyreach you’ll do a lap around the instanced based public dungeon with a friend and/or a companion. At various intervals you’ll stop, kill all the mobs and move on. I have a grind video on this for more details, check out my CP grindvideo here.
Normal BRP is mathematically the best but is a bit more difficult to do and is best with a lot of DPS and a partner. The new strategy for this is to complete up to round 2. Finish all the mobs but the last enemy and one player die to it. Then the other player grabs the resurrection sigil (wing looking) and the other player dies. Next the person instantly activates the resurrection sigil popping both players back to life, respawing the ads and keeping the XP flowing. This is the densest and XP heavy stage so bring some repair kits and watch the CP fly. For a more indepth video on the BRP grind,click here.
The best overall method in my opinion is doing random daily dungeon and battleground dailies. These reward massive XP per character and can be done on any character over 50. Thus, it helps to have alts and rotating through each getting heaps of XP. Another way is crafting writs on each and every character. Do these on multiple toons and you’ll earn a lot of XP, gold, items and gear sets. This is the preferred method by far.
Champion Point List
Craft Green Tree
Warfare Blue Tree
Fitness Red Tree
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