Massively.com: Elder Scrolls Online's Update 5 goes live, reduces VR grind

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ZeniMax has published Elder Scrolls Online's Update 5. The patch features improved facial animations, chat bubbles, dungeon and solo-instance scaling, and the Veteran City of Ash.

Speaking of veterans, they'll probably be happy to know that the devs are continuing to roll out the previously announced veteran rank revamp with Update 5. Veteran Ranks are now earned via experience points, and each rank will grant an attribute point and a skill point. It now takes 1,432,550 experience points to earn a VR, and ZeniMax says that it expects "this to reduce the amount of time it takes to gain a Veteran Rank."

[Thanks Matthew!]

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I know it's a lot of material to read, but I highly encourage everyone to read the entirety of the patch notes (at least all the categories that apply to you) to get an appreciation for all the improvements and changes they've made. It's very exciting!

I've only just recently hit Vet1- do those of you at higher levels feel like the Vet rank "grind" has changed with this update? Too soon to tell?