Poll What is the best Expansion? 2024

NotaDaedraWorshipper

Orsinium

Orsinium may have been the first chapter, to the degree it wasn't called a chapter. But it was very well made, complete, and with good writing, story and lore.

Many of the early stand alone dlcs were good. Murkmire and Thieves Guild was too. Albeit TG was smaller.

The Daedric War Storyline chapters and Elsweyr were pretty good too, but after that the writing in the story, dialogue and lore went downhill. Still waiting for it to go back up to the earlier quality and improve. We also get less content for the same price in the later chapters.

Gabriel_H

Morrowind

Morrowind because ... Morrowind! Until you've know the joy of running up a sheer cliff becasue your atheltics and acrobatics skills are maxed out and you got some sick enchants on, you are missing out.

Stamicka

Morrowind

I haven't done any questing or exploration in any of these zones, but I am voting for Morrowind because it was the most content we have ever gotten in a single expansion.

We got:

• New Class
• New Trial
• New PvP system (BGs)
• Minor CP rework
• Large new zone
• Significant combat changes
• The usual chapter cosmetic additions, etc.

To top things off, we got Clockwork City shortly after which gave us another trial and a new zone in the same year.

I'm not sure why no other chapter/year has delivered as much as Morrowind. Honestly 2017 as a whole was an extremely productive year for ZOS, they've really slowed down in recent years.

Qagh

Elsweyr

Cats cats cats

Destai

Summerset

As a total package, definitely Summerset. As an Altmer fan, I don’t think there was any other zone I was that excited about.

I also highly rank Orsinium and Elsweyr. Both zones have a great feature list, story, and zone.

I also really like the High Isle and Galen zones in general. Thematically, close second to Summerset. I love knights and druids, so that whole year really resonated with me. The stories and ToT features didn’t really impress me, even though I still enjoyed them.

Blackwood is another underrated expansion. I liked much of that year’s content. Again, some issues with the writing, but overall great releases.

There’s only a few that I don’t really care for. Greymoor and Necrom are two objectively feature-rich expansions that just didn’t stick for me. It mostly comes down to the theme. I would say at this point, Gold Road was my least favorite to date.

All that being said, I don’t think there’s any expansion that I can’t find enjoyment in. They all have their merits.

katanagirl1

Elsweyr

Elsonso wrote: »

I disagree that Summerset was the best Chapter.

I think that Morrowind and Clockwork City were strong but that Summerset did not hold up the bargain. It didn't really feel like part of a trilogy. I keep having to be reminded that it was the conclusion of a trilogy and not just the next Chapter after Morrowind+Clockwork City.

Thus, I tend to put Summerset down near the bottom as 4th worst, above Greymoor, Blackwood, and Gold Road.

Why Elsweyr? It is a relatively straightforwards story. Go in, fight dragons and their pet Imperial, and her pet necromacer. The writing was immensely better than Greymoor and Blackwood. It does not feel forced and contrived, like Gold Road. It is not terminally boring and does not have an agenda beyond writing a good story.

Morrowind and Orsinium are solid contenders, but I like Elsweyr better. Either way, I would love to have that sort of writing back.

That’s funny, because I thought the story was…well…not conforming to how necromancy works.

I had to rate that one high for the dragon fights, which I thought would break the game and didn’t, and the fact that I had wanted to see Elsweyr for so long.

TaSheen

Gold Road

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Elsonso wrote: »

I disagree that Summerset was the best Chapter.

I think that Morrowind and Clockwork City were strong but that Summerset did not hold up the bargain. It didn't really feel like part of a trilogy. I keep having to be reminded that it was the conclusion of a trilogy and not just the next Chapter after Morrowind+Clockwork City.

Thus, I tend to put Summerset down near the bottom as 4th worst, above Greymoor, Blackwood, and Gold Road.

Why Elsweyr? It is a relatively straightforwards story. Go in, fight dragons and their pet Imperial, and her pet necromacer. The writing was immensely better than Greymoor and Blackwood. It does not feel forced and contrived, like Gold Road. It is not terminally boring and does not have an agenda beyond writing a good story.

Morrowind and Orsinium are solid contenders, but I like Elsweyr better. Either way, I would love to have that sort of writing back.

That’s funny, because I thought the story was…well…not conforming to how necromancy works.

I had to rate that one high for the dragon fights, which I thought would break the game and didn’t, and the fact that I had wanted to see Elsweyr for so long.

I LOVED Elsweyr. But the dragon fights were.... totally out of my ability, which of course made it.... not so much fun....

Finedaible

Summerset

Best Expansion in the purest sense of the word is hands down Summerset. Both Jewelry Crafting and a new combat skill line on top of the massive content capping off an overarching story makes it worthy of that definition. Nothing else ever really changed how you played the game.

Best DLC is obviously Orsinium, followed by Thieve's Guild and Dark Brotherhood. All of these had great stories with great character writing and dialogue.

karthrag_inak

Elsweyr

Oh goodness, what will khajiit vote for? Oh dark stars and moons, decisions, decisions, decisions.

tiriusavarao

Summerset

Voted for Summerset as it does the complete package best IMHO; I'd rate Elsweyr on the same level if we include the Dragonhold DLC with it, but I am guessing this was for the main chapter releases only. That said, all have something I've enjoyed:

• Morrowind brought the warden, my favorite class to play.
• Greymoor introduced antiquities, a great incentive to revisit places.
• Blackwood has my favorite main city, fun side quests and I never play solo without companions anymore.
• High Isle brought another beautiful zone and an enjoyable main quest.
• Necrom brought the arcanist, which I've enjoyed playing a lot.
• West Weald also has a beautiful zone (though I wish there was more to do there).

Orsinium is the odd one out here as I would not have judged it on the level of the others (I'd put it more with the Clockwork/Murkmire type of releases). I appreciate it for what it was, but I was never the biggest Orc fan, so it loses a bit from that.

SeaGtGruff

Elsweyr

I really like all of them, but if I must pick just one then I choose Elsweyr. Because, ya know-- dragons! The zone itself is also an interesting land, which I suppose is a lot like the American southwest-- not that I've ever lived in the southwest and have any familiarity with it, but Elsweyr has that sort of vibe to me, desert but not just a lot of sand as in Alik'r, as though scoured by wind and leaving a lot of bare sandstone, or something like that.

katanagirl1

Elsweyr

TaSheen wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Elsonso wrote: »

I disagree that Summerset was the best Chapter.

I think that Morrowind and Clockwork City were strong but that Summerset did not hold up the bargain. It didn't really feel like part of a trilogy. I keep having to be reminded that it was the conclusion of a trilogy and not just the next Chapter after Morrowind+Clockwork City.

Thus, I tend to put Summerset down near the bottom as 4th worst, above Greymoor, Blackwood, and Gold Road.

Why Elsweyr? It is a relatively straightforwards story. Go in, fight dragons and their pet Imperial, and her pet necromacer. The writing was immensely better than Greymoor and Blackwood. It does not feel forced and contrived, like Gold Road. It is not terminally boring and does not have an agenda beyond writing a good story.

Morrowind and Orsinium are solid contenders, but I like Elsweyr better. Either way, I would love to have that sort of writing back.

That’s funny, because I thought the story was…well…not conforming to how necromancy works.

I had to rate that one high for the dragon fights, which I thought would break the game and didn’t, and the fact that I had wanted to see Elsweyr for so long.

I LOVED Elsweyr. But the dragon fights were.... totally out of my ability, which of course made it.... not so much fun....

Nah, you can do it. Every player gets a drop from dragons I hear, it’s not like world bosses. Just don’t stand on the fiery ring right around the dragon if you play stamina melee or you’ll die real quick.

Lugaldu

Greymoor

For me its hard to decide between Greymoor and Necrom. Antiquities was a new feature I was really hyped for and still enjoy it a lot (well, I am archaeologist in real life too), I also liked the story, meet some Vampires, especially Verandis, Fennorian and it was amazing to come back to Black Reach after so many years.
For Necrom I like especially the Hermaeus Mora theme (according to his backstory, my main was connected to Mora already prior to Necrom) and the visuals in Apocrypha. The story is not bad either, but the 2024 chapter reveal in January was a spoiler for me - I waited with playing the main story too long, obviously.
In my opinion, the continuation of the story around Ithelia in Goldroad felt "artificial", I did not got the same vibes as in the Necrom chapter, there was too much other "story" around these events. And what I really did not like was the ending... it made everything meaningless, like it never happened.

JinKC98

High Isle

Always thought High Isle is pretty.

Also the badass trailer KNIGHT

Northwold

I'd actually say Murkmire and Thieves Guild (Hew's Bane), the first for the world building, the second for the sheer quality of the writing. There was something about the smaller zones that encouraged a much more focused, disciplined approach to what the zones were about, and I felt they were much, much better experiences for it.

Certainly helps that the stories had nothing to do with planes of oblivion and daedric princes, too...

shadyjane62

Elsweyr

Elsweyr was and is the best. Been since then. Necrom and Gold Road were terrible. Will not be buying the next.

edward_frigidhands

Gold Road

Gold Road because of scribing.

TaSheen

Gold Road

katanagirl1 wrote: »

TaSheen wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Elsonso wrote: »

I disagree that Summerset was the best Chapter.

I think that Morrowind and Clockwork City were strong but that Summerset did not hold up the bargain. It didn't really feel like part of a trilogy. I keep having to be reminded that it was the conclusion of a trilogy and not just the next Chapter after Morrowind+Clockwork City.

Thus, I tend to put Summerset down near the bottom as 4th worst, above Greymoor, Blackwood, and Gold Road.

Why Elsweyr? It is a relatively straightforwards story. Go in, fight dragons and their pet Imperial, and her pet necromacer. The writing was immensely better than Greymoor and Blackwood. It does not feel forced and contrived, like Gold Road. It is not terminally boring and does not have an agenda beyond writing a good story.

Morrowind and Orsinium are solid contenders, but I like Elsweyr better. Either way, I would love to have that sort of writing back.

That’s funny, because I thought the story was…well…not conforming to how necromancy works.

I had to rate that one high for the dragon fights, which I thought would break the game and didn’t, and the fact that I had wanted to see Elsweyr for so long.

I LOVED Elsweyr. But the dragon fights were.... totally out of my ability, which of course made it.... not so much fun....

Nah, you can do it. Every player gets a drop from dragons I hear, it’s not like world bosses. Just don’t stand on the fiery ring right around the dragon if you play stamina melee or you’ll die real quick.

Not meaning the normal ones; specifically the "boss" fights - Kaalgrontiid, Mulaamnir, etc.

Froil

Elsweyr

For me nothing has yet to top Elsewyr. But I might be a bit biased since I also love Khajiit.

katanagirl1

Elsweyr

TaSheen wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

TaSheen wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Elsonso wrote: »

I disagree that Summerset was the best Chapter.

I think that Morrowind and Clockwork City were strong but that Summerset did not hold up the bargain. It didn't really feel like part of a trilogy. I keep having to be reminded that it was the conclusion of a trilogy and not just the next Chapter after Morrowind+Clockwork City.

Thus, I tend to put Summerset down near the bottom as 4th worst, above Greymoor, Blackwood, and Gold Road.

Why Elsweyr? It is a relatively straightforwards story. Go in, fight dragons and their pet Imperial, and her pet necromacer. The writing was immensely better than Greymoor and Blackwood. It does not feel forced and contrived, like Gold Road. It is not terminally boring and does not have an agenda beyond writing a good story.

Morrowind and Orsinium are solid contenders, but I like Elsweyr better. Either way, I would love to have that sort of writing back.

That’s funny, because I thought the story was…well…not conforming to how necromancy works.

I had to rate that one high for the dragon fights, which I thought would break the game and didn’t, and the fact that I had wanted to see Elsweyr for so long.

I LOVED Elsweyr. But the dragon fights were.... totally out of my ability, which of course made it.... not so much fun....

Nah, you can do it. Every player gets a drop from dragons I hear, it’s not like world bosses. Just don’t stand on the fiery ring right around the dragon if you play stamina melee or you’ll die real quick.

Not meaning the normal ones; specifically the "boss" fights - Kaalgrontiid, Mulaamnir, etc.

Ah, I see. I think I did have a little trouble with the last dragon boss, I forget which one he was. I remember running to take a quick bio break and running back… and left the water running in the bathroom sink…it was about an hour before I heard it and realized what I had done. Unfortunately I had turned on the hot tap. Oops.

TaSheen

Gold Road

katanagirl1 wrote: »

TaSheen wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

TaSheen wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Elsonso wrote: »

I disagree that Summerset was the best Chapter.

I think that Morrowind and Clockwork City were strong but that Summerset did not hold up the bargain. It didn't really feel like part of a trilogy. I keep having to be reminded that it was the conclusion of a trilogy and not just the next Chapter after Morrowind+Clockwork City.

Thus, I tend to put Summerset down near the bottom as 4th worst, above Greymoor, Blackwood, and Gold Road.

Why Elsweyr? It is a relatively straightforwards story. Go in, fight dragons and their pet Imperial, and her pet necromacer. The writing was immensely better than Greymoor and Blackwood. It does not feel forced and contrived, like Gold Road. It is not terminally boring and does not have an agenda beyond writing a good story.

Morrowind and Orsinium are solid contenders, but I like Elsweyr better. Either way, I would love to have that sort of writing back.

That’s funny, because I thought the story was…well…not conforming to how necromancy works.

I had to rate that one high for the dragon fights, which I thought would break the game and didn’t, and the fact that I had wanted to see Elsweyr for so long.

I LOVED Elsweyr. But the dragon fights were.... totally out of my ability, which of course made it.... not so much fun....

Nah, you can do it. Every player gets a drop from dragons I hear, it’s not like world bosses. Just don’t stand on the fiery ring right around the dragon if you play stamina melee or you’ll die real quick.

Not meaning the normal ones; specifically the "boss" fights - Kaalgrontiid, Mulaamnir, etc.

Ah, I see. I think I did have a little trouble with the last dragon boss, I forget which one he was. I remember running to take a quick bio break and running back… and left the water running in the bathroom sink…it was about an hour before I heard it and realized what I had done. Unfortunately I had turned on the hot tap. Oops.

Yeah, with satellite high ping, getting to the shield or other "help" whatever it may be is pretty difficult. I couldn't even manage to get the NPCs to do their helpful stuff with Vandacia and the Ascendant Magus.... by the time the "helper" is up and I'm reaching for F7 or whatever, my lag means well over half the time I've already missed it.

React

Where is imperial city?

TaSheen

Gold Road

Uh. In the center of Cyrodiil....

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

DP99

Gold Road

Gold Road was the most interesting.

SilverIce58

Elsweyr

I feel like ZOS's best work is in their more bestial races. Just about every piece of content regarding Khajiit, (and Argonians) is eaten up by the community. Look at all the Khajiit forms and npcs North and South Elsweyr added. Just about everybody wants to be them, ride them, pet them, have as companions. Elsweyr was a great chapter. Abnur Tharn, Dragons. The first year long adventure, (maybe not a popular opinion, but I enjoyed how they did this one, over the later ones where the formula started getting stale.

Elsweyr also didnt come with the expectations of Summerset (glass cities/ones made of insect wings, and a good Nocturnal model), or the nostalgia factor of Vvardenfell. They were free to experiment how they liked.

francesinhalover

Gold Road

DP99 wrote: »

Gold Road was the most interesting.

Loving it so far

francesinhalover

Gold Road

Froil wrote: »

For me nothing has yet to top Elsewyr. But I might be a bit biased since I also love Khajiit.

Doing the quests right now. Really liking them

I am not the biggest fan of the setting, but the quests and puzzles have been great so far. And i love dragons

francesinhalover

Gold Road

TaSheen wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

TaSheen wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Elsonso wrote: »

I disagree that Summerset was the best Chapter.

I think that Morrowind and Clockwork City were strong but that Summerset did not hold up the bargain. It didn't really feel like part of a trilogy. I keep having to be reminded that it was the conclusion of a trilogy and not just the next Chapter after Morrowind+Clockwork City.

Thus, I tend to put Summerset down near the bottom as 4th worst, above Greymoor, Blackwood, and Gold Road.

Why Elsweyr? It is a relatively straightforwards story. Go in, fight dragons and their pet Imperial, and her pet necromacer. The writing was immensely better than Greymoor and Blackwood. It does not feel forced and contrived, like Gold Road. It is not terminally boring and does not have an agenda beyond writing a good story.

Morrowind and Orsinium are solid contenders, but I like Elsweyr better. Either way, I would love to have that sort of writing back.

That’s funny, because I thought the story was…well…not conforming to how necromancy works.

I had to rate that one high for the dragon fights, which I thought would break the game and didn’t, and the fact that I had wanted to see Elsweyr for so long.

I LOVED Elsweyr. But the dragon fights were.... totally out of my ability, which of course made it.... not so much fun....

Nah, you can do it. Every player gets a drop from dragons I hear, it’s not like world bosses. Just don’t stand on the fiery ring right around the dragon if you play stamina melee or you’ll die real quick.

Not meaning the normal ones; specifically the "boss" fights - Kaalgrontiid, Mulaamnir, etc.

Oh friend wish i could help you, but life keeps us on diferent servers

Orbital78

I don't really have a favorite, but my favorites are:

Elsweyr: Dragons, who doesn't love fighting dragons in MMO's. Introduction to the Necromancer class as well.

Greymoor: It was just a great year, Blackreach had a magic to it all the glowy alien-esque underworld. I think that was back when I was actually enjoying Vampire characters too. It had its mistform that worked as a lifeleech.

Blackwood: Another good year which I enjoyed. I loved the Imperial meets Argonian zone, and we got to visit the Deadlands. It was also our first introduction to companions and still one of the more challenging trial hardmodes in the game to date.

Necrom: I am an Argonian and Dunmer enjoyer, so returning to Dunmer homelands was fun. It introduced us to our first new class in many years. It is powerful and new user friendly, and just over all a fun class with cool flashy skills. I also enjoyed the alien world of Apocrypha. Morrowind gets honorable mention but that was back before I fully got into the game. Not the easiest combat system for new players to adapt to from other MMO's.

spartaxoxo

Elsweyr

I selected Elsweyr because it's the best chapter if I ignore the story arc thing, IMO. But, Greymoor - Markarth are my favorite of the year long storylines. IMO, Rada-al Saran is the best TESO specific villain. But that story really leads heavily on Markarth. Greymoor itself lays the groundwork but isn't as strong as Elsweyr as a chapter.