Dark Brotherhood deserves an expansion

Scaletho · May 27

It's been years since Dark Brotherhood was release. And its story line was (imho) one of the best on ESO. Since then, no more talk of Dark Brotherhood (or Thieves Guild, honestly) new stories and an expansion to other regions of Tamriel.

Granted, the amazing character Elam Drals did show up now and then, but only as a side line surprise.

I really think that DB's new content is overdue and could be a nice improvement to ESO future stories.

Idk how many people agree with me, but I ask ZOS to consider this possibility.

The Dark Mother will be very pleased.

Nemesis7884 · May 27

you might want to carefully watch the content pass stream

LunaFlora · May 27

the ESO Direct had a Dark Brotherhood hint so it'll likely happen next year

kargen27 · May 27

I would really like to more Dark Brotherhood content. I think it would need to come along side something else though. I've got a feeling a lot of players avoided the original story and would feel left out if a content drop only included Dark Brotherhood.

tomofhyrule · May 27

I mean… there is the heavy implication that DB is the next season.

Having said that, DB (and TG) are always divisive topics. There is a faction of people who love the ‘bad guy’ guilds and love to live out those fantasies… but there is also a faction who play this game 100% heroic and can’t stand being forced into those areas - see all of the complaints about the DB and TG endeavors last year, which required those dailies for higher endeavor amounts, and also the TG/DB celebration event that hasn’t been held since 2019 because of the relatively lower interaction and complaints. The recent Crime Wave mini-event was much better received since it didn’t exclude those good-aligned players from event tickets or higher endeavors.

I can’t see a DB or TG season able to support being longer than one patch cycle, and it probably won’t be able to sell season passes by itself because it is such a controversial subject.

What I could see them doing though is:

Adding some major DLC cities to the contract repeatables like how Tribute has NPCs all over
Adding a DB-aligned Companion who is a bit of a murderhobo where they use the Assassination skill line and have the Blade of Woe/Companion incap as their ultimate (and possibly also giving an excuse for them to have vampirism as well)
Having Elam as the questgiver/follower in a corresponding Dungeon (I had this fantasy of one that’d be cool where you go to Bravil with him to assassinate the count, and end up in the Night Mother’s Crypt)
Might also be a nice excuse to throw PvPers a bone and finally make ranked duelling a thing

zaria · May 27

tomofhyrule wrote: »

I mean… there is the heavy implication that DB is the next season.

Having said that, DB (and TG) are always divisive topics. There is a faction of people who love the ‘bad guy’ guilds and love to live out those fantasies… but there is also a faction who play this game 100% heroic and can’t stand being forced into those areas - see all of the complaints about the DB and TG endeavors last year, which required those dailies for higher endeavor amounts, and also the TG/DB celebration event that hasn’t been held since 2019 because of the relatively lower interaction and complaints. The recent Crime Wave mini-event was much better received since it didn’t exclude those good-aligned players from event tickets or higher endeavors.

I can’t see a DB or TG season able to support being longer than one patch cycle, and it probably won’t be able to sell season passes by itself because it is such a controversial subject.

What I could see them doing though is:
Adding some major DLC cities to the contract repeatables like how Tribute has NPCs all over

Adding a DB-aligned Companion who is a bit of a murderhobo where they use the Assassination skill line and have the Blade of Woe/Companion incap as their ultimate (and possibly also giving an excuse for them to have vampirism as well)

Having Elam as the questgiver/follower in a corresponding Dungeon (I had this fantasy of one that’d be cool where you go to Bravil with him to assassinate the count, and end up in the Night Mother’s Crypt)

Might also be a nice excuse to throw PvPers a bone and finally make ranked duelling a thing

I agree, now I see the thief guild as way less evil than the dark brotherhood. TG is an criminal gang with some morals and probably good connections, in TES 3 Morrowing the blads had connections with TG.

Dark brotherhood is an death cult. Yes the quest is fun and the perk of mobs not agroing your then riding is so nice.

Thorncrypt · May 28

Looking forward to the next content pass. It was heavily hinted that Dark Brotherhood would be featured once they are done with the current content pass.

Cooperharley · May 28

Next year will be the 10 year anniversary of skyrim AND they hinted at DB being the theme next year. If we get a DB season IN skyrim I will actually crap my pants

tomofhyrule · May 28

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tomofhyrule wrote: »

What I could see them doing though is:
Adding some major DLC cities to the contract repeatables like how Tribute has NPCs all over

Adding a DB-aligned Companion who is a bit of a murderhobo where they use the Assassination skill line and have the Blade of Woe/Companion incap as their ultimate (and possibly also giving an excuse for them to have vampirism as well)

Having Elam as the questgiver/follower in a corresponding Dungeon (I had this fantasy of one that’d be cool where you go to Bravil with him to assassinate the count, and end up in the Night Mother’s Crypt)

Might also be a nice excuse to throw PvPers a bone and finally make ranked duelling a thing

Ooh, I forgot one major thing they could also do: add some active skills.
MG and FG have active slottables, but DB and TG only have passives. They could totally get one or two skills you could slot.

ArchMikem · May 28

I'd rather see a Thieves' Guild expansion. I'm not a murderous player, and the Thieves' Guild could take us into more of Hammerfell. Maybe follow Magnifica Falorah to Taneth and do a new Questline working for her.