The base patch, without the DLC, allows you to reach VR16. As long as you are satisfied with your current gear and aren't wanting VR16 gear, you won't miss much.

Austacker wrote: »

Tessie wrote: »

As long as you are satisfied with your current gear and aren't wanting VR16 gear, you won't miss much.

Wait, so you cannot get VR16 gear unless you enter the PvP zones?

You can buy it from other players, and some you can craft yourself. Although the mats will have to be bought from others either way.

Austacker wrote: »

So the only way to source the gear post IC release is to either enter the PvP zone and farm it yourself OR buy it from other players?

Urgh, I feel like I just want to cut my losses with this game...

You won't be missing out on much, the gear isn't phenomenal, the quest line is exceedingly short, really the only downside of not getting the IC DLC is not seeing the IC. It's beautiful, but it's very... Meh. Just look for screenshots?

all 4 man dungeons scale to VR16 and drop VR16 gear including undaunted and Agility, Endurance, and Willpower gear. IC is needed for the other new gear sets, so you'll still be able to upgrade to VR16 gear.

You'll miss out the opportunity to pay your money and time to offer satisfaction to high cp players.

What you miss out on:
1. the two new PvE 4P group dungeons in IC (fun, and give you skill points, and occasionally in pledge rotation)
2. The new Imperial City PvP content, i.e. Sewers (public dungeon), various city sectors, a few new skyshards
3. A bunch of new drop sets, very few of which are actually good; some items may be obtainable from bosses as random drops in other non-IC dungeons scaled to vr15 or 16 anyway
4. a bunch of new achievements

What you can still get (from other players) albeit with difficulty, i.e. it's easier/cheaper with the DLC:
5. Xivkyn motif and (charcoal of remorse) style material - only from imperial city
6. Vr15/16 enchants and the new tri-enchant essence stone - only from IC
7. Vr15 Potion solvents (although you can get Vr10 solvents in Craglorn now); also vr15 provisioning recipes
8. Materials for crafting vr15/16 armor/weapons - can be obtained from hirelings or by deconstructing vr15/16 gear from scaled vet dungeon bosses and undaunted chests. However, you need stupidly large amounts for crafting vr16 gear (130+ per item), so you will need a LOT.
9. Three new special crafted sets, with locations in the IC. (You will need to pay someone if you need them)

Where it doesn't make a difference:
10. Trials and vDSA scaling have not changed
11. you can get Glass motif fragments and malachite shards (probably more easily than people in IC)
12. you can get to vr16 with regular PvE content, just can't craft vr16 gear and enchants easily unless you buy the mats. (VR15 gear requires a lot fewer mats, so is achieveable).
13. scaled 4P group dungeons will now drop Worm Cult, Martial knowledge and some other set items up to Vr14
14. 2 piece monster helm/shoulder sets will now scale up to vr16, with no horrible traits in the random selection (Sturdy, Training, etc. have been excluded for these items)

I like this Dlc, there are some things that I like less, like spawn points near battles inside the City or no immunity for some seconds when you go down to the sewers, but I like it overall because finally me and guildmates can do something together other than the same trials or pvp , the only things that a guild with more of 4 ppl could do until now was , playing together...Now there are different pvp scenarios, bosses to do inside the sewers, pvp while pve ,love it.The new quests are short yes but well made, liked it, and there are the daylies.

SeptimusDova wrote: »

You will miss out on Interacting with many Awesome Khajiit in a tightly constricted dark and moist environment!!

This one hate moist. This one would prefer to keep his fur dry.

You will miss out on the new best in slot gear, since it's all bind on pickup.

Lucky for you, you will never need to set one foot in the PVP area as you only have to run the 2 new PVE dungeons for them.

You will miss out PvP gear with impenetrable traits, which makes it pretty second choice for a PvEer.

...and you will not miss out new and nice PvE drop sets, because the drop rate is fubar, the grind for a trophy vault key is fubar and the random number generator rules not just the drop chance but even the traits on those new PvE sets (reinforced anyone?) and therefore is the new endboss nobody will be able to beat. Even Molag Bal cowers in front of the supremacy of the rng.

You wont be able to have fun with your friends or join them when the begin to do more challenging content in the future.

As primarily a PvE player, I find the Sewers (public dungeon basically) to be really fun, and you can get a lot of Tel Var stones with relatively few encounters of enemy players if you stay near your home base, and avoid peak hours (i.e. weekends etc). I expect that the upper city districts would be much more of a PvP fest tho...