You don't need them, but I would highly recommend Orsinium. It is far far far bigger, better,deeper than Dark Brotherhood. DB itself offers only killer animations. Area is very small, few quests, 2 dungeons, no trial... And Orsinium offers great places to grind if you like that.
I'd suggest to sub 1 month, so you can check them all and you get the crafting bag on top which is awesome for hoarders.

Imho Orsinium is great, Thieves guild is nice, DB is just better than nothing.

Edit: base changes of veteran levels and mechanics are part of the game, you don't need a DLC for that

I bought them all . No regrets .

gtzempe_PAO_13 wrote: »

Thnx for your fast answers! I have imperial city! Generally i like pvp. Whats the state of the game today for gearing?? Crafting, stores etc? Btw you mean IC is must have dlc and orsinium optionally...right?

You get scaled to CP160 (and all creatures are at that level) when you go to Orsinium, so it is useful even when you start a new character with the goal of playing in Cyrodiil (PvP) to farm your mats and level up your rank and skill points (from skyshards) there. There are several World Bosses and Dungeons, plenty of mats to farm (you will get both mats on your level and higher level mats from the same nodes today) and generally a very good extension of the main Tamriel storyline from base game.


Thieves Guild adds Troves all around in the World which you can loot (and need to go to fence to get money for it or clean to sell on normal market). Those Troves can get your into trouble if somebody sees you looting them, so be careful! I haven't been playing TG story line, went only a short trip to Hew's Bane. Place looked nice, but the only thing I have from that DLC is my pet (looks like a small dog). Neither TG or DB offer anything more then a new passive skill line which work more like an extension from Legerdemain in base game.

You are asking about crafting? Well I would actually recommend you to become a ESO+ subber as you will then have access to those new CraftingBags (it works as a second inventory for all your crafting and lures). You will suddenly feel that you don't have the same pressure to increase your size in bank and inventory as you had as before Dark Brotherhood (time for when those CraftingBags where introduced). There is still a need for more space at least for loot out in the world, so you would probably want to buy more inventory space later on and also some banks space for set items and which you can't store any other place. Take look into your "Collection" in game to see what will be there today instead of you inventory! Here you can find your pets, hats and all things that you can enable or disable on your character for look or as memento items.

As ESO+ member you could actually "try" out which DLC fits your expectations or play style and later buy those with Crowns, instead of buying those and regret it later. (For one moth as ESO+ member you will get 1500 Crowns, if you only want to "try out" CraftBags and unsub directly after that.) You will still have all mats in CraftsBags, but can't put anything into them after that.