Favourite DLC and why?

nimander99 · August 2016

Orsinium

Cause... Duh?

guul · August 2016

Thieves Guild

Best writing ever.

UrQuan · August 2016

Orsinium

Aldin11 wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

I've liked each of the DLCs for different reasons, but my vote has to go to Orsinium.

So here's a list of what I like best about each DLC.

Imperial City:
I don't do much PVP, because I simply don't enjoy it as much as PVE. Having said that, most of the times I've actually had a lot of fun PVPing has been in Imperial City. So there's that. I thought the quest line was pretty good too (especially The Drake - she's one of my favorite characters in the game), and the group dungeons are really well done (even if some of the mechanics can be a real pain to learn how to deal with). These days (this week aside) I don't often go back to Imperial City, although of course I still run the group dungeons every now and then.

Thieves Guild:
I enjoyed the storyline and characters for TG quite a bit. Even if I did figure out about Cosh way before the characters did... The delves are really interestingly designed too, and I like that the repeatable quests send you throughout all of the base game zones. The repeatables are a little bit bland and boring for the most part though. The heists are a lot of fun once you get the hang of that kind of play. Aside from taking characters through the Hew's Bane & TG story who haven't yet done it, the heists are the only thing that keep me coming back to the TG DLC.

Dark Brotherhood:
The Gold Coast is a small zone, but I think it's really well designed, especially the cities of Anvil and Kvatch. It's also cool to compare it to the Gold Coast from Oblivion. The storyline was decent here too, but I'd probably call it the weakest of the DLC storylines. The side quests where you encounter characters from the base game were cool. I had such a blast figuring out how to find the targets in the Litany of Blood and going out and delivering them all to Sithis. Also the sacraments are everything I enjoy about the TG heists, but more so. The world boss dailies are fun too.

Shadows of the Hist:
Well, this DLC is just 2 group dungeons, so not a lot to talk about really... They're very well designed group dungeons IMO, and a lot of fun (even if I do feel that the non-vet mode for them is a bit too easy - definitely easier than the non-vet mode for the IC group dungeons), but that's all there is to it. I do like the dungeons a lot though.

And finally, my vote goes to Orsinium:
The zone is HUGE, and there's just so many cool things to find all around it, and so many things to do. The storyline was great (even if I distrusted the king and the forge mother from the beginning), and even the side quests that weren't directly connected with the main story were really well written. The public dungeons are both very cool. The world boss dailies are a ton of fun to do (especially with a group of guildies). Collecting all of the relics is loads of fun - especially because getting them all unlocks a quest that you don't get to do otherwise. The delves are good (not as good as the Hew's Bane ones IMO - I think those are the best DLC delves) with the delve dailies. Maelstrom Arena is a good challenge. And of course the quests where you encounter characters from the base game are cool too.

UrQuan for some reason I always see you on almost every thread. You must be some hardcore forum person.

My level of forum activity depends directly on how busy I am at work... When it's slow and I'm bored, I post a lot. When I'm going through a busy period, I don't post at all. There's an excellent chance I won't be able to post much for the next couple of months.

Pendrillion · August 2016

Orsinium

For me its a pretty close tie between DB and Orsinium. Both Zones are beautiful. But I favor anything that is bigger and takes a bit of leg work to explore. Hews Bane is wonderfully designed... But It deserves a bit more Landscape. And I am kind of stuck in the Thiefs Guild questline...

MissBizz · August 2016

Orsinium

Orsinium because it was a huge entertaining story, along with tons of land to explore and tons of things to do! I personally felt DB and TG were copy pasta of each other, and the zone themselves underwhelming once I had experienced Orsinium.

Aldin11 · August 2016

Thieves Guild

MissBizz wrote: »

Orsinium because it was a huge entertaining story, along with tons of land to explore and tons of things to do! I personally felt DB and TG were copy pasta of each other, and the zone themselves underwhelming once I had experienced Orsinium.

@MissBizz Wow I can't freaking believe you commented on my thread. This really means a lot thx.

undefeatdgaul · August 2016

Orsinium

overall orsinium gets my vote, but I like the assassinating & new quests from the dark brotherhood also. Dont like thieves guild at all, IC would be great if I had anybody to run around with

MissBizz · August 2016

Orsinium

Haha @Aldin11 If I find a thread interesting or feel I have something to say, I comment! Don't care who's thread it is

Funnyily enough, you mentioned TG because you enjoy stealth. I think that's exactly why I don't care for TG or DB. What some people love, others may not like so much, and vice versa!

Also yeeeah. UrQuan is a crazy forum warrior. Look at all his stars!

UrQuan · August 2016

Orsinium

MissBizz wrote: »

Haha @Aldin11 If I find a thread interesting or feel I have something to say, I comment! Don't care who's thread it is

Funnyily enough, you mentioned TG because you enjoy stealth. I think that's exactly why I don't care for TG or DB. What some people love, others may not like so much, and vice versa!

Also yeeeah. UrQuan is a crazy forum warrior. Look at all his stars!

You need to try doing them with some good stealth gear... It makes all the difference!

MissBizz · August 2016

Orsinium

UrQuan wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

Haha @Aldin11 If I find a thread interesting or feel I have something to say, I comment! Don't care who's thread it is

Funnyily enough, you mentioned TG because you enjoy stealth. I think that's exactly why I don't care for TG or DB. What some people love, others may not like so much, and vice versa!

Also yeeeah. UrQuan is a crazy forum warrior. Look at all his stars!

You need to try doing them with some good stealth gear... It makes all the difference!

There is no stealth gear that would make up for my sheer fumblingness.

Lumi · August 2016

Orsinium

Orsinium. I love to explore and quest.

Robbmrp · August 2016

Orsinium

Very large map to explore. Lots of WB's and delves. The quests were really fun!

Dojohoda · August 2016

Hard to vote because each DLC offers unique elements. I guess if I had to narrow it down, then #1 is a tie: IC, Wrothgar, DB.

potirondb16_ESO · August 2016

Imperial City

Best replayability of all the DLC !

bedlom · August 2016

Orsinium

The winner of this has been obvious for a while.

BlackguardBob · August 2016

Orsinium

As a strictly PvE solo player only, I have done everything in Wrothgar. This is the only map I have that is totally white.

Granted I did need help with the overland bosses but I just got stuck in and did my best. I still help out when I see others trying to do what I (and so many of you ofc, did.)

I've made two sets of Julianos light armour, all gold, along with staffs and swords and jewellery all at CP160. I couldn't have done that without the Orsinium DLC.

I look forward to Craglorn revamped so I can learn the nirn trait. That's the best I can do.

ThePaleItalian · August 2016

Orsinium

Orsinium felt like a true DLC. I liked them all, but the size, world bosses, story lines, the artifact hunting. It all felt great.

Played as my Orc and became the chief of one of the clans, it was enjoyable and glad I played it. Can't wait with my other toons.

potirondb16_ESO · August 2016

Imperial City

GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »

Out of all the DLCs, this DLC in particular had a very good quest-line and story to tell. I enjoyed the play through very much. Kind of wish the rewards for heists were buffed up.

That DLC main quest was really nice, but I really dislike that they asked you to do the dailies in order to acces further inside the storyline. Do hate even more that they followed the same patern for Dark Brotherhood ! LOL

Loralai_907 · August 2016

Orsinium

Orsinium. I loved that it was basically an entire new zone. It was full of things to do and the quests were easy to connect with. I found it hard to put down, like a favorite book. I still spend several hours a week there.

TG was never up my alley. I don't like being a sneaky player, so it was like pulling teeth just trying to like it anyways. I never did finish it.

DB was good, but I kind of expected more out of it. It was over super fast. I didn't like how similar it was to what I had done in the TG. But I enjoyed the questing portion a lot more and I had a ton of fun with the bosses.

I haven't really done any IC, so I can't say anything good or bad about that one.

And I haven't tried out this latest "DLC" yet.

Uriel_Nocturne · August 2016

Dark Brotherhood

The Dark Brotherhood.

The DB has always been my favorite faction in all of the Elder Scrolls games, and it's no different here in ESO. I love the stealth kill options added into the game, the Questline was short but engaging.

The only "gripe" I have about the DLC is I wish that the new area added was larger, more of a similar size to Orsinium. Had they given the Gold Coast the same land area as Orsinium, the DLC would be perfect.

NewBlacksmurf · August 2016

Orsinium

Orsinium BUT it's broke for Xbox one still.

The others in my opinion were not actual DLC, they were just paid content updates.

QuebraRegra · August 2016

I'd like to say TG, but the quest line was a big letdown. I kept wanting something epic like the Grey Fox questline from Oblivion, instead I re-instituted the guild and nothing really happened. Even the conversations reverted to original convos with guildmembers.

TG needed a new skill mechanism like climbing or something, in the way that DB has assassinations/dagger.

I think DB has more interesting plotline, and it's fun to sneak around in the castles.

Vaoh · August 2016

Orsinium

Just waiting on Vvardenfell

Kammakazi · August 2016

Dark Brotherhood

I really enjoyed the Dark Brotherhood quest line.

Danikat · August 2016

Orsinium

Orsinium has the most to do.

Morimizo · August 2016

Orsinium

We'll most likely never see another full zone like it again.

Dubhliam · August 2016

Imperial City

People have different things they look for in a DLC.
Some people look at landscape or story which is nice, but not really what I look for in a DLC.

I value replayability.
Hence 10/10 for IC, 9/10 for Orsinium, 7/10 for SotH and 4/10, 2/10 for TG and DB respectively.

Looking at replayability, SotH should have gotten a bigger score, since both dungeons are exactly my cup of tea.
BUT! They don't make me farm them like I farm WGT and ICP to this day.
Why? Because they don't provide a set that is labeled as BiS by the current meta (such as SPC and SM), along with the fact that it is MUCH easier to complete a set.
They come in weapons and jewelry, and jewelry ALWAYS comes in the desired trait.
Also, even if there was a set worth farming, people will just farm normal modes since those drop CP160 also (and yes, that includes Monster Helms).
All in all, the above reasons actually lowered my motivation for running those wonderful new dungeons.

UrQuan · August 2016

Orsinium

potirondb16_ESO wrote: »

GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »

Out of all the DLCs, this DLC in particular had a very good quest-line and story to tell. I enjoyed the play through very much. Kind of wish the rewards for heists were buffed up.

That DLC main quest was really nice, but I really dislike that they asked you to do the dailies in order to acces further inside the storyline. Do hate even more that they followed the same patern for Dark Brotherhood ! LOL

I actually like that. You're building up your name within the guild as a rising star - you need to prove yourself.

UrQuan · August 2016

Orsinium

ThePaleItalian wrote: »

Played as my Orc and became the chief of one of the clans, it was enjoyable and glad I played it. Can't wait with my other toons.

I loved that about Orsinium. I played through it entirely on my DC Orc before I took any other characters through it, and I thought it was really cool that the game recognized that I was an Orc and gave me an option that other races didn't get...

nimander99 · August 2016

Orsinium

UrQuan wrote: »

Aldin11 wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

I've liked each of the DLCs for different reasons, but my vote has to go to Orsinium.

So here's a list of what I like best about each DLC.

Imperial City:
I don't do much PVP, because I simply don't enjoy it as much as PVE. Having said that, most of the times I've actually had a lot of fun PVPing has been in Imperial City. So there's that. I thought the quest line was pretty good too (especially The Drake - she's one of my favorite characters in the game), and the group dungeons are really well done (even if some of the mechanics can be a real pain to learn how to deal with). These days (this week aside) I don't often go back to Imperial City, although of course I still run the group dungeons every now and then.

Thieves Guild:
I enjoyed the storyline and characters for TG quite a bit. Even if I did figure out about Cosh way before the characters did... The delves are really interestingly designed too, and I like that the repeatable quests send you throughout all of the base game zones. The repeatables are a little bit bland and boring for the most part though. The heists are a lot of fun once you get the hang of that kind of play. Aside from taking characters through the Hew's Bane & TG story who haven't yet done it, the heists are the only thing that keep me coming back to the TG DLC.

Dark Brotherhood:
The Gold Coast is a small zone, but I think it's really well designed, especially the cities of Anvil and Kvatch. It's also cool to compare it to the Gold Coast from Oblivion. The storyline was decent here too, but I'd probably call it the weakest of the DLC storylines. The side quests where you encounter characters from the base game were cool. I had such a blast figuring out how to find the targets in the Litany of Blood and going out and delivering them all to Sithis. Also the sacraments are everything I enjoy about the TG heists, but more so. The world boss dailies are fun too.

Shadows of the Hist:
Well, this DLC is just 2 group dungeons, so not a lot to talk about really... They're very well designed group dungeons IMO, and a lot of fun (even if I do feel that the non-vet mode for them is a bit too easy - definitely easier than the non-vet mode for the IC group dungeons), but that's all there is to it. I do like the dungeons a lot though.

And finally, my vote goes to Orsinium:
The zone is HUGE, and there's just so many cool things to find all around it, and so many things to do. The storyline was great (even if I distrusted the king and the forge mother from the beginning), and even the side quests that weren't directly connected with the main story were really well written. The public dungeons are both very cool. The world boss dailies are a ton of fun to do (especially with a group of guildies). Collecting all of the relics is loads of fun - especially because getting them all unlocks a quest that you don't get to do otherwise. The delves are good (not as good as the Hew's Bane ones IMO - I think those are the best DLC delves) with the delve dailies. Maelstrom Arena is a good challenge. And of course the quests where you encounter characters from the base game are cool too.

UrQuan for some reason I always see you on almost every thread. You must be some hardcore forum person.

My level of forum activity depends directly on how busy I am at work... When it's slow and I'm bored, I post a lot. When I'm going through a busy period, I don't post at all. There's an excellent chance I won't be able to post much for the next couple of months.

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