maciopa wrote: »

- Should I buy Elsweyr and Greymoor nowadays or I am good to go for a while? I plan to follow the main quest line from the scratch (I do not even know where I was...)

Or buy Greymoor and ESO+ for a while. That way you have everything. Elsweyr is now DLC under ESO+.

- What race/class deals the most dps nowadays?

You're confusing me. You talk about questing, where DPS is completely irrelevant, then you ask this. It's only relevant for veteran trials / to push high scores at the highest levels of endgame. Anyway, I'm not an expert. Last time I checked, I think it was magblade, but that does not mean magblade is best in any other way. Specifically for solo content - again I'm talking at the highest levels - you want some combination of sustain, tankiness and DPS. That depends on build, playstyle and combat experience. Race and class don't really factor into it. For example, while the best PvE players will do vMA with something like an insane Thrassian Strangler DPS (stamblade) build, this is far removed from what a normal player needs until they have internalised vMA to the point where they have nothing left but exploring the craziest, squishiest builds in the most difficult content.

Which one is recommended for solo play through the content?

See now, like I said, this is quite different from asking about the most DPS. I can comfortably solo vVateshran under 45 minutes (the time needed for the Spirit Slayer title) on my Nord stam DK with a Pale Order / Master's 2H build. It's not about DPS. It's about making an efficient solo build, one that combines the right amounts of damage, tankiness and sustain to suit your playstyle. You can make that on any class. I can certainly recommend a 2H Master's Brawler build to solo stuff in comfort on any stamina class. Magplars are also easy for soloing content, due to Sweeps combining single-target damage, AOE damage and a heal. Magblades also heal from damage. Pet sorcs let their pets take some of the aggro. Necros have a lot of healing. And so on.

You list some very different requirements. Questing demands little to no skill. Top DPS is only relevant for bragging rights or to satisfy the objectives of your dungeon / trial guild, e.g. to get achievements or top scores. If you just want to absolve content, it's not required. Anything even slightly below top DPS does not require a specific class or race. Soloing stuff does not require it, unless your mission is to do insane boss burns, bypassing mechanics in vMA or vVateshran.

So you're either a player who is looking to do a large variety of stuff, both questing and endgame, or you don't know what you need or want. If you enjoy questing, world bosses, public dungeons, non-DLC dungeons (both vet and normal) as well as normal DLC dungeons / arenas / trials, ZOS completely delivers on "play as you want". You're basically free to role-play and there is no need to care about class or race. If you want to just make it through the higher end content, veteran DLC dungeons / arenas / trials, then you still don't need to care. Maybe for vBRP and some vTrials, but I don't know. Only then and in PvP do you start to care about optimal race / class combinations, but there is a large variety of builds and playstyles in PvP, so it also depends on that.

If you do care about solo endgame or PvP, then mythic items are IMO highly recommended. Specifically Pale Order for the veteran solo arenas and Malacath for some PvP builds. While Pale Order is not essential, it makes things a lot easier. Then there is Wild Hunt for general quality of life, ranging from node harvesting in PvE to PvP, where speed is a major advantage and Wild Hunt ranks alongside Malacath as the best mythic.

maciopa wrote: »

Hey hey,

I decided to return to ESO after nearly 3 years of absence. The last expansion I bought was Summerset but I ceased to play shortly after its launch.
So I have a few questions that bugs me...
- Should I buy Elsweyr and Greymoor nowadays or I am good to go for a while? I plan to follow the main quest line from the scratch (I do not even know where I was...)
- What race/class deals the most dps nowadays? Which one is recommended for solo play through the content?
- Do we expect any additional character slots' sale maybe? Expansions sale?

I am going to go through forums now to read what happened since my departure but ... you have contributed A LOT of material to read here

Thank you for your help.
M

If you plan to run through the main content then the only reason to get Elsweyr/Greymoor would I think be the scrying/mythic item stuff as you go on. If you are following the story in order it's going to be quite a while before you finish the rest and get to them at which point they'll be cheaper still if the usual pattern follows.

Race/class varies by style and time (and will change again next week) and for anything but top percentage veteran trial content is very much 'meh'. If you want to see the current bests look at the top of the vet scoreboards perhaps ? You can do all the questing stuff on a totally non-optimal character. You need at most about 10k/second dps on a real target to do the story and delve type content, and that's a number easily achieved with totally non-optimal characters and enough game time. It does not require weaving or keyboard acrobatics.

The chapters generally have regular sale price options if you are patient and as new stuff comes out the price of the older bundle falls. The DLCs bought with crowns tend to go on a slightly reduced sale cost aligned with events related to them.

By the time you hit end game you'll be the proud owner of attribute and skill respec scrolls earned freely whilst levelling so you can then respec a lot of things anyway (not race or class however). CP is also account wide so once you hit 50 CP 160, it becomes pretty fast to level up an alt if you decide you want something for trials or a new role.

Awesome! Thank you!

I would like to thank you ALL for your time to reply to my inquiries and bring me back on the track (sometimes with a bucked of a cold water haha).
I appreciate all information and your personal insight into my issues!