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  Danikat

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  Part of the confusion is that there are different types of DLC in this game.

  • Chapters are sold seperately at first (not included in ESO+ and not available through the crown store) and always consist of a new map with it's own story, side quests, delves and public dungeons, trials etc. After a year (when the next chapter comes out) they're rebranded as DLC and from that point on they are sold in the crown store and included in ESO+ and are also included in the Collection version of the next chapter. (High Isle is the current chapter.)
  • Story/Zone DLC includes similar content to chapters: a new map with it's own story and side quests (but no trials I think). The difference is it's included in ESO+ from the day it's released and also available in the crown store.
  • Dungeon DLC is just dungeons, specifically 2 of them in each DLC. Each one has it's own story and recently they tie into the story of that year's chapter and zone DLC but there's no new maps, no side quests, nothing but the dungeons. Like zone DLC they're included in ESO+ and sold on the crown store as soon as they're released.

  Khanblish67 wrote: »

  - I found the new expansion (High Isle) offered as an "includes base game and includes previous chapters" offer. This looks by far the easiest way to own all expansions and get up-to-par with current players. But the question is "what do thy exactly mean with previous chapters" ? What is really included ?

  
  As above it means you get the DLC which was originally sold as chapters, but nothing else. So that's Morrowind, Summerset, Elseweyr, Greymoor, Blackwood and High Isle but none of the other DLC.
  
  If you want permanent access to everything the best option is:
  1) Buy Collection: High Isle (not the ones marked as upgrades and not the confusingly named Collection: High Isle Collectors Edition which includes various items you've repeatedly said you don't care about).
  2) Buy the following DLC bundles from the crown store:

  • Guilds and Glory
  • Year Two Mega Pack
  • Year Three Mega Pack
  • Season of the Dragon bundle

  3) Then buy the remaining DLC from the crown store:

  • Flames of Ambition
  • Waking Flame
  • Deadlands
  • Ascending Tide
  • Lost Depths
  • Firesong

  
  But if you're specifically interested in questing then it may be worth spacing out your purchases and only buying new DLC as you get to it. You can find guides online (and on this forum) which tell you the release/chronological order of events and then you only need to pay for the next part. That also gives you more room to wait for sales and offers which might make it cheaper. (For example it's likely that sometime soon Flames of Ambition, Waking Flames and Deadlands will be bundled together since those are all part of Blackwood's year long story.) I still recommend buying the collection version of the latest chapter when you get to one through, because it's cheaper than buying them all seperately.
  
  You could also get ESO+ for a limited time so you can try out the DLC and decide which one's you want to buy.
  
  Finally if you don't play dungeons much and you don't mind missing some details from the overarching story which the newer chapters and zone DLC tie into you could skip the dungeon DLC. Then you'd only need to buy the chapters, the Guilds & Glory pack and Murkmire, Dragonhold, Markarth, Deadlands and Firesong.

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  November 2022

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