What do you get, specifically, from actually buying Galactic Paragons

[Turkish Hair Graft]

I aint got the vault of cash needed to buy every single stellaris expansion, but this one sounds neat. I'm aware of the reasons people don't like it, but what do you actually GET from buying Galactic Paragons?

[Elitewrecker PT]

NEW COUNCIL MECHANICS
Assign leaders to vital positions and set agendas to steer your empire as you see fit. In Galactic Paragons, find dozens of unique council roles based on your civics and government types, and unlock additional positions as your empire evolves!

NEW DYNAMIC LEADERS
Recruit, improve, and follow the leaders of your empire through the ages! You may shape them by picking their traits, selecting their veteran class, and guide them towards their destiny, up until they retire - or perish!

MEET GALACTIC HEROES
Attract paragons of renown to your council: unique leaders with their own art, events, and stories may join your empire and bring their own benefits to your government. Or, discover four Legendary Paragons with intricate event chains and unique mechanics!

NEW TRADITIONS, CIVICS, AND MORE
A new “Under One Rule” Origin that tells the tale of the leader who founded your empire
Eight new Civics focused on leadership, from immortalizing the personalities of leaders past in digital archives to heavily optimized council selection via corporate charter
12 new Veteran Classes
Hundreds of new Leader Traits
Two new Tradition Trees, giving players new edicts and improved leaders
New ships, art, and story content

[corisai]

Your ordinary meh leaders will turn into super-heroes. Plus you will get access to few unique leaders (some are guaranteed mid-level hire in early game, some are super-rare and legendary).

If you like to play "normal" empires (non-gestalts) - it's at least worthwhile DLC and I really suggest to buy it when it will be on sale.
UPD. Actually - avoid buying Paragons DLC now. We're expecting a big nerf to leaders in upcoming Astral DLC so better to wait and see how bad it will be. Because, honestly, aside from access OP leaders - Paragons DLC provides nothing.

[Turkish Hair Graft]

Originally posted by Elitewrecker PT:

NEW COUNCIL MECHANICS
NEW DYNAMIC LEADERS

MEET GALACTIC HEROES

NEW TRADITIONS, CIVICS, AND MORE

Yes yes har har :>

What I mean is, they usually release some basic mechanics to support the DLC and then add some additional options for it that you have to pay for the DLC to use.

Was wondering what features from this fit into either category.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Right, that was the leader overhaul:
- The soft leader cap;
- Stronger traits and specialization.
- Empire council

The vanilla leaders are weaker than the DLC boosted ones, and you only have access to 3 council positions if I'm not mistaken.
While still being affected by the leader cap.

[Turkish Hair Graft]

Cool, thanks a bunch. I've been out of the loop for a while and it can be hard to track down sometimes. I think I might give it a buy, thanks.

[ThatGuyFuryan]

I was just about to ask a question related this: 'which DLC do I need to expand on the council? I've only got 3 slots for it' etc and so on.

Now I don't need to ask.

[corisai]

Oh, BTW: I revoke my recommendation to buy Paragons on sales.

Devs supposed to nerf leaders massively in upcoming Astral DLC - better to wait and see now much they nerf major traits.

Sorry, but I completely missed that major info in load of useless advertisements.

[Mentato]

You get to pay a tribute to your Paradox overlords.
Seriously, buying Stellaris DLC is the same no-brainer as claiming every system as a hive.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by corisai:

Oh, BTW: I revoke my recommendation to buy Paragons on sales.

Devs supposed to nerf leaders massively in upcoming Astral DLC - better to wait and see now much they nerf major traits.

Sorry, but I completely missed that major info in load of useless advertisements.

Yes... Nerf...

To be honest it feels more like they are going for "worse in some ways, better in others".

So i would expect that many of the old meta ways of using them to be nerfed, but there to be new just as powerful ways of using them instead.

Just of the top of my head, using the new commander as a governor with livestock sounds completely broken (sounds like it will be easy to get a colony to 100% stability while having thousands of livestock slaves on it, while also at the same time boosting their output).

But we will have to wait and see until its released and the dust settles.