Best DLC?

[Vexlor]

What is in your book the best DLC and why?

[Gilmoy]

All of them, because you get the bundle for dirt cheap. EL is an old game.

Guardians adds legendary deeds + buildings, and Guardian units.
Shadows adds spying, and Forgotten faction.
Shifters adds pearls, 3rd winter pearl districts, and Allayi faction.

I consider EL with Guardians, Shadows, and Shifters to be the base game.
I've never played 1 minute without them.

Tempest adds ships, and makes the AI care about sea regions.

Inferno adds Kapaku faction, and dust eclipses.
1st summer dust eclipse pays for your Era I governor hero, which changes opening theory.
Caveat: Some old PC hardware struggles to render dust eclipse graphics, and slows down.

Symbiosis adds Mykara faction, and Urkans.

I always play with all 6 enabled.
If you hate getting dinged by AI spies on your cities for -2 Pop, you could disable Shadows.

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The single most important "DLC" is the EL Community Patch (ELCP)
+ It makes the AI smarter in many ways (warning: smarter = harder)
+ It fixes bugs
+ It has a game option to increase walking animation speed

[Vexlor]

Originally posted by Gilmoy:

All of them, because you get the bundle for dirt cheap. EL is an old game.

Guardians adds legendary deeds + buildings, and Guardian units.
Shadows adds spying, and Forgotten faction.
Shifters adds pearls, 3rd winter pearl districts, and Allayi faction.

I consider EL with Guardians, Shadows, and Shifters to be the base game.
I've never played 1 minute without them.

Tempest adds ships, and makes the AI care about sea regions.

Inferno adds Kapaku faction, and dust eclipses.
1st summer dust eclipse pays for your Era I governor hero, which changes opening theory.
Caveat: Some old PC hardware struggles to render dust eclipse graphics, and slows down.

Symbiosis adds Mykara faction, and Urkans.

I always play with all 6 enabled.
If you hate getting dinged by AI spies on your cities for -2 Pop, you could disable Shadows.

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The single most important "DLC" is the EL Community Patch (ELCP)
+ It makes the AI smarter in many ways (warning: smarter = harder)
+ It fixes bugs
+ It has a game option to increase walking animation speed

Took your advice even before u gave it, bought all of it. I enjoyed the time I played and hopefully DLCs will make it even more worthwhile.