How do expansions work?

[Shrapnel Effect]

Can you buy all of them and then play though the game after main story beating the expansions one by one?

[A'my]

Yes, every expansion mostly takes place after the main story. (with imperial city being more of an epilogue/during main story depending on how you look at it)

[Blackwolfe]

You can play them in any order though and you can do them whenever even if you haven't finished the main story.

[Shrapnel Effect]

Thanks guys, Was worried it was a case of you missed the release event (because i see they take the DLC off the store after while), so that you cant play the main content from it no more. dunno why i thought that to be honest

[Simpson3k]

But every new char you create starts in the latest purchased dlc region by default. So if you want to play the story in the correct order you have to find out where to go buy yourself. If you trust on the game to keep you in the correkt oder then you are lost somewhere inbetween future, present and past. I remember to enter the assault on coldhaven quest somewhere in the end first.. and later meeting all the involved npcs in a much earlier step in time.

I guess best would be to only purchse dlc´s after you finished all the content of the base game. Sadly its to late for me now.

[watchdog79]

Originally posted by Simpson3k:

But every new char you create starts in the latest purchased dlc region by default.

This is not entirely correct.

The starting tutorial will take place in the newest CHAPTER zone you own, not DLC zone.

Chapters:

- Morrowind (Vvardenfell zone)
- Summerset (Summer Isle zone)
- Elsweyr (Northern Elsweyr zone)
- Greymoor (to be launched)

Zone DLC's:

- Orsinium (Wrothgar zone)
- Dark Brotherhood (Gold Coast zone)
- Thieves Guild (Hew's Bane zone)
- Imperial City (same zone name)
- Clockwork City (same zone name)
- Murkmire (same zone name)
- Draggonhold (Southern Elsweyr zone)

[Simpson3k]

Originally posted by watchdog79:

Originally posted by Simpson3k:

But every new char you create starts in the latest purchased dlc region by default.

This is not entirely correct.

The starting tutorial will take place in the newest CHAPTER zone you own, not DLC zone.

Chapters:

- Morrowind (Vvardenfell zone)
- Summerset (Summer Isle zone)
- Elsweyr (Northern Elsweyr zone)
- Greymoor (to be launched)

Zone DLC's:

- Orsinium (Wrothgar zone)
- Dark Brotherhood (Gold Coast zone)
- Thieves Guild (Hew's Bane zone)
- Imperial City (same zone name)
- Clockwork City (same zone name)
- Murkmire (same zone name)
- Draggonhold (Southern Elsweyr zone)

But when you start with your new char in nothern elsweyr, you start with the dragons already released, while there is a whole questline where you chase that evil sister of that wizard and experience the release in first person. So unless you are aware of that and skip the elsweyr tutorial and port to morrowind right away you are spoilered with events that did not happen in quests you play later.

[watchdog79]

Originally posted by Simpson3k:

But when you start with your new char in nothern elsweyr, you start with the dragons already released, while there is a whole questline where you chase that evil sister of that wizard and experience the release in first person. So unless you are aware of that and skip the elsweyr tutorial and port to morrowind right away you are spoilered with events that did not happen in quests you play later.

Yes, but that was not my point at all and I did not write a word about this.

The point was, you do not start in a zone DLC, but in a chapter. That is a big difference, and that is what was incorrect in your previous post.

[Simpson3k]

Originally posted by watchdog79:

Originally posted by Simpson3k:

But when you start with your new char in nothern elsweyr, you start with the dragons already released, while there is a whole questline where you chase that evil sister of that wizard and experience the release in first person. So unless you are aware of that and skip the elsweyr tutorial and port to morrowind right away you are spoilered with events that did not happen in quests you play later.

Yes, but that was not my point at all and I did not write a word about this.

The point was, you do not start in a zone DLC, but in a chapter. That is a big difference, and that is what was incorrect in your previous post.

And why did you translate my used term "dlc region" into "zone dlc" and say i am wrong instead of translate it into "chapter"?

Because you wanted to tell somebody posting before you to be wrong and come up with some facts of your own?

The information of my first posting are correct, and the way i named the map, region, zone or area the char starts with in the tutorial or later with the fresh level 5 char, is of absolutly no importance.

[765]

But it's a better deal to not directly buy them, but instead get ESO+ and the same amount of crowns on top of it which will then allow you to buy them too.

Just remember you get the crowns as you pay, so with a recurring payment that's the monthly amount of crowns each month, and if you pay up-front you get all the crowns up-front.

[watchdog79]

Originally posted by Simpson3k:

Originally posted by watchdog79:

Yes, but that was not my point at all and I did not write a word about this.

The point was, you do not start in a zone DLC, but in a chapter. That is a big difference, and that is what was incorrect in your previous post.

And why did you translate my used term "dlc region" into "zone dlc" and say i am wrong instead of translate it into "chapter"?

Because you wanted to tell somebody posting before you to be wrong and come up with some facts of your own?

The information of my first posting are correct, and the way i named the map, region, zone or area the char starts with in the tutorial or later with the fresh level 5 char, is of absolutly no importance.

Because there are two types of paid content that contain zones, or regions, or areas, or lands, or whatever you fancy calling them.

Zone DLC and chapter.

If you say you start in a DLC region, this could lead a new player into thinking that if could buy, say , Orsinium, and have their newly created characters start there, but that is not how it works.

DLC =/= chapter

That was my point. I am not trying to start a flame war here. If I offended you somehow, I am sorry, that was not my intent.

[Bouma]

It can get a bit confusing. They should have more options for start location when creating a new character.