Essential DLC

[Dohaeris]

Hey

So I'll be buying EU4 real soon, after a lot of looking up on it, and was wondering which DLC I would need to have the full experience. I already know how to play the game well and all, but as I have a budget of just 150 bucks, I wanted to get as much out of it as possible. And with that massive stack of DLC, prices quickly add up, to play the game properly is quite expensive.

So obviously I'll be getting the base game, in addition to the new Common Sense expansion, Art of War, and Wealth of Nations. I guess those three are the most important expansions.

Can anyone tell me what else I should be getting? What are the best minor DLC, sprite or unit packs, and so on? Would love a little list of the best DLC and expansions I can get.

Thanks

 

[William Shakens]

Conquest of Paradise, El Dorado, Res Publica, American Dream, Pre-Order Pack, Digital Extreme Upgrade, Call to Arms Pack, in order of importance imo. First three pretty much must-have.

EDIT: I'll clarify: My (otherwise personal) list, ignores the best/most important Art of War, Wealth of Nations and the upcoming Common Sense due to the fact that OP has stated that he is well aware of those and has already decided to purchase them first.

 

[Unfaced]

First I would buy res publica too. Secondly my guess would be that with the release of the next dlc next week there could be a discount on the older dlc. Or waiting for the steam summer sale, which should happen in a week if I am not mistaken.


Br Alex

 

[William Shakens]

First I would buy res publica too. Secondly my guess would be that with the release of the next dlc next week there could be a discount on the older dlc. Or waiting for the steam summer sale, which should happen in a week if I am not mistaken.


Br Alex

Waiting for the possible next-week discounts and/or summer sale is a good idea.

 

[alanthe]

Agree with the above, but there might be a sale soon with the new DLC out soon, so if you just wait a week or two, you might get it all for less than you would pay for a handful

 

[TimurLank]

Steam summer sale starts at 11.06. so it would be wise to wait few days.

 

[Dohaeris]

Great, thanks a lot people. I'll definitely get the listed DLC once the sale begins.

 

[Styliaan]

Conquest of Paradise, El Dorado, Res Publica, American Dream, Pre-Order Pack, Digital Extreme Upgrade, Call to Arms Pack, in order of importance imo. First three pretty much must-have.

Why Conquest of paradise? Just for playing natives?
Why El Dorado? Just looks like treasure ships and automated exploration/Hunt for seven cities.

Is there anything im missing as to why these 2 are a big deal, wiki doesnt say anything all that interesting.

Checking around a little about some of the DLC(still just have vanilla) and just thought Art of war and Wealth of nations as the big ones, and a few indivdual country ones(they seem to be listed in some of the packs you mentions). And now ofcourse common sense seems like a must have since it takes so much out of the standard game and gives back nothing for free(by the looks of things).


I hear of Conquest and El Dorado a lot but unsure what the big drawcard is about them in game terms.
Conquest seems to give more merchants(from bigger colonies), a little native flavour.
El Dorado gives treasure fleet and Conquistador quests but at the expense of exploring where i want to explore at sea? Oh, and the ability for country funded pirates and more naval expense to stop this. Where without it theres no need to bother with this annoyance?

Again, this is just opinion without actually having the DLC, it may not be anything like what i expect.

Just after a little info about how these are worth having instead of buying them and never using them.

 

[Dohaeris]

Why Conquest of paradise? Just for playing natives?
Why El Dorado? Just looks like treasure ships and automated exploration/Hunt for seven cities.

Is there anything im missing as to why these 2 are a big deal, wiki doesnt say anything all that interesting.

Checking around a little about some of the DLC(still just have vanilla) and just thought Art of war and Wealth of nations as the big ones, and a few indivdual country ones(they seem to be listed in some of the packs you mentions). And now ofcourse common sense seems like a must have since it takes so much out of the standard game and gives back nothing for free(by the looks of things).


I hear of Conquest and El Dorado a lot but unsure what the big drawcard is about them in game terms.
Conquest seems to give more merchants(from bigger colonies), a little native flavour.
El Dorado gives treasure fleet and Conquistador quests but at the expense of exploring where i want to explore at sea? Oh, and the ability for country funded pirates and more naval expense to stop this. Where without it theres no need to bother with this annoyance?

Again, this is just opinion without actually having the DLC, it may not be anything like what i expect.

Just after a little info about how these are worth having instead of buying them and never using them.

I'm not sure about Conquest of Paradise, but I'll definitely be getting El Dorado, for the custom nations. Kinda pricey, considering that's the only reason I want it, but it is what it is.

 

[DVF]

Conquest of Paradise and American dream should be at the bottom of the list. Especially since Armerican dream is pretty broken. CoP is fun if you want to play nativesi n north america though. My list would be:

Art of War
Common Sense
Wealth of Nations
Res Publica
El Dorado
CoP
*The cosmetic DLC:s and flavor DLC:s* on a steam sale*
American Dream

*unless you really want to play with those nations, for example get teh Pre-Order Pack if you want typ play as Byzantium.

 

[thecryptile]

El Dorado is awesome, you get loads of stuff for colonies and New World natives. The auto-explore is a great feature. I don't get why anyone would prefer the tedious manual exploration. I just don't see the fun in constantly clicking the next tile over only to lose both ship and explorer to attrition when distracted.

 

[ahyangyi]

CoP is partially obsolete if you have El Dorado. To make it worse they never fixed the province number in the random new world.

Art of War and Common Sense are probably top two DLCs.

 

[BaZERGer]

The only thing Conquest of Paradise really adds now is the native council features, and the ability to play colonial nations, and despite that it seems it still costs the same as it did when it was first released, it costs the same as El Dorado, or Wealth of Nations and Res Publica combined.

 

[aragonFTW]

The best unit packs are all of them. You don't really need muslim ships or 100 years war but get the rest.

 

[neondt]

Art of War is pretty important, and Common Sense is sounding like a must-buy. Everything else mostly depends on what kind of nations you want to play, though Wealth of Nations covers a lot of ground.

 

[William Shakens]

I didn't mention Art of War, Wealth of Nations and Common Sense, because OP had already said he was going to purchase those for sure. Of course these are more important than Conquest & El Dorado.

But, OP also said "DLC I would need to have the full experience"

IMO, Conquest and El Dorado, while not being the greatest content/price value, have stuff that make certain groups of nations more interesting to play (American Natives), and some mechanics that come to play a lot for certain others (piracy/treasure fleets, a new exploration system -that I happen to like-), + crazy stuff like Random New World and Country Creator.

So as a whole, you may like some of these contents better, and some are pricey for what they are, but I think every major DLC should be purchased ultimately by someone who claims to want "the full experience" and appears to have more than enough budget for it.

 

[HerrStarr]

On steam sales buy everything.

 

[RobRoy3]

I'm not sure about Conquest of Paradise, but I'll definitely be getting El Dorado, for the custom nations. Kinda pricey, considering that's the only reason I want it, but it is what it is.

Don't get it for the random map. But, IIRC, the ability to Support Independence was tied to Conquest of Paradise. Unless it was enabled with one of the later DLCs, too (which sometimes happens), you'll eventually regret not having this.

Even though you're already sold on El Dorado, I'll just reiterate some of the non-Custom Nation features that are pretty useful: you can get some extra merchants, Treaty of Tordesillas, gold convoys, and pirate hunters. All useful if you're colonizing. The Seven Cities quests for conquistadors are fun the first few times, and generally beneficial even after the events get stale. The naval exploration is a bit mixed, though: some people like the automated naval exploration system, cause they seem to have trouble keeping track of a single boat; but it's much weaker/slower than the old manual system (probably by design), so you'll get to enjoy a different kind of tedium as you watch your expensive explorer age rapidly while waiting for colonies/cores to finish; the naval exploration events are "meh", compared to the Seven Cities quests.

 

[LastSalian]

BTW, when I bought AoW, got it for 12$us with no discounts. Hopefully will be able to do the same for C'mon Sense. Love reddit.

 

[Duke of Britain]

Conquest of Paradise, El Dorado, Res Publica, American Dream, Pre-Order Pack, Digital Extreme Upgrade, Call to Arms Pack, in order of importance imo. First three pretty much must-have.

Is that list of yours a bad joke?

American Dream is completely irrelevant and CoP is near completely obsolete since El Dorado. Art of War is easily the biggest and most important and you did not even mention it, while Common Sense will be even more of a must-buy than AoW.

@OP - Judging by actual content: Common Sense (Releases next week) > Art of War >> Res Publica = Wealth of Nations > El Dorado >>> Conquest of Paradise >>> American Dream, imo. Stuff like unit sprites aren't necessary since they do not alter gameplay.