Playtime: 10 Hours
Score: 7/10
Pretty decent expansion! So after playing the base game and loving it, I decided to get this first expansion while the second I'll pick up later. This DLC continues after the main story ended and has you go to the city of Malmouth to finish off the Aetherials for good. You do spend the first half running through swamps which did get old, but thankfully its over quickly. The environments were okay, but only really the final boss area, did it impress me from a design perspective.
The story is still nothing to write home about, as its just there to give you a reason to fight bad guys. Some of the cool features of this addition is transmog which works exactly the same as in Diablo 3 where you can change the look of items you have equipped, without losing the stats. And you have access to this from level 1, which is nice, as creating a second character I could pimp him out with cool looking gear. They introduce some new factions which are cool, which had one cool little detail. In the base game I saved a witch from being burned by some villagers as a mini side quest. In this expansion you meet a coven of witches as one of the new factions and you get to reunite with that one witch who thanked me. Its a little detail, but one I appreciated as it made some of my small choices matter.
Otherwise they introduce two new classes with the Necromancer and Inquisitor. Inquisitor being a long range class that uses guns (even unlocking the ability to dual wield guns) while the Necromancer as always is really cool. No exploding corpse ability as far I have gotten with it, but there are plenty of cool abilities from what I have played.
Only real issue, is you can't play Co-op with a friend if they don't also own this expansion, but you can disable the DLC in your Steam Library as a work around. I only ever played single player, but its still an issue to raise. Overall this is a decent DLC, but one I feel is only really worth it on sale. At full price, its not that worth it. But I still loved it overall!
Score: 7/10
Pretty decent expansion! So after playing the base game and loving it, I decided to get this first expansion while the second I'll pick up later. This DLC continues after the main story ended and has you go to the city of Malmouth to finish off the Aetherials for good. You do spend the first half running through swamps which did get old, but thankfully its over quickly. The environments were okay, but only really the final boss area, did it impress me from a design perspective.
The story is still nothing to write home about, as its just there to give you a reason to fight bad guys. Some of the cool features of this addition is transmog which works exactly the same as in Diablo 3 where you can change the look of items you have equipped, without losing the stats. And you have access to this from level 1, which is nice, as creating a second character I could pimp him out with cool looking gear. They introduce some new factions which are cool, which had one cool little detail. In the base game I saved a witch from being burned by some villagers as a mini side quest. In this expansion you meet a coven of witches as one of the new factions and you get to reunite with that one witch who thanked me. Its a little detail, but one I appreciated as it made some of my small choices matter.
Otherwise they introduce two new classes with the Necromancer and Inquisitor. Inquisitor being a long range class that uses guns (even unlocking the ability to dual wield guns) while the Necromancer as always is really cool. No exploding corpse ability as far I have gotten with it, but there are plenty of cool abilities from what I have played.
Only real issue, is you can't play Co-op with a friend if they don't also own this expansion, but you can disable the DLC in your Steam Library as a work around. I only ever played single player, but its still an issue to raise. Overall this is a decent DLC, but one I feel is only really worth it on sale. At full price, its not that worth it. But I still loved it overall!