Uh because "Dragonborn is the worst bethesda dlc ever" is the title and the reasons are incredibly stupid. No playable wearbears, spears or freeroam dragon riding. Waaah. Miss the new shouts, spells, items, lore, locations, enchantments and likeable NPC's?

1) Dragon riding would be so terrible as free control it would be hilarious. I really don't understand how anyone could want that, or even expect it to be good. The world space ijust isn't large enough to support it, let alone how buggy it would probably be as free control.

2) Werebears were never even marketed for this DLC. Does it svck that they aren't playable? Sure. But at least they are there.

3) It is MORAG TONG. MORAG TONG. Anyone that calls it MORANG Tong doesn't deserve to join the illustrious organization. In fact, they should be Fus Ro Dah'd off of the Throat of the World. There is a very simple and logical reason as to why you can't join them. The Dark Brotherhood are joinable. The Morag Tong were joinable in Morrowind, but the Dark Brotherhood were not.

4) Apocrypha's design is perfect. It doesn't need to be open like the main world space. Not sure how you would expect to traverse it anyway, what with those oceans of tentacles looking to violate you. The only way you're getting anywhere there is via dragon. It's also an order of magnitude better than the Soul Cairn was in Dawnguard.

5) Some of the unique armours do have their own designs. But I'm not really sure why it is an issue if some of them share a design with the new DLC armour anyway. It makes sense.

6) Spears was (still is) one of my most wanted "features", but Bethesda never promised we'd get playable spears. Only some of the spears are used as arrows, as well. Rieklings have melee animations for spears and that gives me (admittedly little) hope that we'll see them playable in the future.

7) Useless? I'm mystified as to how you draw this conclusion, I mean really. I'm rocking a set of Nordic Carved Armour, have average (at best) smithing skills and still I'm around the 600 AR mark. I imagine I'll hit the AR cap when I finally get enough bonemold to make my set of improved bonemold armour. Stalhrim and Deathbrand are even better.

you sir have apparently never hit a horse with a wayshrine blessing. although it could have been a mod that caused it to do that. lol

300 speed, 500 athletics. Horses were obsolete lol.

hmm. what level are you? i wonder if it can go higher..... might make it totally worth his robes not having magicka regen. though the rest of it's powers are awesome

1. Dragon riding:
Dragon riding is the laziest thing in this dlc. It would be stupid to think that this would be like horse riding, but the dragons just fly pointlessy in circles from where you tame them and what's stupid is that they cover vast quantities of ingame land with thier circles so it's clear that you could at least make a custom marker on your map and have them fly to it with the technological limits at hand

2. Werebears:
Werebears while not a common new enemy are still prevalent in the lands of solstheim. Thier presence should mean one thing to a seasoned elder scrolls player: get bit by one and become one. But even without being a werewolf or a vampire if you get enough bites to become swiss cheese the disease will not be passed to you. This makes me believe that this was unfinished and rushed out the door.

never got my stats that high, lol, but i know that hitting a horse with a wayshrine blessing makes the horse move so fast that the game seems to freeze. kind of like when you dupe 10000 watermelons all at once. and then just when you think the framerate is going to get back to normal with the horse moving that fast, it crashes. just from what i've seen.

OP needs to stop looking at was not there, and what is there.

An great new land to explore
An awesome Daedric realm to explore
Some good new lore
Some great dungeons
A bunch of new weapons, spells, and armor. (every new armor set doesn't have to be better then what is out there)
A lot of new enemies
A much needed bump in difficulty
Some good quests
[censored] Neloth
Bloodskal Blade (Best weapon in the game)
Craftable spiders
And so much more...

Worst dlc ever? Did you have Oblivion? Did you buy the horse armor? Lol. I personally love this dlc, but to each his own.

8. miraak is underwhelming, despite being marketed as "your deadliest adversary". he's nothing more than HM's little pawn the only reason why people rate this dlc highly is because it gives them nostalgia. without this, the dlc is just average

8. miraak is underwhelming, despite being marketed as "your deadliest adversary". he's nothing more than HM's little pawn

the only reason why people rate this dlc highly is because it gives them nostalgia. without this, the dlc is just average

You know what, you're right in a way. I guess its just easier to say I got my hopes up and saw them dashed to bits. The reason i thought it was so bad to begin with is because the dlc could have veen so much more.

Dude that is crap
Why?
because i never played morrowind and i probobley never will (don't kill me)
and i LOVED this dlc its my favorite of Bethesda's Dlc's
i like the story i like the land i like the side quest i like everything this dlc has to offer the reason people rate it highly is because its a good dlc

The MQ was shorter than it should've been. We never did learn how or why this particular Dragonpriest was Dragonborn- at least none that I know of. The over-all plot seemed a bit thin as far as the main villain goes. It was good, but not great.

Read "The guardian" Miraak was corrupted and seduced by Mora, he was probably noble before.

That's not the answer though- He was the first Dragonborn- but there's not history behind this. Are you saying that Herma Mora made him Dragonborn?