I have been wondering what sequence is the best for playing Skyrim and all it's DLCs.

Do I loose out if I complete the Main Quest first?

Should I start Dragonborn last because it has high level enemies?

Is there no impact whatever I choose



Please declare your thoughts and take the poll

I think you get appropriate dialogue with Miraak if you defeat Alduin first. So there's that.

Main quest > Dawnguard > Dragonborn or Main quest > Dragonborn > Dawnguard....at least you one piece of dialogue from dawnguard if you are done with main quest (I could be wrong if this actually comes into play for completing the main quest, but pretty sure he talked about me slaying "the world eater")..same seems to be said about dragonborn.

You need to be able to eat dragon souls for the Dragonborn MQ so I assume that means you have to get past the point of your first shout in the Skyrim MQ

You can't start Dragonborn until you finish almost all of the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller quest.

You can't start the MQ of Dragonborn, without visiting the Graybeards. However, one can go to the island and do all of the other content at level 1. That is IF you can survive...lol

I wouldn't consider it starting Dragonborn until you start the MQ otherwise you are just taking a vacation to Solstheim.

Do you get more benefit from dragonborn if you play all the DLC's first?

Dragonborn has nothing to do with the other DLC's, so it makes no difference. You get more weapon choices and armor with Dawnguard, but most would not use them anyway.

I prefer Dawnguard -&--#62; MainQuest -&--#62;Dragonborn

Mostly because when you do Dawnguard Durnehviir kinda "hints" at you being a Dragonborn... (in my case I didn't even do the Riverwood part, I just went straight to Fort Dawnguard) So you start on a questline with zero dragons in the world... and it kind of feels like things are as they should be... and then the second dragon you see is Durnehviir so dragons still feel pretty rare and while the world feels like it's in bad shape it's not quite apocolyptic yet. You also already have the Dragon Elder scroll too... which is nice when you get to Paarthurnax and need to learn Dragonrend. I really liked how it felt, because you spend quite a bit of time in a "pre-dragon" Skyrim and you have this set narrative and you've done this "remarkable" thing by stopping the vampire plot. Which on some level plays like you discover who you really are and serves as kind of an explanation why your character is so extraordinary. That's my take.