Anyone complaining about the difficulty has clearly never done a Fromsoft DLC before. Did you want to roll in and have it be easy? I am all here for it. This is the core of Fromsoft games. It is the very spirit of the GIT GUD mentality. It’s not going to hold your hand, you just need to improve. Stop treating dying as failure and start embracing it as part of the game. Struggling on a particular boss? Check your talismans, try different status effects, adapt to the challenge. This dlc is everything I’d hoped it would be, 10/10. I’m glad it was challenging even for my character who had full cleared the base lands between.