New Game +3 is completely unfair

[Leonardo]

I played Dark Souls 1 until ng+7 alone. Same with Dark Souls 3. But dark souls 2 man... The scaling of the enemies is completely unbalanced. Many enemies can 2 hit kill you or one hit kill in case of bosses. Like the demon of song, if he dive on me and hit me, he take 90% of my hp. I am doing the sunken king dlc. and i cant pass the first couple of enemies. The first soldiers can 2 hit kill me and i have to hit then, two handed and with my weapon dark buffed 3 times.
Also the behavior of enemies changed. I realised this in iron keep, while you are advancing though the areas, some enemies just know that you are there now. That is unfair. you could atract those samurais one at time before and you cant do that anymore.
My plan was to advancing though ng+ until i reached the last ng+. That is +7, but but i feel that i am doing less damage, the enemies have more hp and resistance, and they do way more damage that they should.
Anyone else doing ng+3 shares the same opinion as me?

[Ghost]

Tbh once you get good enough you can do ng+7 at lvl 32, it's pretty fun ;P

[Omastar]

lGhostWolfel の投稿を引用：

Tbh once you get good enough you can do ng+7 at lvl 32, it's pretty fun ;P

If you can do that then kudos to you, I can only go up to NG+2 at sl20 before I get bored and things get annoying.

[jonis69]

To be honest, everything after NG+0 is broken, so i don't really understand why you are saying that's unbalanced. I mean, what damage should enemies do at NG+3? To me, enemies should 1-2 shot you.

And yes, Demon of Song always does broken damage (i don't understand why) and all the DLC enemies are notorious for doing tons of damage.

I suggest leveling up a little of adp (no, really) and trying to dodge a little more. At that point you should really be familiar with most enemies you encounter. So, don't give up and try being more cautious.

Fun fact: Dark Souls 1 NG+ scaling goes only up to NG+6 and both Dark Souls 2 and 3 goes up to NG+7

[Call Sign: Raven]

The Samurai in Iron Keep could always track you from a distance, their behavior does not change in NG+ iterations. It's dependent on how much noise your armor makes, your positioning and line of sight. Nothing more.

[FlintX]

jonis69 の投稿を引用：

To be honest, everything after NG+0 is broken, so i don't really understand why you are saying that's unbalanced. I mean, what damage should enemies do at NG+3? To me, enemies should 1-2 shot you.

And yes, Demon of Song always does broken damage (i don't understand why) and all the DLC enemies are notorious for doing tons of damage.

I suggest leveling up a little of adp (no, really) and trying to dodge a little more. At that point you should really be familiar with most enemies you encounter. So, don't give up and try being more cautious.

Fun fact: Dark Souls 1 NG+ scaling goes only up to NG+6 and both Dark Souls 2 and 3 goes up to NG+7

I think DLC bosses actually have hard coded damage on some of their attacks. The little kitty Aava for instance seems to always take a fix % of your HP on the first hit with one of its attacks. Probably around 50% HP, because thats where your HP bar goes no matter how much HP or defense values you have. Some defensive spells seems to mitigate those attacks damage though.

The thing with DS2 DLCs bosses is that they pretty much wanted to force you to beat them without being hit. Basically every single one of them will only take 2 hits to kill you.

[King Robert Baratheon]

Regardless of what Dark Souls game you're in you should expect to get one-shot by things beyond NG and NG+. I have over 4,000 hours in Dark Souls 2 total (original and SOTFS combined) but a few months back I tried to do a full Champion's Covenant playthrough. I thought I would be able to handle it with all my experience (from all 3 Dark Souls games) but I quit at Throne Watcher and Defender. In the Champion's Covenant if Throne Watcher buffs he (yeah, apparently that's a guy) his weapon with lightning he most likely will one shot you. I had 50 Vigor, some of the best heavy armor in the game (fully upgraded), and the ring of steel protection +1 but I still got one-shot by Throne Watchers lightning buffed greatsword. Maybe that was because I had very little lightning defense though. And that was only in NG. So yeah, getting one-shot or almost one-shot in NG+ and beyond should not be a surprise.