Which DLC should I play first?

[Married with Cats]

First time playing through the DLC with my friend.
Which one should we start on?
We both just beat the final boss.

[Ordicanary]

IMO Crown of the Old Iron King is the easiest of the three.

[Confused Skritt]

Old Iron King seems easiest to me, but I'm tending towards in order (So sunken king)

[AHordeofBunnies]

Originally posted by Xystussis:

Old Iron King seems easiest to me, but I'm tending towards in order (So sunken king)

I guess the DLCs play to peoples different strength and weaknesses. I personally found the Sunken King DLC to be the hardest and most rage-inducing. (Barring a certain optional zone in the Ivory King DLC)

[Jäger]

Originally posted by AHordeOfBunnies:

I personally found the Sunken King DLC to be the hardest and most rage-inducing.

I found The Sunken King really difficult, unlike the main DS2. Then a friend told me "dude, hit those little blue pillars in Shulva". I did it and everything became much much much easier.

[Confused Skritt]

Originally posted by Frank Jaeger:

Originally posted by AHordeOfBunnies:

I personally found the Sunken King DLC to be the hardest and most rage-inducing.

I found The Sunken King really difficult, unlike the main DS2. Then a friend told me "dude, hit those little blue pillars in Shulva". I did it and everything became much much much easier.

LOL those blue pillars -_- I hit one accidentally while fighting the first few in the area, best "mistake" I ever made

[Pewpewmoar]

I found the zones in Sunken King the easiest, and the bosses in Ivory King the easiest of the 3. All 3 of them are significantly more challenging than the base game. It will depend heavily on your build and playstyle tho.

[Lv 20 Bolting Bot]

Depends on your character, probably. Running a melee dark dmg dealer, iron king had some enemies, to whom I did very little dmg. If you are better suited to such enemies, I can see it being very easy, though.

[TyresTyco]

Depends.. area wise. Iron King>Ivory King>Sunken King.
Boss wise Ivory> Sunken> Iron.

Fume Knight is the hardest boss in the game imho. Had the hardest time with him.

But I would go the natural order. So.. Sunken, Iron, Ivory. Every area has some hard elements in it.

But, since you do it with a friend.. doesn't even matter.

[Lv 20 Bolting Bot]

Originally posted by TyresTyco:

Boss wise Ivory> Sunken> Iron.

Fume Knight is the hardest boss in the game imho. Had the hardest time with him.

Probably differs from person to person. F. Knight was one of the easiest to me, like a slightly harder Smelter Demon, which was one of the easiest in the base game.

[Trehek]

To me, Sunken King was by far the easiest.

[lolschrauber]

Maybe you should check out what drops/items you can get from DLCs that might be useful to you and use that to decide

[Lv 20 Bolting Bot]

Originally posted by lolschrauber:

Maybe you should check out what drops/items you can get from DLCs that might be useful to you and use that to decide

This too, there are some really good items to be found.

[Phantius]

I personally found "dropwise" the Majestic greatsword (Iron) the best loot with the bonefist (Ivory) a close second.

[Plural Kumquat]

If you're playing the game for the full lore/story experience, you want to tackle the DLC after you've spoken with Vendrick, which means you need to get the Ashen Mist Heart first. Otherwise you miss a lot of dialogue. Unless I'm mistaken, returning to him after each completed DLC nets you a little tidbit of information. But if you just go after the fact, it's all "k ur don bye"