Here's When Dark Souls 3 Ariandel DLC Unlocks on PS4, Xbox One, and PC

Short and boring. Sorry I paid 15 bucks for this and wish I had waited for reviews. I mistakenly thought I could blindly trust From Software.

What area can I access the DLC from? I won't have time to play today, but I'm installing it for tomorrow!

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@nagat0:

Too long, don't want to read: You should make use of the NPC summons, and level up high enough, because it's not too difficult then. A good place to level up easily is once you unlock the elevators in Nightmare of Mensis, and just backstab the Yeti's; three in all.

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All it takes is upgrading to be honest. You probably just weren't at the correct level, and you should use the NPC summon. When I first tried him, I died about three or four times I think, but then when I came back later after doing more of the main story, I beat him the first try. I went through all the Souls games this year including Bloodborne just before and a bit after DS3 came out (I had Demon's Souls and Dark Souls since their releases and played about five hours of each but didn't get further due to feeling it took more grinding than was actually needed), and so I played The Old Hunters alongside the main story.

The only boss I didn't beat was Kos because I didn't want to take time to upgrade anymore and wanted to move onto three. By the time I got to the final boss of the main game in Bloodborne, the boss many people consider not only one of the hardest in Bloodborne, but in all the Souls games, all I had to do was run up to him and smack him about ten times and he died without much else in the way of strategy (and an even easier time was an even harder boss many talked about which was Ebrietes, where I just smacked her behind as she focused on the NPC summon, granted many had a hard time due to fighting her solo I believe). I didn't love DS3 so I don't plan on playing this DLC.

Oh man! I need to say, I totally thought you were talking about Ludwig; he's the one I died on until I could move on later. I beat Laurence in my first try; he was honestly forgettable, and so I had to look it up because I swore that, that name didn't sound correct as I was thinking about Ludwig. But yeah, I should say that I may sound like I'm bragging, but I'm not, I am just saying that all these games take is being at the correct level, and using the NPC summons at your disposal; I'd also say good luck if you're on a new game plus. To me, that'd be kind of a waste of time, because again, it's about leveling up, and that just takes more time.

I wish the Souls games (and when I say Souls games, I include Bloodborne) had a choice to play the same difficulty on a new game plus, because I really enjoy the games, but less for the sweaty handed, heart pounding battles, and just the experience of going through those environments and fighting the enemies and bosses regardless of difficulty.

@nagat0: The difficulty wasn't broken, but it was very challenging. I beat every boss on there including Orphan of Kos with a threaded cane and countless retries lol. Laurence takes patience.

@nagat0: haha I hear that! he handed me my backside for quite a while. wouldn't change the old hunters in anyway though, other than maybe to have made it longer, like anyway fromsoft dlc haha!

installed the Ariandel content this morning and I'm currently having the longest day at work in history, gonna be anyway good evening though!

Played it for 2h. Quality shit as always from FROMSOFT.

my soul is ready

... to die again an again

slow..