All the souls dlcs have been much harder than the base games. Artorias, fume knight, ludwig and gael all stomped me until i changed up tactics. The dlcs have always been aimed at late/post game characters.
I went back to DS3 a few weeks ago and its insane how easy Gael and Friede are compared to like everything in Elden Ring.
Except this time the DLC scales so being late/post game doesn’t even save you
Scales off of it still, the requirement of beating mohg and radahn puts you late game regardless.
I can beat both at level 30. I’m not confident that I have the patience to even fight a Soldier of Messmer at that level. I’d be dodging and whittling away at them for like an hour. 😩