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seems like you've already moved on, but I'll answer anyway just because I like talking about bloodborne

level doesn't matter too much in bloodborne. huge differences in level can make an impact on difficulty, but it's less noticeable than you'd think. the DLC is some of the hardest content in the game. you are absolutely not going to just walk in there and steamroll the DLC after not playing the game for over a year just because you have a few extra points in some stats.

the most important one is vitality. if you have enough extra you can turn a potential two hit kill into a three hit kill, and this gives you more chances to mess up and still win fights. if your build stacks a lot of vitality the game will be more forgiving, but it won't actually get easier. blood vials will also restore (relatively) more health, which gives added value to each vial that you use.

the two biggest things that can influence your difficulty are weapon upgrade level, and blood gems. if your weapon is more fully upgraded, you will get more base damage but ALSO higher return on any investments. this is why it's fairly pointless to increase your damage stats (strength, skill) until later on when your weapon is more fully upgraded. additionally, blood gems are going to give a massive damage multiplier on top of this.

if you go into the DLC with fully upgraded weapons and top tier blood gems? yeah, it's going to be a little bit easier than it would otherwise be.

your other stats really only start to matter AFTER you have upgraded your weapons already. this is why level "doesn't matter." the one exception to this is arcane but it's a more complicated stat that I doubt you are using at all. and while bloodtinge is similarly complicated, guns are just like melee weapons. you can easily circumvent low stats by using the correct gun and fully upgrading it.


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all the rest weren't so unfortunate
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