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Also, if you do have the DLC, the custom difficulty settings are a godsend

You can use them to speed things up by making enemy hp set to the minimal level while otherwise maintaining your preferred level of difficulty, for example. I actually ended up using it to set enemy hp higher in a lot of cases, so I could keep them alive long enough to farm w/ Smash attacks or get a ton of orbs on them for a huge overkill bonus. But it's handy for either purpose.