SOTE is not any harder than base elden ring (excluding PCR) and i still see lots of videos talking about how much more difficult dlc bosses were than base game.

My main point is these SOTE bosses for first play through's are just as difficult as the harder base game bosses. Like Messmer, Rellana, Dancing Lion are not any more difficult than maliketh was, malenia was or mohg was. And id go as far to argue malenia is still the second hardest boss in the game. As far as things ive seen PCR is the the only boss in the dlc that i feel deserves a lot of the difficulty criticism and the nerf made him 100% better while still maintaining him as the hardest boss. This is my hot take but i still am disappointed that Messmer isnt a double health bar boss, and i think he would be a lot more fun with atleast 1.5 health bars, or what malenia's had. but yea im curious if people have reasons why they think the dlc bosses are a lot harder cause I really have a hard time seeing them as anymore difficult to the later game bosses.