The Moon Presence said no

The last time I played Bloodborne it was before the dlc was released. My run was rushed, I played a turtling style in DS1 and 2 so I hated how fast it was.

I decided to give it another shot and I'm loving it. I've got the benefit of having played a lot of DS3 and Elden Ring so I'm used to the faster bosses.

I get to the dlc and I've never fought these bosses before

Ludwig- 3 tries

Living Failures- 2 tries

Lady Maria- First Try

I'm at Orphan of Kos and get him down to 3 or 4 hits away on my first try. I don't even see phase 2 for another hour. I think "Well, I've got other games I wanna get to. I'll just call it a wrap here."

I go fight gehrman, smoked him, got 16 vials left going into moon presence.

Moon presence, at a little less than 2/3 hp, corners me, turns off my healing, immediately goes into the attack that puts you at 1hp, and then starts charging at me. I don't know what I'm supposed to do about that.

I respawn and realize it'll still let me go back to the other lamps. (I didn't get true ending my first time, I didn't realize it would let me). I decide to give orphan another shot. I get him within a couple hits again and it makes me so mad that I just focus in on him and I finally pull it off.

I go back and moon presence is suddenly a pushover. It gatekept me until I finished the dlc.