I appreciate the listing of recommended levels for the walkthrough pages on here. The only thing about these games that stresses me out is the constant worry that I'm overleveled and missing out on the intended experience/challenge level, so being able to check those made things fell much nicer. I saw some people discussing the Friede bossfight, with one saying he was level 120 in NG+ fighting her, with others saying 120 is what you should be in NG+3/4 and that fighting her on NG+, lvl 80 would be more appropriate and was kind of baffled.I had to buy every sorcery, miracle, and pyromancy (on a DEX build), max out upgrades for weapons I never wound up using, and overbuy upgrade mats/consumables and buy every ember -- basically everything short of throwing the souls away -- to be level 100 at Soul of Cinder after the DLCs, and I've never done any grinding in any of these games. I was around 85 fighting Friede in the original cycle (this was after everything but SoC was finished outside the DLCs), so I think I ballsed up something along the way.

Sorry for the random rant/blogpost, it's just something that triggers my 'tism in every From game (Elden Ring most of all) besides Sekiro. Might be partly why that one's my favorite.

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