I never understood why people find the SoulsBorne series so difficult, because every time I get killed, I just grind up levels. My fighting style is shield up, wait for all attacks to end, and attack, or if I'm nearly out of stamina, dodge out of the way and regain stamina. I'm not going to give specific advice on how to beat each Boss, except for advice that would work for every build, since you may have a different fighting style. Upon grinding the obese Angels near the Grand Archives bonfire in NG+8, I found that they are still at 96, 665 souls each.Įmpirically, I just fought Soul of Cinder, who is one of the hardest Bosses for me, and he was just as hard on NG+8 as he was on NG+7 so we can safely say that NG+7 is where the difficulty increase stops. I also experienced directly that NG+8 is the same as NG+7. Some people claim that it gets harder past 7, so to dispel that notion, I just found the video that shows the damage numbers of NG+7 versus NG+8 here, and indeed, the attack rating is the same.
I now have conclusive evidence that NG+7 (Journey 8) is indeed the hardest difficulty.