Fromsoft almost always dumbs down their games after release.
Dark souls 1
>reduced enemy armor in early levels
>reduced giant pot thrower speed and accuracy
Dark souls 2
>reduced certain ranged enemies effective range
Elden ring
>sped up colossal weapon animations to make them less punishing to use, also nerfed certain things about them to make the new versions more balanced, basically made then glorified great weapons
>did a global nerf for enemy ranged enemies AI to make them easier
>slowed down enemy attacks that are triggered by a player using a flask to heal to the point the player no longer needs to think about when they heal
>gutted enemy AI in multi enemy fights, drastically ruined certain bosses AI by putting limits to how agressive they could be
Armored core 6
>drastically reduced enemy accuracy to make it easier
>changed armor values of some enemies
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valley of drakes is a hallway connecting two zones. If you are using it as an example of bad game design you are retarded, probably terminally autistic. if you knock catacombs you have bad taste.

>>529877193
better weapons are better than another 15% damage buff from 3 more evergoals and shifting earth can drop legendaries just from corpse drops.

>get avarice day 1
>level 12 day 3
and people say theres no point in talking about good routing