According to Miyazaki, the Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree expansion will reduce the difficulty level.

The Western split will lead nowhere. The God of Lightless Hidetaka Miyazaki betrayed his people and confirmed it. complexity can be reduced in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. It won’t be through the classic selector, like in other games, but still… what will happen next? Pause button? A story with meaning? No jokes, no one tears clothes still. The director also explained that even in this case, the DLC will be completely difficult. Pay attention to his words:

“The difficulty of the DLC is probably equivalent to the second half of Elden Ring. Players will need to defeat Mog to gain access, so we’ll assume they’ve already mastered the game a bit. In general, based on the results of the second half of the year difficulty is relatively highMiyazaki explains in a recent interview. “But we also introduced a new feature for increasing character levels (such as faith, stamina, intelligence, etc.), which allows you to adjust the intensity of the test“

“If you’re already at a very high level in the base game, you can disable this feature or not upgrade it and just challenge new enemies. However, if you feel that the DLC is too difficult for you, you can upgrade this attribute to increase your character’s strength and be able to resist it.” As if they haven’t already caused enough trouble for those who use mimetic tear.

In the interview, Miyazaki also confirms 8 new weapon categories this will allow “even experts” to try out new ways to play and develop new strategies. The director admits that he is looking forward to seeing how people Grab new weapons and magic from the DLC to use against the enemies of the original adventure..

Moreover, Miyazaki notes that NPCs from the base game will not appear in Shadow of the Erdtree. so nothing depends on them and whether the user killed them before or not. However, the expansion will go deeper into Radan’s history (which will allow us to understand why he had to die) or relationship uniting Michella and Saint Trinaamong other mysteries embedded in the original content.

Each new feature sounds like another reason to play the DLC when the next one comes out. 21st of Junestart date of new debates, Can the extension qualify for the GOTY level?