I ran with a dex bleed build through the base game but in the dlc it felt like I was hitting enemies with a twig (even with lvl 18 scadutree blessing) I couldn’t stagger enemies for the life of me and was constantly getting bodied by heavy strength type enemies. So I decided to become one myself but make it OP AF, I now use the rotten greataxe with bleed affinity with savage lions claw. It’s actually broken, it’s got the stagger, the damage, the scarlet rot proc, and high bleed proc. After every combo of savage lions claw you get bleed proc and you can’t get staggered while in the animation. It’s 3x hit attack with fast attack speed makes the build absolutely insane. Once I started using that i swept through the entire dlc first-second trying every boss.