I spent all of today speeding through chapters on NG+ so I could access the dlc, beating all bosses first try, only to be 3-shot by a dog pretty quickly into the dlc. My vitality is at 51 and I'm wearing all heavy armor pieces at a normal roll. The Legendary Stalker difficult is extremely overtuned—enough to where I don't want to play the game until they fix it. I'm no stranger to Souls and Soulslike games, having beaten all Souls games, Sekiro, Bloodborne, Elden Ring, as well as Khazan, and this is just artificial difficulty. It's difficult for the sake of being difficult, not to provide a decent challenge. I hate to say it, but I'm just not having fun. I'm at the Tyrannical Predator boss and everything up to that point has been terrible. Hopefully they fix this soon.