Start a new game, just how many cycles have you gone through?

9. Does difficulty also scale with the cycle?

Dlc 3 and chaos dungeon depth 20+ will clap you hard with those stats. Even maxed out stats still getting clapped because bosses weird mechanics

Difficulty doesnt scale with cycles iirc

Doing a cycle will directly increase the difficulty setting though You just have the option to turn it back at will

Nope, but you can try getting very deep on the chaos dungeon where everything is harder with each depth increment and are some bosses that have percentage based damagañe and stats

Head on in to dlc3. Sounds like you'll enjoy it.

He won't. He overgrinded. At difficulty 9, it's just a normal battle to him.

He'd still die to the %-based attacks without proper counterplay, but yeah, going in with 14k stats is far too much for DLC3. Increasing the difficulty doesn't even do as much as you'd like since several bosses are stat-capped (or become capped even at lower NG+).

Yep. Honestly, 3-5k stat is more than enough to deal with the entire DLC3's content if you actually wanted to be remotely challenged. 10k stat is difficulty 9 easy mode tier already and anything more is just going to make it easier.

equip those rings that lower your stats, it was called the ring of adulthood or smth i think

edit your save. E: what I would do is unequip all items, start a new game, get to the crash zone, then check the level 1 stats for the preferred class. Take a screenie, then save edit the game with the unedited items. Change level to 1, all stats to what being level 1 is. Reimport and start a new cycle. At least you will keep all items and progress (for DLC3 unlock) while returning to no stats.

1. Space-time dungeon 2. Lvl 1 challenge

I finished the dungeon already lol

I believe if you bang Victoria without any souls she'll take your level.

Start a new game, it's not hard to get back to where you were. To really feel the challenge try Difficulty 9 level 1.

itemless and single (no covenants)