Personally gonna persevere with the DLC, probably won't come vlose to beating the last boss from what I've seen of him. I suppose the more I play, the more I like it and the less I'm concerned with its flaws and the BS choices they made for the DLC, it's still Elden Ring and it's still a great game but I'm itching to go to NG+ for another base game run which I think is way better.