Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Expansion

6/10 Mid. 15 hours into DLC and yes, the difficulty in the new area is TOUGH. and yes, there is a lot more content, so what is the issue? 1. Pawn AI seems more lobotomized than before, didn't matter too much when the difficulty was lukewarm. Never complained about the difficulty either, now when a good team matters the pawns die from the most embarrassing things. a. My pawn randomly ran off a cliff, nothing to gather, cliff was obviously too high to survive from. What's better is a harpy swooped down and hit my pawn till their body flew so far that it was a homerun. b. Pawns seem to no matter what try to help the arisen (me) climb monsters ONLY when the monster is downed, or the monster is short... No DPS, just taunting me that they want to help me climb the monster whenever it doesn't matter and ONLY when it doesn't matter. 2. New enemies hit hard and have more health. Makes sense right? Even the normal goblins in the new area 3-tap me and pawns out of nowhere. One end of a cave the enemies seem okay to fight, the other end goblins seems BOOSTED to hell. The difficulty curve just feels off? I know a lot of people complained about the base game being too easy but GOLY, why does it feel so over tuned? Obviously if you are looking for DIFFICULTY, and the need to spam heals, roborant, and other potions like Skyrim cheese wheels, this DLC is for YOU. I liked how mellow the base game felt, it was somewhat difficult early, then ramped up to the Agamemnon Area which I liked. Obviously I have yet to experience 100% of the DLC, and so far the difficulty spike feels more like an overcorrection to very vocal hardcore fans than a properly tuned addition to Dragons Dogma 2.