Correct. if I’m not mistaken (and i could be) its just an incentive to re-roll your class for the xpac without having to do monotonous work. so for awhile now xpacs come with a character boost. it’s also a way to get your friend into it by them being able to play with your main if you didn’t want to level a brand new character.

Big Souls series fan here. I started on the first back when barely anyone was still playing and skipped to 3 right after around the time it released.

I wanted to go back and finish DS2 to finish the series and absolutely hated every thing about the way it played.

Me and a buddy just finished Scholar of the First Sin about a week ago and I promised I’d just brute force it even if I didn’t like it, but its grown on me and I now consider it to have the best DLC of the series