RANKING EVERY "Souls-Borne" DLC FROM BEST TO WORST 

I’ll never forget the first time I played through the ringed city. I spent so much time just looking around at the environment and how expansive it was. And then walking up to Gael for the first time. Chef’s kiss.

There isn't a single bad DLC IMO. They are all amazing, but some are better than others.

What if the Elden Ring DLC is the size of Dark Souls 1... that'd be insane...

Honestly, being able to simply refight all the bosses makes Sekiro's DLC one of my favorites. I wish the other games would get a similar thing.

Fume Knight, my beloved

For its a toss up between "The Old Hunters" and "The Ringed City for the number 1 spot. I lean slightly more towards The Old Hunters but those two DLC are both fantastic. Although I have a feeling even those two might get overshadow(oftheErdtree)ed soon. Worst one I'd probably say "Crown of the Old Iron King". Alonne and Fume Knight are cool bosses but I did not enjoy my time in Brume Tower otherwise.

I never got to play BB's DLC even though I really want to (plz BB pc we need it) so I can't talk about that one but Ringed City is just peak souls. I think Gael is the best boss they've ever made, Midir is also an amazing boss fight and people sleep on demon princes when talking about Ringed City but they're such a fun fight with a really cool twist. Anw that's all the bosses of that DLC, totally didn't forget any 4th boss at all. Friede heavily carries her DLC and in fact she's the only reason to do that DLC tbh but I still think her fight is awesome. Overall I still prefer DS3 over ER simply cause of the DLCs and some other bosses like Nameless King or Dancer but I think Miyazaki is cooking something on par with Ringed City if not even better.

When Prod was talking about the DS2 DLCs I'm surprised he didn't mention the "invaders", particularly in Ivory King. To me at least those are some of the most inventive NPC invaders FromSoft has ever done.

This is probably the only tier list that I agree with 99% of. The Old Hunters is tied at #1 for me with The Ringed City. My bias leans to ToH because Bloodborne is my favorite game of all time. But without that bias they're equal in my eyes.

Unrelated to the ranking but DS2 was the friendliest towards its playerbase that did not purchase the DLCs. Back in the PS3/Xbox 360 days I was still underaged and my parents weren’t a huge fan of online purchases yet I was able to experience some of the glory the DLCs were !

I love the papafranku meme at the end prod!

Soulsbornekiroring: Prepare to first sin twice

i hope shadow of erdtree can compete with the ringed city

A good list. Just my reaction when you started the music though makes it clear to me I'll swap 1 and 2. Old Hunters is just the best. I do enjoy Gael more than any of their bosses, but Midir and Demon Prince (and Halflight) rank below the likes of Ludwig, Orphan and Maria to me for sure. I also always have a soft spot for remixed zones, like the Nightmare Cathedral Ward. It's also why Artorias of the Abyss would swap with Old Iron King for my own list. I did like seeing the reference to DkS2 in the Ringed City big amalgamation for a similar reason, but it's nowhere near as significant as the DkS1 and BB DLCs which are literally based on the same areas, but done in interesting ways. That said Old Hunters is at it's best outside of that segment, but it's still something I liked about it. Honestly I'd probably put Ivory King above Ashes of Ariandel as well. It's certainly not great and has some of the lowest lows, and I honestly don't even really like Ivory King due to how tedious the start segment is, but the way the exploration works, how the ice disappears after you reach the end changing up the exact same locations you've just been exploring, including the obvious frozen mimic which I always found quite amusing, and even just small parts like the fact you can just go fight Aava while he's invisible if you want. It has a lot of touches to it I just really like. On the flip side, Ashes of Ariandel only really has Friede and some interesting weapons going for it in my opinion. I mean I quite liked the big vikingy dudes I forget the name of, but they aren't interesting to fight either. Wolves, flies, trees, gravity. I liked the lore aspect of the Followers being there and also how it expands on the Sable Church, but those don't elevate it from being more of a hassle to explore than actually enjoyable to me.

Nice video as always, cheers. I'm sure ER dlc will be absolutely amazing

Didnt Miyazaki already said no new endings of Shadow of the Erdtree. I think the only thing we can hope for is that Malenia might pop up if you didnt go to Farum Azula yet.

I can't believe you still gave some minor compliments to Elana after what you went through in your SL1 run.

The ringed city was so goddamn good. I remember finishing it and legitimately being sad that I would never play new souls content again as ds3 is supposed to be the last one. The end of an era

Souls series feet ranking next? 👀

Big ups for doing a list, great vid ! ! Cheers 🍻

1. Ringed City 2. Old hunters 3. Eleum loyce 4. Artorias 5. Shulva 6. Brume tower 7. Painted world all are awesome tho

Ranking video from Prod...nice :D I myself never got to play the Bloodborne DLCs but one day I will...Anyways keep up the amazing videos Prod

This is going to be great,im so happy we all can agree that the crown of the sunken king is the best dlc out of all the entire fromsoftware creations

Artorias is my favorite lore wise; but otherwise im more or less in agreement. You know how in any game theres always that one mission, level, area etc. you just dread? I almost never feel that dread and dispair when it comes to fromsoft dlc. Sure, im going to die 100 times to that one boss...but im going to love every moment of it

Eh, I like The Old Hunters the most, it has far better area and level design than TRC. All 3 areas are classics. Base game Bloodborne has 15 main weapons, TOH adds 11 more (and 2 transformations), it's to the point where it is an integral part of game and Bloodborne feels incomplete without it. So disappointed we never got a Sekiro DLC where we fight Lady Tomoe, Kingfisher, Dogen, or Sekijo in his prime.

Amazingly edited video!!

Miyazaki has stated that what you do in the DLC has no effect on the base game. Shadow of the Erdtree is basically its own story, separate from the events in the Lands Between

3:40 Exactly my thoughts. Even though AoTA takes place in the past, I think Shadow of the Erdtree has the potential to have at least a few of the main game bosses get a different opening cutscene, depending on some possible choices you could make in the expansion?

Old Hunters kinda saved Bloodborne for me. Wasn't a fan of the mechanics, most of the bosses weren't impressive, areas weren't interesting, but the lore was really cool. Old Hunters fixed all if that. If grinding (without PS Plus) wasn't such a pain I'd love to replay it just to get to the DLC again.

Just yesterday I played DS3 in Ring City and just love that DLC And I'm happy to say that it's still very active

Ringed City on top, I had a feeling from the start cause Prod used to use Gael's OST as his outro for the longest time

The thumbnail of this video makes me so fucking happy, because i started using soulsbornekiroring waaay back and people were shitting on me for it

I have to put Old Hunters at 1 and though a hot take I'm putting Crown of the Sunken King at 2. Sunken King is just so fun and unique to explore. Sihn is still my favorite dragon fight of the souls trilogy and the only fault in the area for me is Gank Squad. The run up to them isn't bad if you practice your bobbing and weaving. Ringed City a solid 3rd eventhough Friede is my favorite boss in 3

100% agree. Loved this!

I can't wait for Shadow of the Erdtree.

Great video. I hope that Shadow is the best DLC, but it has some big shoes to fill. The Ringed City was phenomenal as an end to the Dark Souls series. It's basically a love letter to the series with it having elements from every game. It has the Harvest Valley windmills!

Common Prod W… i might lean towards the old hunters over ringed city but it’s very very close

Liking the video for that sick Demon Souls burn

16:42 Why I lov u Prod.

I've finally played Bloodborne, with the dlc ofc, after 4 years since i started playing souls games. Finished my first run about a week ago and since then I've finished it twice for the other endings and man.. as someone who has 100+ hours on DS3 and about 200 on ER, BB to me feels the best. If we're talking about DLC i cant yet decide between Ringed City and Old hunters being my favourite, i need a but more time to digest bloodborne. For now I'll give a slight edge to Ringed City because of Gael and Midir but man, Ludwig, Kos and Maria were some of my favourite experiences of fighting bosses, absolute masterpieces

Yeah it’s pretty obvious that Artorias is modeled off of Buts from Gerserk

I went into this expecting Ashes of Ariandel to be praised more when you first started talking about it. Then I remembered descending that damned tree, and realized I think I've let my love of Sister Friede overshadow some things about the DLC lol.

Still waiting on that Sekiro DLC, its gonna be fire!

Never seen a perfect ranking... until now

I literally agree with this list 100%, and I thought I wouldn’t because I always feel like I’m a rare DS3 Appreciator.

id definitely switch old hunters for ringed city if it were me but i do get why others would disagree, compared to their main games they're an equal improvement. i used to prefer ds3 so i would've said ringed city, but now that im more experienced than i care to admit in all of the games, i think ds3 falls a bit short coz idk if it's just me but i've never enjoyed traversing areas in that game. the main game and both dlcs get hard carried by the amazing bosses, with most playthroughs feeling like a boss rush with the areas as chores in between, whereas bloodborne has equally great bosses and the areas are really engaging. i tried going back to ds3 recently and by the time i got to the farron swamp i was bored, when i normally love replaying games

I love the DLC’s of these games. And the games themselves. And this was a lot of fun! I agreed with some, disagreed with some, but that was fun! You should do another one of these for like a year after the Elden Ring DLC comes out so that way the hype dies down

Ashes of Ariandel? More like, Asses of Ariandel.

Also Sekiro released DLC. Just think about the boss rush mode and the Boss challenges with new outfits as reward. Absolutely noteworthy XD XD XD

I’d love to see a boss tier list or maybe just your top 10

a thing that i think is worth mentioning in regards to the ds2 dlcs: the extra dungeons and bosses(blue smelter demon, gank squad, ludd&zallen) were actually areas acccessible to everyone back when the dlcs launched, including people who didn't buy them. including people who dind't buy them. yup, really a great way to convince players to buy the ldc don't you think? 🙃

Really appreciate the list even though I would put Artorias of the abyss a bit higher.

7. Ashes of Ariandal 6. Crown of the Iron King 5/4 (Tied). Artorias of the Abyss/Crown of the Sunken King 3. Crown of the Ivory King 2. The Ringer City 1. The Old Hunters (best DLC in any game ever)

That sekiro jab hurt man!

Ds2 feels to me like it was more about the "obstacles" that stand before you on your journey. Taken to the exteme in a way that adds insult to injury.

Think you got that pretty spot on man

Disguising Cookie as an Alien, that was hilarious.😂

Boss tier list would be fun

It may take years, it may take centuries But one day, we'll get that Tomoe DLC for Sekiro And what a glorious day that will be

I’ve never played any dark souls game start to finish, played a bit of DS3 and loved it but bro the Old Hunters is the greatest DLC of all times, Ludwig is the best boss in all of video games for me

Prod as usual keeping it real with the objectively correct tierlist. Huge W.

not you showing sif's whimper and me crying 😢

I'd give it to Old Hunters simply because of the atmosphere. Also I think the ringed city has equally good bosses but since I enjoy the combat in Bloodborne more, the fights are just simply more fun, if that makes sense.

I personally rank sunken king dlc much higher. I love the verticality in the level, and it's the only time souls games did some actually clever puzzles. I liked being able to use bow to shoot levers and stuff. Was dissapointed in elden ring in the inverted tower that when I shot the lever at top of the tower with bow, nothing happened. Anyways sunken king was like they were experimenting mixing more zelda into souls. The traversal of ivory king dlc is also interesting, as you basically go through the map twice first frozen and then unfrozen. I do agree with your sentiment with the ashes of ariandel, friede alone carries that dlc for me. I think ringed city is overrated though, I don't like the map progression, midir is boring endurance boss for me, demon prince and gael are pretty much the only cool thing about it, demon prince being one of my favorite bosses.

Im so hype for dragons dogma 2 its gonna get me through the whole time until the DLC

careful, if you continue down this road youll be making top 100 weapons in elden ring part 2 by the end of the year

I wonder if they are just making a dlc for each ending.. or if they will go for godfreys timeline.. ER is so easy to get hooked into.

Bloodborne still to this day has my favorite DLC

Omg Tiny Prod voice is hilarious lmao

Old Hunters is my favorite DLC because bloodborne is my favorite Fromsoftware game apart from Sekiro and maybe Elden Ring. Sekiro not having a proper DLC is still so sad to me!

The only thing I disagree with is Ashes of Ariandel. That DLC needs to be under the garbage bin. The ONLY good thing about that DLC was Sister Friede, and she wasn't THAT good. I remember everyone being upset when that DLC came out, because it was so short and there were only 2 bosses and one of them was absolute garbage. I'd take the gank boss from Crown of the Sunken King over the Greatwolf from Ashes of Ariandel.

Ds2 DLCs were pretty amazing. Honestly, all.soulsborne dlc are top quality. And then there's ashes of ariandel hahaha

Personally I'd swap Old Hunters and Ringed City. But mostly it's because they have the best version of Moonlight GS in there. I think thematically they are on par. RC is the end to the sweeping epic that is the DS series. It's appropriately grand in kind. OH is a smaller story that tries to find solace after injustice on a scale which cannot be atoned for. Kinda fitting for our current historical moment. Both very different but both effectively executed, in my view. SotE has some big expectations to meet. I think that ER is the best thing From have ever done to date. It is fractally complex and everybody wants something different from the DLC. I'm actively trying to temper my expectations because I know that they will not explain everything I want explained. But damn is it hard.

Ringed city was so goated man... i just wish elden ring gives us ringed city 3.0

Gravity death counter, day 793. 0 Deaths in this video, 48 deaths this year. sif's cutscene always breaks my heart :(

Yeah man everyone talks about the frigid outskirts but iron passage was worse for me personally. I almost rage quit the game haha

Friede is way better than Maria . I find Lady Maria to be super overrated

I feel like the crosn of the iron king and artorias of the abyss need to switch places

I hope Boc has some sort of role his story kinda just fades off if you do "good" path i never could find him after a certain point in the quest

Artorias of the Abyss is my favorite so far, cuz of the story and the lore it provides the main game. And it gave us the legendary Artorias aka Miyazaki's in game stand in.

This is the only game I have ever pre ordered , this is the only game company that has ever been as good as the hype

Souls-borne shadows ring twice

Ay yo what was going on with that Midir fight?

Imo Artorias of the Abyss is the best DLC, I haven't played Bloodborne :( but I really don't like the areas in Ashes of Ariandel and Ringed City both DLC have some amazing bosses but it really feels like I am just running for 10 minutes to get to the good part every time I play it where Artorias of the Abyss is consistently good imo. As for ds2 dlc I actually only finished sunken king because I just got bored and annoying at brume tower. But they pretty much give me the same feel as ds3 dlc just worse enemy placement

chad ivory king should be higher just based on the fact that hes the chaddiest chad to ever live.though i do agree with your 1 and 2.

I would say Artorias > Old Iron King just because the Sir Alonne runback is a warcrime.

I saw him put a DS2 dlc in the number 3 slot and I literally threw up in my mouth.

12:07 what song is this please

The "save sif + special cutscene" in DS1 is so sad!

I completely feel demons souls should have had a dlc. The broken arch stone was going to be it. So sad about that

if prod hasn't coined the term "little fella boss" to describe a boss thats just a guy then idk what to do with my life

Please play signalis while you wait for the dlc!

Old Hunters better be Number 1

7:30 like a WHAT???

Yo what’s going on with this man’s midir fight

Probably the most objective list I’ve seen

First! Love the content!

This isn't really a dlc tier list lol, this is a tier list of bosses quality in dlcs. I don't see you talk about the level design at all

Sekiro didn't get any dlc its was quite disappointing for me since it's at In the first 5 fromsoftware game I play since kings field

day 24 hummm that number ka ka. hi prod, once again i ask. Can you play black souls 1 and 2? i can see why ringed city is 1 place.