really sick that fromsoft decided players will miraculously intuit side quest progression by echolocating specific npcs and items in all the excess of the 10 trillion gigabyte open world. lol every side quest was some flavour of find the needle in the haystack 4 times and then fight glup shitto. if you played this completely blind and completed a good portion of the main and side content you're into being spanked or very patient
as for the difficulty, baffling discourse. if you truly exhausted all your accessibility options i.e. summons/overlevelling and still found the difficulty overbearing, you got filtered through the widest possible funnel, condolences