User blog:Abeardedgoat/Difficulty spike?

I've been playing Dark souls for a while now and have suddenly come up against a massive difficulty spike. (soul drops seem to have scaled up also

I have gone from being able to take on most enemies with relative ease to being one hit killed by hollow infantry, from dealing insta kills to the demon foliage to having to hit 4-5 times to kill them.

I don't know what caused this, these are my recent changes

- switched from chaos servent to forest hunter

- switched form mixture of black iron and golem to full silver knight (switching back doesn't solve the problem)

- went from magic falchion to silvet knight sword (ditto^)

- started artorias DLC

I don't think any of these changes elicit such a massive difficulty spike, and if any one can help me fix this it would be greatly appreciated.