From the sorcery run ng+ I started last October (2023) and still haven't finished (I picked the run back up in May this year). After the Lord Soul bosses it was time to head into DLC. Artorias took more than one try again, but proved to be not much of a problem in the end. And this time I didn't even have the shield out, which someone pointed out to me on the NG Artorias video.