Originally posted by Soulstinger:

Telling people to play multiplayer in response to difficulty isnt a proper suggestion.

Playing with someone will give them a space for making mistakes and easier time learning how to traverse through new biome properly. What's your suggestion then?

Originally posted by Soulstinger:

Parrying Soldiers does not give you enough time to get to their weak spot.

If you can't do it doesn't mean no one can. I can easily kill soldiers using method I described above.

Originally posted by Soulstinger:

Difficulty spike is much higher than the very *very* marginal increase in armor/damage from the new gear, which can only be upgraded to rank 2, and is locked behind almost the entirety of the new biome's resource progression; meaning you have to complete nearly the entire Biome before you can even make the gear intended to help you survive the biome.

Looks like you tried to facetank new biome and failed miserably. New dungeons are easily doable with Plains gear, if you prepared well. If you can't kill something the intended way then cheese it - ooze bombs and fire arrows are always there