So far I've found (and heard) that if you avoid a boss until you 'finished' much of the content in a region, they can often be beating in much fewer attempts.

So far I've found (and heard) that if you avoid a boss until you 'finished' much of the content in a region, they can often be beating in much fewer attempts. So far I just roamed and enjoyed myself for tens of hours, and I killed the first boss (who is apparently unusually challenging, relatively) in < 5 attempts. I never got far in previous FromSoft games, but here the difference is that you can become quite overpowered for a boss without needing to do boring farming/grinding.