edit: After watching a comparison video I don't really see what is wrong with the new voices besides maybe Eddy. Why not just record both and include the option at the beginning of the game? This all seems very silly.
Don't be afraid to go with a two-handed weapon! Learn the timings on the enemies attacks and strike when they are most exposed. You'll soon find that using the drake sword early on is more of a crutch that can teach you some really poor combat habits (Not that I think there is anything wrong with using the drake sword early, it is a fantastic weapon early game).
Spend your souls and humanity whenever you can. It's completely useless sitting on your hud!
If you get cursed you can go back to the asylum and drop one of the invasion stones into the birds nest, quit out of the game, and then it will have been traded for two of the decursing items. If this sounds confusing just spend 3k of the souls you get from the belfry gargoyles to get one of the decursing items from the npc after that boss fight. You will thank yourself twenty hours later.
The easiest start is a knight with a quick two points into faith which will let you get extra healing spells very early on as well as the poise on the nights armor making you much for defensive than any other character with a shield. I would suggest you keep the character you have and get the winged spear out of the graveyard and two hand that bitch. Just keep on trying to make forward progress and your character will end up exactly where you want it. :)
Eventually you will get to a point in newgame+ where a boss kill is giving you 100k+ souls. Just spend them as you get them and think of it this way: The only souls you are ever really going to lose are the ones you are going to earn right back getting to where you were when you died. The only real loss to getting yourself killed twice in a row is the humanity loss not the souls. It's also for this same reason that you should never really head back to a bonfire halfway through an area and spend souls. You are just going to end up in the exact same situation when you get back to where you were but only half as prepared as you could have been had you taken the chance and died anyway.
Don't sweat losing your souls and humanity no matter how big the loss. It's all part of the game. The real gains you will get are from seeing how that boss killed you not how many souls you saved by heading back to a bonfire.
You can get a set of stone armor from a chest that is far better than the eastern armor and elite knight armor (as well as the gold-hemmed black armor). You will need to either be able to get past the crest door in the darkmoon garden or you can get into the same area by taking a back entrance where the hydra is in the darkmoon basin. If you managed to kill the hydra you can take a ladder up by the large waterfall and then get into the back of the garden that way without having to buy the key for the crest door. The enemies here will likely kill you though so I would really recommend just helping people kill the capra demon a couple of times to get the 20k souls for the crest from the blacksmith in the undead parish
If you go through the crest door be sure the break the wall and checkpoint at the bonfire because most of the enemies in this area will kill you in a single hit. There are five humanoid mobs to take care of which you can do normally or you can glitch them into running off of a cliff by standing on the ledge to the left of the stairs that you go down after going through the crest door. After that just follow the cliff on the left until you reach a bridge. Cross the bride and then head immediately left and follow the building wall back around to where the bridge is. You should run into a chest that contains the stone armor. If you don't have around 22 or more endurance you'll need to get Havel's Ring by heading through the door that was immediately before the Taurus Demon fight (The mini boss before the red dragon bridge) and taking out the miniboss that you run into at the bottom of the stairs. It's an easy fight just don't get hit and backstab him until he is dead.
"Circle strafe and block" is really obvious advice, really? If you broke the first Pyromancer trainer free from the barrel on your way to Blighttown and you have taken out the boss of that area you'll be able to get the iron skin spell from him. Just cast it and go to town on those stone guards. Iron skin works really well against titanite demons as well.
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