Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-75.115.23.171-20140312005533

I'm just lost... I could handle dark souls, but with npc's selling limited items, I've wasted all of my human effigies and am thoroughly screwed. I fought that boss a few times as a hollow just to learn the patterns, then tried all sorts of strategies with and without phantom's but I always end up getting killed some way or another and now I'm all out of effigies. Now my max health is too low to survive one hit (at least for most attacks from the boss). Any advice on what I can do at this point? Or should I just start over? 