Talk:Depths/@comment-17773214-20131003173052

This area is actually a good spot to farm in for the early levels and before you go to Anor Londo. Helping out as a white phantom (or Sunbro) nets you a cool 12500 souls for killing the Gap Dragon. You also get to kill Kirk for 5000-ish souls. Plus, during the down time that you're waiting to be summoned, you can kill the slimes outside and stock up a bit on large Titanite shards and/or green shards (although those worm things in blighttown are better for farming green shards since they drop 5 at a time and aren't super hard to get). You can also mass kill the rats just outside the door to get some humanity for healing during white phantom play and/or simply stock up on humanities. Finally, it's a good spot for pvp since this area is popular for red invasions, just make sure to pack a bit of firepower here since noob gankers unforunately populate this area as well.

Pryomancy is useful for this purpose and you can use the massive amount of souls obtained here to eventually upgrade the pryomancy flame from Laurentius. This way, you can meet Quelana and then buy more advanced pryomancy before heading out to Anor Londo (or you can remain for a short while as white phantom summons and continue to help people here while fighting off noob gankers with heightened pyromancy abilities).