Talk:Bells of Awakening/@comment-4511886-20130301001833/@comment-3492791-20140414014030

It's not really harder to skip over the Undead church. You can get the Basement Key without challenging the gargoyles. From there you can obtain the Key to Depths and then have access to the Large Ember. You can pretty much skip over the boss fight and just continue the game as you normally would. The only thing you really lose is access to Oswald.

What would be interesting is to know if you can still summon Lautrec after he's betrayed you. If you can't it means they actually anticipated that people might do Blighttown first.