Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-107.215.150.34-20160420022703/@comment-167.154.37.78-20160424120154

So the sunlight covenant requires a player to have 25 faith to join if you cant be summoned via online play. The covenant isn't required for this build, but for early on gaming, having the lightening spear allows for distance fights with bosses and does pretty good damage. There is a way of farming souls in the forest, nets about 7k for a 2 min run. you can either buy the crest of artorias from andre (which I suggest because of the bonfire right next to this exploit) or you can go all the way around through the entire garden, past the hydra, up the ladder, and through the basin to get to this cheese spot (spend the 20k on the crest as you will make it up in no time.)******Once inside the crest door you will see a kinda half spiral staircase leading into the forest where there are several NPC's who will attack you. You can watch a video on youtube on how to do this (look for "Farming souls in the forest"). Anyway, essentially you agro the enemies into chasing you as you double back and up the flight of stairs and drop to a ledge, hold your shield up, and as the NPC's drop to get you they bounce of your shield and right into death off the cliff (about 2000 for each guy). Pretty simple and massive souls in no time. You may also consider killing bosses to get the crest (hellkite dragon gives like 10k, gargoyles I think gives about 10k giving you enough to buy the crest).