Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-24185465-20131119014237/@comment-5264386-20131119080317

At the moment, the Battle Axe is a nice early-game weapon, with the advantage of being a "quality" weapon which is available in the Undead Parish. However, I'd recommend levelling up Dexterity as soon as possible, since that raising that grants faster cast speeds. This also allows you to use a greater variety of normal weapons, such as the Uchigatana or the Falchion, should an opponent have high Magic Defence.

Also, if I were you, I'd probably do the following:

Use this as a bit of a guide to create your build, and hope this helps! :)