Talk:Crest of Artorias/@comment-25173123-20140910044340/@comment-25950924-20150113071121

Yeah, it's a huge pain making that trek every time through the lake and climbing that big ladder. I'm still at the point where it's under 20k for a level and I have other areas to explore so I'm not in a hurry to buy the crest, but I probably will buy it for the convenience. And it might pay for itself if it's easier to retrieve my souls.

I did try to practice parry when I first started playing because I had watched someone riposte in a Let's Play and it looked cool. So far, it's much more reliable to do a backstab so I've pretty much stopped going for parries. Maybe later I'll try again because it is very satisfying when you pull it off.

I just made a raw rapier based on Matsczon's analysis on another page. Basically is that you can get a +13 weapon without using any titanite chunks which is good because I haven't even gotten past Sen's Fortress. Hopefully the critical damage will pay off once it's upgraded and I increase my DEX.