Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-6132984-20130527010542/@comment-4028522-20130527082429

Knight is one of the best classes for beginners, yes. As a Knight, you can block most attacks, rather than having to avoid them. Evasion of attacks is more effective than blocking them but blocking is considerably easier. If you're having serious trouble with the early game, Pyromancer is a very good choice as most of the early game enemies are weak to fire.

Sorcerer makes (pretty much) the whole game rather easy, because you can just pick off enemies from a distance - that is of course, if you can manage to dodge the enemies should they get close to you. If you really know what you're doing, you can pour all your points into Intelligence right off the bat and get it to 50 straight away (which is what I do) and decimate enemies - it's a lot of fun! If you decide to pick a sorcerer though, you had better be wary that you are rather fragile and will die to a lot of stuff easily.

The Knight's starting gear is decent, but there is an Elite Knight Set in Darkroot Garden (You'll have to either fight a lot of Demonic Foliage and Stone Knights, do a very good runner or grab it and die). I believe that would be better, although it depends if you'd like to remain as a immovable mass, or an agile fighter. Most of the really good stuff is found later in the game.

...I hope I answered your questions, just ask again if you have anything you'd like me to clarify or you have any more questions (or if I didn't answer your questions at all).