The Official Dark Souls Thread - .....It Begins

[lestatdark]

JGarret said:

lestatdark said:

JGarret said:
lestat, i FINALLY defeated the Bell Gargoyles after 5 attempts (fighting only one of them isn´t so bad, but two at the same time..things get hectic!)...had to farm for souls (at that good spot on the bridge with the red dragon) to buy a lot of titanite shards and apply them to my longsword, after that those gargoyles got much much easier to beat.

Anyway, now I´m not sure where I should go, any tips?

You should head out to Lower Undead Burg to continue the story, or you could farm a bit more from the trees and Stone soldiers in Darkroot Garden (and while you're at it, you can try and defeat the Moonlight Butterfly boss, it's one of the easiest boss fights in the game, plus you'll be able to get a Divine Ember which will allow you to forge Divine weapons).

To go to Lower Undead Burg, go back to the place, at the start of the bridge, where you meet Solaire of Astoria. On the right side door, which was locked the first time you passed through the area, you can now open it since you have the key. 

If you want to do the optional Darkroot Garden, continue to the doorway in front of the blacksmith and run through the enemy there (You can beat him, but he's very hard at such early stage and he can kill you outright even if you have a 100% physical reduction shield). When you enter the Darkroot Garden, follow the path until you hit a wall which has a door with a glowing symbol on the right. Hit the wall and you'll make it dissapear (it's an illusion). Behind it there's a much needed bonfire.

Thanks!...I think you just might know more about this game than the official guide itself haha.

About the first bolded part...the key you refer to is called "Basement Key", correct?

About the second bolded part...I already killed that thing XD...took me a while but I didn´t find him very hard.

Yeah it's the basement key, the one you found in front of the large gate outside the church in the Parish. 

If you're a fast hitter then that guy is no trouble, as you can hit him and roll back before he can attack. If you're a slow-ish melee tanker like myself, either you have a very strong shield or you're gonna go down fast if you're not careful. Myself, I just find the fights against those guys tedious. Magic-users take those guys down in an instant.