You mean the 2nd bonfire? Or are they three in the whole area. 

Yeah the 2nd, it's called central earthen peak. I only found 2 bonfires there. Called lower and central. Where you can reach the huge spinning windmill sails just outside.

I had to use a guide today. I hate using guides. Makes me feel stupid, and a cheater.

The worst part is that I had the answer in front of my face.

I didn't know what to do after grabbing the four Great Souls of the bosses before the Primal Bonfires. Turned out that I had to take them to a place I had never ever visited before, and it is not even well-hidden. I went to every single area of the game up to that point twice, and then I gave up. I read that on a wiki and I'm like "What? Turning left in this place?", and for the very first time of my life I discover that narrow (it isn't even hidden or something!) small path to the left up to certain place. A gigantic door opens once you have the four souls.

It might not be a big thing, but this has certainly damaged my enjoyement. If it wasn't because I read it, I wouldn't have been able to progress.

Sometimes guides are necessary unfortunately. In Dark souls I had missed the door to the depths, couldn't find it anywhere and was stuck in the under garden. No clue where the 2nd bell could be.

Dark souls 2, couldn't find a way to activate the mechanism to huntsman's copse. Had to keep talking to the priest lady in heide's tower first until she decides to move. Not something you think about when you've met that person 10 hours ago.

I had a close call in Iron keep, almost lost 140k souls. I tried to get to a chest at the end of a lava path. I figured with flash sweat, fire ring, hex armor and radiant gem replenishing while I run, I might make it. Made it to the chest but died during the opening animation. The game screwed me by putting the soul retrieval in front of the chest. (chest was closed again) I got my souls but died on the way back, retrieval icon stayed in front of the chest.
So I try jumping off the walkway above with the silvercat ring to have some more time. Got the souls but still died a little further on the way to the stairs, soul retrieval still didn't move. Tried opening the chest with the jump and replenishing life going (might as well try to find out what's in it) but still die before the animation is done and chest is closed again on reload.
Then I figured I'll use my soul protection ring (only costs 6k to repair anyway) grab the souls, die and keep the souls. That worked. No clue how to get the chest though.

I used the souls to try out some new upgrades, Mc Duffin black smith has unlimited large shards for sale after I brought him a dull ember from Iron keep. Tried some magic weapons, ran out of the small titanite again lol. My old fire sword +6 still seems best for now. I did swap out my old sorcerer's staff for the archdrake staff +6 (better dark magic) I do have an even more promising sunset staff, but that needs twinkling titanite.

Iron keep is a great level so far, great place to explore. New spells :) Lots of stuff to find. Beware of the traps though.

It's an old Dark Souls habit mostly. Also, most PvE enemies are susceptible to Lightning as well, not to mention it's a good PvP elemental attribute (especially if you STR/FTH your build).

So Doors of Pharros is a joke area right?

First of, there are millions of Pharros's contraception doors, and I have no idea which ones to activate nor what the hell they do actually, They dont give you any good items, thats for sure. The boss is ridiculously difficult, I wont even attempt to take him without help, and the water area is terrible for traversal, you're slow as fuck.

But the worst part are these bizarre forced invasions. I am being put into a host's world, without even wanting to invade anyone, the game just automatically invades for me. And when I get there, the NPC enemies attack me and completely ignore the host !!!! I know there is a certain item that makes NPCs attack the invader, but I didnt know it also makes the enemies ignore the host. That just seems completely game breaking for me.

Fuck this area.

You are the invasor in Door of Pharros. It has something to do with a Covenant. You step a foot inside it, all protectors of Pharros are going to go against you. It's like Belfry Luna.

And, if you join that Covenant, you can wait in Door of Pharros without the enemies attacking you and for each victim you kill, you gain a Pharros Lockstone. That's the purpose

Where have you been? You would have come in handy two days ago in Skype

I hate forced pvp, not interested. But you can always play the area off-line, excpet with that hard a boss it's probably not an option to go alone. At least you can clear the area off-line with the 10 spawn limit.

My first encounter was the belfry in bastille, luckily just a small zone and the off-line invader is as dumb as other enemies, easy to run up and ring the bell avoiding them. Then become human and summon someone right before the door.

Second time I got summoned as a grey phantom in grave of the saints. I signed out of psn again, if not for the useless pvp interruption, the load times are equal as annoying. The royal rat vanguard was 'interesting' alone as a caster, 15-20 minute fight of survival.

Now I found the entrance to belfry sol? in Iron keep. Guess I'll take a peak later off-line. It really would be nicer games if I could turn pvp off. It's just annoying when I'm in the middle of a fight and an invader shows up because I forgot I was still human after doing co-op. They always run behind enemies that don't react to them. I just jump off a ledge, solves the human part and leaves my souls in a easy to retrieve spot. Plus matchmaking is still a joke, invaders show up with spells I have no access to for a long time.

Love the game, but the expanded forced pvp parts are a downside.

So, guys, I think some of you should be able to answer this question by now...what´s the best Souls game?