On my first play through I didn't find the undeadburg merchant until after I beat the Gargoyles. That's when I learned How damn important it is to explore in DS.
The only enemy I became at least 70% adept at parrying was Gwyn. Was god damn hilarious when I was helping my friend kill him. Since I was just there as support whenever my friend was low on health I'd tag in and keep Gwyn busy while my friend healed , all I did was parrying followed by a multitude of dick punches unarmed ripostes .
No joke, there were a few times in that fight where for a solid 20-30 seconds Gwyn was just running away from me and refusing to make any attacks.
Honestly, I ******* suck at Darksouls, but Havel isn't that hard. Why do people make such a big deal of him? You just put all your souls somewhere safe, go for a suicide run to get the zweihander, strip naked 'cause he'll just cut through your pitiful ******* armor anyways, and backstab the ************ .
Ill tell ya' kid, the dark soul brings shame to whoever consumes it. In this case, the furtive pygmy, or Manus. If anything, Artorias was going to stop it.. Hmm, you aren't with the Abyss are you? Poor Artorias, if he was still here he'd murder you!!
Too bad I consumed his soul... NG afther NG+ afther NG++... And so on with each chosen undead I went. Artorias and his abyss corrupted soul stand no chance against the glorious sun!