My tips for beginners.

[zmanbuilder]

Health should be your highest stat, second highest should be capacity. Upgrading your weapon does enough for increasing your damage early on.

Greatsword of fate is a great beginner weapon, a perfect block special and it blocks the most damage out of all the early weapons, so its great for working on your perfect block timing.

Do not think of dodge as evading but as repositioning, mind where you stand and your offense will go way up.

If you are struggling on a boss, there is no shame in using consumable or in summoning the phantom. Consumables have the trade of having to farm ergo in order to buy them, so its fair.

Do NOT consume the ergo item dropped by bosses as you can later trade them for special weapons.

[rlaalswns264]

thank you

[kinghol]

thx this will be my first playthrough and i am very bad at souls like games

[JermioneGranger]

I disagree completely. Increasing your health doesn't increase how much recovery you get from pulse cells, so it doesn't need to be increased much for a while. Increase the stat that your chosen weapon scales best with.