Farming Stops

[FISH]

I just rung the first bell and I need to farm some souls to level up a bit. Is there any good spots that i can get to?

[MaenaZ]

Darkroot Garden just behind Andre and the big titanite demon there.

You should be able to beat the titanite demon if you are patient, but it's risky. Once you kill it it's dead forever.

In Darkroot Garden you can either go to Darkroot Basin, battle golems, and find a bonfire there to rest at and immediately return to battle more golems (bewary as there's a dangerous miniboss close to that bonfire, and another behind the golems), or go fort in the garden, find another bonfire (close to a big shiny door you can't open yet), and go beyond to farm off of the stone knights. Both of these locations may present some trouble but you should handle yourself.

[MobiusPizza]

You can kill the Black Knights around, kill the Hydra, Havel, The blue golems with the hydra, the stone knights at the forest.... Those should be the best

[James8451]

The forest of Artorias' grave is undisputedly the best farming spot during early part of the game. acessible, quick, and there is a cheesy way to farm without fighting (having them fall off the cliff). THe only problem is that you may be invaded by those who are forest protectors while you are at the area, which can be easily solved by going offline while farming.
Get 20,000 souls, buy crest of artorias from andre the blacksmith, and go to the darkroot guarden, open the door next to bonfire, there should be four(seven at the initial run) NPCs, magician, thief, cleric, and warrior (knights and archer does not respawn) that give you 1000~4000 souls each, for a total of ~10,000 souls per run.

http://darksouls.wikidot.com/clan-of-forest-protectors

[Nkako]

you don't need to farm especially for leveling up. One or two levels won't make a difference...

[Rusty]

Originally posted by Nkako:

you don't need to farm especially for leveling up. One or two levels won't make a difference...

Agreed. Put those souls into titanite shards, and upgrade your weapon to +5. Unless you need the level to equip a weapon, it won't make much of a difference until you get a B scaling or higher weapon.