I'll tell you brehs the trick in case it hasn't been posted here and someone wants to be crazy overpowered at the beginning of the game tonight while I'm out
1. Kill uchigatana dude
2. After getting the banner from that old bytch, summon Sword Master (uchi guy) in front of Vordt fight
3. Go back to banner bytch and kill her, you'll start dancer fight
4. Dancer will kill uchi guy in like 2 hits
5. Immediately quit to the main menu
6. Resummon Sword Master and enter fight. He's now basically invincible, let him slowly kill the dancer while you stay the fukk away
7. You now have 45,000 xp, and can go to castle lothric and get a shytload of titanite chunks and twinkling titanites
You can get large shards by killing mobs in the castle, but be careful because they will probably fukk your day up in one hit. It helps to start as assassin so you can drop down after killing the dragons with spook and not die
I take no credit for discovering this, but the video I saw it on does not have many views. My bad if it's already posted, but I'm not reading the entire thread brehs. If you wanna try this, do it now, cuz I'm sure it'll get patched sooner than later