Mace+4

Things Betwixt

Start a new game, make your way to the Old Ladies' house, and create your character. Choose Deprived as your starting class and Healing Wares as your starting gift. Explore the house to grab a Human Effigy from a treasure chest. Exit the house, light the Fire Keepers' Dwelling bonfire, and grab the Torch from a nearby corpse. Proceed to Majula.

Majula

Your main objective now is to unlock the workshop of Lenigrast so he would sell you the Mace. Before fulfilling the objective, talk to the Emerald Herald to receive an Estus Flask and grab an Estus Flask Shard from the nearby well. Explore Majula for other treasures such as soul items and Homeward Bones. Titanite Shard x 4 are found inside two chests. One shard is from a chest at Maughlin's workshop. Three shards are from a chest at the Abandoned Mansion, which also contains a Pharros' Lockstone. You can't enter the Mansion yet; you require a key from Cale.

Majula: Titanite Shard x 4, Lockstone, and Short Bow

The Short Bow can be found inside a chest within Lenigrast's workshop. You need Lenigrast's Key, which can be purchased from Melentia, to enter the workshop. The primary purpose of the Short Bow is to lure one enemy at a time to you so you can engage in one-to-one combat. The bow is also effective at sniping enemies, especially when it's infused with a Boltstone and you use one of the elemental arrows such as Lightning Arrows, Fire Arrows, etc. Don't infuse the Short Bow you found at Lenigrast's workshop with a Boltstone. Later on at Iron Keep, you will collect a Short Bow+1 that has been infused with a Bolstone.

Maughlin drops the Tseldora armour set after you defeat him. The Tseldora set is light for an SL1 character, has decent damage absorption, and grants you extra souls after defeating an enemy. Killing Maughlin now means that later on in the game you wouldn't be able to purchase the Moon Butterfly set from him. The Far Fire bonfire at Majula is currently at intensity 1. From bonfire intensity 3 onward, Maughlin would sell the Moon Butterfly set. All you need to do is burn Bonfire Ascetic x 2 at the Far Fire bonfire. While any piece of the Moon Butterfly set is equipped, any enemy or NPC standing close to your character would have their poison metre build up and eventually be poisoned. The Moon Butterfly set is useful against bosses who can be poisoned. Don't kill Maughlin for the Tseldora set. The armour set can be farmed from Parasite Spiders and Parasitized Undead at Brightstone Cove Tseldora.

Forest of Fallen Giants

Make your way across the Forest of Fallen Giants and light the Cardinal Tower bonfire as soon as possible. Exhaust the dialogue of Melentia and purchase Lenigrast's Key from her. Use the key to open Lenigrast's workshop, purchase the Mace from Lenigrast, and upgrade it to +3. You need Titanite Shard x 6 to upgrade a weapon to +3. Purchase a Pharros' Lockstone from Melentia. The item will be used to reveal an illusory wall. Also purchase a Fragrant Branch of Yore, which will be used to unpetrify an enemy at Things Betwixt. Spend at least 10,000 souls in the shop of Melentia and she would gift you the Covetous Silver Serpent Ring+1. You will most likely not be killing every enemy while running around collecting upgrade materials and various items. The ring would at least give you some extra souls from each defeated enemy. Quickly swap to the ring as soon as a boss is defeated.

Estus Flask Shard at Cardinal Tower

Covetous Silver Serpent Ring+1 and Tseldora set

Titanite Shard x 2 at Cardinal Tower

Above the Cardinal Tower bonfire is a Crystal Lizard. Kill the Lizard for Titanite Shard x 2. Grab the Hand Axe in the same room where you killed the Crystal Lizard. Use the Hand Axe whenever you want to conserve the durability of your main weapon. The same reasoning applies to the Morning Star, which can be collected from a corpse at Majula. At this early in the game, you can't purchase an unlimited amount of Repair Powder so conserve the durability of your main weapon whenever possible. Locate a treasure chest in the same room and grab the Repair Powder.

Cale's Helm and Estus Flask Shard x 2 at Majula

Find Cale inside a cave near the Cardinal Tower bonfire. Exhaust his dialogue to receive the House Key, then kill him and he would drop Cale's Helm. While equipped, Cale's Helm adds one point to Endurance and two points to Dexterity. The helm is one of several items necessary to allow you to two-hand the Rapier. The helm by itself is not enough to allow you to two-hand the Rapier. You will collect other necessary equipment later in the game.

Cardinal Tower: upgrade materials, Life and Chloranthy Rings

Titanite Shard x 1 is found in front of a grated barrier, near where Cale is located. Another Shard is found inside a wooden chest near where the Life Ring is located. Beware of the trap inside this wooden chest. The Life Ring can be found inside a chest, which also contains a Large Titanite Shard. With this Large Titanite Shard, you can upgrade your Mace to +4. Use a Pharros' Lockstone to reveal an illusory wall, behind which are two iron chests. One chest contains the Chloranthy Ring, the other chest a Titanite Slab. Equip the Chloranthy Ring to boost your stamina regeneration.

Farming Ogre for Titanite Shards

Additional Titanite Shards can be farmed from the Ogre at the beginning of the Forest of Fallen Giants. Note that enemies would stop spawning after being killed a certain number of times. To make the most of your farming, backup your save file, farm the enemy, and if unsuccessful reload your backup. On the other hand, being a member of the Company of Champions covenant would allow you to farm an enemy as many times as you want, but at the cost of all enemies being more difficult than usual. A Mace+4 is recommended for dealing with the Ogre.

Light Crossbow at Forest of Fallen Giants

Grab the Light Crossbow or purchase it from Lenigrast. Like the Short Bow found within Lenigrast's workshop, the main purpose of the Light Crossbow is to lure enemies to you one at a time so you can engage in one-to-one combat as necessary. However, unlike the Short Bow, you have enough stats to two-hand the Light Crossbow, meaning that you can use the Light Crossbow to kill enemies from a distance if need be. Farm Titanite Shard x 6 from an Ogre and upgrade the Light Crossbow to +3.