but its heavy as ♥♥♥♥ and you need 24 strength. If you want a long sword, you could go for a strength/dexterity build on your thief so that you could weild something like a zweihander which has amazing range and beautiful knockback capabilities. the bow and arrow will lessen the need for sorcery and you dont have to stat up intelligence. espeically if you want to go with a bow and arrow. if i were you i would invest souls into either healing spells vis a vis miralces or into upgrading your pyromancy flame. if miracles rae the only one, i think the healing miracle requires like 18 faith level, which is sort of high unless you want to focus on miralces. there could be, i just havent really looked into it because my current build has only base intelligence. i can't remember is there is some kind of healing sorcery.
Healing spells would be miracle, i think. the darkroot garden has some good stuff but depending on which part of it you are in things can get a little out of your league and it would be best to avoid some things and proceed with caution, as is generally the case in dark souls. Umm, after the gargoyles and the first bell of awakening, the next bell is down in blighttown after defeating the boss lady there.