The arena is deserted when I try to duel there. No luck on my 225 so made a 50, still nothing.

most people do the 100 bracket i thought?

Then that must be my problem. XD

Bought the Prepare To Die Edition today. Does someone have any beginner tips for me? I'm pretty much getting my ass handed to me trying to defeat the Taurus Demon, lol.

There are a lot of attacks that if you roll early in anticipation they will follow you.
Learn to roll the split second before getting hit.

climb up the tower, kill the archers. then go summon the demon, run to the tower, climb up , do a plunging attack. then run between hes leggs far away, turn arnound and run again between hes leggs, vclimb up again, plunging attack, repeat...

easy version
>buy a bunch of firebombs
>throw at taurus demon
>win

super easy version
>start with pyromancer
>sl4m taurus demon with fireball
>win

Thanks for the help everyone.
I managed to kill him yesterday using the method where you climb the tower and then do a plunging attack. However, I'm rolling a pyromancer and still only have the spell you start with. How do you get new ones?

you get them later, you have to rescue some guy first
you can find some, but you have to buy most of them

This post was edited by Doyek on Nov 14 2012 02:25pm

you gotta rescue the pyro teacher from the butchers in the area before the sewers.
he'll be in a barrel and you roll into it to release him.
after that he'll be sitting in firelink and will sell you spells.