Quote: When you have the opportunity to purchase Purging Stones buy them.

i disagree. they are expensive (like 4K or 5k souls), plus if you have a healthy attitude towards dieing (heck just accept you'll die alot and deal with it) being cursed aint so bad... if you do get cursed, go down to new londo and loot as much as possible/ get healed by Ingwald...

i mighta purchased some purging stones first playthrough, but never used em... (there aren't many frogs and as soon as you realize their attack patterns they are a joke... (just use pyro, firebombs, or soul arrow and they cooked)

just my experience YMMV