I'm level 45 and probably 30 hours in and likely not even halfway through lol

I really don't like leveling up that much, but I also don't like holding onto and potentially wasting tons and tons of blood echoes

And as for my previous complaint, I've tested it out. The queuing is really just two button presses. I thought attack attack attack worked. But only if you're pressing it during each animation. I (wrongly) presumed there was an exception where attack attack attack queued but attack attack dodge had a different timing. Turns out I (obviously) was just simply button mashing. It's great, but it's also weird for an action game to have fighting game mechanics. And man is it hard to retrain yourself to wait for an attack animation to be half over before hitting dodge, when you KNOW you're going to get hit if you don't hit dodge fast enough. Can not pound that dodge button fast or hard enough