Dark Souls Any% Steel Armor Strat

I saw tokhi do something that made me come to this conclusion. The main idea is that you skip stone armor and use steel armor from the crestfallen merchant. Here is the math I did between my classes at school.

73,000 after crestfallen merchant and iron golem if you buy 6 green blossoms and 2 bombs

4646 souls after leveling(spends 68354 souls)

This means you could have 4000 souls to spare at crestfallen merchant

need 18,000 for the steel arms legs and chest

dupe the quelaag soul on the second bell lever animation, and at the end of the animation for using soul dupe the homeward bone.
Use the quelaag soul while the sif door opens, then bone out after the fight instead of dark signing.

8,000+8,000+4,000= 20,000

Thats enough for the steel arms legs and chest,
which is faster to get than the stone armor, with 2000 souls to be flexible with after leveling in anor londo(could spend them on an extra bomb or blossom). Only do this strat if you get the gargoyle helm to drop, or else it wont be worth it. Saves between 1 to 4 seconds(including the extra menuing and shopping). Very risky because you have about 40 less poise, but it defends from the skellies against nito.

Let me know what you think, it isnt needed to do, but it sounds foolproof so far.