The Wheel is probably my favorite of the base game weapons. Just pancake fools and spin that wheel.

Not sure I agree that the NPC quests are convoluted; other than "Iosefka's" — which is part of something larger — the quests are basically just 2 steps max, and Eileen's doesn't even require visiting any sort of out-of-the-way or secret location.

Whereas shit like Solaire's in DS1 or Lucatiel's in DS2 is just a bunch of 12-step nonsense.