Spent much of yesterday getting eviscerated by those goddamn mosquito spider things at the start of the Cainhurst level. Gave up this morning, did some suicide runs to get all the items (not really worth it) and then just ran past them. If you do it right they don't even aggro. Got through quite a bit of it, opened two shortcuts so probably near the boss now. The gargoyles there have a chance of dropping chunks, so managed to get my BoM up to +8.
Fashion Souls is well served by the Knight set, I think.