Originally posted by Tarrok:

I wonder how/will that also change my chances with wraiths in particular. While I don't rly go out at night, staying home smelting or cooking instead, they got me more than once howering over the wall for supprise attack. Fight was very one sided, either my block or my shield were too weak and even what looked like a succesful parry caused me a massive damage and knocked me off balance.

They deal 60 slash damage per hit and have resistance to all physical damage. Recommend avoid engaging them until you have the iron buckler with which you should be able to parry them without problems, but you still need to pump up your health and stagger gauge.

Wraiths are hard to stagger with physical damage (you'd need a weapon with over 100 physical damage) so you should always go for the parry and then attack. If you have spare fire arrows, they might do an okay job weakening them at a distance. They become much easier to dispatch when you get silver weapons or better.