Notes from author
Hey.
Alright so here it is. My personal strength build.
Stats:
45 Vitality + the ring of favor = 1708HP, nothing fancy there. Pretty standard but it's a comfortable amount.
62 Endurance to be able to fast roll obviously. I was surprised that I didn't need to raise it any higher actually.
50 Strength. Cuz y'know, strength build. Duh.
18 Dexterity for dem Black Knight weapons. Feel free to reduce it to 10 if you don't like them.
I didn't touch the rest.
Armor setup:
Hollow Thief's Hood because I think it looks cool.
Hollow Thief's Armor because honestly it's just a light and very cool looking hoodie. And it provides a very decent amount of defense once +10.
Catarina Gauntlets, mostly for the 13 points in poise they add but they provide good defense as well and you can upgrade them with twinkling titanite, and that's always nice.
Guardian Leggings for two reasons. They look like cool brown jeans (kinda), provide a good amount of poise and defense and it stays in the brown theme.
All this for a very cool looking armor setup that provides very balanced and decent defense stats and 36 poise, which is the poise breakpoint for a 1HR1 of a greatsword class weapon.
Rings:
Havel's and FaP. No explanations needed there.
Weapons:
Any combination as long as you don't go over 24 units. You can, for example, mix a Great Club with a Man Serpent's Greatsword. It's entirely up to you. I personally love the hand axe. Pretty damn fast.
Small Leather Shield. Extremely light and handy AND, it stays in the brown theme (It's called fashion, maybe you've heard of it). But really, you'll be two handing the weapons most of the time, it's only there for emergency situations. Keep it handy.
Items:
Red Eye Orb for invading of course.
Green Blossoms. They will greatly help our initially sluggish stamina regen.
Black Firebombs for some ranged attacks. They're great. Give'em a go.
Lloyd's for Sunny D chuggers.
Humanities for dem gankers.
That's it. kkthxbuhbye.
