Notes from author
>56 poise, good looks, tons of spell damage. Pyromancy is purely for fun, remove it and Great Fireball if you need another stack of Sorcery spell. And no, you don't need 45 Dexterity to be good at spellcasting.
Use Pursuers/HCS to force rolls out of opponents and finish them with a Crystal Soul Spear. Or poise through whatever you can poise through, and shotgun Dark Bead in their faces. You'll need two hits most of the time, or OHKO if using TCC (but halved casts so less room for mistakes).
Weapon is for backup purposes and fun factor only, you'll mainly evade and cast spells.
Choice of shield is mainly for battling other magic-oriented builds (eg. MLGS/MLBH, DMB/CMW buffs, etc) as it weighs much lesser than Crest Shield, yet offering more magic defenses. If you want to use TCC instead of Logan's, switch to Small Leather Shield.
Other weapon choices with minor adjustments:
- Chaos Rapier, which in that case you'll need only 36 Endurance.
- Velka's Rapier, which in that case you'll need only 38 Endurance, and 16 Dexterity (still SL125).
- Chaos Gargoyle's Halberd, if you want to mix in a much more viable melee playstyle. Swap BDCR for RoFaP and you'll need only 38 Endurance, and 16 Strength to 1h the weapon (still SL125).
- MLBH if you want to (not recommended). You'll need to lower Vitality by 1, and raise Endurance to 46. Lower Strength and Dexterity to base level (SL125).
