Notes from author
Basically this build has an enormous health bar to maximise the effectiveness of the Blue Tearstone Ring. Once the BTR kicks in at around 450 health remaining, your physical resistance will be over 600. If that's not enough, you've got Iron Flesh on standby and a ton of Great Fireballs to lob if your enemy tries to keep a distance from your indestructible iron ass.
It's designed to be a simple build to play. Not much weapon-swapping, not much strategy, not much thinking. Just extremely hard to kill. And the Battle Axe's moveset is good enough to compensate for the lack of versatility. Keep a spare Fire Battle Axe handy for lightning resistant folks.
You could also swap out the Cleric Helm for the Mask of the Mother to increase your HP further, but you'd lose out on some DR so it probably doesn't make much difference. Also, I hate those masks. Everybody uses them.