Notes from author
I appreciate Dark Souls is a little dead atm, but here's a bangin' build for BvP:
Black Iron set for a healthy combo of poise, weight and resistance.
Great club for maximum greatness, and better than the havel and large clubs.
reinforced club for off-hand speed
shield bashing is back, tower shield for max stability
glorious wolf ring- poise working as intended.
Havel's ring for obvious reasons.
This is a first wave of builds I'm doing for every game, which are particularly tank-like, but allow for rolling, so medium-high skill required. Black Iron set is a happy medium with weight/poise/resistance ratios, which is beaten only really by the giants set and havel's set, feel free to optimise as long as you don't mind sacrificing true high fashun. Black iron was selected to allow for max damage output, along with weight left over for heavy weapons.
Reinforced club added for speedy offhand in case some weeb gets any clever ideas. Tower shield should be able to knock those thoughts out of their heads anyway, but the bat adds a little extra offensive.