Notes from author
The best melee build the game has to offer. It consists of a Painting Guardian Curved Sword (PGCS) infused with Crystal and also max upgraded to +5. Use Power Within (PW) and Red Tear Stone Ring (RTSR) in conjunction with one another to get optimal DPS. Add Darkmoon Blade (DB) on top, preferably with the Darkmoon Covenant at the max rank of +3 for the highest DB damage output. Use Sanctus to negate health degration. Use Dragon Torso Stone (DTS) to boost damage even further.
For the stat-part of the build I recommend having 40 endurance, 16 attunement in order to have 4 spells at once, 53 STR and DEX and 99 Faith. It's a lot of grind, trust me I know, but it's very much worth it and when you've reached 53 STR and DEX you can go for 99 STR and DEX.
You can thank me later ;)
Enjoy!