Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-9375302-20130611180505/@comment-667748-20130611191420

I'd anything with an fast and enchanted weapon. Strength weapons can hit very hard for very little investment, but enchanted stuff means a hard bonus on every swing, making speed trump damage. Extra range never hurts either. This holds for both PVE or PVP.

I'd go for falchion/Uchi/Washing Pole/Great Scythe. All of these are (afaik) some of the better weapons to enchant: They have good reach, and fast swing.

For the enchanted spell: You have CMW, SB, DMB. Each have their strength and weakneses: CMW: weakest (but not by far with the Crytal Catalyst). Advantages are you can have triple the castings in PVE if needed (which basically means you can stay enchanted for 20 minutes non stop if needed). Also, with Crystal Catalyst, you get 3 casts for 2 slots. SB: Stronger, and lightning based. Lightning tends to pierce harder. DMB: strongest, but you only get a single cast.

In terms of armor, passed SL 150, your skin gives you great natural resistances, so armor resistances aren't that important. Poise should be what to look for with highest priority, IMO, since that always stays at 0.

After that, in terms of spells, just keep whatever. Magic tends to work obscenely well for PvE. Did you know that proper specked, you can 1-shot the Golden Guards in Anor Londo with a "single cast" Crytal Soul Spear? For PvP, miracles tend to take the opponents off guard better, and are more versatile.

But at the end of the day, at SL700, you just play around with whatever is fun.