I'd suggest doing a faith or intelligence build.

You can make most weapons scale with either of those stats and you also get the added benefit of having some awesome magic utility.

Faith for more healing and utility options such as curing poison/rot, magic/fire defense spells and all that jazz. Magic for more powerful ranged options.

For stats I'd recommend Mainly leveling Vigor and Int or Faith while leveling str/dex to meet whatever weapon your currently interested in using. For example my faith character has 50 Vigor, 50 Faith, 22 strength, and 16 dex.
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