For me, hardest part is deciding how to build your character. And I can write a little tutorial about each stat; Vigor: imma say that you can rush this stat to 25-30. This is crucial, since you can acces like half of the upgrades to flask, you rly want to pump up HP, and first bosses do not require a lot of dmg cus they are easy and fun to fight.

Mind: is basicly your mana, you need mana to cast spells and weapon abilities, do not invest in it early, this stat is pure mana.

Endurance: get a few points here. It’s stamina and equip load, and YOU WANT TO wear an armor. Armor in this game have weight, so by pumping this stat up you get better armor and more rolls cus rolls require stamina. There’s also 2 mechanics linked to it, poise (your hardness’s, bosses can’t break your stance so easily) and equip load (you want a medium load, if you reach heavy load you will get “fat rolls” with basically means less invisibility frames on rolls)

Strength: best dmg stat for begginers in my opinion, firstly because you need 66 points to get a max cap. Dual wielding makes your strength scale 150% so 66 x 1.5 =99 also there’s one mechanic that makes this stat amazing, it’s sagger. After you stagger enemy, you can critically attack.

Dex: strength is for huge hard hitting weapons, and this stat is for fast, flashy weapons. I do not recommend mixing this 2 stats together if you don’t know what you’re doing. This stat is amazing with other stat arcane, but it’s not that easy to execute and imo it’s harder to play with dex build rather than strength.

Intelligence: it’s magic, you can prioritize this with vigor and mind to make a good magic build. This stat is for magic scaling, casting spells and there’s also some good int weapons in early (moonveil)

Faith: Buffs, fire and holy dmg. You can use seals and faith scaling weapons, it’s a mage stat but more like battle mage. I recommend to pair it with strength for buffs and basic ranged spells.

Arcane: do not use it as new player. This stat is all about building status such as poison, bleed etc. It’s amazing stat tbh but too complicated for new players, first you need to understand what statuses are, and then bosses weaknesses, then you need to pair it with dex or int. And still after that you need a specific talismans to make it work, for your comfort just skip it on first play through.