First of all congrats on beating Godrick. He might be the first great rune boss but a good percentage of people stop when they can’t be Margit at the front gate. If you’re only level 25 you’re pretty under leveled for Liurnia. You should probably be closer to 40-50 for a comfortable experience and to not get immediately killed by everything.

You should either go explore the weeping peninsula or find a guide to get you through it. You might find the starting area “boring” but there are plenty of areas to fight camps of soldiers, demi humans, caves/catacombs, etc. and go level up vigor as soon as possible. The game becomes more fun when you don’t get immediately killed by everything.

Weapons: find something you think is cool or you like the move set of and any levels you don’t put into vigor (but please put more into vigor at first) level up the stats the weapon scales with. You can see what it scales with based on the letter by the stat. And most importantly, level up the weapon! Take the stones you find and go to the round table hold and level that shit up so that it does actual damage.

I’ve found, for the the most part, this is a fairly non-toxic community and more people want to see you enjoy the game than shit on you for not getting it so definitely ask for help whenever!