After hearing some weapon and build suggestions, I decided I was for sure going to make a pure STR heavy infusment build, which turned out to be a smart choice as it seems casters- while incredibly high in damage at this SL, they pop at the combo of a sword like its no ones business

So after a few respecs these are the stats I felt most powerful using

Starting Class: Knight

Vigor: 44

Attunement: 10

Endurance: 11

Vitality: 16

Strength: 40

Dexterity: 13

Intelligence: 9

Faith: 9

Luck: 7

Rings : RoF 3, Havel's Ring, Prisoners Chain, Life Ring 3

Armor: Full Onion Knight Catarina Set (long may the sun shine[T]/)

Weapon: Heavy Infused Claymore 6 with Gold Pine Resin for buffing

This leaves me with the following stats

1512 HP when unembered

Stamina of 116

AR of 478

Defence of 140 and Absorption at 32.6

Not only have I gotten into more invasions ALL OVER the game map which is a huge welcome surprise to me, but this by far goes down as the most effective PVP build Ive made

Feel free to share your low to mid SL PVP builds! I love experimenting