[quote=@Burthstone]
<Snipped quote by Leslie Hall>

Yeah, you're gonna need a bit more than 15 vitality, I think I ended my first go through the game with well more. I think I got to about 1000 life then decided "That's a good amount of life" before putting maybe one or two more stat points into it, as well as using the Caryll rune that gives life back on visceral attacks. Endurance is mostly useful if you need to stunlock enemies with light weapons or swing greatswords around. Ludwig's Holy Blade is a nightmare on stamina in greatsword form, and the Burial Blade takes 100 or so stamina to do it's charged two-handed swing.
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I mostly used the Blades of Mercy so I was always good for stamina. Either that or the Rakuyo when the DLC came out.