even with erdtree's favor and godrick's rune my HP caps out at around 520. i use nightmaiden and swordstress puppets spirit ashes and it works pretty well for me

>I finally re-spec'd to play around with
>Moonveil (which I also had to +6 already) and I don't really
>get the hype, it seems exactly like my Uchigatana with a
>little visual flair on the Unsheathe except I have that weapon
>upgraded to +17 so it hits WAY harder. Little bummed out by
>that.

moonveil has higher base damage and great early scaling so it completely crushes early and mid-game but its scaling caps out at B so its late game usefulness is limited unless you are all in on DEX and INT. depending on which whetstones and ashes of war you are using you can probably get uchi to outperform even a fully upgraded moonveil

>At this point I've got a ton of weapons I want to play around
>with just for the hell of it, and I'm deep enough into
>Leyndell that it's kind of hilarious how often I'm eclipsing
>100,000 runes after spending so much time getting nervous
>after I cross 30k, but that also means it's hard to think of
>areas to go play around with the new stuff and I've been using
>Bloodhound/Uchi/Grafted Blade for so long that it's hard to
>get used to anything else. Suppose that's what NG+ is for?

yeah or just plain new game. nothing wrong with finding a weapon you like and sticking with it. i have been exclusively using straight swords for my character and don't feel the need to switch up to great hammers or twinblades. those weapons are for another build and playthrough