Considering I eventually ended up with something of a mess of a character, it is hard to say with any certainty. I do know what I ended up favoring:
1) I am not ever willing to give up fast movement speed. I finally fit a piece of medium armor (silver knight chest armor) in my build and only then it was with the help of havel's ring. Yes, I absolute wanted to flip around like a ninja wearing plates of armor.
2) I favor speed of attack above most things which means I tend to favor dexterity swords. My favorite was the estoc but after the millionth boss battle where that weapon proved to be terrible I often swap in Quelaag's Chaos sword thingie. Any time I see an invasion, I swap a Shotel in place of my black bow as a secondary. People turtle all the time and since I don't often use hard hitting weapons nor do I wear lots of armor, trying to "wear them down" with pin-pricks gets old. Just smash through the shield.
3) I like to parry normal enemies but for bosses (who generally seem to have lots of unparrayable attacks) I use a variety of medium shields (The crest shields and the spider shield). If I'm not fighting a boss, I ended up favoring the target shield.
4) Sorcery is just...no. I'd rather shoot an arrow and be able to aim. The black bow was far more reliable for range duty than a spell that's nearly impossible to aim without being able to lock on.
5) I wear armor based largely on what I think looks neat so long as it fits into the weight limitation above. This lead to my wearing Silver Knight Armor, Eastern Gauntlets, Painting Guardian pants and a hood of some kind which provided adequate general purpose protection. I have been known to wear other armor from time to time when I specifically ran into problems.
6) Miracles are awesome but not awesome enough to be my focus.
Presumably then I'll end up a ninja-priest wearing a pastiche of my enemies clothing whipping dudes in the face with whatever pointy thing happens to be handy. Unless whips happen to not suck this time around. Then I'll just whip them with a whip.