Used CE to set this up. Just a stardard warrior w/ white branch, but then I used CE to set the NG to NG+1 and give myself the handmaids dagger. Same thing I did to setup my soldering iron only run. This, and that soldering iron one, are both technically speaking totally legit runs possible without cheats since you could just beat the game without leveling up or upgrading estus and then farm the given weapon and discard everything else before going into NG+. That's actually why I did them in NG+, not just to make a little more difficult, but because since these weapons are further in the game you cant really do a legit run with them, best I could do would be beat half the game with the fists to get the weapon, but at that point theres only so much game left and my build is already underway lol, I dont mind fisting gundyr and vordt to get to a weapon for an X only run, but anything more than that is too far into the game. My biggest regret with this run is that I didnt realize I was gonna end up using the pontiff ring of damage, so I wish I hadnt eaten vordts soul so I couldve used both pontiff rings which wouldve been great for this run. I even hesistated before eating the soul, I shouldve just sold two embers instead, im dumb.