Andrei's a dead - what now!? general advice needed

Disaster! killed Andrei and now i feel like killing myself.... im looking for some advice weapon / stat wise.
currently i am lvl 79... vitality 25, endurance 30 strength 30 and dexterity 25. intelligence 10. any advice?
using gravelord sword mainly but it feels useless. i need a good weapon. but cant get any boss weapons as Andrei is dead (arghh!) anything else good out there?
baisically using no spells - any spells particuarlly necessary?

thanks in advance for any advice at all

There are many weapons you don't need andre to upgrade. Anything using twinkling titanite can be used. If you have good intelligence you can make magic weapons. You can also make fire and chaos weapons still.

Spells are not necessary. Unless you feel they are.

Try getting BK weapons or using upgrade paths that dont need andre such as fire upgrade.

Also, spells aren't necessary and with only 10 intelligence it's not worth putting stats into it now you're SL79 just for a couple of weak spells.

thanks for the quick replies
what do you mean by BK?
any particular weapons you can think of?

Black knight weapons. They upgrade with twinkling.

any weapon with high base damage is good for fire upgrade, just maximises damage, no scaling.

BK= black knight.

Any of the black knight weapons would be good choices for you. There's also the dragon weapons, but those are not as popular. Other suggestions would be the giants halberd and the stone greatsword. check the wiki's weapon pages for more, there's a ton more I'm just spacing on them right now.