Elden Ring: a thread specifically for spoilers

Could you speak more to this? I’ve played a LOT, and I really, really suck at anything melee in just about any games, which is why I bounced off DS on the PS5 in spite of trying a number of times. But something about ER - well, it’s the open world and letting me explore wherever I want - has got me hanging in there. But when I see people talk about levels, I feel like I struggle at higher levels than other people. Int build, Meteoric staff, Moonveil (I fought that damned wyrn or whatever for a week, not doing anything else in my ER play but fight him, because I wanted that weapon so badly) a lot of my points into Vigor, other emphasis Int, Mind, but I see people saying you need to be level 32 to take on Stormveil Caste - I was level 50 and still stuggled at times,

So the question is: when people say you should be level this or that - it must translate into you need certain characteristics (e.g. Int, Vigor, etc.) to be at certain levels?