You're missing 3 things. 1. Lightning weapons do not scale. You can have 50 billion strength and dex and lightning weapons won't do any additional damage. 2. Lightning + physical weapons are reduced twice by enemy defense, since they're calculated as two separate hits. For example, if an enemy reduces 100 damage per hit and you deal 550 damage with a pure physical weapon vs 300+300 with a lightning weapon, your regular weapon will hit for 450 while the lightning one will hit for 400 due to the double reduction. 3. Normal weapons can be buffed with resin, while lightning weapons cannot. Gold Pine Resin and Charcoal Pine Resin add 150 and 80 damage respectively.
A buffed +15 weapon with high stats is far and away superior to a +5 lightning weapon.
Yes it's better when you have the stats. Elemental damage is great for low level builds or vit gouge type builds.
Note that a damage with both your physical and elemental damage will get hit by the two separate defense.
So example: 100/100 physical/fire damage weapon and a 200 physical damage.
Elemental weapon:
100 physical damage, their defense reduces your damage done by 20.
100 elemental damage, reduce your damage by 20 fire.
So it becomes
(100-20) + (100-20) = 160 damage
Physical weapon:
200 physical damage, reduce by 20 damage done.
200-20 = 180.
Alright, thanks for the explanations... In case I do go for the build Remilia mentioned, which I think I will, then I won't be able to enchant my weapon unless I get the Resins, since I won't be using int or faith right? I'll stick to piromancy which I assume are mostly damaging spells is this correct? And is this "better" than going with int? Or its just a different way of playing?.You're missing 3 things. 1. Lightning weapons do not scale. You can have 50 billion strength and dex and lightning weapons won't do any additional damage. 2. Lightning + physical weapons are reduced twice by enemy defense, since they're calculated as two separate hits. For example, if an enemy reduces 100 damage per hit and you deal 550 damage with a pure physical weapon vs 300+300 with a lightning weapon, your regular weapon will hit for 450 while the lightning one will hit for 400 due to the double reduction. 3. Normal weapons can be buffed with resin, while lightning weapons cannot. Gold Pine Resin and Charcoal Pine Resin add 150 and 80 damage respectively.
A buffed +15 weapon with high stats is far and away superior to a +5 lightning weapon.
Sorry for asking so many questions hehe...the game is kinda complicated and I don't think there is a way to respec or something like that, so I have to be really sure on what I wanna do :P
Thanks again!.
I just got the game and I'm so confused. I want to PvP/PvE but I'm torn between zweihander, claymore, DGM, and BKGS. I want to go the 2h build so any help would be appreciated. The Zweihander looks cool but it seems so slow for PvP but maybe I'm wrong.
I don't see how it can be grindy, you don't need any particular weapon (Any weapon from the first part of any zone will suffice) to beat the game and only the first 20-30 levels will have the biggest impact on your character, the rest are just buffer.
The pitch black cave is in Dark Souls (The Giant's Tomb), there aren't any "pitch black areas" in demon souls that I can remember.
Grinding isn't required in the Souls games at all. You can beat every boss in the game at level 1 if you so desire. Most people aren't good enough at the game to achieve that sort of thing, though.
Holy mother of God, now I understand what the rage is all about.
There is an option to turn off that auto camera adjust thing
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I don't understand..
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I'm alone again and old pine tree
Asked me, where's your woman?
I said: Shut up or I make of you another Firewood