Talk:Falchion/@comment-75.84.41.92-20140710053342/@comment-3492791-20140710063515

Keep in mind that weapon modification alters scaling, typically lowering physical scaling and adding elemental scaling. Weapon augmentation lets you have the fully physical scaling of your weapon, plus the extra damage from the augmentation, which is also increased by its own scaling (with the exception of resins).

It's really a matter of convenience vs spike damage.