Talk:Claymore/@comment-24.96.213.17-20190506122023/@comment-4511886-20190506135522

The only way to get a divine weapon is to ascend it when it is upgraded to standard +5. If you go to +15, the game will outright refuse to let you ascend it to divine until you revert it back to a +5, and vice versa if you try to make a divine +10 into a +15.

Since you asked about maintaining stats, I'd like to point out that every maxed out path is roughly equivalent in power to one another. The only exceptions to this are raw and crystal. Raw only goes up to the equivalent of a standard +10, and crystal boosts physical damage beyond that of a +15, but reduces the weapon's maximum durability and makes it so you can't repair it.