Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-67.60.216.72-20140506151612/@comment-16047389-20140507133300

I also use a str/fth build. The strongest weapon I've been using so far is the Defender's Greatsword, due to its inherent Lightning damage, and its 2-handed L2 buff, which is basically Sunlight Blade. In my mind, you should always infuse smaller, faster weapons, or any weapon that has split damage between physical and another. The reason why, is that when you enchant that same weapon with Flame Weapon, Sunlight Sword, Crystal Magic Weapon, Dark Weapon, not only does that add a flat bonus amount of damage on top of the already existing damage, but it also increases the overall fire/magic/lightning/dark damage by about 30%. Thus, the more fire/magic/lightning/dark damage a weapon inherently has, the more useful an enchantment will be. Since I don't build int, Dark Weapon isn't as useful for me as Sunlight Blade is or I would use Dark Weapon instead. But since the mainstream idea of a lot of players is to build a set of Havel's Armor and build tankier, having at least one weapon that deals more fire/magic/lightning/dark damage than physical damage is a must.