Talk:Moonlight Greatsword (Dark Souls II)/@comment-24.206.128.114-20150117092422/@comment-4511886-20150117110615

The whole point with it is that it deals pure magic damage. It thus deals more total damage than most weapons with a physical/magic damage split, due to only going through one defence.

Sure, it can be easily countered in a number of ways, but so can physical weapons.