Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-67.60.216.72-20140506151612/@comment-16047389-20140507163425

Unlike in Dark Souls 1, reinforcement carries over. If you infuse a Longsword +7 with lightning, it will become a Lightning Longsword +7. You can infuse whenever you want, the scaling won't relatively change much. But if you are going to infuse, it doesn't matter at what point you do so.