Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-68.7.163.188-20150519095912/@comment-4511886-20150519113929

No. The difference between a +3 with a B scaling and a +4 with A is no different than the difference of the B between the +2 and +3.

Base damage would, in Dark Souls, affect the scaling as it was part of the equation. Due to this, weapons such as the Dragon Tooth and Greataxe would get extremly high scaling damage despite actually having below average scaling. In Dark Souls II, the scaling is purely based on the Stat Parameters, so a poor scaling weapon will have poor scaling damage, regardless of base damage.