Talk:Club (Dark Souls II)/@comment-10156696-20190107042339/@comment-10156696-20190109051452

The club's 1 unit reduced weight does not offset the weakness that come with it. The bonefist has its own issues being the high dex requirement and the poor dex scaling it has for a weapon with that high of a requirement (it's not as bad as the FUGS when it comes to it but it's still bad) and the moveset is debatable since in the end it's still a fist weapon. The puzzling stone sword has low requirements and high dex scaling but that alone is not enough to offsets the low base damage which doesn't stop it from being one of the weakest straight swords in the game and only slightly beating out the foot soldier sword on a 7/40 str/dex build. I don't know what you mean by "solid damage" but I wouldn't say that a dex weapon on a dex build having 5 more AR than the foot soldier sword really falls under that. Straight swords that you won't even consider to be dex weapons still make the puzzling sword obsolete with the same stat investment just because of the high base damage they get right out of the gate and the unique moveset coupled with the stat investment needed to make the puzzling sword deal a decent amount of damage is just not worth it no matter how cool it is to swing it. Going beyond the base requirements is unnecessary for a majority of the weapons in this game and scaling can be ultimately ignored since a lot of weapons don't get enough AR out of it for the stats they ask for.