Talk:Greatsword/@comment-6425740-20140226140926/@comment-89.169.181.142-20140228112817

As far as I know, in 1.06 there was a nerf of around 10% for all elemental enchantments. Though I struggle to understand what exactly did they nerf. The patch note stated the following, hope you'll make out of it more than I did:

"Non-scaling upgrade paths Chaos, Lightning and Fire reduced by ~10%"

As for whether lightning upgrade is straight up better for PvP - depends on the opponent. Yes, majority of armor does have lower lighting defense (especially metal types). But it is well known fact, and nothing stops your possible opponents to pick such a set of armor items that they have nice and clean defense throughout Magic, Fire and Lighting types of damage. For example, Dingy parts are quite popular, and they provide astonishingly high lightning resistance AND solid magic resistance with only Fire resistance somewhat lower (and it is still quite high).

Then again, Lightning is still superior to most of other enchantments, as long as you're not intending to use any magic enhancements or push your scaling stats to 40-50; you won't go wrong with choosing it.