Talk:Dragon King Greataxe/@comment-5652583-20150129190012/@comment-4511886-20150131095336

The way damage is calculated is that the weapon multiplies, or adds (not entirely sure myself) AR with a number decided by the move being used.

For example, the Drake Sword's R1 attack will deal more damage when two-handed, because that move scales better with AR than the one-handed move. This is also why some weapons, especially on the R2s, hit a lot harder than others, even if they're at similar AR. Thus also why weapons that don't have strength scaling don't do more riposte or backstab damage when two-handed, since all weapons only have one riposte and backstab animation each.

What Sumthingsup basically asked was if the special attack of this weapon had a preset damage, or if upgrading would increase it further.