About Primal Weapons (Teeth of Naros DLC)

[Talithmara]

Long story short, this is my first time playing any of the DLC. I knew about Primal weapons for awhile thanks to my sister who played the DLC on consoles, but I had never explored it for myself.

I was playing through on a Might/Finesse blacksmith and heavily contemplating getting over there on my Sorcery guy just to benefit from the weapons, but then I noticed that the crafting component with the Primal effect is the component that determines the POWER, unlike every other extra like fire or poison (Outside of Sceptres/Chakrams, I mean) and they were not exactly the strongest tiers. Naturally, I was dissapointed, but then I paused to think about it.

The primal weapons I was getting were roughly scaled to around what I was already using at my level (Steel weapons, as opposed to Sylvanite/Azurite/Prismere, etc,) and it got me wondering if there was a scaling aspect at all, with "greater" Primal weapons at higher levels.

Are the primal weapons just weak by default, or are there higher tier versions? Also, are there Primal Staves/Chakrams at all, or just Might/Finesse weapons?

[Valentino]

my understanding was that primal weapons are weak by design, because they debuff enemy resistances. So you use them in concert with elemental attacks to do high damage. I'm just now playing through the Teeth of Naros dlc as well, so I haven't seen many of them, so can't comment on what spawns.

[Paranoia]

Originally posted by Ranylyn:

Also, are there Primal Staves/Chakrams at all, or just Might/Finesse weapons?

There are. There's even a pretty nice purple scepter that's either a quest reward or something you get from exploring the place.

Also, although it's implied that primal magic is a debuff, appaently it's actually a buff that you get.

All in all I wouldn't bother going just for primal stuff, unless perhaps your sorc is max level. After completing the DLC you can sometimes get its weapons in chests in the main game, but I don't think that applies to primal weapons at all.

[Talithmara]

Thanks for clarifying.

I was mainly curious since I noticed the Primal Magic effect turned my crappy, low-level lightning spell from about 40 damage to about 60 (I hadn't ever respecced so he still had the one point from the start of the game; I tested it anyways.) It basically takes full mage gear (Robes and all) to have enough mana to reliably use it offensively enough to sacrifice a weapon to power it up, so I was curious.

I think it could be worth it if they come in the form of Primal Sorcery weapons, for sure.

[SotiCoto]

Assuming you wait until level 40 to go to the Teeth of Naros, Primal weapons are the most powerful in the game, though they'll always look like generic steel crap. Given the Teeth of Naros are the only place you can get them from though, if you locked every part of the DLC to a far lower level, you'll never be able to get the really powerful ones that outperform Prismere.

And all of that is ignoring the fact that Primal damage powers up other elemental damage types by 50%. Not sure if it powers itself up, but it might.

In short, Primal is OP, but unless you power-level like crazy, you won't get to exploit it for most of the game.