Do weapon brands affect magic skills?

[Rogue]

I'm trying to buff the Kunoichi's bee attack which causes paralysis but she currently uses a fire weapon, so I'm wondering some things:

1. Can I just add Seal of Torpor to any weapon? Or would that only work for weapons that already inflict paralysis status ailment?

2. I also have access to Seal of Binding (Increase success rate of inflicting restrictive status ailments) and I'm assuming that would be applicable to paralysis, so I'll go with that?

[r0ttingplague]

i dont think weapon brand affect magic skills, it all depend on your character stat

1. i am forgetting alot of the brand names and what they do but if your weapon already has damaging status ailments, adding another damaging stat ail buff would probably not work but adding a restrictive on top of your damaging stat ail weapon might work
2. i use debuff, damaging and restrictive seal brands a lot for greater success of applying them to enemies, the more expensive the seal the better it is

[valium]

You can use brands that increase specific damage types, like water, on say the housekeeper weapons.

[Rogue]

Yeah, so after playing around with it, it seemed like seal of binding did not effect the Kunoichi bee attack. So I think brands only buff existing bonuses on weapons. So for example, if a Night Queen weapon happens to inflict fear, then you can buff that.

[Y8S8]

I started putting Seal of Binding on Idol and Linebacker weapons around the middle of the game and their skills seem to cause Charm and Rage respectively more consistently, irregardless of weapon effects. I think there is some effect but it's just hard to confirm without hours of testing and a large sample size, or looking into the game code directly. CC ailments aren't reliable on bosses or even crowned minibosses anyway.