Does a raw weapon +5 have any advantages over a normal weapon +15?

[sgider]

Never really upgraded anything to raw, because the scalings drop hard and it just doesn't seem worth the bonus base damage.

[Caramelpoptart]

Nope. Raw is worthless.

[Based Adolf]

raw is good early because it's easier to upgrade and it reduce stat scaling + it has less dmg at final form so makes raw much worse than normal +15

[Pigeon Daddy]

Raw is good for low level characters. Wanna make a twink? Go raw.

[40+13x-3=17x-363]

Originally posted by Finn the Human:

Raw is good for low level characters. Wanna make a twink? Go raw.

Fire/chaos/lightning are better than raw, twink or not.

[svatem1]

all weapons i was interested in had higher ar +15 normal than +10 raw even at sl1-4

Originally posted by Finn the Human:

Raw is good for low level characters. Wanna make a twink? Go raw.

[MrTril]

If you don't have stats like str and dex, u can make raw, and use pine resine(gold etc.) and have serious damage

[Tups]

Originally posted by MrTril:

If you don't have stats like str and dex, u can make raw, and use pine resine(gold etc.) and have serious damage

Even with minimum stats, +15 will out-damage it. Raw is slightly better than +10 but not worth the investment if you're going to go +15 anyway, which you can get done before the first bell anyway.

[Val]

Raw weapons can be enchanted with buffs and resins, so technically a cleric/sorc build with really low str/dex can benefit from raw.

On practical side of things, +15 normal typically has more damage than +5 raw, but +15 normal requires a slab - which is somewhat tedious to farm.

So aside from being a cheaper replacement for +15 on low str/dex buffer-type sorcs/clerics, it doesn't have real upsides. Most of builds will prefer +10 normal to +5 raw, actually.

[Imad Amjad]

Originally posted by Crustiest Earth:

Originally posted by MrTril:

If you don't have stats like str and dex, u can make raw, and use pine resine(gold etc.) and have serious damage

Even with minimum stats, +15 will out-damage it. Raw is slightly better than +10 but not worth the investment if you're going to go +15 anyway, which you can get done before the first bell anyway.

So it really is almost completely useless I guess.

[zero hope >:(]

Its kinda a trap for clueless, like Drake Sword is.
Ruined my trusty +10 broadsword turning it to raw and ascending it to +5 at my the very first playthrough and I hated to farm all that titanite again so I even started a new char when I was just about to enter the Sen's Fortress