What are the best weapons to fully upgrade with Fire/Chaos/Lighting/Raw?

[Fromage]

I'm just going to upgrade them for the achievements. I've got my build figured out already.

[Angel]

Chaos zweihander you casul.

[Delta0175]

Raw just use anything, it's apparently an unfinished path so you just upgrade it with just large titanite.

[ItsRay]

How is raw an unfinished path? Yes, its not a path you would likely go for your ultimate endgame weapon but if you don't have much titanite to start with its cheap and easy to get a relatively functional raw weapon.

[Delta0175]

"apparently"

I'm just repeating what has been said around the discussions and was put on the wikis.

[SundownKid]

Raw path, like Resistance, is utterly useless and pointless, so you can really use anything, as you will most likely not want to use it in combat. Even early on, it is a waste of titanite as +10 weapons are usually better.

Best Fire/Chaos/lightning weapons are ones with high base damage and low scaling. For example, Gargoyle Halberd, Zweihander, etc. That applies to pretty much every path other than Normal or Crystal because they remove or greatly reduce the weapon's usual scaling.

[cowinspace]

Originally posted by ItsRay:

How is raw an unfinished path? Yes, its not a path you would likely go for your ultimate endgame weapon but if you don't have much titanite to start with its cheap and easy to get a relatively functional raw weapon.

Raw is considered unfinished because you can only push a weapon to the equivalent of +10 rather than +15 as in the case of all other paths. My guess is that somone on the dev team realised how broken a non-scaling +15 weapon dealing pure damage on a twink would be and they cut out or stopped work on implementing the rest of that path.

[Sir Harlz]

Zwi is often a good choice because of its low stat requirements and big dmg.

Spears. Pretty much any weapon with low scaleing is a good infusion weapon.

[Shifty Mario]

Best elementals are high base damage, low requirements. Prime example is reinforced club for SL1 runs. 97 starting which is quite high among axes and hammers and only needs 12 str. Another popular one is the zweihander. Lightest among the biggest weapon types along with low requirements and high base damage of 130. Keep in mind that the highest base damage for a weapon that can turn elemental is 140.

Pretty much all weapons worth turning into elementals can be wielded with 16/14.

[Shifty Mario]

Originally posted by cowinspace:

Raw is considered unfinished because you can only push a weapon to the equivalent of +10 rather than +15 as in the case of all other paths. My guess is that somone on the dev team realised how broken a non-scaling +15 weapon dealing pure damage on a twink would be and they cut out or stopped work on implementing the rest of that path.

I did some testing with raw+5 and +10 weapons. No matter the stats, raw wins. How would it be if it was raw+10 vs +15, who knows? The higher base damage really helps it.

[Onymaru]

Raw+5 vs normal path +10 is obvius that raw wins but beyond that the normal path wins, you can farm a lot of chunks in the way to the final boss from the dark knights to upgrade to +14 or +15 if you are lucky enough to have some slabs, and as people say any wepon is good enough to elemental upgrade cuz it takes of the requirements of str/dex of the weapon, also elemental weapons are better than raw, if you play smart you will carry a weapon which can exploit the weakness of a boss/enemy, for example quelaag is weak against ligthing/magic, weapons with that element will do more dmg than a weapon upgrade it in the raw path or normal path.

[Shadowdrake]

Originally posted by Angel:

Chaos zweihander you casul.

But don't tell any1 you leveled that up, fukn ♥♥♥♥♥

[svatem1]

gargoyle's halberd
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bandit's knife