modify claymore to +6 or to RAW?

[bobbyluuu]

i am thinking of upgrading my claymore sword into a plus 6 claymore or should i upgrade it into raw claymore? i notice their is a second damage output to the right and it goes down when i select raw equipment upgrade, i currently have 22 strength and 16 dexterity on my character.

[Kyleeon]

Raw upgrade path is a useless upgrade path. If you're gonna keep leveling up STR and DEX, then just keep upgrading it on the standard upgrade path. So yeah, +6

[bobbyluuu]

Allright thank you for your opinion, just dont know if i should continue upgrading my claymore since it only has a C strength bonus and a C dexterity bonus.

[Kyleeon]

If it's D and D then you already made it raw or it's another weapon. Claymore has a C-C scaling.


EDIT: I think I know what you're doing. You're looking at the "Future" stats that are shown when you get in the upgrade screen. The present stats can be found at the inventory by pressing X for the xbox controller (Square in Playstation controller or whichever equivalent you have)

[Hermit Trismegistus]

The claymore is a pretty good, all-around weapon, like a longsword but heavier and well, longer :) And like the longsword, it's pulling from both STR and DEX at once for an overall respectable bonus. Even if you only focus on one of those stats, its damage will still scale well. It'll do much more damage in the long run on the normal path, especially since Raw weapons can't be ascended to anything better once they hit +5. Raw ascension is a dead-end.

[SammyToesis]

I made the mistake of upgrading it to raw....♥♥♥♥♥♥...

[Bones]

Raw is always bad. If you don't plan on leveling dex/str then go for fire or lightning.

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

if youre going to pump more points into str/dex, dont go raw. if you want to keep that "level 120" crap, go raw and only pump the necesary points into stamina/dex. spend the extras on intelligence/faith so that you can do more than just swing a big ass sword around and throw fireballs.

if you go into pvp using only a claymore, youre gonna have a bad time.

[svatem1]

even on low levels at least some wpns have higher output when +15 normal, so the only advantage is no need for chunks/slab

Originally posted by tetradigm:

if youre going to pump more points into str/dex, dont go raw. if you want to keep that "level 120" crap, go raw and only pump the necesary points into stamina/dex. spend the extras on intelligence/faith so that you can do more than just swing a big ass sword around and throw fireballs.

if you go into pvp using only a claymore, youre gonna have a bad time.

[Sticky White Stuff]

Raw is only good if you don't want to dump points in STR/DEX and want to use it only as a temporary weapon early in the game. In long term run it is pretty much useless.

[Kyleeon]

I think you can "Descend" it back though. It works with occult and enchanted, I never tested with raw. Check the "Modify Equipment" tab and see if you can get it back to claymore +5. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong though)

[Kormoran]

Originally posted by Kyle.- (Cagón):

I think you can "Descend" it back though. It works with occult and enchanted, I never tested with raw. Check the "Modify Equipment" tab and see if you can get it back to claymore +5. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong though)

You are right. Every weapon can be reverted back to previous stage (except for crystal path iirc), even soul-crafted weapons back to their original +10 form. There is only one claymore per playthrough, so it might be useful to go either normal +15 for scaling, or lightning for non-scaling build, or chaos if you can keep 10 humanity at all times and want fire damage instead.