Imbue Heide Sword

[gjruss]

I don't really get imbuing, and I'm scared to pull the trigger on my Heider Sword +10. I'm sure there are better weapons, but the weight and skill I have with it is fine as I'm doing fairly well in PvP and the game itself. This is what freaks me out. It shows 150 damage with another 90 lighting damage. When I go and look at my states, it shows +110 physical damage in blue and another +90 or something for lighting. When I go to imbue, most options appear to harm it, but the lighting imbue seems to actually improve it as the numbers are all blue showing postiive impact; however, the plus +110 and +90 aren't shown...they are blue numbers, but not as high as those???

Lastly, the bleed stone seems to slightly hamper the lighting damage, but keeps it while adding a ton of bleed dameage.

Long story short, is it worth imbuing a Heide Knight Sword +10 or is it best left alone. Heading out to breakfast so I will respond later. Thanks!

[Danny]

Imbue it with lightning and go miracles/swordsman. Kinda like a paladin. If you plan to use resonant weapon then imbue it with dark but I dunno how good that will be.

[READ PALE]

I'm pretty sure that it's worth it to imbue if you regularly use the similar buff, as the buff scales off the elemental damage of the weapon.

[Free Palestine]

Heide sword + Lightning infusion + Sunlight blade = OPPPPP

[Rhorge]

You might do slightly weaker damage but buffed with sunlight blade you will do significantly more.

[Smooth and Silky]

Ok, a few things.

First off, there are multiple status windows in the infusion UI. The first page shows you the splits, but not the scaling, as you've seen. You can right click and select "switch" to go to page two which will give you the total combined damage. Using this page you'll be able to tell if the infusion is helping or hurting. Keep in mind that you can only change the status page before you select a weapon and that you must have the weapon equipped in order for combined damage to display.

Second, don't worry too much about picking the wrong infusion. They aren't permanent and any of them can be applied over another, including palestone which removes infusions.

Lastly, it's generally best to imbue a weapon that already has an elemental component with the same element. In your case with the Heide Knight Sword, lightning will probably be your best option. Experiment for yourself though to see what works best for you.

[gjruss]

I think I have it but just to be completely paranoid, I will not lose the +10 and have to start over regardless of what infusion I choose, correct?

[jay jay the dank planezinho]

You are being very paranoid, yes. If you want to know, I'm using a lighting infused Heide Sword +10 for PvP no less and it's working quite well. I should probably change for something different, but oh well.

[SundownKid]

Infusion can be reversed without ruining the weapon. But it is highly recommended to imbue Heide Knight Sword with lightning as more elemental damage is a good thing.

[Mister Veeg]

you can reverse infusion at any point for no cost besides the palestone and like 2k souls.

as far as infusion goes you're probably best off with Lightning - Since the sword comes with lightning, it gets more bang for it's buck out of Lightning infusion. Combine with Sunlight Blade or Gold Pine Resin for even greater bonuses.

[Kibbles]

I wouldn't imbue it at all, if you are leveling strength and dex.

[Rhorge]

Originally posted by SundownKid:

Infusion can be reversed without ruining the weapon. But it is highly recommended to imbue Heide Knight Sword with lightning as more elemental damage is a good thing.

Thing is you can get more damage, even imbuded, out of other swords like Varangian sword. Heide sword just isn't very good unless you like the moveset, which is really good for pvp because it's easy to punish rolls with it.