Best status effect for a weapon?

[Maybels]

In your opinion what is the best status effect for a weapon to have? Because right now I have the choice of bleeding, fire, dark, and lightning

[myoptic]

Anything but bleeding

[Yal]

Lightning, I'd say..... pierces armor pretty well, very few enemies resists it, and adds faith scaling if you're interested in investing in faith for pyromancies or healing. Dark adds the most power overall, but scales with your Dark BNS which is kinda hard to raise if you're not a dedicated hexer.

[drwho9]

It really depends on what you're fighting but IMO lightening or dark would be the better choices...just not bleed as someone else said!

[Maybels]

What about fire, i'v heard a lot of people saying fire is the best?

[myoptic]

fire is good because it scales with both int and fth. but it also doesn't matter that much, especially in early or mid game, because elemental scaling is very weak anyway.

The point of infusion is the 40% increase in base damage, which you get regarless of build. You can literally pick any of the elements and do just fine in most circumstances. Enemy weakness is more important than your scaling stats.

[Maybels]

When I imbue a weapon with a status effect is it permenant? Or can I change it at any time?

[Yal]

Originally posted by Sir Fox III:

When I imbue a weapon with a status effect is it permenant? Or can I change it at any time?

You can change it any time, if you've got one of the elemental stones, but it costs 2000 souls each time and the stone is consumed. It's better in the long run to infuse several weapons with different elements and just switch which one you've got equipped depending on the situation.

[Maybels]

I don't have stones, I just have random items that say they will put a status effect on the weapon you have in your right hand. Do the stones work differently then other items?

[myoptic]

You probably have resins. They are temporary buffs, quite useful for bosses.

If you are in early game, it's hard to find materials for infusions. The only way is to pray to rngessus and trade with the crows in things betwixt. If you're lucky you'll get a the stone you want.

Otherwise you can buy lightning stones from the blue sentinels covenant leader and there is a firedrake stone in FoFG in the fire pit with the salamanders.

You take the stone to a certain blacksmith and he infuses your weapon.

[Yal]

Ah,, I see what you mean~

Stones are permanent upgrade materials that stay in the weapon forever but can only be used with the help of a special blacksmith (I think McDuff and Ornifex can do that, not Lenigrast), the resins and oozes are temporary (they last 90 seconds, I think).

Also, you can't stack resins, using one while a buff is active cancels out the original buff.

[Maybels]

Originally posted by rawrk:

You probably have resins. They are temporary buffs, quite useful for bosses.

If you are in early game, it's hard to find materials for infusions. The only way is to pray to rngessus and trade with the crows in things betwixt. If you're lucky you'll get a the stone you want.

Otherwise you can buy lightning stones from the blue sentinels covenant leader and there is a firedrake stone in FoFG in the fire pit with the salamanders.

You take the stone to a certain blacksmith and he infuses your weapon.

Originally posted by Yal:

Ah,, I see what you mean~

Stones are permanent upgrade materials that stay in the weapon forever but can only be used with the help of a special blacksmith (I think McDuff and Ornifex can do that, not Lenigrast), the resins and oozes are temporary (they last 90 seconds, I think).

Also, you can't stack resins, using one while a buff is active cancels out the original buff.

Okay, thank you for clearing that up. I actually found a boss that one of the messages said was weak against fire so I guess i'll use the fire ones for that.

[Legosebe]

I think If you play mostly PvP,then dark. If PvE lightning is your choice.most of enemies are weak to it.

[Maybels]

I mostly do PvE but i'v been getting into PvP more and more lately. Right now i'm just trying to figure out the best melee weapon for PvP.

[TrueArchery]

Physical Blunt. In PvP it doesn't really matter, but usually physical is the better choice.

[WickedRequiem]

It really depends on your build, I think.

If building from a scratch, I think dark is the best in general for melee simply because of the Dark Weapon spell. Other elements have similar enhancement spells, but the Dark version gets 4 base casts as compared to 1 base cast for most others (pllus, it's available relatively early in the game).

About fire... aren't a lots of the enemies highly resistant to that element (aka PvE)?