Club vs. Mace vs. Spiked Mace

[Malarraenaepcaleac'h]

Which one is the best for pure STR build, damage wise? Im newbie in DS2.

[CloudSeeker]

I assume you are talking about the Club, Mace and Morning Star.

The Morning Star is garbage. Bleed suck and it give up damage for bleed, so do not use it.

The Club has higher scaling then the Mace, but the Mace have higher base damage when upgraded. But both scale pretty well when upgraded.

However you might want to look for other weapons as well when it comes to damage. The Craftsman's Hammer is a really good weapon that can easily take you to the end game without ever upgrading it. I have tried.

If you want to get really powerful you should either go into magic or faith and get enchanted weapons. With the spells you can increase the damage of your weapons quite well, and most enemies outside of the DLC's are weak to some kind of magic.

EDIT: If you go pure Strength. You should look into Great Hammers more.

[Malarraenaepcaleac'h]

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

If you want to get really powerful you should either go into magic or faith and get enchanted weapons. With the spells you can increase the damage of your weapons quite well, and most enemies outside of the DLC's are weak to some kind of magic.EDIT: If you go pure Strength. You should look into Great Hammers more.

I want to use some UGS later.

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Originally posted by Jabba the Wolf:

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

If you want to get really powerful you should either go into magic or faith and get enchanted weapons. With the spells you can increase the damage of your weapons quite well, and most enemies outside of the DLC's are weak to some kind of magic.EDIT: If you go pure Strength. You should look into Great Hammers more.

I want to use some UGS later.

Barbed club + resins

[Malarraenaepcaleac'h]

Originally posted by Red Knight:

Originally posted by Jabba the Wolf:

I want to use some UGS later.

Barbed club + resins

That requires 18 dex, no.

[JellyPuff]

If you don't wanna level STR past 12 - Mace. If your STR is starting to get up there, Club.

Personally, i'd use the Craftsman Hammer, because it has 130 counter damage, great base DMG and imo a much better 1-handed moveset.

BTW, blunt weapons dealing strike damage are a generally good choice for PvE, since a large portion of the game's enemies are weak to them.

[Saruman]

For PvE I can recommand the Battleaxe. Its by far my most favourite weapon.

[Malarraenaepcaleac'h]

I just found Bastard GS, what about that? I probably like it better because of the range and general moveset.

[JellyPuff]

Originally posted by Jabba the Wolf:

I just found Bastard GS, what about that? I probably like it better because of the range and general moveset.

It's a decent GS.

Don'k knock yourself over about what weapons are the most effective for your first playthrough. Even for a beginner, almost everything can be viable. Just a tip, though, if a weapon says it has "C" scaling in both STR and DEX, it's still considered a STR weapon, because DEX scaling gives less of a bonus. So if you stick to the Bastard Sword, don't level DEX to increase it's damage.

[Nish-Ki]

If you have STR build, it's Spear/Pike basically the game won ? Cause of it's reach