Elemental weapons dealing no elemental damage?

[Fire.Ant]

Hello! I have possibly a strange problem, or possibly just don't get how the elemental (fire, lightning etc.) weapons works.

I ugraded my Partizan to Fire +5 and Great Club to Lightning +5 accordingly. They both of course display solid damage on two fields - physical and the element they are modified into. For example, Great Club shows 337 Physical Damage and 337 Lightning Damage.

However, whenever I hit any opponents I see about 300~ damage done (sometimes a bit less). I assume this is the Physical damage minus reduction from enemies physical resistances. And... That's it. Where did the elemental damage went? Do they not display the number for it? I was suspecting that, but I somewhat doubt it, because the weapon AR is on par with my Black Knight Sword +5 (even higher really) and yet it takes me 2-3x more hits to kill same enemies with these two weapons.

Basically, it feels and looks like I do not get the elemental damage of any weapon, only hitting with physical.

At first I thought, gosh, maybe it's just bad luck and the enemies I was facing have very high resistances against this Lightning. So I tried to fight with couple different enemies, and it was always the same.

Am I missing something? Is this a bug? Or I am omitting some crucial element?

[Taco Cat]

Split damage https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/5x3pzb/why_is_split_damage_so_detested/

Basically your weapon is going through 2 defenses, which is why it is better to have more damage for one element than the other.

Edit: ah ♥♥♥♥, this is the dsr forums, tho I'd assume the same would apply. Here's a post for ds1
https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/1x4bo1/why_is_split_damage_bad/

[knoife]

Originally posted by Fire.Ant:

Hello! I have possibly a strange problem, or possibly just don't get how the elemental (fire, lightning etc.) weapons works.

I ugraded my Partizan to Fire +5 and Great Club to Lightning +5 accordingly. They both of course display solid damage on two fields - physical and the element they are modified into. For example, Great Club shows 337 Physical Damage and 337 Lightning Damage.

However, whenever I hit any opponents I see about 300~ damage done (sometimes a bit less). I assume this is the Physical damage minus reduction from enemies physical resistances. And... That's it. Where did the elemental damage went? Do they not display the number for it? I was suspecting that, but I somewhat doubt it, because the weapon AR is on par with my Black Knight Sword +5 (even higher really) and yet it takes me 2-3x more hits to kill same enemies with these two weapons.

Basically, it feels and looks like I do not get the elemental damage of any weapon, only hitting with physical.

At first I thought, gosh, maybe it's just bad luck and the enemies I was facing have very high resistances against this Lightning. So I tried to fight with couple different enemies, and it was always the same.

Am I missing something? Is this a bug? Or I am omitting some crucial element?

Split damage doesn't chip shields at all. You'd be better off backstabbing and riposting, Instead of the stuff you do. Also just pure physical tends to do more after the nerfs to Chaos & Lightning in PTDE. (They were broken pre-nerf)