I don't understand the weapon upgrading system, can anyone help?

[TetrisLover89]

I have a 15+ Zweihander and I can't seem to upgrade it to a fire one nor a chaos one.
I got the large flame ember and chaos flame ember and I gave them to vamos, still can't do anything though, thank you for your time.

[SL 1]

+5 weapons can become fire
+10 can become chaos
+15 is different path- entirely physical

[TetrisLover89]

Thanks

[TetrisLover89]

Another question, if I want to make a chaos weapon do I need the weapon to be a fire weapon first?

[Hamshank cat]

Originally posted by Legend:

Another question, if I want to make a chaos weapon do I need the weapon to be a fire weapon first?

+10 fire weapon and chaos ember to get a +5 chaos weapon

[The Jade Fist]

http://darksouls.wikidot.com/upgrade

[Johnny Rook]

You are still able to trun that Zwei into fire or Chaos. All you need to do is to "downgrade" it at Andre's or any other smith for that matter. Downgrade to +10 (for Chaos ascension) and from there to +5 for Fire ascension.

P.S. Dark Souls Wiki is your friend. Refer to Jade Fist's link or this one[darksouls.wikia.com] for details

[nomoreblues]

Originally posted by Bipolar Bear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ:

Originally posted by Legend:

Another question, if I want to make a chaos weapon do I need the weapon to be a fire weapon first?

+5 fire weapon and chaos ember to get a +5 chaos weapon

ftfy
+10 fire and +5 chaos are somewhat similar high-tier fire upgrade, chaos is best but requires 10 humanity in counter (for full dmg), fire +10 is slightly less good but you don't have to worry about the scaling

OP: +15 is the best dmg output if you have high stats (dex/str). Chaos is a downgrade then.

[TetrisLover89]

Thanks for the help guys, but can you recommend a place to farm for red titanite shards?

[TrueArchery]

there are no red titanite shards. Do you mean red titanite chunks? They drop the most common from those weird octopus things in lost izalith (outside of guaranteed drops of course)

Here a link for more info: http://darksouls.wikidot.com/titanite-and-scale-farming

[TetrisLover89]

Thanks guys