Best weapon transformation

[ProxyJames]

so I was looking at the "transformations" and was wondering witch one is best, so far it looks like the one that lowers the damage scaling and buffs the base damage is better than the one that lowers the base and buffs the scaling.

[Judas]

fortify is best unless you are limited by weight, drain is good if you play caster. other pretty much sucks... some like stun can work if you play build for it. elemental dmg is bad you lose way too much stats

[Ceriss]

Venom is pretty nice on many bosses, even two of the three DLC bosses.

Intensification only works at really high levels I think. I have a Blood Veil fortified and intensified at level 162 and the fortified STILL does more gift damage.

Sad but the elemental ones aren't balanced at all, the dev team should have remembered that elemental weapons are only really good on enemies that are weak in the first place, there was no need to basically take 200 off every stat for 50 elemental.

[Surf3unny]

There is not such a thing as "best" transformation in the game. Every transform works differently for every weapon and code combination.

Couple of examples:
The Libertador fortified has a higher card physical damage, but intensified has higher shot damage.

The bloody snow bayonet with a Fionn chrome does higher physical damage than any other chrome, but the fortified does more shot damage.

The Azure greatsword fortified has 100 block across the board, but add an element chrome (Fionn) and the physical damage is not listed on the card but does higher raw damage than fortified.

The DLC veils have hidden drain and backstab modifiers when paired with elemental Chromes but yield higher gift casting abilities when intensified.

So it's not really a question of what is best, but more of what is best for what you're trying to do. See here for a little more:

https://youtu.be/050N1Q7Wu_I