LogFAQs > #928373715

it makes absolutely no difference. the good weapons are good and the bad weapons are bad. the rapier is one of the best weapons in the game. if you think the % of scaling you get from the relevant stat is the only thing that makes a weapon good or bad you clearly have no understanding of how the game mechanics of dark souls 2 work.

what is the base damage of the weapon? what % scaling do you get? how does it scale when infused? what is the poise damage of the weapon? how fast does it attack? how does the move set look? can it be buffed? what is the offhand moveset like? does it have unique power stance moves? with what weapons? how are those?

there's literally like 20 factors that go into whether a weapon is good or not in dark souls 2, and most of them are usually really good at least for one build or another.

weapons that give a low % return from the stat usually have solid base damage and high attack speed to compensate for it. most of the high attack speed weapons (such as the rapier) are already amazing. if they had similarly high % scaling to the mace they would be absolutely broken.
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