Dark Souls (aka Project Dark)

[Zefyr]

Generally Lightning Weapons do more damage than weapons that scale, but I'm not sure how effective it is at the higher levels, if people do go there. I generally like my Zweihander more than my Lifehunt Scythe or my Demon Spear because I can oneshot most mobs with it with the Jump attack, while using light armor to roll when necessary. Though once I get my strength high enough I might try fooling around with the Dragon Tooth, or any other bigger weapons out there. Spears were my first love, but their damage is so outclassed I just use it for novelty purposes now o3o

Given a choice of say a 360 damage weapon that does split 180/180 physical and lightning, and a 360 damage weapon that does all physical, I'd go for the all physical one. This is because the damage split of the 360 weapon goes through two different defense barriers, one for lighting and another for physical, while the all physical weapon just goes through one defense barrier. Assuming a similar damage rating, the one with a single damage type will end up doing more damage in the end because it's passing only through one defense barrier.

I think that's true for some cases, but there aren't many defenses against Lightning Damage, and if your target's got high physical Def, i.e. heavy armor, the split in two damage types will be useful, and if they're relatively defenseless against both damage types, the better, methinks @_@

Also, another benefit to Lightning enchanted weapons is that they go through enemy guard, given that the enemy doesn't have a shield raised with Lightning Resistance (Normal enemies usually don't, so far the only ones I've seen with anything like that are the towering Golden Knights of Anor Londo, which nullifies any and all damage if it so much as grazes their giant shields, while Player Shields usually don't have 100% Lightning defense unless upgraded)