Dark Souls (aka Project Dark)

[Lord_Leperman]

Sadly no, lighting defense is typically around 2/3 to almost equal (but never exactly equal) as physical defense which is still pretty significant. Say again 200 physical atk sword and a 100/100 physical and lighting/fire/magic atk sword. Your opponent has 50 physical and 30 lightning/fire/magic defense.

The 100/100 atk weapon is like going through 80 defense points compared to the 50 that the 200 atk physical attack sword is going through. Which one will do more damage then?

Remember, all enemies will have resistances to all damage types. So it is best to focus on just one damage type if you're planning on breaking through defenses and deal high damage, single blow attacks. That's exactly the reason why OHKOs were possible in Demon's Souls because of the Curse Weapon skill which gives 50% bonus to physical attacks and ignores other defenses besides the base physical.

This is possibly the same reason why they took out Sharp and Crushing weapons (There are no "S" bonuses and only 3 weapons give "A" strength bonuses in DkS, I'm not sure wth Dex weapons though except for the bows) which give enormous damage bonuses to physical attacks, it just becomes too powerful to deal one damage type when it's too high because it only passes through one defense barrier.

I'm talking about PvP though, PvE will be a different story