Non-stat scaling weapons

After playing dark souls extensively, I hope they remove non-scaling items, such as the elemental weapons, and pyromancy. If not removed, the only other way I would want it implemented that if they don`t scale with stats, they scale with area. In the burg they do 100 damage, parish 110, sens 130, etc). Whatever numbers are appropriate.

Pyromancy always felt off; I felt it should have scaled off of something, even resistance.

Either way, these were the major issues with griefers; weapons that do large amounts of damage at low levels in low level areas. The low level areas are important; if you are low level in later stages, it`s obvious it`s a conscious choice, so griefing would be just fine.

If these weapons scaled with areas, it would still allow low level play throughs. So... either get rid of them completely (my choice) or make them scale with area. Only ways that make sense IMO.

without scaleless weapons there would be a whole lot less multicalsses.

IV_Mark_VI wrote:Either way, these were the major issues with griefers

So because you have issues with people in multiplayer you want to nerf the single player?

Lol.
+15 weapons are just as good as elementals for griefing.
Unfortunately, I can say that from experience.

Well, I think, it would be great if elemental weapons were weaker, so their phys + elem damage would be equal to phys damage of +15 (in DS it two times higher or so sometimes). But there is also should be an "Elemental weakness" parameter that, well, would scale the damage of elemental weapons.
In my opinion that change adds some sense to choosing different upgrades for your weapon. And as there are piercing, slashing and bashing defence, there can be also special upgrades for making weapon scale by some "Physical weakness" that can be calculated by something like "Type attack power/type defence"

elemental weapons deal split damage, which usually means the actual damage it does is 2/3rds- 3/4ths of a fully scaled +15.

Besides that, it wouldn't make a difference. If I'm in full giants +5 I could be using just about any weapon and grief just fine. A +5 estoc won't do jack squat, so all I'd have to do is start swinging, you'll die eventually (long before me with your whopping 20 damage per hit)