Alkarl
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While you are correct about heavier armor being completely pointless there is bunch of great weapons in this game such as:tank builds are shit in this game. There are only 2 good weapons in the entirety of Demons Souls which sucks
Axes: Guillotine Axe
Large Axes: Great Axe
Straight Swords: Blueblood Sword ( For very specific luck + weapon buff based build ) and Knight sword
Large Sword: Entire brandt series of swords, Large sword of Moonlight, Morion blade ( as a damage buff on your back ), Stormruler for hilarious knockback
Very large swords: Dragon Bone Smasher
Curved Swords: Kilij, Large sword of searching ( held in offhand for item discovery bonus )
Katanas: Hiltless if you can't be arsed to grind for pure blade stone Sharp uchigatana +5 if you enjoy grinding.
Spears: Winged spear for killing stuff, Scraping spear for marvelous dickbaggery in pvp
Polearms: Halberd, Mirdan Hammer and Warscythe are pretty much identical outside of scaling and damage type differences and they're all good.
Large Hammers: Meat Cleaver has ludicrously good roll attack
Bows: Sticky compound longbow for dexterity based builds, Lavabow for everything else
Crossbows: Just kidding they all suck
While there's other perfectly viable weapons in this game I really enjoyed using all of these.
For sure, and the best part of the Souls series, Demons included, is it really depends on your playstyle and what you're comfortable with. You can upgrade just about any weapon and it will be viable, if its a weapon you're comfortable with so much the better. For instance, I started with straight swords, got good with them and eventually tried picking up another weapon. I was completely sloppy the first time I tried out rapiers and greatswords, even got stomped a few times and spanked on some absolute whiffs. It gets exciting though, when you master a weapon most people wouldn't think twice about.