< RESOLVED> question about crystal weapons

in the description of crystal weapon upgrades it says "Cannot repair weapon (except through reinforcement)."


does this mean it can be repaired but only by using the item u need to upgrade it, e.g. titanite shard etc...?

Please don't use black, it's hard to read.

And you can only repair a crystal weapon by upgrading it to the next level.

For example, turning a +0 Crystal weapon into a +1 will restore it's durability.

apologies for the colour - i did a copy/paste and that must've turned the rest of the post black! 

so if have upgraded to a +5 crystal weapon and the durability starts to decline it means i cant repair it as it's fully upgraded?

(i did a preview this time.....)

Yeah you can't repair it once it's +5. I feel sorry for you that you used a slab on a crystal weapon

I didn't use a slab on it for that very reason. Kinda pointless in a way. I'll stick to Basic. 

I have yet use a RAW weapon, not sure I really see the point there either. Do they have any advantage over normal path?
 e.g Basic:

Demon's Greataxe +15

285/0/0/0

S/-/-/-

whereas Raw:

Raw Demon's Greataxe +5

262/0/0/0

A/-/-/-

To me that says go for BASIC every time. Am I missing something ?