Dark Souls 2 – Fixing the Repetitive Growling Bug in Scholar of the First Sin

At this point, it's basically "confirmed" that weapons degrade faster on the PC. From/Namco hasn't acknowledged it (that I know of), but there's been some pretty extensive testing by the community as noted here: http://www.reddit.com/r/DarkSouls2/comments/2517i8/durability_bug_is_linked_to_framerate/

Basically, Dark Souls 2 subtracts a set amount of durability per frame of animation. You swing your weapon exactly the same speed regardless of frame rate. That means that if your weapon is passing through an enemy for 1 second, there will be 30 "ticks" of loss at 30 FPS, but 60 "ticks" of loss at 60 FPS. The consoles are locked to 30 FPS, but the PC version runs pretty great on most machines and very regularly runs at 60 FPS. That's an overly simple explanation of what's going on, but it's the gist of the problem.

Apparently you can lock your FPS to 30 on the PC and the problem magically disappears, though I've never looked into how people are doing that.

From the wiki about the Raw Infusion:

Upgrades weapon physical base power, decreases stat scaling, weapon can be enchanted with temporary weapon effects. Best used on weapons that have very low scaling to begin with as weapons that rely on their scaling for damage will most likely lose damage by choosing this infusion. It can also be effective when a player knows that they won't be getting their stats high enough for the weapon's scaling to truly shine.

Most Infusions have this effect, though some not as great as the Raw infusion. Some even boost certain stat scaling, particularly Lightning, Magic and Dark, (while they might reduce base scaling, they will add FAI/INT/FAI & INT scaling respectively)

Since the Estoc has an E/E scaling in STR/DEX, using the Raw Infusion on it won't change anything. But, as an added bonus, you can still use resins on Raw/Mundane Infused weapons, which adds a base +50 elemental damage depending on the resin.