Ascend Hand of Kul

Weapons with 200 damage drop around lvl 45+, there's absolutely no need to buy your way up for this achievement. You will get this in due time. At lvl 55, I had a 288 damage weapon, w/o any upgrades.

Weapons with 200 damage drop around lvl 45+, there's absolutely no need to buy your way up for this achievement. You will get this in due time. At lvl 55, I had a 288 damage weapon, w/o any upgrades.

In beta, you can only equip a single weapon at a time. As such, you'll need to level up many times to access better weapons with more rune slots. A weapon with 3 slots can be equipped with 3 strength runes, increasing damage by 30%. I started seeing 3 slots on weapons around level 15 in beta. The restricted alignment dungeons have a special chest at the end that has a good chance for a weapon with 3 slots. You can also purchase items from the store up to 5 levels higher than your character, but expect to pay at least 10k souls for one with 3 slots. Every 5th ascension emblem, starting with the first, for the dark god increases damage by 5% to a maximum of 15% at around 40th level. Combined with 3 strength runes gives a total of 45% damage increase. That means you only need a weapon with a base damage of 138 to have a total of 200 once equipped. Remember that runes can replace existing runes on a item, there is no need for empty slots! Other than that, just keep upgrading your best weapon with the most runes until it does 200 damage.

To have a chance of your weapon hitting for 200 points of damage, the weapon's level must be greater than 20. I had a level 20 weapon that I upgraded to a 20-V with all three slots with a 10% strength rune, and my max damage was 189.

Also of note, the achievement is for equipping a 200 point damage weapon. When I finally hit 200 points, I had upgraded the weapon I had equipped. The achievement didn't pop until I equipped a different weapon, and then reequipped the weapon I upgraded (if you don't have a second weapon in your inventory, changing and equipped armor item will work as well).