User blog comment:AverageSchizoid/Best DEX weapon?/@comment-1687225-20130306151717

The Great Scythe is indeed an excellent weapon for damage output, but it does have some glaring weaknesses. It's pretty much a gimmick weapon: it's got one or two (extremely) deadly tricks up its sleeve, but if you've had experience fighting people using it then the great scythe's kinda bad. I think I might actually prefer the Lifehunt Scythe over it at this point due to its frightening bleed component.

Probably the "best" (in terms of most balanced) dex weapon is the Balder Side Sword. It has no weaknesses, has tiny stamina consumption, and acceptable DPS (with massive DPS per stamina, allowing you to deal high damage if you can combo someone enough to make them stagger).