Talk:Notched Whip/@comment-5003336-20131026195604/@comment-4511886-20131026212628

They're rather mediocre to be honest. Below average damage and no unique features aside from the whole no crits thing.

Their parry immunity is very situational. You'll need an opponent with such parrying skill that you're close to unable to attack with other weapons for the whips to at all be advantageous.

And in normal combat they have poor speed-to-poise damage ratio. Most weapons with such a low poise break are often very fast. The Whip is rather sluggish in comparision to, say the Scimitar or Dagger. Also it doesn't allow you to punish heals or unguarded backs, since it can't backstab.

I'll agree that the whips are underrated though. You just have to use it correctly and you're fine, trouble is figuring out what "correctly" actually means.