Talk:Lifehunt Scythe/@comment-1687225-20121108154125

After some testing, I've come to the conclusion that the Lifehunt Scythe COULD be useful. It's just debatable whether its benefits outweigh its weaknesses compared to the Great Scythe.

It has shorter reach and can't be enchanted. It causes self bleed (and lots of it), in essence forcing the wielder to use the bloodshield and/or the bloodbite ring if they don't want to bleed themselves out in fights that last more than a couple of seconds. And if you're fighting an opponent that causes bleed too, you're pretty screwed in that department regardless.

However, if you can manage to bleed out your opponent it all becomes worth it. And since bleed still builds up through shield hits and ghost hits, it's useful against roll spammers and shield turtlers. If only there was a way to reliably deal enough bleed buildup upon the enemy and then switching to this weapon and bleeding them out...