"As it is often said, a knight need not have courage: just Valiance."

Valiance will be sufficient to deal with most threats. Perhaps against menders you have some problems, which can be remedied with all the Battle Sprites(to varying degrees of success).

Have fun~

Blaster is a good weapon, but keep in mind that when the gunner update is released, there will be more specialized variants of it. You'll find it underpowered vs. the specialized types.

Striker, I'm gonna have to say that if this is going to be your only sword, you're going to have a rough time in T3, heck, even T2 cause it isn't good at fighting groups of enemies...and there's a lot of fighting of groups of enemies.

Jelly set is bad, the fact that it gives Stun resist is the only thing it has over Wolver, which gives you DMG bonuses to your swords and more branching paths relevant to your swords at 5*.

Basically, keep Blaster if you want, get another weapon along with Striker like a Brandish, Sealed Sword, or Calibur, and get a Wolver set to use as armor. When you get your Brute Jelly set to Royal Jelly, just use it as a costume and get the benefit of looks and utility.

And then he gets screwed when the Gunner Update comes out. Antiguas 4 life

Blaster is a good weapon, but keep in mind that when the gunner update is released, there will be more specialized variants of it.

Gunner update looks amazing but they keep delaying it... probably won't be coming out soon.

I'll just list whatever pros and cons I currently recall of the DVS and the WHB:
WHB

• Swings slightly slower
• Aside from visual and audio, barking wolvers don't do anything
• Cool charge attack
• Higher rate of enemy interruption; Less hits to interrupt an enemy(I'm guessing it's the same as the Striker)
• High Damage Bonus vs. Beasts (I'd say this is of some use if you are not getting Damage Bonus armor pieces anytime soon)

DVS

• Swings slightly faster(normal speed I believe)
• Procs 'Strong Poison' with a 1/16th chance
• Lower rate of enemy interruption; Requires a full attack combo (10 hits) to interrupt an enemy (Often times the charge attack will not interrupt an enemy because it bounces them around and a couple swings miss) (Also often times the enemy will hit you before you completely finish the charge attack, so you don't even get the chance to interrupt them).
• Lovely dark green with the poisonous bits o' hazy smoke rising from the blade

I made an ASI med WHB in lieu of getting a DVS. I picked up a Vile Striker from a box in a Prestige mission, and I mainly kept it for the poison proc. Between Vile Striker and Dread Venom Striker there is no difference in poison strength or proc chance, unless the tooltip is wrong. The additional damage of the DVS was not worth it in my eyes, as I'd probably only use it for utility sake (like my Winmillion). To me, WHB was the better novelty weapon to use.
I have tons of fun blitzing into crowds of enemies with Scorching Barrier without a care in the world (do mind that I still get hurt).

I feel like a parrot; I've written similar posts on this at least 3 times before, one being a day or so ago... Maybe I should just link to previous posts I and others have made...

Bopp plz. Is that only thing you can say in the arsenal forum?

^ Yeah, but only if they actually read it first instead of skimming through it and saying "I read it and it didn't help", which apparently 99% of people do.

But who needs reading, right?

Though I will say that Bopp's comparison of DVS and WHB does not include the hidden 'stagger' value. (I do believe your comparison of DVS and WHB has changed (practically) never.)

You mean the difference in interruption? Yes, my guide does address that.