In short, cutter charge attack needs that knockback suggestion (next to none on the first few hits, increased on the final hit) and making the weapon flinch more frequently would make it a very viable weapon.

Making the wild hunting blade a piercing sword just makes sense to me IMO. The dread venom striker is fine as is, maybe more poison chance would be good, whereas the wild hunting blade is intended to kill beasts... Something other weapons do better. Turning that into a piercing weapon would help with that.
And before you ask, yes, I support making the cold iron carver elemental as well. Cutter can be split damage whereas the carver is pure elemental, as not to make their other competition any better or worse.

Also, I'm pretty sure flourish charges are more stab-stab-swing. It's like a reverse combo. It would be sort of neat if the player did a 360 swing at the end that does very little knockback with the first two stabs dealing a fair amount, so all hits can land.

Are you suggesting making Flourish a 4-hit combo?
No, I was suggesting revamping its charge attack.

That won't assist the charge being used in LD.
That's because the cutter's range and damage, unboosted, is terrible vs a knight in lockdown. Why is that? Because knights might get hit once, but then walk out of the stream of damage in front of them because they don't just walk into the enemy and attack like all monsters do. The reason cutters aren't good in lockdown is because each hit activates invincibility frames, plus most people have strong normal damage resistance. If you've ever laid waste to someone in lockdown who is shocked you'll see how amazing cutters are against a target with no invincibility frames. I say this as someone who usually is a recon in full valkyrie with a DVS, so no damage boosts. That shock is amazing.

The reason the normal damage weapons vs a specific monster type do not work as intended is because normal damage does 100% damage, but specialized damage does something like 150% damage. This means that, with a maximum damage boost, normal damage can't even reach the damage specialized damage can do.
These weapons are not good at doing what they are specialized to do, so in changing their damage types, you are specializing them to take out that one enemy while also making them viable against other enemies. You lose against 2 families, but if you're going for a beast specialization loadout then a wild hunting blade will suffice the beast end quite nicely. Besides, you shouldn't ever have two weapons of the same damage type at the same time unless one of them is a split damage sword or you're using normal weapons.

Certain weapons are specialized for certain enemies, but we still use them regardless. Argent Peacemaker is specialized against undead, yet people use it on constructs and other enemies too. This is because the damage type means you actually want to use the weapon. Normal damage is more or less a filler damage type until you reach tier 2 at the very least, as that's when damage types start to matter a lot more.

I'll put it this way: I perform better with a split damage sword and a gun that does a different kind of damage than I do with a normal damage sword and a normal damage gun. As of right now I have a cutter-based sword. There is almost no situation that I would want to make the other cutter except for "poison beast levels". Beasts aren't even that hard, thus specializing against them and only them is sort of... Weird.

However, I want to bring up that players complain about fiends a lot. Fiends require you to attack with a fast weapon a lot to prevent them from attacking. A cutter is a great sword to use against fiends (I've used my DVS a bunch against them) to great success. A piercing themed cutter would be something I would jump on immediately, as it's something I would use in more than just one scenario.

I also want to bring up that for both slimes and constructs, heavier and slower weapons that control them typically work better. These enemies are slow and attack slowly, and a fast weapon doesn't flinch them in time, thus you get hit. I mean, any player can make any weapon work in any scenario, but this is a blanket statement about how most players would use a cutter(like any other sword... walk up to the enemy and click).

A piercing cutter with a beast bonus would be phenomenal. It would directly compete with the flourish, making the flourish more of a "heavy" sword in comparison. It also brings cutters to have a more niche use, and still leaves the "normal damage variant" alive and well in the DVS.

@Sir-Shadow-Striker

"Cutter's are our friends" - Yes. Yes they are.

"DVS is fine, it probably needs more poison chance as Fangel suggested" - I suggested that in reply #2. xD

"For WHB, I think they need to ditch the family bonus; in my experience, those bonuses don't do much extra damage." - Hence my suggestion is that, rather than making it deal pierce they change effect of family bonus so that it DOES do extra damage (enough to make it a useful thing to have on a weapon).

"(a) allow the player to aim the attack constantly while the charge is in effect
(b) be shield cancel-able" - I don't see 'a' and 'b' as fixing the charge at all. The only semi useful part of the two of them is that 'b' would mean you get hit less, but the charge doesn't only need that. It also needs to actually hurt an enemy.

@Fangel

"Beasts aren't even that hard, thus specializing against them and only them is sort of... Weird." - Very true.

"A cutter is a great sword to use against fiends" - This seems more of a task for Winmillion. Maybe let it have a 5* weapon with damage vs fiend (once again, damage bonuses need to have some meaning if we don't want it to be a pointless addition to the game). Strikers are good for feinds but Spurs are better.

Altogether I stand by my original points of; DVS needs more poison chance AND damage bonus needs to have meaning (ever see someone cheer about getting a damage bonus UV?).

@Almond-Riddle

"(the charge gives out no MSD while charging)"
- No, but it does make you stand still while launching the charge for alot longer than most weapons (if not, all). Maybe make it's attacks launch faster during the charge?

"The easiest way to make the charge worth using is to make the hits have consistent interruption ability"
- I still don't see it as all that useful. Poison boost! :D

With half-decent timing you won't get hit by the enemy you use it on. The only things that really harm you in that situation is the other enemies, so let's not make it so that you get surrounded for the sake of possibly not killing an enemy.
When you use the charge attack you surely dodge and then launch the attack before they can respond, others you are asking to be hit and I don't think players should be rewarded for being too lazy to dodge before using the charge.
However, the charge cannot kill in PVP against anyone decent as they will just move out of the way, giving a better poison chance means that you MIGHT actually be able to get some decent damage in if you do manage to hit one or two of the attacks before they move (because it does have SOME effect on holding things in place).

@Almond-Riddle

The only monsters I ever have trouble with are Gremlins Thwackers and Mecha Knights. Apart from that the Striker charge is easy to launch without expecting to get hit. You just have to time your attack. I want more poison to be able to deal with the other two mobs it has trouble with. Plus it has one of the lowest damages in the game so deserves something to give it a boost, poison is the perfect status for that but it is almost NEVER inflicted.

"Both statements are false."
- I find them true to me, and surely I'm nowhere near perfect with the weapon, so why can I carry something out yet it is "false" to everyone else?

"(the same can be said for a lot of other weapons though)."
- IMO the cutter charge is the worst charge attack in LD. Some other weapons are un-hittable with their charges but none seem to leave you so open (Troika being the closest, but I'm sure you're more likely to get a kill with a Troika charge than Cutter charge). Another idea for the charge is one I posted on a previous thread; as in the charge attack lands in a fair amount of time, rather than taking so long to launch all the attacks.

Alpha Wolvers are easy. Gremlin Bombers, any form of Lichen, Gorgos and Kats appear in swarms (bombers not swarming themselves, usually followed by swarms of thwackers), so interruption won't help too badly. I already said Gremlin Thwackers and Mecha Knights are difficult.
And besides, with more poison you'd kill them by the end of the combo, full hits won't be as necessary.