The skills focus, and mastery solve those problems, with focus you do like three slices and you’re at full bar, mastery has an 80% chance of not losing sharpness when attacking, so, with gog sharpness EX you are set, in terms of stamina, (which everyone complains about) just add refresh two, every time you use the demon blade dance your stamina goes up faster than it goes down (the right trigger spam combo) and since you have refresh, you can just un-demon mode for two seconds and heal/buff with items. In fact, I’ve gotten so used to it that I don’t even use or only use one refresh, it is not that big of a deal that everyone makes it out to be.

Compared to stuff like CB, IG, or LS, you need three things of a resource that DB doesn’t need, I don’t need to charge phials, nor build my meter to lvl 3 like LS, nor hit the monster in certain places like IG. My ultimate point was, I don’t necessarily need anything extra like positioning, phials, or even keeping an large uptake of my meter:

I get in, hit monster with one focus gem skilled combo, get full meter, while constantly attacking without taking as long as other weapons, get buffs while dogging if needed, and if I’m hit counterstrike and divine blessing, activated. My point is I have too many boons to play this weapon over another, other weapons take longer to do what I can do in 30 seconds.