[Chaos]

There's a really simple solution to this and everyone is making it so convoluted, just make the weakness 25% or 30% and it'll have counterplay, 40% weakness = 40% damage + ability to combo, not even absolute death does this.

Except you can already counterplay it with an Umbrella, or god forbid, a BK skill that hasn't seen much use. What you're suggesting is 'make it braindead to counter'. That's not a 'simple solution'. That's haphazardly throwing yet another piece into the nerf basket, and rewarding people for going 'oh i'll just build SAN or put on a coral piece and ignore this rofl'.

10% on hit, up to 40%, does the job just as well without entirely removing the weapon's threat and forces investment on the levels of (if not greater than) Intensify Cold, which has less counterplay than River Sword. How is that 'so convoluted'?