Dexterity

Uses

• Meets Dexterity requirements for equipments
• Damage modifier on weapons with Dexterity scaling
• Damage modifier for Dark Sorceries, depending on the catalyst's Dexterity scaling in addition to the catalyst's MagAdjust
• Increases the casting speed of some Pyromancies, Sorceries, and Miracles
• Casting speed starts increasing at 35 Dexterity

Dexterity Requirements

Equipments listed here are only the ones that needs more than 8 points of Dexterity, because the lowest Dexterity possible on any starting character is 8 (by choosing Cleric as a starting class). Remember that this list is only the Dexterity requirement for an equipment, so may need to put points in other stats to effectively use it.

Dexterity	Equipments with Dexterity Requirement
10	Astora's Straight Sword, Barbed Straight Sword, Bastard Sword, Broadsword, Claymore, Crystal Greatsword, Crystal Straight Sword, Demon's Spear, Dragon Greatsword, Drake Sword, Great Lord Greatsword, Greatsword, Guardian Tail, Longsword, Moonlight Greatsword, Pike, Shortsword, Spear, Stone Greataxe, Stone Greatsword, Warpick, Zweihander Demon's Catalyst, Tin Banishment Catalyst
11	Target Shield
12	Bandit's Knife, Composite Bow, Crescent Axe, Estoc, Four-pronged Plow, Gargoyle's Halberd, Halberd, Giant's Halberd, Lucerne, Mail Breaker, Partizan, Rapier, Short Bow, Sunlight Straight Sword Spiked Shield
13	Falchion, Gravelord Sword, Murakumo, Quelaag's Furysword, Scimitar, Server Buckler
14	Avelyn, Balder Side Sword, Claw, Chaos Blade, Flamberge, Gargoyle Tail Axe, Great Scythe, Lifehunt Scythe, Long Bow, Parrying Dagger, Scythe, Shotel, Titanite Catch Pole, Uchigatana, Whip Pierce Shield
15	Winged Spear
16	Channeler's Trident, Dark Sword, Darkmoon Bow, Notched Whip, Obsidian Greatsword, Sniper Crossbow, Velka's Rapier, Washing Pole
18	Abyss Greatsword, Black Bow of Pharis, Black Knight Sword, Black Knight Greataxe, Black Knight Greatsword, Black Knight Halberd, Greatsword of Artorias, Greatsword of Artorias (Cursed), Darkmoon Bow
20	Dragonslayer Greatbow, Gough's Greatbow, Iaito, Painting Guardian Sword, Priscilla's Dagger, Ricard's Rapier
22	Silver Knight Spear, Silver Knight Straight Sword
24	Dragonslayer Spear
25	Dark Silver Tracer, Gold Tracer

Notes

• Increases the casting speed of offensive spells only (doesn't affect defensive spells, weapon attack speed, or other animations), and is capped at 45 Dexterity. (video)

• Lack of Dexterity to wield a weapon or shield (as shown with the red X on the D-pad menu) doesn't make the character have a different animation like Strength does, but the weapon still gets the damage penalty and bouncing attacks

• Contribution as a modifier for weapon scaling drops drastically after 40 (for weapons in Normal/Raw/Crystal path and unique weapons) or 50 (for weapons in Magic/Divine/Enchanted/Occult path)