Whip, the offhand varriant of the Trident?

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Whip is the only exotics with speed ~ 3.0 . Its weight 3.0.
While the weapon speed is a property to describe attack frequency, the weight is a property to describe penetration (I can't prove this statement, but we can consider other weapon sub-types to assume).

Usually, the more speed of the weapon, the less weight. And almost all weapon sub-types have the same "relation" of these properties. Excluding Trident as a main exception: Trident extremely good for purposes of penetrating considering its speed.
Whip is a "usual" weapon sub-type in this sense unlike Trident (Let's consider Gladius from the Blades line):

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You may see, [almost] same speed, same weight, but Whip also have less damage on it... To understand why, we need to remember two of facts:
-- Every weapon have "hidden" properties like Length, Bleeding bonus and so on.
-- Some of weapon sub-types may have its own features.

Whip is a specific weapon to use Entangle skill, yes. It's the feature. But it looks like Whip have also the other features, for example (i am guessing) the feature to bypass Parry/Block(non-green) partially (compared with Gladius).
// But not a property to penetrate with high attacks number.
And i think, Whip is good to work with it without Entangle skill.

But it's not an off-hand Trident, sure.

Also, You need to consider another fact: Every off-hand weapon doing less damage than the main of the same sub-type.
If You wield both main Whip and off-hand Whip (Damage Per Round are equal for them at the same lvl and quality) You'll still do much less average damage per hit with Your off-hand than the main.
This leads to the question: What exactly i'm trying to deliver with my off-hand weapon?
The answer for Whip sounds like "I'm trying to deliver bleeding bypassing some defense and using average penetration, and i'm trying to deliver some of my skills like Signature Moves/Hamstring/Knockout, but not a direct damage."
And it looks like a good answer, in my opinion.

Ah, Yes. Don't bother about style a lot. It seems, all the "lesser" styles (Bash, Lunge, Slash) are about equal for Whip at the moment.
// But these styles are designed to fight against different types of Armor.

Since my second theatric glad reached bloodgods and wasn't stomped to death immediately...

Nice to see.
For Blood Gods the game uses some "smart pairing system". Just to avoid endless losses for young.
This system means Your gladiator will always fight against opponent of about same rating (the rating of the current season).
So having young gladiator, You will never be pushed to fight against tops, only at the beginning of the Season, occasionally.
But there's still an abyss between oldest and youngest. So, keep working! ;)