Dagger
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This article is about the class of weapon. For the specific weapon sold by NPC weaponsmiths, see Dagger (weapon).
The dagger is a one-handed weapon that may also be used in the off-hand. Attacks with dagger skills are usually fast, but cleave fewer foes in melee (with the exception of elementalist skills). Additionally, daggers typically have some skills that aid in self-preservation, the method of which varies greatly by profession. Daggers can be crafted by a weaponsmith. The maximum damage range is 970 - 1,030.
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Skills by profession[edit]
| Skill | Type | 
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Description | |
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| Breaching Strike | Burst | ¾ | 8 | Strike your target and remove boons. | |
| 1 | Precise Cut | ¼ | Strike your foe. This attack deals increased critical damage. | ||
| 1 |  Focused Slash
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¼ | Strike your foe. This attack has increased critical-hit damage. | ||
| 1 | Keen Strike
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¼ | Strike your foe and gain might. Gain additional might on critical hit. | ||
| 2 | Aura Slicer | ¾ | 6 | Leap and strike your foe, inflicting slow. | |
| 3 | Disrupting Stab | 12 | Inflicts Daze on your target. If your target is using a skill, this attack stuns and deals increased damage. | ||
| 4 | Wastrel's Ruin | ½ | 12 | Strike your target. Deals more damage to foes not using skills. | |
| 5 | Bladestorm | 1½ | 20 | Unleash a flurry of attacks that damages foes and reflects projectiles coming from the front. | |
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| 1 | Groundwork Gouge | ¼ | Swipe past your foe's defenses, exposing their vulnerability. | ||
| 1 | Leading Swipe
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¼ | Rake your dagger across your foe, leaving them bleeding. | ||
| 1 | Serpent Stab
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¼ | Slash across your foe, poisoning them. | ||
| 1 | Deadly Delivery
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¾ | Strike deeply into your foe, inflicting multiple conditions. | ||
| 2 | Double Arc | ¾ | 7 | Rip your blade through your foe twice, inflicting heavy bleeding. Your pet's next two strikes inflict poison. | |
| 3 | Instinctive Engage | ¾ | ½ | Leap forward and slash at your foe. Gain quickness if you successfully strike. | |
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| 4 | Stalker's Strike | ½ | 10 | Stab and poison your foe while evading attacks. | |
| 5 | Crippling Talon | ½ | 15 | Throw a dagger to bleed and cripple your foe. | |
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| 1 | Double Strike | Strike your foe twice. | |||
| 1 | Wild Strike
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Strike your foe again. Gain endurance with a successful strike. | |||
| 1 | Lotus Strike
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¼ | Strike your foe and inflict poison. | ||
| 1 |  Backstab
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Stealth Attack | ¼ | 1 | Attack your foe from the shadows, striking for double damage if you hit from behind. |
| 2 | Heartseeker | ¾ | 3 | Leap and strike your foe. The less health your target has, the more damage you cause. | |
| with no offhand | |||||
| 3 | Twisting Fangs | Dual Wield | ½ | 4 | Spin in place, hitting nearby foes. Each hit causes bleeding. |
| with offhand Pistol | |||||
| 3 | Shadow Shot | Dual Wield | 4 | Fire an unblockable shot at your foe, which blinds them, and then shadowstep to them for a dagger strike. | |
| with offhand Dagger | |||||
| 3 | Death Blossom | Dual Wield | ½ | 4 | Do an evasive attack over your opponent, striking nearby enemies three times. Each hit causes bleeding. |
| 4 | Dancing Dagger | ¼ | 3 | Throw a dagger that cripples nearby foes and returns to you. | |
| 5 | Cloak and Dagger | ½ | 5 | Stab your foe and vanish in stealth, leaving them vulnerable. | |
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| Fire Attunement | |||||
| 1 | Dragon's Claw | ½ | Fling fire in a claw-shaped spread at your foe. | ||
| 2 | Drake's Breath | 2¼ | 5 | Spray a cone of fire at foes while on the move. | |
| 3 | Burning Speed | ¾ | 12 | Slide forward and blast the area, leaving behind a line of fire that burns foes. | |
| 4 | Ring of Fire | ¼ | 15 | Damage nearby foes with a ring of fire, burning foes that pass through it. | |
| 5 | Fire Grab | ¾ | 25 | Damage foes in a cone in front of you. Deal more damage to burning foes. | |
| Water Attunement | |||||
| 1 | Vapor Blade | ½ | Cast a vapor blade that inflicts vulnerability and returns to you. | ||
| 2 | Cone of Cold | 2¼ | 10 | Spray an icy blast in a cone that damages foes and heals allies. | |
| 3 | Frozen Burst | ¼ | 12 | Detonate a burst of ice that chills nearby foes. | |
| 4 | Frost Aura | 30 | Protect yourself with frost armor that reduces incoming damage by 10%. While active, it chills foes that hit you. Each attacker can only be affected by this once per second. | ||
| 4 | Transmute Frost
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½ | 10 | Cause your frost aura to violently explode, healing allies and damaging foes. | |
| 5 | Cleansing Wave | ¾ | 30 | Heal yourself and nearby allies, curing a condition. | |
| Air Attunement | |||||
| 1 | Lightning Whip | ¾ | Lash your foe with lightning. | ||
| 2 | Lightning Touch | ¾ | 10 | Shock a foe and inflict weakness. Gain fury for each foe hit. | |
| 3 | Shocking Aura | 25 | Envelop yourself with electrical energy that stuns nearby foes if they attack you. Each attacker can be affected by this only once every 2 seconds. | ||
| 3 | Transmute Lightning
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½ | 10 | Cause your shocking aura to violently explode, stunning enemies who are struck by it. | |
| 4 | Ride the Lightning | 30 | Ride the lightning to your foe, then strike all nearby foes with an electrical burst. If a foe is hit by the burst, the skill's recharge is halved. | ||
| 5 | Updraft | 40 | Gain swiftness from a gust of wind that launches nearby foes. | ||
| Earth Attunement | |||||
| 1 | Impale | ¾ | Spear your foes on a giant stone spike. | ||
| 2 | Ring of Earth | ¾ | 6 | Bleed foes with a ring of rocky spikes. | |
| 3 | Magnetic Grasp | ½ | 12 | Immobilize your foe, making them vulnerable to a Magnetic Leap attack. | |
| 4 | Earthquake | ¾ | 30 | Trigger a quake at your location, knocking down foes and dealing massive damage. | |
| 5 | Churning Earth | 2 | 30 | Make the earth churn, crippling nearby foes before unleashing a seismic wave that damages and bleeds them. | |
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| Fire + Water | |||||
| 3 | Steam Surge | Dual Attack | ¾ | 18 | Slide to an area, blasting foes with steam while healing nearby allies. |
| Fire + Air | |||||
| 3 | Plasma Burst | Dual Attack | ¾ | 15 | Burn your foes within a plasma blast. |
| Fire + Earth | |||||
| 3 | Ashen Blast | Dual Attack | ½ | 12 | Blind your foes with burning ashes. |
| Water + Air | |||||
| 3 | Katabatic Wind | Dual Attack | ¼ | 18 | Release a frigid wind that damages foes. |
| Water + Earth | |||||
| 3 | Mud Slide | Dual Attack | 1 | 20 | Trip your foes with mud as you slide past them. |
| Air + Earth | |||||
| 3 | Grinding Stones | Dual Attack | ½ | 18 | Shred foes with a storm of stones. Take reduced damage while the storm is active. |
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| 1 | Necrotic Slash | Slash your foe twice. | |||
| 1 | Necrotic Stab
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Strike your foe again. | |||
| 1 | Necrotic Bite
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¼ | Strike your foe and gain life force. | ||
| 2 | Life Siphon | 1¾ | 10 | Siphon health from your foe. Healing effectiveness increases if you are bleeding. Damage increases if your foe is bleeding. | |
| 3 | Dark Pact | 1 | 15 | Immobilize your foe. Bleed yourself. | |
| 4 | Deathly Swarm | ½ | 18 | Unleash an insect swarm, blinding multiple foes. Transfer three conditions to your target on a successful attack. | |
| 5 | Enfeebling Blood | ¾ | 25 | Inflict weakness and bleeding on foes in the target area. | |
Related traits[edit]
Proficiencies[edit]
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Dagger Proficiency — You can wield daggers in both hands. -
Dagger Proficiency — You can wield a dagger in your main hand.
Enhancements[edit]
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Dual Wielding — Attack speed is increased when wielding a main-hand weapon in your off hand. -
Sun and Moon Style — Gain bonuses for each dagger you equip: Main hand—Interrupts grant quickness. (Only occurs once per interval.) Off Hand—Heal for a percent of your outgoing critical damage. -
Ambidexterity — Gain condition damage. Gain additional condition damage while wielding a torch or dagger. Torch and Dagger skills recharge faster. -
Dagger Training — Dagger attacks have a chance to inflict poison on enemies. Gain bonus power, which is increased when wielding a dagger. -
Quickening Thirst — Increases movement speed while above the health threshold. Dagger skills recharge faster if activated while above the health threshold.
