Dagger

This article is about the class of weapon. For the specific weapon sold by NPC weaponsmiths, see Dagger (weapon).

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Dagger

Type

One-handed weapon

Used by

Spellbreaker
Soulbeast
Thief
Elementalist
Necromancer

Off-hand only:

Ranger

Crafted by

Weaponsmith

Gallery
Dagger concept art

The dagger is a one-handed weapon that may also be wielded in the main hand and off hand. Daggers are known for their fast and aggressive attacks.

Skills by profession

#	Skill			Description
Spellbreaker
F1	Breaching Strike	0.75¾	8	Burst. Strike your target and remove boons.
1	Precise Cut	0.25¼		Strike your foe. This attack deals increased critical damage.
1	Precise Cut, Focused Slash, Keen Strike chain  Focused Slash	0.25¼		Strike your foe. This attack has increased critical-hit damage.
1	Precise Cut, Focused Slash, Keen Strike chain  Keen Strike	0.25¼		Strike your foe and gain might. Gain additional might on critical hit.
2	Aura Slicer	0.75¾	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	0.5½	12	Strike your target. Deals more damage to foes not using skills.
5	Bladestorm	10.5½	20	Unleash a flurry of attacks that damages foes and reflects projectiles coming from the front.
Soulbeast
1	Groundwork Gouge	0.25¼		Swipe past your foe's defenses, exposing their vulnerability.
1	Groundwork Gouge, Leading Swipe, Serpent Stab, Deadly Delivery chain  Leading Swipe	0.25¼		Rake your dagger across your foe, leaving them bleeding.
1	Groundwork Gouge, Leading Swipe, Serpent Stab, Deadly Delivery chain  Serpent Stab	0.25¼		Slash across your foe, poisoning them.
1	Groundwork Gouge, Leading Swipe, Serpent Stab, Deadly Delivery chain  Deadly Delivery	0.75¾		Strike deeply into your foe, inflicting multiple conditions.
2	Double Arc	0.75¾	7	Rip your blade through your foe twice, inflicting heavy bleeding. Your pet's next two strikes inflict poison.
3	Instinctive Engage	0.75¾	0.5½	Leap forward and slash at your foe. Gain quickness if you successfully strike.
Ranger
4	Stalker's Strike	0.5½	10	Stab and poison your foe while evading attacks. This attack deals increased damage and poison against movement-impaired foes.
5	Crippling Talon	0.5½	1	Throw a dagger to bleed and cripple your foe.
Thief
1	Double Strike			Strike your foe twice.
1	Double Strike, Wild Strike, Lotus Strike chain  Wild Strike			Strike your foe again. Gain endurance with a successful strike.
1	Double Strike, Wild Strike, Lotus Strike chain  Lotus Strike	0.25¼		Strike your foe and inflict poison.
1	Backstab	0.25¼	1	Stealth Attack. Attack your foe from the shadows, striking for double damage if you hit from behind.
2	Heartseeker	0.75¾	3	Leap and strike your foe. The less health your target has, the more damage you cause.
With no offhand
3	Twisting Fangs	0.5½	4	Dual Wield. Spin in place, hitting nearby foes. Each hit causes bleeding.
With offhand Pistol
3	Shadow Shot		4	Dual Wield. 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	0.5½	4	Dual Wield. Do an evasive attack over your opponent, striking nearby enemies three times. Each hit causes bleeding.
4	Dancing Dagger	0.25¼	3	Throw a dagger that cripples nearby foes and returns to you.
5	Cloak and Dagger	0.5½	5	Stab your foe and vanish in stealth, leaving them vulnerable.
Deadeye
1	Malicious Backstab	0.25¼	1	Stealth Attack. Attack your foe from the shadows and strike for double the damage if you hit from behind. Consumes all malice when striking your mark to deal bonus damage.
Elementalist
Fire Attunement
1	Dragon's Claw	0.5½		Fling fire in a claw-shaped spread at your foe.
2	Drake's Breath	20.25¼	5	Spray a cone of fire at foes while on the move.
3	Burning Speed	0.75¾	12	Slide forward and blast the area, leaving behind a line of fire that burns foes.
4	Ring of Fire	0.25¼	15	Damage nearby foes with a ring of fire, burning foes that pass through it.
5	Fire Grab	0.75¾	25	Damage foes in a cone in front of you. Deal more damage to burning foes.
Water Attunement
1	Vapor Blade	0.5½		Cast a vapor blade that inflicts vulnerability and returns to you.
2	Cone of Cold	20.25¼	10	Spray an icy blast in a cone that damages foes and heals allies.
3	Frozen Burst	0.25¼	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	Frost Aura, Transmute Frost chain  Transmute Frost	0.5½	10	Cause your frost aura to violently explode, healing allies and damaging foes.
5	Cleansing Wave	0.75¾	30	Heal yourself and nearby allies, curing a condition.
Air Attunement
1	Lightning Whip	0.75¾		Lash your foe with lightning.
2	Convergence	0.5½	8	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	Shocking Aura, Transmute Lightning chain  Transmute Lightning	0.5½	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	0.75¾		Spear your foes on a giant stone spike.
2	Ring of Earth	1	6	Use the earth to launch yourself into the air and strike foes in a small radius. Deliver a larger ring of earthen spikes upon impact.
3	Earthen Rush	0.5½	18	Quickly dash along the ground, summoning spikes along the way and then delivering an area strike.
4	Earthquake	0.75¾	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.
Weaver
Fire + Water
3	Steam Surge	0.75¾	18	Dual Attack. Slide to an area, blasting foes with steam while healing nearby allies.
Fire + Air
3	Plasma Burst	0.75¾	15	Dual Attack. Burn your foes within a plasma blast.
Fire + Earth
3	Ashen Blast	0.5½	12	Dual Attack. Blind your foes with burning ashes.
Water + Air
3	Katabatic Wind	0.25¼	18	Dual Attack. Release a frigid wind that damages foes.
Water + Earth
3	Mud Slide	1	20	Dual Attack. Trip your foes with mud as you slide past them.
Air + Earth
3	Grinding Stones	0.5½	18	Dual Attack. Shred foes with a storm of stones. Take reduced damage while the storm is active.
Necromancer
1	Necrotic Slash			Slash your foe twice.
1	Necrotic Slash, Necrotic Stab, Necrotic Bite chain  Necrotic Stab			Strike your foe again.
1	Necrotic Slash, Necrotic Stab, Necrotic Bite chain  Necrotic Bite	0.25¼		Strike your foe and gain life force.
2	Life Siphon	10.75¾	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	0.5½	18	Unleash an insect swarm, blinding multiple foes. Transfer three conditions to your target on a successful attack.
5	Enfeebling Blood	0.75¾	25	Inflict weakness and bleeding on foes in the target area.

Related traits

Proficiencies

•  Dagger Proficiency — You can wield daggers in both hands.
•  Dagger Proficiency — You can wield a dagger in your main hand.

Enhancements

•  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 — 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.

Weapon strength

See also: Weapon strength

Dagger weapon strength by level and rarity
Level	Basic		Fine		Masterwork		Rare		Exotic		Ascended
	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max
Level 1	-	-	142	150	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 3	-	-	146	155	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 4	119	126	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 5	-	-	151	160	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 6	-	-	153	163	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 7	-	-	157	167	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 8	128	136	161	171	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 9	-	-	165	175	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 10	134	142	169	179	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 11	-	-	173	183	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 12	140	149	177	188	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 13	-	-	181	192	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 14	-	-	184	196	200	212	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 15	150	159	188	200	204	217	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 16	153	163	192	204	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 17	-	-	197	209	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 18	-	-	201	214	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 19	-	-	206	219	224	238	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 20	168	178	211	224	229	243	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 21	-	-	215	229	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 22	-	-	220	234	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 23	-	-	225	239	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 24	183	194	229	244	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 25	186	198	234	249	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 26	-	-	239	253	260	276	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 27	-	-	245	260	267	283	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 28	199	211	251	267	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 29	-	-	257	273	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 30	209	222	264	280			-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 31	-	-	270	286	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 32	219	233	276	293	300	318	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 33	-	-	282	300	306	325	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 34	-	-	288	306	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 35	234	249	-	-	320	339	346	368	-	-	-	-
Level 36	239	254	301	319	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 37	-	-	308	327	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 38	-	-	315	334	342	363	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 39	-	-	322	342	349	371	378	401	-	-	-	-
Level 40	262	278	329	349	357	379	385	409	-	-	-	-
Level 41	-	-	336	356	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 42	-	-	343	364	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 43	-	-	350	371	379	402	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 44	284	302	357	379	386	410	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 45	290	308	364	386	394	418	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 46	-	-	371	394	403	428	436	463	-	-	-	-
Level 47	-	-	379	403	-	-	446	473	-	-	-	-
Level 48	308	327	388	412	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 49	-	-	396	421	430	457	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 50	322	342	-	-	439	466	475	504	-	-	-	-
Level 51	-	-	413	439	448	476	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 52	336	357	422	448	457	486	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 53	-	-	430	457	466	495	503	534	-	-	-	-
Level 54	-	-	439	466	-	-	513	545	-	-	-	-
Level 55	357	379	447	475	-	-	523	556	-	-	-	-
Level 56	364	386	456	484	494	525	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 57	-	-	465	494	504	535	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 58	-	-	475	504	514	546	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 59	-	-	484	514	524	556	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 60	393	418	493	524	534	567	576	611	-	-	-	-
Level 61	-	-	503	534	-	-	586	623	-	-	-	-
Level 62	-	-	512	544	554	588	597	634	675	716	-	-
Level 63	-	-	521	553	564	598	-	-	686	729	-	-
Level 64	424	450	531	563	574	609	-	-	700	743	-	-
Level 65	431	458	540	573	583	619	630	669	713	758	-	-
Level 66	-	-	549	583	595	632	-	-	727	772	-	-
Level 67	-	-	560	595	607	644	654	695	-	-	-	-
Level 68	455	483	571	606	618	656	667	708	-	-	-	-
Level 69	-	-	582	618	630	669	679	721	-	-	-	-
Level 70	473	502	593	629	641	681	691	734	781	830	-	-
Level 71	-	-	603	641	653	693	703	747	795	844	-	-
Level 72	490	521	614	652	664	705	715	760	809	858	-	-
Level 73	-	-	625	664	-	-	-	-	822	873	-	-
Level 74	-	-	636	675	687	730	740	786	837	888	-	-
Level 75	517	549	647	687	699	742	753	800	851	904	-	-
Level 76	526	558	658	698	711	755	766	813	866	919	-	-
Level 77	-	-	669	711	724	768	779	827	-	-	-	-
Level 78	-	-	681	723	736	781	792	841	895	950	-	-
Level 79	-	-	693	736	-	-	805	855	909	966	-	-
Level 80	563	598	704	748	761	808	819	869	924	981	970	1,030

See also

• Gallery of daggers

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Weapons

One-handed

Axe • Dagger • Mace • Pistol • Sword

Main-hand only

Scepter

Off-hand only

Focus • Shield • Torch • Warhorn

Two-handed

Greatsword • Hammer • Longbow • Rifle • Short bow • Staff

Aquatic

Harpoon gun • Spear • Trident

Other

Bundles