Daggers

General


The Dagger is a melee weapon for the Assassin profession.

Daggers always come in pairs. You can not wield a dagger in one hand while holding a shield or focus in the other hand. The Guild Wars game mechanics treat a pair of daggers like a single two-handed weapon (similar to a bow or a hammer).

The Assassin's Dagger Mastery attribute improves damage dealt by daggers and linked skills, and is often a requirement for this weapon type. Equipping a pair of daggers is required to perform dagger attack skills.

Dagger attack skills must be performed in a certain order: typically, Lead Attack &rarr; Off-Hand Attack &rarr; Dual Attack. But there are some exceptions. See Assassin for details.

Damage Stats

 * The maximum damage range for daggers is 7-17.
 * There are piercing and slashing daggers available.
 * Daggers hit in combat every 1.33 seconds, dagger mastery also increases the attack speed to 1.00 second at rank 16

Upgrades and Modifiers
A dagger can be equipped with a magic Dagger Tang (name prefix) and/or Dagger Handle (name suffix) to add extra bonuses to the weapon.

Furthermore a dagger may come with a number of non-salvagable weapon modifiers.

See "Weapon Upgrades" for details.

Dagger Types
The following dagger types can be found in GuildWars:


 * Daggers that cause slashing damage:
 * Butterfly Knives
 * Dragon Scythes
 * Hooked Daggers
 * Korambits
 * Kukris
 * Split Chakrams
 * Kamas


 * Daggers that cause piercing damage:
 * Aureate Daggers
 * Celestial Daggers
 * Golden Thalons
 * Chromium Shards
 * Daggers
 * Dragon Fangs (Preorder item)
 * Dirks
 * Gilded Daggers
 * Jade Daggers
 * Kris Daggers
 * Oni Daggers
 * Plagueborn Daggers
 * Sais
 * Stilletos


 * Daggers with an unknown damage type
 * Platinum Sickles

External Link

 * Dagger FAQ (registration required)

See also: Category:Daggers.