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. However, there are some exceptions. See Assassin and Assassin attack chain quick reference for details.

Damage Stats

 * The maximum damage range for daggers is 7-17.
 * There are piercing and slashing daggers available.
 * All Daggers have an inherent 2% chance to double strike. This chance stacks with Dagger Mastery.
 * Daggers hit in combat every 1.33 seconds. Dagger Mastery of 16 increases the "average attack speed" to 0.99 seconds due to the double strikes that trigger at higher probablity.

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 Guild Wars Factions:


 * Daggers that cause slashing damage:
 * Butterfly Knives
 * Dragon Scythes
 * Hooked Daggers
 * Kamas
 * Korambits
 * Kukris
 * Platinum Sickles
 * Split Chakrams
 * Daggers that cause piercing damage:
 * Aureate Daggers
 * Celestial Daggers
 * Ceremonial Daggers
 * Chromium Shards
 * Daggers
 * Dirks
 * Dragon Fangs (Preorder item)
 * Gilded Daggers
 * Golden Talons
 * Jade Daggers
 * Kris Daggers
 * Oni Daggers
 * Plagueborn Daggers
 * Sai
 * Stilletos
 * Zodiac Daggers
 * Unique daggers:
 * Arius' Sai
 * Ceremonial Daggers
 * Chkkr's Pincers
 * Daggers of Xuekao
 * Darkroot's Daggers
 * Everthorn's Chakrams
 * Falaharn's Split Chakrams
 * Kaolin Daggers
 * Kenshi's Butterfly Daggers
 * Lou's Karambits
 * Onata's Shards
 * Pei's Blades
 * Razorfang's Claws
 * Shiro's Blades
 * Shreader's Talons
 * Ssaresh's Kris Daggers
 * Tahkayun's Pincers
 * Ungues of the Oni
 * Urkal's Kamas