Weapon's passive without using it

[Lavrentiy Beria]

So.. I'm playing as a rogue archer. I'm wondering if my equipped daggers' passives still work even if I'm not using melee weapons?

E.g., Sword of Life Stealing's 10 extra crit dmg
or Knife of the Undermountain King's passive

[The Sylvan Learning Center]

I don't think so

[The Sylvan Learning Center]

Think about how busted that would be.

[Lavrentiy Beria]

Originally posted by The Sylvan Learning Center:

Think about how busted that would be.

Hmm... Tested for a while, indeed not working

[DeMasked]

You can check the wiki as sometimes the effect of the weapon can apply to all weapon attacks and possibly cantrips / spells.

[Hobocop]

Knife of Undermountain King is a general crit range buff on all attacks, even if not using it.

According to BG3wiki, the bonus damage on the Sword of Life Stealing is only when striking with the weapon itself.

[Lavrentiy Beria]

Oh... so it depends... Thanks!

[guard65]

It uses the tag data "PassivesOnEquip" to assign the passive but the passive calls out the detection of the weapon like the following line.
data "Conditions" "AttackedWithPassiveSourceWeapon() and IsCritical() and not Tagged('CONSTRUCT', context.Target) and not Tagged('UNDEAD', context.Target)"