dagger power type? melee or projectile?

[Panda]

hey folks what damage type is a dagger under the powers(melee,projectile,magic)? its throwing so surely projectile but on like crossbows it actually says its projectile tag?

[Ice-Nine]

Originally posted by sad sack:

The item “Dagger” is melee damage. Throwing daggers are projectile damage. It was confusing at first, but if you buy an item that grants +projectile damage, then the throwing dagger damage will increase. They also show up for characters that can only use projectile weapons

Throwing daggers are melee damage, not projectile damage. Projectile damage seems to be limited to bows/crossbows only.

Each weapon will tell you which type of damage it scales with. It will say something like "Use Stats: 70% of Melee Power" (except that Melee Power is represented by an icon of a sword, rather than words).

[Panda]

Originally posted by sad sack:

The item “Dagger” is melee damage. Throwing daggers are projectile damage. It was confusing at first, but if you buy an item that grants +projectile damage, then the throwing dagger damage will increase. They also show up for characters that can only use projectile weapons

sweet ty

[Panda]

Originally posted by Ice-Nine:

Originally posted by sad sack:

The item “Dagger” is melee damage. Throwing daggers are projectile damage. It was confusing at first, but if you buy an item that grants +projectile damage, then the throwing dagger damage will increase. They also show up for characters that can only use projectile weapons

Throwing knives are also melee damage, not projectile damage. Projectile damage seems to be limited to bows/arrows.

Each weapon will tell you which type of damage it scales with. It will say something like "Stat Used: 70% of Melee Power" (except that Melee Power is represented by an icon of a sword, rather than words).

ahh interesting ty

[Ice-Nine]

Just FYI you selected an incorrect response as your answer for the thread.

[Darth Zed]

look at the weapon tooltips.
they will say something like:
damage: (100%) [sword picture]

the percentage is the amount of power that becomes damage, the sword picture is melee, the bow picture is projectile, the star picture is magic.

[sad sack]

I was wrong!! Please make my post not the answer!! Throwing daggers scale from melee damage! How embarrassing! :(


Throwing daggers do melee damage, but they still count as ranged weapons. So the hunter who “can not equip melee weapons” can still use throwing daggers even though they scale with melee damage.

[Vaaluin]

Check the little icon next to the damage. :)
Sword Icon: Melee Damage
Star Icon: Magic
Bow Icon: Projectile