Is daggering for gear still a thing?

[BrowneHawk]

I have played a bit of battle bros. No pro, but I get by. I have never managed to get the early game dagger thing down. Does putting dagger on all your guys and trying to envelope the last enemy still work for gear farming? Or has it been nerfed?

[Včelí medvídek]

I use it pretty reliably on Bandit leaders so imho yes. It is not 100% and occasionally I get nothing but getting at least piece or two of their gear most of time.

[Kill'em ALL]

It still works, but even when using daggers/flails to avoid doing any damage to the armor the drop is still not guaranteed, there is always a chance it will be destroyed at the end of battle.

The way I *think* it works (do not quote me on this, or maybe wait for one of the code-savvy regulars to either confirm or correct me) is that every piece of armor gets assigned a random "additional damage" at the end of the battle regardless of its' current state. If this "additional damage" takes it to 0% then it is destroyed and does not show up in the loot screen after battle.
Hence an armor that got reduced to 20% durability during battle is almost guaranteed to disappear, while untouched armor has a *high* (but not 100%) chance to be retrievable.
I base this assumption on the fact that even armors that I know for sure were not touched during battle (most often those belonging to brigand leaders, as they are the easiest to track on a regular basis) can still appear in various states of disrepair in the loot screen.
It *might* be that the "additional damage" percentage gets adjusted with updates but I can't say to have noticed it myself.
Again, do not quote me on that unless somebody can confirm as I do not know the game code.

As a side note the Northern Raiders origin have an unique perk which allows them to loot items in 0% condition after battle. If you feel like tackling the challenge (or browsing for an optimal/"easy" seed for that particular origin, which mostly means having the 1 friendly noble house controlling a sizeable portion of the map) they will quickly reward you with more looted armor than you can reasonably use (repairing 0% armor to sell it is seldom worth it).

[Zalikovka]

I played with barbarians origin and one of starting bros was dagger master. My opinion - dagger bro is a waste of a good fighter.
Better to give daggers(or even knives in early game) to all brothers, focus on winning the battle, and then use daggers to increase loot.
I use daggers even on raiders, fallen heroes, not only leaders and knights, and it gives some free money.

[nightworg]

Yea it is still a thing. It is important to get raider gear asap to survive, and even later on with Knights.