Dagger Build

[Charles Lington]

Hi,
So I'm starting to get an understanding of this game's mechanics and wanted to experiment with some new builds that I haven't tried before. My usual builds are archers/crossbowmen with throwing weapons, 2hmelee, polearms with whips and tanks. Recently I've tried hybrid of crossbowman with throwing weapons, 2h axe and whip and so far it's my favourite creation

I'm interested in dagger mastery, because 3 attacks per turn is something unusual and worth checking also daggers seem like side weapon to farm gear and nothing else and I'd like to find out if there's any use to it. Also I've had some instances where my well armoured bro got painfully damaged by a single thug wielding simple dagger, only becauase he managed to ignore the armour.

What perks are good for a dagger master and what attributes should a bro have? I think duelist is no brainer. I got bro with lots of health, high Matk. First mistake I made is giving him battle forged instead of nimble, which makes him rarely use 3 attacks due to high fatigue. I've also chosen adaptation perk, which I've never used before, since with 3 attacks, it can give up to 20% higher chance of attack in one turn.

[The Duck Knight]

the daggermastery, in my opinion, has 2 great uses: the (2H)-mace/quatar-dagger synergy if you place him next to a fitting other Brother.
and in combination with Overwhelm, since 3 stacks of overflow per turn is downplaying the enemy a lot.
I had a nimble shieldtank, daggermaster in one of my plays, that worked really impressive in keeping melee strong enemies that are hard to hit busy for quite some time (looking at swordmasters, bladedancers, assassins, and so on),
but to be honest:
Both are rather fun, yet working, buildconcepts.
I've also seen people work with daggermasters and fearsome, which also seems to work decent.

In any case: as long as you don't combine it with a second Brother for stuns, your damage won't be that high. The quatar-dagger killing blow damage with another Brother to disable the target first....has quite some damage potencial.

[turtle225]

Dagger builds will differ a lot depending on whether you are using a Puncture focused build with a Rondel or if you are using the Qatal from Blazing Deserts.

It sounds like you were talking about Puncture builds, in which case Duelist doesn't really make a lot of sense since it doesn't benefit Puncture. I would benefit normal attacks but if you wanted to use normal attacks you should use a Qatal instead.

With Puncture, you can carry a shield and not lose any damage. 25 "free" defense (with shield spec Heater) is pretty amazing to have on a damage dealer. Puncture builds need high Fatigue and high melee skill to make use of Puncture spamming. 90 Fatigue after gear is what I would recommend if possible, so Nimble is recommended to make this easier to achieve.

Fearsome for sure, and then you can laugh when Warriors start fleeing just from you stabbing them a few times. If you want to reliably injure Warriors, Chosen, and other rare beefy humans then you will need CS, but if you don't care about this then it can be skipped. Executioner is good either way.

For a Qatal Duelist, Overwhelm + Fearsome makes them very good at disabling enemies in 1v1 scenarios. Having an Adrenaline mace guy or someone else nearby who can toss nets on priority targets can help boost your damage.

[Uncle Khai]

First you need find a guy can solo 1 1 with over 160 init after gear
Here perk: https://tumult.cc/bb-calc.html?1-6&2-3&3-5&4-7&5-2&5-3&6-3&7-2&2-5&2-7
Lv perks by order I sent you in link

-2h mace hit - qh qatar - pause - end turn

- go first again - Qatar hit hit hit - pause - end turn
Or qatar hit - swap back to 2h mace hit - pause - end turn

You can solo with anyone even lindwurm not a big problem

The ultimate build of 1vs1

[Uncle Khai]

Use him wise! Be flexible and control one side of map