why daggers?

[Jim]

What is the advantage to the dagger? Is there more damage than a sword? It's faster, but not by much

[IncubusDragon]

I think it's the only weapon you can use in your left hand, so yiu can dual-wield with a sword, axe, or club... your attack with both hands significantly increases your offensive capability, albeit at the cost of your defensive capability (shields don't offer much defence except against spider venom at the moment, but I'm assuming that will be balanced better in the future).

[cyben]

I'm not sure IncubusDragon is correct. While the Set ritual dagger is a left-handed weapon, I'm not sure the other daggers are.

I'm also 100% certain that the Set Ritual Dagger cannot be attacked with at the same time as a main-hand weapon. It just doesn't work that way.

I will also say that the Set Ritual Dagger WILL out-dps an iron pick or axe, and while I haven't checked, I'd assume some of the other daggers are stronger than the Set-dagger.

Basically the point of daggers is, IMO, to be a light, convenient backup weapon to have on hand if you run out of arrows (archer) or otherwise don't want to take a full size/weight sword on a harvesting trip.

Maybe they'll add in dual-wielding attacks in the future, but currently they don't exist.


Off-topic, I think the most hilarious thing I've ever seen was a halfling (D and D) with all the required perks to let him use two handed weapons... one handed, who proceeded to dual-wield great-maces. Yeah. He was simultaneously using two weapons that probably each weighed more than he did.

To top it off I think he was a ranger with a giant spider.

[Kate Upton]

I can easily see them implying some kind of dual wielding thing with daggers to be more "assassin" just like in Age of Conan

[Kai]

Left handed weapons are useless, and as are low tier shields.

These stuff aren't polished, they seem to be there as placeholders.

You are better off putting a shield on the left hand than a dagger anyways.

Also the dagger's attack speed is incredibly slow, it's only slightly faster than a sword.
If I were to swing a dagger with my hand, I should probably slash, 2-3 times faster than a stone sword in this game. The power strike of the dagger is pointless unless it's a crippling move, but against hyenas it's useless when 100% of their bites are crippling.

Because NPCs and animals/monsters have a 360 degree aggro range of 9999 (I kid you not), you can't even sneak up on them and backstab with a dagger.

[Albtraum]

I've read somewhere that daggers will be the only thing you'll eventually/are able to tip with poison, but possibly just a rumour. However, at the sametime it has been said that the combat currently in general is just placeholder and will be changed/polished in the future.