best upgrade path for black widow dagger?

[Lord Tony]

I was thinking salty since most aquatic things are weak to salty but I rarely go in the water

[blackphoenixx]

Most aquatic things don't matter since they either don't attack you at all or aren't a serious threat. The only exceptions are diving bell spiders - which you should be more than capable of handling by the time you get the dagger - and spiny water flea, which are weak to stabbing.

So i wouldn't bother upgrading it for underwater combat. If you're going to do that get a sour rusty spear instead, it'll serve you better against the one tier 3 water enemy. And almost nothing resist sour, so it'll also be useful for other things weak to stabbing.

As for the rest well... the dagger simply isn't very good. Its damage is on the low side and about half the things weak to slashing are immune to poison (which isn't that strong either), so it's generally not worth an inventory slot to carry it imo.

YMMV depending on what else you have and use of course.

My current general carry loadout is a fresh rusty spear, spicy termite axe, fresh toenail scimitar, fresh black ox hammer, salt morning star and black ox crossbow which deals with pretty much everything you'll encounter in the upper yard.

For moths i also use the sour staff, the spicy coaltana for the broodmother and for black widows a mighty rusty spear and the spicy staff to clear widowlings or broodmother adds, but you can leave those at home if you don't plan on fighting them to save inventory space.

I could replace the toenail scimitar with the dagger, but the scimitar does more damage and has longer reach. All of the other weapons are used against bugs that the dagger wouldn't be good against, so replacing them makes no sense.
There simply isn't a bug where i'd want to use it over another weapon.

So personally? Level 6 of some element you have excess shards of, just so you can repair it with glue. Though mine is unlikely to see the light of day again until i need it to harvest something.

[R3DSH1RTS]

BW dagger has stupidly low durability, so don't bother. I upgraded mine to L6S, and it drops to half after one, yeah you read right... ONE WOLF SPIDER.
I'm not even on Whoa!...

[gutlor]

I would grab the pinch whacker and level it up only as it got damaged enough to warrant it. Use the toxicology badge with super stink arrows and the whacker should be enough.

[gutlor]

Originally posted by R3DSH1RTS:

BW dagger has stupidly low durability, so don't bother. I upgraded mine to L6S, and it drops to half after one, yeah you read right... ONE WOLF SPIDER.
I'm not even on Whoa!...

it only has one necessary use, to get pond moss.

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