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Discover how to use the Dagger weapon in Throne and Liberty as we explore skills, passives, and off-hand combos in our best beginner Guide.
Dagger in Throne and Liberty is a melee weapon that provides high burst damage, making it the perfect choice for players looking to create an assassin type of character in the game. The Dagger Playstyle revolves around increasing critical chance. Positioning the weapon to the side or rear of the target for additional damage and delivering multiple hits in rapid succession.
Daggers can be great for quickly deadly strikes in close combat. Being a melee weapon, Dagger offers close-range burst potential and mobility. Dagger does have the potential to deal sneaky good burst damage at times, with some of its abilities due to its offhand proc rate, which essentially allows you to hit twice and deal nearly double the damage.
Guide to the Dagger Weapon in Throne and Liberty
The Daggers in Throne and Liberty specializes in poison damage, stealth, and high movement. With the Dagger, you have some of the highest burst damage possible due to passive bonuses boosting critical hit chance and damage. Moreover, your damage increases with certain skills as enemies reach below 50% health. Players who enjoy stealth, rogue, or assassin gameplay will enjoy the Dagger.
The downside of the Dagger is it requires melee gameplay. You will need to avoid mechanics and stand toe-to-toe with various bosses. Therefore, your off-hand decision becomes important. Overall, the Dagger is one of the best weapons and is useful off-hand on any build in Throne and Liberty.
| Dagger Pros | Dagger Cons |
|---|---|
| High Crit | Positioning |
| High Mobility | PVP Focused |
| Burst DPS | Off Hands |
How to Obtain Dagger
You can get the dagger in Throne and Liberty from quest rewards, merchants, or crafting. Find the Lithograph location in your codex and various materials to craft a dagger. Then, you can craft at merchants once all materials and costs are met.
How to Upgrade the Dagger
You need to use Growthstones at a higher rarety to upgrade the Dagger. Make an epic quality Growthstone by using the rare quality Growthstones. Dissolve the high-quality Growthstones into many lower-quality Growthstones that can used later in the game for several purposes. The Growthstones are further broken into the following three categories.
- Precious Growthstones
- Quality Growthstones
- Rare Growthstones
Upgrading a rare item requires rare growthstones, and you need quality growth stones for quality items.
To upgrade the Dagger, simply open the main menu by pressing the F10 key and select the equipment Enchanting option. The equipment Level Up menu will pop up on the screen. Select the Dagger from the inventory. The effect of the upgrade preview will appear on the screen.
Keep in mind that there is an RNG effect when upgrading your Dagger. You will get a partial process to the next level whenever you use Growhstones on the upgrade. In simple words, you need to use Growthstones multiple times to upgrade by one level in Throne and Liberty.
The number of growth stones required to upgrade the Dagger is proportional to the current level of Dagger. It only costs 1 Growthstone if you are upgrading it for the first time.
Basic Mechanics of the Dagger Weapon
Dagger aims to hit hard and hit fast. Dagger focuses on dealing single-target damage in the form of DoTs and bursts such as Enfeeble: Poison. The dagger’s active skills revolve around fast single-target damage through burst sigils, high-mobility interaction, and DoTs. Many dagger skills have a cooldown when they’re used.
The dagger in Throne and Liberty buffs players’ primary weapon while enhancing their survivability through camouflage cloak and evasion. Every weapon in the game has unique skills and characteristics that are used to achieve goals, and the Dagger is no exception.
Best Dagger Stat Points
For the best Dagger Stats, allocate your stat points: 30 Strength, 30 Dexterity, 10 Wisdom, and 19 Perception. Prioritize Dexterity to 30 for bonus damage, then strength for increased health and max damage.
Below is the best recommended Stat Point for the Dagger in Throne and Liberty.
- 30 Dexterity: Affects critical attacks, maximum damage, and evasion.
- 30 Strength: Increase max health, defense, minimum damage, and Max damage.
- 19 Perception: Affects Time boost ability, accuracy, maximum damage, crowd control effects, and minimum damage.
- 10 Wisdom: determines maximum mana, maximum damage, skill cooldown, and mana regeneration.
Active Skills
Below are all the active skills for the Dagger in Throne and Liberty:
| Active Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| Cleaving Moonlight | Charges to a designated target up to 3m away, attacking every enemy within a 1.5m radius 3 times. Each attack deals 190% + 35, and Off-Hand Weapon Activation deals damage 4 times. |
| Shadow Strike | Moves behind a target and deals damage equal to 200% of Base Damage. Has a(n) 80% chance to Bind the target for 2s and apply Silence: Poison for 4s. |
| Inject Venom | Adds Weaken: Poison effect to all attacks for 9s. Poison lasts for 6s and deals 4.1% of Base Damage + 2 damage per stack every second, while decreasing Health Regen by 4% per stack. Stacks up to 20 times. Reusing the skill within 9s will trigger a stabbing attack with the both hands, where each stab inflicts 130%+31 damage, and then turn to inflict additional 195%+47 damage. The turning attack is increased by 4% per each Poison stack. |
| Brutal Incision | Deals 650% of Base Damage + 212 damage. When the target’s remaining Health is 50% or less, Critical Hit 600. Critical Damage 20%. |
| Knife Throwing | Throws 5 daggers in the designated direction up to 4.8 times the Attack Range. Each dagger deals 60% of Base Damage, with a(n) 80% chance of decreasing the target’s Move Speed by 68.5% and Incoming Heal by 68.5% for 6s. |
| Ankle Strike | Deals damage equal to 210% of Base Damage + 16. Against Bound, Sleeping, or Stunned targets, or those using Static Defense, has a(n) 96% chance to apply Collision: Prone. Cannot be used while moving. |
| Camouflage Cloak | Becomes Stealthed for 10.5s, unable to be targeted. Removes all Bind and Move Speed reduction effects. Your first attack while Stealthed is a guaranteed Critical Hit. If you are hit, or Morph, or becomes a target of Collision, Stun, or Sleep, you will no longer be Stealthed. |
| Umbral Spirit | Deals additional 41% of Base Damage +19 upon a Melee Critical Hit for 6s. Delivers 2 additional attacks against targets you have Poisoned, each attack dealing 8.2% of Base Damage + 4. Activates once per attack. |
| Fatal Stigma | Marks the target, decreasing Incoming Heal by 60% for 3s. Deals 405% of Base Damage + 110. Deals 7.2% additional damage per stack against targets you have applied Poison or Thunderclouds to. |
| Frenzied Sword Dance | Approach the target and deal 190% + 38 of the basic damage. Attack 7 times in quick succession. The 7 attacks will be spread out amongst all valid targets within 6m. |
| Phantom Smokescreen | Crates a 3m radius zone that lasts for 3s. Party members within the area always evade all Magic and Ranged projectiles. |
| Vampiric Strike | Deals damage equal to 230% of Base Damage +40, and inflicts additional damage equal to 69% of the inflicted damage +12. Recovers 30% of the damage dealt as Health. |
Passive Skills
Below are all the passive skills for the Dagger in Throne and Liberty:
| Passive Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| Assassin’s Step | After defeating the target, Increase Mana Regen 94 and Move Speed 37.2% for 6 seconds. The first skill used within the duration will not consume any Mana. Lasts 9s at night. |
| Assassin’s Instinct | Increases Melee, Ranged, and Magic Critical Hit by 290. |
| Murderous Energy | Poison and Thunderclouds durations increase by 30% and Poison damage increases by 11% during the day. Poison Damage increases by 30% at night. |
| Shadow Walker | After using a Mobility or movement skill, Damage reduction increases by 14 and Ranged and Magic evasion increases by 690 for 6s. |
| Vicious Fangs | Ranged, Melee and Magic Critical Hit increase by 330 against targets you have applied Poison or Thunderclouds to. |
| Assassination Stance | On Evading, has a 15% chance to apply Camouflage Cloak cooldown 15.4%. |
| Wrathful Edge | Critical Damage 18%. |
Defensive Skill
The Dagger’s defensive skill is Block Blade: Defends against attacks. On defending against a Fury Attack while stationary, 852 Mana regenerates. On defending against a Fury Attack within 0.5 seconds, Block Blade changes to Poison Dagger for 3 seconds. Wrath Attacks can’t be defended. Use the directional buttons to defend against attacks while moving 4 meters in the designated direction for 0.5s. Becomes Stealthed for 3 seconds to make yourself unable to be targeted and increase Mana Regen by 2130 after defending against Fury or Wrath Attack. Block Blade changes to Poison Dagger. The first attack while Stealthed is a Critical Hit. Stealth ends when you attack or morph.
Poison Dagger: Throws up to 5 daggers at enemies within a 5m radius, dealing 100% damage and applying Weaken: Poison. Distributes the attack if there are multiple enemies within range.
Mastery Tree
The dagger weapon is categorized into three skill trees: Disguise, Poison, and Assassination. The Poison Tree focuses on debuffing and weakening opponents. Use the Enfeebling Skills to defeat the enemies. However, for maximum damage output, we recommend using the Assassination tree.
Weapon Mastery points are limited at the initial stage of the game. You can earn these mastery points as your experience per kill and quest increase with level and zones. While your secondary weapon gains fewer points, the main hand weapon gains increased weapon mastery.
Disguise Weapon Mastery Tree
Disguise Weapon Mastery Tree focuses on duration, evasion, and efficiency. Below are all the passives and bonuses for the Disguise Weapon Mastery Tree:
| Column | Bonus | Number |
|---|---|---|
| Health Regen | +14 | 1 |
| Ranged Defense | +40 | 2 |
| Mana Cost Efficiency | +4% | 3 |
| Debuff Immunity | Debuff Duration -6% | 4 |
| Master of Evasion | All Evasion +105 | 5 |
| Cooldown Speed | +2% | 6 |
| Ranged Defense | +120 | 7 |
| Buff Duration | +6% | 8 |
| Strong Will | Weaken Resistance +125 | 9 |
Poison
The Poison Mastery Tree boost melee hit and status effect of Enfeebling Terror. Below are all the passives and bonuses for the Poison Mastery Tree:
| Column | Bonus | Number |
|---|---|---|
| Off-hand Weapon Attack Chance | +0.8% | 1 |
| Melee Hit | +20 | 2 |
| Mana Regen | +28 | 3 |
| Enfeebling Terror | Weaken Chance +75 | 4 |
| Sorrowful Silence | Silence Chance +100 | 5 |
| Buff Duration | +4% | 6 |
| Melee Hit | +60 | 7 |
| Mana Cost Efficiency | +6% | 8 |
| Shrewd Judgment | Cooldown Speed +5% | 9 |
Assassination Weapon Mastery Tree
Assassination is the best for raw damage bonuses with the Dagger. Below are all the passives and bonuses for the Assassination Mastery Tree:
| Column | Bonus | Number |
|---|---|---|
| Base Damage | +4 | 1 |
| Melee Critical Hit | +20 | 2 |
| Melee Critical Hit | +40 | 3 |
| Ambidexterity | Off-hand Weapon Activation Rate Boost +6% | 4 |
| Deep Grudge | Critical Damage +8% | 5 |
| Cooldown Speed | +2% | 6 |
| Skill Damage Boost | +30 | 7 |
| Base Damage | +12 | 8 |
| Maddening Excitement | Attack Speed +6.5% | 9 |
Best Dagger Weapon Combinations
The best off-hand weapon combination with the Dagger is the Greatsword because it provides great area damage and survivability, complimenting the dagger’s two weakest points. The Dagger + Greatsword is a burst damage with long range. With this combination, you can use daggers as an off-hand damage as well. This is the perfect melee DPS build, with high mobility, survivability, and damage burst.
Dagger + Greatsword: Greatsword is the best melee partner for the Dagger. Both of these weapons provide hard crowd control, burst damage, and mobility. Use skills like Shadow Strike or Stunning Blow to hold an enemy down, so this combination can keep a player in check for several seconds at a time. The passive abilities of Greatsword and the Dagger work very well, providing maximum HP pools, Critical Hit Damage, and much more. This combo is considered to be as “Bruiser” of Throne and Liberty.
Dagger + Crossbow: The combination of Dagger and Crossbow is the bread and butter for you in Throne and Liberty. To deal increased damage, both of these weapons use the Off-Hand Weapon Chance. However, both weapons work in short ranges, making it an Assassin’s type combo. For players who prefer an assassin-style combat then these combos are for those.
Dagger + Any Weapon: Daggers can honestly pair up with any weapon in Throne and Liberty. Daggers provide a ton of damage, evasion, and support and act as a perfect back-bar weapon.
Dagger Gameplay Tips for Beginners
Below are all the Gameplay Tips and Tricks for the Dagger in Throne and Liberty.
- Use the Ankle Strike on the stunned opponents to deal a 30% increased attack and use the stunning blow to immobilize your enemies.
- To activate your passive Vicious fangs, use Inject Venom before the combo to enhance the crit chance. As a result, it will boost the damage of the combo.
- Aim for dealing damage instead of support.
- Use a dagger to disable and poison enemies by mixing different types of Damage over Time attacks and status effects.
- If there are multiple enemies within range then separate the attacks.
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