Daggers

Overview

Daggers are one-handed, low damage, low delay weapons utilized by a few jobs in the game, most notably Thieves, Red Mages and Bards, although equippable by a handful more. A staggeringly large amount of daggers include some sort of bonus to the user's stats, and many include Additional Effect bonuses, such as poison or blindness.

In later levels, many daggers include effects that put them in a much higher damage category, either through various effects (hidden and not), or simply through a more powerful damage rating. A couple of examples of this include the Blau Dolch and the Jambiya daggers.

It is important to note that many early Dagger weaponskills are unimpressive without the aid of Job Abilities to strengthen them, such as the Thief's Sneak Attack and Trick Attack. Because of this, it is often inefficient for jobs other than Thief to wield daggers before the higher level weaponskills, except in certain situations, such as a Red Mage fighting an elemental with en-spells, or a mage looking to use one of the MP draining weaponskills.