Guild Wars 2

So I was browsing the web and this forum for some cool looking dagger skins and was left dissapointed by the amount of recipes I found for daggers in the MF since a lot of other weapons have a lot of cool looking skins. I checked the following sources:
- http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge/Equipment
- http://dulfy.net/2013/03/11/gw2-dagger-gallery/
and also reddit(you never know) and , as stated, this forum . My question is – are these 3 skins really all the available dagger skins you can craft using the MF(Tear of Grenth, Jormag’s Needle and the mystic one) or are the recipes just not discovered yet. I main a thief and d/d is my prefered setup 90% of the time and I’m looking for something with cool particles to replace my two corrupted shards I’ve been using for over half a year.
On a sidenote the new ascended sunless dagger is awesome but … rng… and I’ll be wanting a pair … just not going there xD.

Some of the dagger skins can be acquired from MF only as a matter of RNG (by dropping 4 rare/exo daggers and hoping something nice comes out). Usually they are created as a side effect of precursor hunting, and so can be bought cheaply off TP.
Other (Centurion Claw, Fractal dagger, for example) can’t be acquired from MF at all (and can’t be bought).
Not sure if the champion loot bag skins can appear in MF – haven’t got one of them yet that way.

In general, though, the small weapon skins are a bit underwhelming compared to other weapons (and especially to the variety of looks that greatswords have). If you are going for particles specifically, there’s not much options there currently (fractals would be the best, imo, but… rng). I hope Anet will look closer on those and add more options in the future.

According to dulfy.net gallery there are 74 dagger skins and 79 Greatsword skins. Overall the balance is not that out of wack (tho I get that you are talking about Exotic uniques).

According to the Wiki here is a count of the named weapons (all Exotics and Legendary’s):

• Axes = 16
• Dagger = 12
• Focus = 28
• Greatsword = 14
• Hammer = 13
• Harpoon Gun = 9
• Longbow = 13
• Mace = 6
• Pistol = 11
• Rifle = 10
• Scepter = 16
• Shield = 16
• Short Bow = 13
• Spear = 11
• Staff = 14
• Sword = 19
• Torch = 11
• Trident = 11
• Warhorn = 10

Average is 13.3 so Daggers are low by one and there are many other weapons that have been slighted more (tho, some of them are understandable….like MACE which only 2 classes can use).

What’s up with Focus having over twice as many as the average? There are also nearly 90 Focus skins total (compared with an average of about 76 for other weapons).

Brother Grimm.5176:

According to dulfy.net gallery there are 74 dagger skins and 79 Greatsword skins. Overall the balance is not that out of wack (tho I get that you are talking about Exotic uniques).

According to the Wiki here is a count of the named weapons (all Exotics and Legendary’s):

• Axes = 16
• Dagger = 12
• Focus = 28
• Greatsword = 14
• Hammer = 13
• Harpoon Gun = 9
• Longbow = 13
• Mace = 6
• Pistol = 11
• Rifle = 10
• Scepter = 16
• Shield = 16
• Short Bow = 13
• Spear = 11
• Staff = 14
• Sword = 19
• Torch = 11
• Trident = 11
• Warhorn = 10

Average is 13.3 so Daggers are low by one and there are many other weapons that have been slighted more (tho, some of them are understandable….like MACE which only 2 classes can use).

What’s up with Focus having over twice as many as the average? There are also nearly 90 Focus skins total (compared with an average of about 76 for other weapons).

It is much easier to design a focus than a dagger. A focus can look like pretty much anything. A dagger still has to resemble a dagger in some way.

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