Guild Wars 2

Is anyone else as disappointed as me with the champion drop dagger skins? After seeing cobalt I figured there would be some cool dagger skins too. Nope. No daggers version of vision of the mists. No dagger from super adventure box. Why des Ante hate designing daggers so much?

Seriously, would it be so hard to just make a smaller cobalt or something and call it a dagger? I’d be happy with even that. It would give me something new to get after using Ghastly Daggers and Corrupted Shards since hitting 80.

My ele and thief yearn for some of those fancy particle effects.

The eccentric style of many of the Champion weapons would have been a perfect opportunity for one or two sword-length dagger skins.
Then my Thief could use a couple reverse-grip swords like a BAWS!

But all I’m left with is disappointment.

I don’t know what you’re talking about. The new champion dagger, Komalie’s Sacrificial Blade, is one of the nicest dagger skins I’ve seen in the game.

The Sovereign from the event npc’s also looks really nice on an ele

Agreed! I think the Komalie dagger is the best dagger skin I’ve seen yet in GW2. Personal tastes may differ and all that.

Well it’s kinda cool unlike some.. -points at staff-

Why is everyone bigging up Cobalt?
It’s just a reskinned Ebonblade, and worse looking as far as I’m concerned.

I disagree completely. Komalie’s Sacrificial Blade is stunning – it’s the most beautiful dagger skin in the game, in my opinion. I’ve been tracking it desperately, hoping to find out what drops it so I can farm it. Not all weapons need particle effects to be beautiful, and I think this dagger is a perfect example of that.

Though I will agree that Anton’s blade isn’t very exciting.

There’s a lot of designs here I like: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dagger_gallery

I think the what people are asking for is more and better particle effects?

If every weapon receives awesome particle effects.
Then they would rather have those than an ugly legendary…

But…but…the Incinerator looks nice

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

I don’t know what you’re talking about. The new champion dagger, Komalie’s Sacrificial Blade, is one of the nicest dagger skins I’ve seen in the game.

Oe, that are some nice looking daggers right there..

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

I don’t know what you’re talking about. The new champion dagger, Komalie’s Sacrificial Blade, is one of the nicest dagger skins I’ve seen in the game.

But it’s doesn’t have like flames coming out of it, or anything! How can a skin be cool without flames?

Infact we need more weapons with flashier effects. I want an explosion Michael Bay would be proud of every time I hit an enemy. The only way to go is up. Why stop there, just make the dagger skin the same as the greatsaw, imagine how cool it’d be to dual wield those?

Mungrul.9358:

Why is everyone bigging up Cobalt?
It’s just a reskinned Ebonblade, and worse looking as far as I’m concerned.

Check it out when you are wielding it. There are blue Ascalon-like flames on it when you wield it. Some very flashy and nice animation to it.

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

I don’t know what you’re talking about. The new champion dagger, Komalie’s Sacrificial Blade, is one of the nicest dagger skins I’ve seen in the game.

But it’s doesn’t have like flames coming out of it, or anything! How can a skin be cool without flames?

Infact we need more weapons with flashier effects. I want an explosion Michael Bay would be proud of every time I hit an enemy. The only way to go is up. Why stop there, just make the dagger skin the same as the greatsaw, imagine how cool it’d be to dual wield those?

Doesn’t have to be super flashy, but SOME form of animation so it can be paired with lets say Incinerator and not look stupid. Even if it was just a slight gold/red glow to it I would have been happy. And it would have made sense too. Dagger of Komalie would have absorbed energy from the sacrifices → ends up with a slight glow or trail to it. Not very difficult. The dagger itself looks very nice. All it needs (IMO) is a slight glow and trail affect added to it like the Fractal weapons.

i always wanted a shadow series of weapons. basically, they would be destroyer/corrupted weapons, but made of black metal and the particles would make it look like shadows rising up from it, which would leave a trail as it swung around.

Daggers and staves have the least exciting skins for me. As an elementalist, this makes it very hard to get good looking weapons, especially since I’m an asura and they are all so small! I need something flashy for them to be even visible. So far the Zenith staff is the best, but I would really prefer a staff with some fire effects (as the theme of my character is fire). I really wanted a fused dagger, but I refuse to buy lottery tickets from the gem store.

ElenaDragon.8401:

Daggers and staves have the least exciting skins for me. As an elementalist, this makes it very hard to get good looking weapons, especially since I’m an asura and they are all so small! I need something flashy for them to be even visible. So far the Zenith staff is the best, but I would really prefer a staff with some fire effects (as the theme of my character is fire). I really wanted a fused dagger, but I refuse to buy lottery tickets from the gem store.

There’s always the destroyer dagger:
http://dulfy.net/2013/03/11/gw2-dagger-gallery/#11
and the molten dagger:
http://dulfy.net/2013/03/11/gw2-dagger-gallery/#32

Personally, while I don’t have a character that wields a dagger, there are several that I love their design. Some of the ones I really like (note that I’m not a big fan of over the top particles, no problem with more subtle ones):

http://dulfy.net/2013/03/11/gw2-dagger-gallery/#7
http://dulfy.net/2013/03/11/gw2-dagger-gallery/#17
http://dulfy.net/2013/03/11/gw2-dagger-gallery/#20b
http://dulfy.net/2013/03/11/gw2-dagger-gallery/#26
http://dulfy.net/2013/03/11/gw2-dagger-gallery/#29
http://dulfy.net/2013/03/11/gw2-dagger-gallery/#33
http://dulfy.net/2013/03/11/gw2-dagger-gallery/#45 (this one is great for a necro)
http://dulfy.net/2013/03/11/gw2-dagger-gallery/#48
http://dulfy.net/2013/03/11/gw2-dagger-gallery/#55

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

I don’t know what you’re talking about. The new champion dagger, Komalie’s Sacrificial Blade, is one of the nicest dagger skins I’ve seen in the game.

Gonna agree, saw that dagger and my Guardian was jelly

Raif.9507:

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

I don’t know what you’re talking about. The new champion dagger, Komalie’s Sacrificial Blade, is one of the nicest dagger skins I’ve seen in the game.

But it’s doesn’t have like flames coming out of it, or anything! How can a skin be cool without flames?

Infact we need more weapons with flashier effects. I want an explosion Michael Bay would be proud of every time I hit an enemy. The only way to go is up. Why stop there, just make the dagger skin the same as the greatsaw, imagine how cool it’d be to dual wield those?

Doesn’t have to be super flashy, but SOME form of animation so it can be paired with lets say Incinerator and not look stupid. Even if it was just a slight gold/red glow to it I would have been happy. And it would have made sense too. Dagger of Komalie would have absorbed energy from the sacrifices -> ends up with a slight glow or trail to it. Not very difficult. The dagger itself looks very nice. All it needs (IMO) is a slight glow and trail affect added to it like the Fractal weapons.

Sorry. Internet.

/sarcasm

Actually the Sovereign daggers are probably the best model yet next to corrupted. They have a great shape and they are sharp for a change The sunny glow is great addition too.

Basically we need more daggers like these with different particle effects this has been mentioned since launch..

I actually really like that the Komalie’s dagger doesn’t have particle effects. I think it would ruin it. It has a simple but elegant design, and that’s great for the people who DON’T like super flashy. Anton’s could MAYBE have used some kind of particle effect since its general shape isn’t as interesting, but certainly not Komalie’s.

I agree with OP, the new dagger skins are really disappointing. While the sacrificial blade has a cool looking model, i would still like something with particle effects. The main problem with daggers is that they are really small, so you can hardly tell the difference between the new daggers and random dagger #3214 (especially on an asura). Daggers are already the weapon type with the fewest cool looking skins and i was really annoyed that all the new skins where sub par (though the new sovereign dagger is pretty awesome).

The Boot Blade is just a minor recolor of an already existing Dagger skin (slightly bluer and shinier blade). I agree that one is lame.

The Sacrificial Blade looks great, though. Very cool shape.

I think most of these complaints are just people wanting more glowy particle effects, though. Which, honestly, isn’t that unfair of a complaint. I’m not really someone who values shiny effects over all else personally and I certainly don’t believe every new weapon added needs shine to it, BUT… many of the other champion weapons added have particle effects. So comparatively at least, it would have been nice to have at least one new dagger with particle effects as well, especially since daggers in general don’t have too many weapons that have them. Preferably instead of the Boot Blade (or throw some particles on that one itself).

SAB skins were never a complete set, and that was because they didn’t have time to design the full set so they decided to release what they had done and wait until SAB returns to introduce more. The Super Dagger Skin almost certainly will come sometime in the future.

The Mists weapons are just player-wielded versions of the weapons Mesmer Phantasms use. Its just reusing an asset to create a playable weapon. No Mesmer Phantasm holds a dagger, and thus no Mists dagger skin.

I really like the new dagger. It’s lack of particle effects make it all the better.
I wish there would be more focus on armor and weapon designs and less on adding particles so people can look like Christmas trees.

the sacrifical blade looks pretty cool, i want one for myself. it looks like the dagger of time lol.

Personally I like the new Komalie dagger, both for lore and for the cool skin. I’m thinking about replacing my Ebonhawke dagger with it.

I would love to see a dagger skin looking like this: http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/2/2c/Underworld-ArmBlade-1.jpg/600px-Underworld-ArmBlade-1.jpg

It may be difficult to get as some of the rotation animations like Cloak and Dagger should be ignored for it, but it is doable and most of the attack animations fit if you imagine a blade in that position (and the throw dagger skills can move the arm the same way and just throw a blade).

But there are some nice daggers out there.

RyanThomas.4182:

No daggers version of vision of the mists.

Vision of the mists set comes from the weapons that Mesmer phantasms use. There isn’t a mesmer wielding daggers.

The other “phantasmal” set is based on Guardian’s summoned weapons.

I personally love how some of the daggers look it’s just when you wield one weapon with particle effects it looks weird when you don’t have both weapons with it. just my opinion. Anyway someone brought up shadow particle effects and i say plz a=net make something with shadow effects something for necro and thiefs. In example would be Lord Taeres’s Shadow. The shadow effects the purple text glow. Now that would look good on a dagger.

Apparently it’s a known fact that ANet hates every weapon, class, farming location, gimmick build, Quaggan champions and small yapping dogs (can’t blame them on that last one).