Dagger MH Damage Needs a Buff

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Posted by: KazNaka.4718

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The premise of this topic is that you should be rewarded with higher damage if you’re using melee. This is what the elementalist is lacking. Currently, the fire staff has a greater DPS output than the dagger (fire or air). It has lava font, meteor shower, and a pretty high auto-attack. Now compare that with main-hand dagger; it has lightning whip and burning speed. It doesn’t make sense that we take greater risks and use more skillful play, yet we’re rewarded with less damage.

Take the warrior for example. They can solo Lupicus in 7-8 minutes easy. Elementalists take 2-3 times longer. Why the discrepancy? We use the same level of skill (if not higher), we take greater risk (by being squishier), yet we don’t compete damage-wise at all.

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Posted by: sorrychief.2563

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don’t forget dagger MH has aoe chill, aoe weakness, aoe cripple/bleed and easier to land than dragon’s thooth aoe fire/dmg.

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Posted by: KazNaka.4718

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yet none of those adds to physical damage, which is what matters in PvE dungeons. It should naturally be easier to land since you’re at melee range.

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Posted by: reikken.4961

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I think it’s fine. lightning whip has tons of range for a “melee” attack. if your melee opponent is crippled or chilled, you can kite them while hitting them with it. and it hits a huge AoE

dragon’s claw needs to pierce though. fire autoattack would actually be good if it did, instead of stopping at the first target hit making it have no AoE capability

and impale (earth 1) needs to be faster

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Posted by: sorrychief.2563

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Anet balances pve around spvp and whiners, please go here to discuss: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp.

Also you can’t compare staff to dagger MH because obviously. . . staff has more skills than just a mainhand weapon, so it’s kinda unfair you included meteor shower in your argument.

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Posted by: dietzero.3514

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Earth 1 is junk.

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Posted by: KazNaka.4718

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Anet balances pve around spvp

I really wish they didn’t. What’s wrong with splitting each skills into a pve and pvp aspect like they did with gw1.

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r.i.p RTL

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Posted by: oZii.2864

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Like someone else said you can’t compare a 2h weapon to a 1h weapon. A better comparison is 1h vs 1h.

Dagger MH dps in air is great with lightning whip. For DPS I think lightning whip is the best dps elementalist have. Unless something has changed. Burst is a different story.

Honestly Dagger main hand is pretty good the auto attacks of fire, water, and earth could use some love. Earth especially a little bit faster cast and maybe range increase.

Water auto attack has vulnerability on it and if you hit with the return it is decent. I think the vuln stacks need to be a bit longer maybe an additional 1 or 2 secs added. It has range at 600 so I can understand putting a situational condition on it like vuln just the stacks are a bit to short.

Fire potentially is good but you have to hit all 3 to get good damage out of it. I personally would like fire to be a projectile finisher so you can combo with fire fields.

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