Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

I was wondering if anybody could help me out. My question is, what is the statistical increase in damage going from 1 ascended dagger with an exotic dagger off-hand, to 2 ascended daggers. I’m trying to decide if it’s worth making a second ascended dagger or if I should just stick with the one I have finished.

What I’m really wondering is how the stats on the offhand dagger effect the overall damage output. Technically you’re doing damage with your main hand on most of your swings, but I’m not really sure how the off-hand damage numbers are calculated. Do they only effect the damage done when you swing your offhand dagger, or do they boost your overall damage output no matter what hand you’re swinging with?

Thanks very much to anybody that can help me out!

Give me your build – ALL of it. It is 50-60 more attack could mean more benefit to a 2500 attack build than to a 3000 attack build (statistically speaking of course).

Also, the overall attack (shown in the Hero Panel) is provided by adding the average of your weapons highest attack value to your Power attribute.

Source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Attack_%28attribute%29

As a full-zerk D/D thief I can tell you, upgrading your offhand-dagger to an ascended one isn’t worth the time or money you’d have to spend on it at all.
While the first ascended dagger boosted my backstab by around 100+ basedamage when attacking from behind, the second one boosted around 4 basedamage.
So if you only want that second ascended dagger to improve your damage, you might consider, if you’re willing to put in all the effort for literally almost no damage improvement.

Scorpicor.2157:

As a full-zerk D/D thief I can tell you, upgrading your offhand-dagger to an ascended one isn’t worth the time or money you’d have to spend on it at all.
While the first ascended dagger boosted my backstab by around 100+ basedamage when attacking from behind, the second one boosted around 4 basedamage.
So if you only want that second ascended dagger to improve your damage, you might consider, if you’re willing to put in all the effort for literally almost no damage improvement.

What about CnD? It is a really important damaging skill in the D/D weaponset

Right now I’m running straight zerk exotics, with 5/6 superior rune of Lyssa and a Ruby Orb in the 6th armor slot. I’ve got ascended rings & necklace, with one more ascended accessory to get, and a rare back slot. I’m not so sure if the Lyssa runes are the best or not, but I spent a bunch of money on them a while back so I haven’t really looked into it yet tbh.

Thanks for the responses! Sounds like it’s not really worth it. I’ll probably just start working on leathercrafting to get a ascended shortbow or something instead.

Okay, I just made some tests with different lvl 80 berserker daggers, since I didn’t think of CnD.
Upgrading from an exotic dagger to an ascended one boosted CnD by 65 basedamage.

So I was wrong. An ascended dagger in your offhand apparently has more effect than I thought.
Sorry about that :/

Tagus Eleuthera.7305:

Right now I’m running straight zerk exotics, with 5/6 superior rune of Lyssa and a Ruby Orb in the 6th armor slot. I’ve got ascended rings & necklace, with one more ascended accessory to get, and a rare back slot. I’m not so sure if the Lyssa runes are the best or not, but I spent a bunch of money on them a while back so I haven’t really looked into it yet tbh.

Thanks for the responses! Sounds like it’s not really worth it. I’ll probably just start working on leathercrafting to get a ascended shortbow or something instead.

The only reason to go for Lyssa runes is for using their 6th bonus with Basilisk Venom. Having only 5 runes on you it’s like having a Ferrari without fuel. So either get that 6th rune or change your runeset asap.

On the other hand, consider changing your OH dagger too