Daggers are the Best Weapon in Elden Ring - Elden Ring All Daggers Breakdown

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[@seretith3513]

I have they Idea to one day take the Stinger into Journey 2 togheter with a Poison Greatknife to give me shorter Intervals between the Buffs from Rot-Kindred and Mushroom Crown. It would from a pure Dex-Run and Arcane would be the Stat i fully invest in Journey2 to set the Scarlet and Poison proc as far apart as possible to make it far more likley that the Rot procs after the Poison-buff expired.

[@yes-um9ic]

Finally! Greatn't sword.

[@rellbandoo6572]

Gold

[@MDMarcus]

lmao

[@benjaminhigham3624]

1/4 Sword?

[@viktorthevictor6240]

O Greater Will, deliver me from brain rot

[@bpooboi]

Very good hahahaha

[@omg_RANCORS]

If you put a great hammer in each hand and the black knife as back up, your going to have a good time.

[@desenhista12]

I'm finishing a run with magic misericorde focused on crits

[@VileLasagna]

One thing to add that kind of went unsaid in the pros and cons regarding critical damage: Individual weapons have their own critical damage multiplier (i.e: two long swords with the same damage numbers, one with 100 crit and the other with 110, will have 10% crit damage difference between them) and daggers DO often have higher than normal multipliers, yes.... BUT ALSO Different weapon classes have their own base crit multiplier for the class itself. A Dagger with 300 damage and 110 crit WILL DO more damage on a crit than a long sword with 300 damage and 110 crit. Daggers DO have the highest base crit multiplier it's their largest claim to fame, so to speak. They are followed in this by Thrusting Swords so if you want a crit-heavy tool that's slightly more versatile, something like the basic Rapier or the Rogier's Rapier are valid option (can confirm from recent personal experience, they pull in the numbers)

[@DejaVuJT]

That damage on Blade of Calling is fucking insane.

[@ShadowNemesis575]

It can hit but it feels like sunken cost because it's 100% holy damage and that damage gets negated pretty hard in endgame which is where you find this dagger. Doesn't make it dogshit but you will have an easier time using pretty much any other damage or projectile ash of war. Even if it will do good damage in early game.... it's early game so everything at +24/+9 will feel really good there and when you move into NG+ where you're more likely to use the dagger in early game that damage negation will just ramp up so it will feel even worse. I'm not here to shit on your dreams but if you're using your buffs correctly you can make a wet napkin kill the all the hardest bosses in the game.

[@RedSkyYT64]

Pretty sure the Wakizashi exists entirely for those of us who want to roleplay the legendary gigachad himself, Miyamoto Musashi, alleged to be the creator of a dual wielding sword style that he called "two heavens as one," (super badass name by the way, why doesn't anyone name things like this anymore) which used either two katana or a katana paired with an offhand wakizashi. He was also a super interesting philosopher, I'd highly recommend anyone to read about him, fascinating guy

[@ThomB1031]

Five Rings

[@clotful]

or just play brave fencer musashi

[@taistelusammakko5088]

He definately did not invent using two swords

[@RedSkyYT64]

@@taistelusammakko5088 he didn't invent using two swords, he supposedly invented a specific style of swordsmanship that uses two swords. Big difference, reading comprehension is important.

[@kaje3435]

the best use for basic dagger is to put utility ash of war for it, example: - Buff with Golden vow and shared order - Quick / Bloodhound Step - Projectile with glintstone pebble, phalanx, sacred blade, and beast roar - Easy status effect with chilling/poison mist, frost stomp, and bloody slash

[@viktorthevictor6240]

Yes! I had chilling mist on that thing for the fire giant and other things

[@ShadowNemesis575]

I mean it's the First dagger. It's basically meant to be a utility item that's abundant because its in a lot of enemies loot pools but if you're going for a status build the great knife dagger that the monkey men drop will pretty much ALWAYS be a better pick because of the built in bleed

[@joels5150]

@@ShadowNemesis575the Great Knife doesn’t drop from the Demi-Human Chiefs, that’s the Bloodstained Dagger. Both do have bleed buildup.

[@ApiaryGaming]

​@@joels5150 yes it does, drops from the assassin variant

[@keztannis6848]

No mention of Assassin's Gambit, opinion disregarded.

[@atquinn1975]

As an over-leveled fool, the Glintstone Khris is monstrous. For a tertiary weapon, I switch between the Khris for distance and the Wing of Astel for dealing with large enemies (dragons, etc) up close.

[@xdoubt4113]

Doing a playthrough of just daggers, I will say the weapon group is...rough to play with. I played with double great knives with high dex/faith/arc to utilize the dragon seal for blood and frenzy spells. It was a lot of fun, don't get me wrong! One of my favorite playthroughs because the great knife is a, well great knife when it comes to building status. It was ALSO however the most frustrating playthrough with missing attacks, low stagger potential, and the nerf to Power Stance status. Now I do NOT want to see the scourge of what P.S. status weapons brought come back EXCEPT for one exception: daggers. I believe daggers are fairly weak, and they definitely could use a buff of being able to keep the same build up of status on power stance. If you think I'm wrong, let me ask you to go try something for me first: Do power stance great knives with blood infusion and see how fast it takes to proc bleed. Now go use the raptor talons claws with occult or bleed infusion and tell me if that's faster! To save you some time, the claws build it up immensely faster, have (ironically) more range and safer combos, and on top of that you only need to upgrade the one set of claws vs the TWO daggers!!! Daggers need a buff, if not all of them, then certainly MOST of them.

[@ThorsShadow]

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[@eternalsence3033]

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[@deluxsound123]

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[@Killjoy.Z]

Bros yappin

[@Carl_with_a_k_]

Bro the ads have never bother me idk what you’re talking about

[@bhoulihan]

He did it with Daggers! I'm hype for this, always wanted to play a Rogue in Elden Ring.

[@pr0cs]

Chin-qwah-day-ah, the italian dagger

[@CharlotteKavina]

I love the videos, but the way he says Cinquedea is only a little upsetting.

[@TheDecree93]

Poe-tay-toe!

[@pr0cs]

​@@TheDecree93boil em mash em put em in a stew

[@mistahanansi2264]

I kept having a mini-seizure every time he mispronounced it xD

[@danielparsley3675]

One thing to note about the Wakizashi is that you can equip the ash of war “parry” to it, so you will be able to use the powerstance move set but also have a parry 🤙

[@herohunter81]

The skill on the Reduvia destroys. Make sure you have high Arcane. It has saved me from many a Rune Bear.

[@quendimirlenintino9605]

When even-tempered Fex says a weapon is not his favorite or not the best it is his way of saying "this weapon is fucking clownshoes"

[@Questroo-zv9gd]

Torchs next?

[@JayNikki04]

Cant wait for the fextra dagger build vids!!!

[@Fextralife]

It’s coming! ❤

[@Cliche8701]

I still don't understand how he calculates the damage of different affinities. 80 points into the main stat for each or something? 40 in all stats? And why does he never mention Occult??

[@robertmcpherson138]

Main thing for Wakizashi is can be used ass an off-hand parry tool for katanas while keeping the katana powerstance move set.

[@Sounds2Ardor]

The bloodstained dagger has a unique 2hand R2 which is much faster than the regular R2.

[@enzo_plays]

Looking forward to seeing a new dagger build next!

[@tannerkennedy4192]

I dislike that he says how a weapon will have higher attack rating when infused with an element without mentioning the fact that it becomes split damage so for example if you have a keen infused dagger and it has 400 AR and you have a lightning infused dagger and it has 430 AR the keen dagger will do more damage because it doesn’t have to go through two types of defense. The only time lightning will out preform is if an enemy is significantly weaker to lightning damage. He also doesn’t mention what stats his character has wich skews results in favor of the elemental infusions because they have higher base damage and worse scaling

[@t_o_n_y_p]

You're right, the damage splits and stat scalings are important. This also never gets into how physical affinities can be buffed with grease or weapon buff incantations (meaning you can do more status buildup and/or buff up to a better total AR than elemental infusions) or how weapons with innate status effects like bleed can benefit from blood or occult infusions. Unfortunately I think weapon scaling's so all over the place that doing a comprehensive deep-dive into every one would be a PhD thesis.

[@nejiefelipe]

The glinstone kris is a solid choice for a side-weapon, it looks amazing and the ash of war was broken in the early patches but now still do decent damage when conecting with the follow up attack...

[@DarkTooniverse]

Finally, the truth is revealed. I've always known daggers were the best, but it makes sense cuz of the backstab mechanic alone.

[@CrappyCar]

I tried doing a dagger only run, but gave up. My favorite uses are: Buff stick with Golden Vow Aow Misericorde w/ Glintblade Phalanx as a set-up for Ice Spear, big crit damage Looking forward to a Dagger build!

[@corpsie1241]

dagger build is my fav build in evry fromsoft game or games in general

[@volgaz01]

Wakazashi your not a Tanto. We already have one. It's called a Tanto.

[@werocks6752]

hello fextralive, I have a question. could you make a build video about the spark aromatics? If you're wondering how, here's a suggestion. Perfumers use daggers as their main weapon. Why don't you do a double dagger build with frost daggers and use the aromatics to thaw the enemy? I use a frost misericod with chilling mist ( for frost ) and scorpion stinger in the offhand for scarlet red. And the best, the daggers scale best with dex and the Main damage is from dex. I would be happy about that.

[@telkaivokalma]

Wow, I had given up hope.

[@aoszkar]

I hate these videos! I lose a larval tear after each one

[@jhank0cean]

Running a dagger playthrough right now! Cinquedea + Beastial Incantations is my favorite

[@PierreLucSex]

you may know it already but I like to 2-hand my claw seal with the cinquedea off hand for max dmg

[@yugotamale]

Wait until ng when you get 2. Super fun option for stregth/faith

[@pigro2]

My recent favorite build is an int/crit build with glintblade falanx on the Misericorde and Carian Retaliation on a small shield. I prioritize parrying when I can, but for enemies that can't be parried, the stance damage on glintblade falanx carries the build.

[@VileLasagna]

Actually played something quite similar to this recently. But I was using a cold Rapier instead of the Misericorde (though later on I had a Lightning Misericorde I used as a backup in one or two fights, including Elden Beast). It was quite wild to play while alternating between a No Skill Medium Shield and a Golden Parry Small Shield on the fly as I always carried both. Made the build surprisingly dynamic. Glintblade Phalanx just never stopped surprising me until the end of the game. The playthrough went much smoother than I expected (though... y'know... Tiche is to blame for some of the late game there but ultimately, no Spirit Ash can carry you on their own if your own build isn't solid)

[@WakeUpUniverse66]

Double Reduvia Bleed build is super fun

[@wikidwisurdzzz49]

I'm looking forward to the fist video

[@F1shyBab1shy]

Some guy ripped apart my Radagon with 2 Erdsteel daggers that had Flame of the Redmanes on it. It was insane

[@Lazarosaliths]

Video : dagger are the best weapon in elden ring 💪🏽 TLDR verdict: daggers aren't so good 😢

[@DiogoVKersting]

I was honestly amazed by how well Reduvia was destroying early game bosses, even with low investment in Arcane. The problem is that late game, there a lot more bosses immune to bleed. Being somber and easy to upgrade, I definitely developed a liking for it.

[@mansgotplans]

Cinquedea down sides are too great compared to others, wish it was better

[@JasperBun]

One thing that I love about the black blade is that it stacks with black knife tiche's black blade as well. Shes a fantastic summon who can damn near solo most bosses by herself. So I like to run the black knife with her to melt bosses.

[@Вейн-э5б]

Oh poor Cinquedea! The most mispronounced weapon alongside caestus. Maybe some day some Elden Ring content maker will name it right but today isn't that day.

[@journeysintotheunknown1152]

How is it pronounced?

[@Вейн-э5б]

@@journeysintotheunknown1152 "Chin-que-dah"

[@Leo.de69]

​​@@Вейн-э5б its closer to ching-kweh-day-ah if you wanna be more accurate

[@thepainphantom]

Daggers are awesome to infused with parry, esp for enemies that have a bit more delay attacks. I killed all of the banished knights in castle sol and farum azula with it (riposte only). For parrying enemies with faster attacks, better use shield and curve swords parry.

[@motivmanogaming]

Erdsteel Dagger SO UNDERRATED

[@Rick-bd3qd]

Black knife is a really good utility in late ng+ cycles especially when stacked with the black blade incantation. The weapon and incant immediately rips of 20% of a bosses health with little risk

[@paracame8162]

add Tiche and it becomes 30% her destined death is unique

[@Dragongaming-ws7bm]

FUCKING FINALLY AFTER A WHOLE YEARRRRR >.

[@victorsantiago3488]

FINALLY IVE BEEN WAITING ON DAGGERS

[@TheHurinThalion]

do you plan to make some update videos o nthe first weapon category videos like greatswords? the newer videos are far more in depth

[@Fextralife]

We'll likely do some more videos on previous weapons while comparing them to the new DLC weapons.

[@bkteer]

wait, does the blade of death and blade of gold dmg comparison account for late game holy resistance by the enemies/bosses? I know I ended up falling back to the black knife during late game boss fights simply because while the burst by the blade of gold is indeed higher, the dps is better with the blade of death. It is also important to note that the blade of death's DOT seems to be %based.

[@MrScentor]

I love putting parry on the wakazashi, power standing katanas and parrying is a lethal combo

[@DavaiPlays]

Nice that we're getting updated content for the stuff on elden ring with the dlc coming up

[@saschaberger3212]

Yeay I was waiting for this. Thank you

[@swordsman111982]

Question is do we see a glintstone Kris build, or a Reduva one next week?

[@JowenAquino]

I didn't realized that this is uploaded just recently.

[@widdershins5383]

Daggers against moon sorceress is hilarious, you can rip through her in the first stage, strong enough the first time you knock her outta the air hahaha

[@nihonii3341]

Is it possible for you to do one for all the shields?

[@TheBioBeast]

Loved the video, but it would be nice if you could also include occult scaling.

[@DrearierSpider1]

I did a pure Intelligence build my first playthrough and completely ignored the Glintstone Kris despite acquiring it. It gets overshadowed by the Darkmoon Greatsword, Moonveil, and Wings of Astel, but I'm definitely going to give it a whirl when the DLC comes out.

[@jenniferhayto4341]

its just as good as moonviel, wing of astel. with the right set up the ash does insane, near best in the game damage

[@firstkeshorder622]

When will Fextra make a ytshort about Aldia?

[@KyussTheWalkingWorm]

A bit of a shame that a video released more than 2 years after the game has been out spends so much time discussing crit ratings without actually explaining how crits work. The rating displayed in weapon info is only one part of the story, the base multiplier for that weapon class as well as the weapon's actual AR are both more important. Daggers are interesting for crits because they have a 4x base mult, by far the highest of any weapon class. Otherwise no one would consider using a misericorde with 140 crit rating if their regular weapon had 40% more AR in the first place. In general I feel like the new videos in this series stick too close to the formula established at release and fail to account for details of the game's mechanics that actually matter a lot.

[@DreamerTrain]

Post-DLC now, they feel like they got out powercrept by backhand daggers, the main gauche is just a bad thrusting sword and fire knight shortsword cant even outdamage a flame art sacred steel with its own bff

[@hugothecuban]

What was your armor in the gameplay. The chest you had it had a cape it looks so cool. Id like to get it for my character 😢

[@b.3713]

blade of calling + black blade shred on my faith spec and im not even dex, ofc they wud be way stronger if i was

[@MichaelRigoni]

If you lightning infuse or grease dual-wield daggers you can infinitely stun lock any iron virgins.

[@ImaSpacePotato]

Wakizashi exists for players like me that try and cope with Parry ash of war to play shitty Sekiro.

[@yugotamale]

Dual wielding Cinquedeas felt like cheating with my strength/faith build.

[@BrotherCaptain36]

Its pronounced "Ching-kwe-da" its Italian for Five Fingers

[@blublugamingchannel]

Daggers are so mortal oh yeah.... Give them that beautiful fatality and finish emmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm !!!!

[@kenjikodai]

I remember watching these like 2 years ago lol, we back bois These nerfs are wack

[@samfromyt]

Firsttttt !!!

[@SarthakSPyt]

I'm currently doing a daggers only series in elden ring, with parry and reposte as a center if the boss is parriable, and I frequently watch fextralife videos on different weapon categories I only realised they haven't made a daggers specific video until I started streaming my own run and did research on daggers. Finally the video is here, I guess only daggers were left to cover by fextralife.

[@DreamerTrain]

I did a new run with Sacred Blade and Erdsteel, it was great but Holy resistances forced me to switch out to Flaming Strike on some bosses like Morgott and Radagoon

[@xGR1MxREAPERx]

Didn’t 1.10 buff reduvia dagger and others again?

[@HotPockets88]

Thank you for this video! Im completely new to Eldin Ring, and to Souls games period. Sorry if this is a dumb question but does it matter what hand you put your armaments in? Is there a difference from having a dagger in my left hand as oppsoed to my right?

[@awanderer7132]

How to use Daggers: 1. Acquire and Upgrade them 2. Match/Invade vs Veterans Armor Dual Gspeers 3. ??? 4. Switch to a better weapon

[@davealaya]

5. Start to eventually wonder if daggers really are OP, and if you just needed to git gud... start over from step 2.

[@gaganpreetxp]

Getting wrecked with daggers very shot range is biggest con.

[@Omega_MCX]

Personally I had a fair amount of success power stancing the Wakizashi with a katana. The Wakizashi would have Perry, giving me the option for doing perries while doing power stance attacks and then when I got a second one I could then use the swap between the two to allow me the use of my katana weapon art (moonveil) and a set up weapon art like Flintstone phalanx.

[@Eggsbaconhashbrowns]

I like the idea of using the Bloodstained Dagger with a Greatshield so I’ve added that to my arsenal for my ps4 version character. I put Storm Blade on the dagger. I’m going to be playing the ps4 and ps5 versions of Shadow of the Erdtree and both of my characters are just about ready to go.

[@TheodoreJLS]

Watching this for a backup for my Pyromancer

[@samfish2550]

Hmm .... I don't have two wakasasi to test with but what is the stance damage on the powerstanced moveset, especially on the roll attack, because katana are inexplicably good at stance breaking. Could be a interesting option if you otherwise just like the dagger moveset one handed.

[@pirachist551]

Due to the patch, are they still the best for applying status quickly? Or are say curve swords for example just as effective now (for dual wield)

[@falgalhutkinsmarzcal3962]

I like to use Scorpion Stinger and Buckler against Radagon. I like giving him Scarlet Rot because he likes to sleep around. Thematically appropriate.

[@metsadonitsi]

A minor error with the Cinquedea and Wakizashi; both are claimed to weight the most. Although with the Cinq there seems to have been an effort to fix it, apparently it was forgotten with the Waki.

[@john_etc]

I have a dagger only character ready for the dlc I was mostly using a status build with bleed and poison but switched into a strength build for radagon and elden beast using bloodstained dagger and the cinquadea Now I’m not sure which of those to bring into the dlc given fromsoft reputation of destroying status builds on dlc

[@BluntObject89]

The dedication and effort you guys put into your work is just astounding. Thank you ❤.

[@calyx_datura]

If you combine all the frequent attack buffs and the bleed poison proc buffs on an arcane build with power stanced daggers that with high bleed and poisonous mist, the damage just gets stupid. I love it

[@michaelespinosa9168]

Haven't watched yet but Reduvia obviously the MVP S Tier highest dagger of all time! Umbasa.

[@jamesarthurkimbell]

Don't let the Italians hear that "cinquedea" pronunciation

[@omg_RANCORS]

The black knife is the best, glinstone kris is the second.

[@EnenraGemini]

Glintstone Kris yeah more like Glintstone Glock 17

[@LycanDreams9159]

I did a beast clergy cosplay build with cincadae and for most of the run I had to use garranq stone for posture breaking or even staggering heavy armor foes. I don’t usually use daggers so I was not prepared how hard it is to fight a knight that you can’t trade blows with just the knife

[@varsoonhks3211]

Old tech used to be to slap Flame of Redmanes on the Misericorde and have that as an offhand slot since you can just swap to it for easy stance breaks and high crit damage.

[@nonstandard5492]

I'm looking at 1.09 patch notes but don't see anything about dual wield status buildup?

[@crispindeleon1930]

Easiky my favorite elden ring content creator

[@Malleron-b6x]

Only thing to add on the wakazashi is you can power stance katana move set and have parry still without having to swap. That’s really it tho

[@The_Ragequit_Cannon]

Godskin swaddling cloth, rotten winged sword insignia and Millicent's Prosthesis makes a pretty good combo

[@silky_smooth9475]

I hoped on elden ring after not playing for about a year or so after beating it multiple times got kinda bored but I noticed they nerved all duel wielding weapons and man that's some bs that was a huge part of my build duel blood hounds fang or daggers anything pole blades and it's all pretty much pointless now . I really hope they bring it back

[@ImARealHumanPerson]

I beat the entire dlc with Bloodhound's Fang.. It's still good 😅

[@lindenpaine5371]

The Wakizashi can parry at the superior speed of a dagger while dual wielding the heavier posture damage of a regular katanas.

[@weebthatlifts5750]

jev: i'm gonna use a dagger for a playthrough so people can't say i used cheese Fextralife:

[@KindredEmotions]

If you've already been playing dual dagger for fun like I have, you already know this. But it's nice to finally, FINALLY see a guide on it.

[@kfaraujolake992]

Best backup weapon ever, use for critics after break stances with square off on a longsword and wreak bosses like a real knight

[@davidanderson9967]

Ok but why are torches the best weapon in the game