Are daggers viable on rogue?

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Hi, I cant seem to find a way for daggers to work, same with chakrams honestly. Was testing different afflixes and specs with 2 eternal weapons, flintlock and dagger, both +50% quality, gun is 55k dps, Dagger is 60.

So in my mind I was expecting about the same dps, maybe dagger on top. But whatever I tried, dagger wasnt even close. Scattershot is doing on avg 40mil., with the dagger its mostly numbers sub 2mil.
Seems like such a struggle to kill a pack of 40 minions whereas one scattershot with a gun does the job instantly.

I might be trying tovplay daggers completely wrong, but to me, flintlocks and bows seem to heavily outclass daggers and chakrams.

Also have a chakram with 800kdps, +50% eternal, still does very little compared to the above mentioned flintlock.
On top of that they seem a lot harder to play

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It’s not the mainhand’s weapon choice. The issue here is the affixes (sets,crystal affixes,legends) that you use.

any weapon can be very powerful if you build around it correctly

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If they were so useless, they wouldn’t be there.

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iwas a bow user too … but i love dagger so i made this build which help my dagger better … try this definetely gona work . craft cosmic orb on mh dagger then find 2x crystal afix orb proc then use amethys get the reactor set from wizard… the use poison build add some poison ed% and blight … u can see that everytime u blink or attack u spwn orb whc releases arcs… im at 1600m3 atm still pretty useable still clearing the map fast … and try getting 45% cd reduct use steal on oh special for survivality … ucan lvl40 the stealth for perma stealth but lvl30 is good n

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btw what ever build u use dont forget to always use 30% crushing blow on crystal afiix u can easily hit billions of dmg above 1000+ floors … i prefer poison element realy helps clearing mobs faster and carto

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What does crushing blow do? Seen it on some items but wrote it off as a warrior affix probably. I played too much WoW.

Theres still a lot I dont know about the game, for my main flintlock build Im stacking on flat arcane damage, % arcane damage, %crit damage and +x scattershot. Idk if something else would provide better results.

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i prefer use lightning ice or poison element since arcane now is just not too good… use elemcrit dmg u can get it using ruby … crushing blow 25% dmg on targets current health i dont really know the formula for it but it deals billions around 1000+ floors m3 … just keep exploring if uwant to study some builds … search dungeon quest forum compedium build 2.1 … i suggest u try also the greengarden build the guide is there … its goodbuild for all clases

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momentum set afix great dmg multiplier if u have some movement speed afix… glasscanon is also great dmg multiplier… der are lot of affix which help boost ur dmg such as
defiant
pathfinder
masochism
plague
druidic
equality
rage - crit dmg
deadlystrike - 2x crit dmg
many more etc… just keep exploring