However, these properties also make it less effective against a combatant who sees it coming, as its reach is short, and its small size makes it harder to inflict a fatal injury compared to a larger weapon like a sword. This also allows it to easily be concealed on one's person, both before and after using it to stab someone: the revelation that someone has a knife hidden in their sleeve or boot can make for prime material for a Traitor Shot. This may be due to the properties of a knife: its small size and light weight mean that it doesn't encumber one's movements when sneaking around or fleeing a crime scene. There is a strong cultural association between knife-wielders and crime or treachery, and as such, those who use short blades as their weapon of choice are usually Combat Pragmatists and/or The Sneaky Guy. Lastly, not many people seem to know this but regardless of what weapon you have in your right hand: dagger, sword, axe, mace, swinging with your right hand while dual wielding if you have dual flurry perks makes you swing the right hand weapon faster as well (not power attacks or hitting both buttons at once) only single weapon swings with right hand.Knives as a primary weapon are rarely used by the most moral, upstanding, honorable types. Keep in mind that can ONLY happen if you have a dagger or a sword in your right hand. However, if you plan to slit throats (animation) On another note, having a dagger in your left hand and a mace in your right hand power attacks would be determined by the dagger. The reason for this is that the animation for power attacks with 2 daggers is badly made so it takes about 1 second before you actually start attacking with 2 daggers because your character rotates the daggers around before attacking. That being said, maximize the fastest attack speed when dual wielding you actually have to have a sword in left hand and a dagger in your right, not 2 daggers which would make more sense. Attack speed of power attacks when dual wielding is decided by left hand weapon. If you want more damage in face-to-face combat, of course, consider a sword, just keep in mind that the ideal equipment for sneaking is quite different than that for combat.īryan is correct. My strategy for dealing with non-sneaking situations is falling back on magic. If you don't plan to be seen often, I personally have stuck with daggers. That includes silly things like the Nightingale Gloves. That includes Fortify One-Handed, Bladesman, etc. On the other hand, daggers do not benefit from several bonuses to swords. I can't tell whether that's up to 60x normal damage (15x from Assassin's Blade, 2x from Shrouded Gloves, 2x from power attack) or if there's some cap, but suffice it to say that if you planning to be very sneaky, not much will hold up to such an attack with two Daedric Daggers. In my experience, a standing dual-wielded sneak power attack with two daggers will connect and get the sneak bonus on the first two and maybe more (most enemies are dead by then). If you're focusing at all on enchanting, you may want to consider that. I don't know how much the crits from Bladesman add.Īlso, because daggers are faster, they will be able to deal out on-hit damage from enchantments more quickly. Smithed to legendary, it's 24 versus 21, so only 14% difference. A Daedric Sword deals 14 vs the Dagger's 11, so only 27% more. For example, an Iron Sword deals 7 base damage vs an Iron Dagger's 4, which is 75% stronger. If you're dual-wielding a dagger and sword, that shouldn't really matter as you can sneak attack with the dagger and follow up with both.Īs you get better weapons, the damage difference as a percentage falls. So there's a difference here, in that the perks favor different playing styles: daggers benefit from stealth and swords benefit from more all-purpose combat. Everything (enchantments, perks, etc.) considered, I don't think there is a huge difference, so it should come down more to style.īackstab: 6x sneak attack damage with a one-handed weaponīladesman: 10/15/20% chance of doing critical damage with a sword (3 ranks)Īssassin's Blade: 15x sneak attack damage with a daggerĪrmsman: +20/40/60/80/100% damage with a one-handed weapon Daggers are indeed faster, although I can't find a reference on how much faster.
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