
Daggers are a type of melee armament in Elden Ring. They generally have very short reach and low damage against both health and poise, but compensates for this with their fast attack speed and sometimes higher than average damage on Critical Attacks, making several of them (particularly the Dagger and especially the Misericorde) powerful tools for Backstabs and Ripostes.
Their fast attack-speed and high number of hits-per-second makes them good at building up Status Effects like Poison and Blood Loss.
As they have low weight, they also make excellent catalysts for certain Ashes of War and Skills, providing a stat-efficient means of casting status buffs like Golden Vow or Shared Order with no need for high investment in certain attributes, while specific daggers such as Reduvia and the Black Knife have exceptionally strong ranged Skills that only they posses (Reduvia Blood Blade and Blade of Death respectively).
Moveset[]
The moveset for Daggers consists mostly of rapid slashes, with the exception of one- and two-handed rolling and heavy running attacks, two-handed heavy attacks, and dual wield backstep attacks, which are all thrusts.
Some daggers have different standing heavy attacks: Glintstone Kris, Main-gauche, Miséricorde, and Scorpion's Stinger have thrusts, and Black Knife, Blade of Calling, Erdsteel Dagger, and Fire Knight's Shortsword have a quick, double-hit slash.
The dual-wield moveset is notably quite quick and both the backstep attack and the jumping attack are excellent due to their reach and speed respectively. The first attack in the dual-wield attack chain is surprisingly slow due to being composed of 3 separate hits, making it somewhat difficult to use since Daggers won't stagger most foes.
List of Daggers[]
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