Dagger | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

I don't like to be the paragraph guy but here it goes.
After experiments I found something:
Tested with a chaos and a fire dagger that had the same AR ( difficult to make both physical and fire AR equal) and realized they do the same damage, both backstab and riposte.
I know same damage means same damage but people keep saying chaos is the best infusion for riposte, but from what I tested it requires at least 20 in both int and fth to outdamage the fire infusion so yeah go with fire dagger if you aren't a religious genius.

And in this episode of mythbusters we proved that the "chaos dagger best riposte weapon" isn't true. It depends on the enemy resistance and also your stats. Which means a chaos dagger only works if you have more than 20 int and fth otherwise a fire dagger will outdamage it. also your enemy must be weak to fire, otherwise a dark dagger may outdamage it.

[TL:DR] chaos isn't best if you don't have 20 int and fth each.

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guys I made sure to buy a dagger on my cosplay-everything build and I cannot now remember why. are there any notable cosplayable characters or enemies that wield a plain dagger?

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these bad boys are pve god. They allow you to kill any boss without being in real danger, here is why:
your attacks are really really fast and so you can roll whenever you want (not being able to attack cancel and roll kills a lot of people).
Also your attacks cost only a tiny amount of stamina which means that you can get in 4 hits on gael and still have enough stamina to dodge out an entire combo of him with no sweat. 'ery nais

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I did a funky thing with my Dex build back in the day. I had the sellsword twinblades in my off-hand and the dagger in my main hand. I took so many crossbow bolts to the face practicing the parry timing on the curved swords.
Probably wasn't super effective either all things considered.

But man if that one time I invaded at Pontiff's, I appeared at the tower right next to an Aldrich faithful who swings at me, gets parried, hornet riposted, dies instantly.
I got no words on just how satisfying that was.

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Buy 3 daggers. One chaos,one lightning,and one dark. Use each on the enemy that's weak to the element. My lightning dagger riposte melted midir

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Dread it. Run from it. The parry arrives all the same.

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"Put these foolish r1 to rest"

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R1 spam detected, neuron activated

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my poise be like oooh ahhh oooh my poise be like

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Fire Dagger with Hornet Ring vs. Deep Dagger without Hornet Ring. I know Fire Dagger with Hornet Ring will definitely have better damage, but I'm curious how much difference of damage it has than Deep Dagger without Hornet Ring.

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I'm doing over 1000 damage to players with a HR riposte at +6 with 13/40...wow.

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take me back

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God I love big crits. Even though I whiff most of the time, consequently eating dirt, that occasional successful one-shot makes it all worth it.

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Hello DS3 player, I am come to you for a little favour, and I will carry this message to everywhere in DS3 community.
There is a glitch that allows you to summon white sign mad phantom in Gael’s Arena (Credit to Dashingsaint), if you keep Shira alived while she invade you (you can escape her simply sprint out her aggro range), you won’t trigger gael boss cutscene, and then you could put down you purple summon white sign or summon other white purple.
Thus, a new fight club is founded, an arena in a long lost dessert under the sunset sky which sprinkle with fainted galaxy.
If you’re watching this, kindly please help me share this and invite any ds3 enthusiast you known to this new fight club, your little effort would be much appreciated.
SL25+2, SL40+4, SL60+6, SL72+8, SL90+10, SL125 Meta, SL 351++, all SL range are acceptable.
Welcome to the Gael’s Sunset Arena, the most beautiful map in the entire series, the last arena at the End of World.
I will await you there, in the End of the World, and we shall fight eternal, shiny and incandescence.
LONG MAY THE DARK SOULS COMMUNITY LIVE

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Su(ks! BSS is better

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gets parried' oh shoot this is gonna hur-HE HAS A DAGGER

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okay, for a strength build would this be better heavy or fire?

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Hornet Ring's best friend

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"Ripostes"

It is time to witness perfection.

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Seeing your opponent pull this out of their side after a parry is a come to God moment. The only way you'll survive is with faith.

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It's a great weapon to have by your side, no matter the build.

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Between quickstep, the strongest critical hits in the game, and its light weight, this is pound for pound the most powerful item the world over.

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Literally the best build i've ever made was with this OP base weapon.
chaos dagger +10 with 40/40/40/40 str/dex/int/fth, or sharp with max dex
fire clutch (if chaos), leo ring (if sharp), red tearstone, maybe flynns ring if you use dragon form, then sacred oath, deep protection, dragon shout, and lothric war banner, and bloodlust (for self stabby), correct me if im wrong but i believe you can stack oath, protection, dragon, and lothric buffs together, but honestly its better to use morion blade with the double tearstone buff. abusing quickstep with the dagger then pressing light uses a thrust attack everytime which would buff with the leo ring, increasing its damage if you abuse it correctly, so basically a mega damage abuse build for pvp if you can dodge well

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The parry spammers using this weapon trying to shame the R1 spammers on this page is exactly like the pot calling the kettle black... Racist...

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my curse infused dagger kills every invader i meet! No one can handle my infinite fp while i spam soul stream at their face. Plus I have lots of hp. 1000000000000000 to be exact, im so cool im so godd at the game lololol

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TRYHARD NOOB CASUL WEAPON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE MACE IS SO MUCH BETTER GIT GUD TRASH CASULS!!!!!
HOHOHOHO IT'SA ME SANTA CLAUSE AND I USE THE MACE E V E R Y D A Y!!!!!! IT'S THE BEST WEAPON ON EARTH!!!
IF YOU WANNA GIT GUD AND GET AAAAALL THE PRESENTS TO CHRISTMAS USE THE MACE, JUST LIKE ME!!!

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One crit is all it takes to meet God.

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Are you ready to meet God?

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Ah... the one-shotinator!

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Need an easy mode for Sorcerers? I got just the recipe for you.

You start by picking up the Dagger. Infuse it with Crystal.

Then you obtain the Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring and the Hidden Body Sorcery.

Boom! Now you can trivialize almost every non-boss encounter.

Supplement this strategy with the Lingering Dragoncrest Ring, Hornet Ring and Aldrich Sapphire for an even easier time.

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chaos infused +10 hornet ring, hits like a truck

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This weapon speaks volumes about how much Miyazaki hates R1 spammers and why I respect him.

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How the f does it one shots you with over 1000 hps????

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Fisting is 300 bucks, the best crit weapon is 300 souls

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damn he parried me
whatever he's gonna do like 900 damag... OH **** HE HAS DAGGER

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dgagger

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After I literally beat DS3 and both of it's dlc's twice in two days I've gained a massive ego boost, now I'm going to do a dagger only build. God help me

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The offhand dagger stab R1 whilst being slower than a mainhand R1 has straight sword hitstun.

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I am running a mage fighter build with lks is a magic dagger worth my build?

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"You got greedy"

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Damn, he parried me.
Whatever he's gonna do like 900 damag... HE HAS CHAOS DAGGER

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Only dumb fat Casuls would use such a trash weapon!
PKCS is so much better!
Real Pros and skilled players only ever use PKCS, the best weapon gaming history!

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30 slashes from a sword/ katana/ scimitar/ axe: this is fine.

1 stab with 2 cm of steel: oh lordie, a'm dying.

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Guys who’s worse?

PKCS R1 spamming fags

Or

People with daggers who constantly spam quickstep and dagger R1s?

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I don' t usually look down to ppl. but when they only use the r1 button, i don't really have a choice.

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i have a herald/supporter character that has about 50 FTH right now but base INT (8) and around 20 DEX and i play usually offline.
Should i go for lightining or chaos is always better?
I will probably infuse one with lightning anyways but i am asking for the one that goes to +10 (since slabs are limited)

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On a pure dex build, should I infuse this with fire or sharp? Mainly for ripostes

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Haha parries go "tunk"

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It's funny pointing down riposte tryhard scrubs with my pkcs.

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Kinda ridiculous how easy this makes PvE. All the bosses I used to struggle the most with can't even touch me. Friede, Demon Prince, Nameless King, Gundyr, Gael... Plus the high attack rate opens them up for a riposte in mere moments.

Especially fun to pair with Farron GS in left for some really wild maneuverability options.

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This is a b*tch to farm

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Late game player that has experience with the game and uses good weapons for pvp, etc : Haha funny quickstep go brr

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when you get invaded in Dreg Heap and they pull out a dagger and endlessly spam quickstep and you just keep bonking away with your greataxe but no hits land because quickstep kinda broken ngl and when you start to actually win and outsmart them they take out a caestus and start spamming perseverance and theres nothing you can do so you die and they spam ´welcome!´ and you just get sad and remember that no matter how good you think you are at this game theres always that one person thats better than you and is smug about it, moral of the story is that the greataxe sucks and the dagger is a pretty powerful weapon.

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I got into an undead match with a player using this weapon and they killed me in one backstab. I blocked that player because he was not an expert player, he was an actual hacker. You can't use hacks online because FromSoft will ban you from being online for that stuff.

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why people infuse this with fire?

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For a +10 chaos dagger does any build work or should you use an intelligence/faith build (asking for a friend)