Daggers have been over nerfed over the years.They have become the worst weapon that crits

I will bump the thread a final PoB testing i did, just to give (hopefully) a bit of attention to the topic to the devs. This time i tested optimised trees with the same level/gear/defenses with a dagger/claw/foil that HAVE THE SAME DPS. Not similarly ROLLED as i did before, but with the same DPS, as if they had the same base damage. So i compared an Ambusher, Imperial Claw, Jewel Foil all with 299.5 DPS. Results (fully Buffed):

Dagger: 4 907 209.5 DPS

Claw: 5 759 345.4 DPS

Foil: 5 927 299.0 DPS


Even when all weapons have the same base DPS, daggers are STILL over 15% weaker. To make matters worse, in order for the dagger to reach the DPS of the Foil (and it still it was a tiny bit lower), i had to add 18% increased attack speed, 84% increased critical multiplier and 50% increased critical chance. And i will repeat that this is a heavy crit build that FAVOURS a high crit weapon. Add to that the less utility of daggers (only poison), and the fact that especially swords have even more passives in the duelist area that also provide leech, and i rest my case. No reason to use a dagger as a melee player.

Edit: this the post in the previous page or the op to see more detailed testing and discussion. And more fair testing since i was testing EQUALLY ROLLED examples. Also the number with other gear tree etc. might be different, but there is NO WAY in any serious fair testing the daggers will be left WAYY back, even on a build that is most suitable for them (high crit).

Also i can recreate on request the trees/ gear used and post the pastebins if anyone is interested.

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing man. I suspect this is the problem when GeeGee went haywire nerfing crit multiplier on the tree they nerfed too much crit multiplier for daggers.

Ok, as i suspected Istant Leech is removed. I bet my balls acuity will get similar treatment. That puts claws and swords, even more above daggers, since they both have leech. Claws have leech rates as well. Swords have passives near vaal pact. Daggers at this point are DESPERATE. Please GGG, see the numbers, listen to reason and CONSIDER. Not only the have by far the shittiest DPS out of crit/dex weapons, they have no leech or increased leech rate.