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By Tanduran 2011-01-18 07:20:07
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Which dagger would you prefer as 2nd to Twilight?

Rapidus?
Kila?
Triplus?
Angr Harpe?
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By Bahamut.Dasva 2011-01-18 07:29:23
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capped gear haste triplus. uncapped rapidus.

Need evasion kila.

Also well augmented yatas are up there too
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By Ragnarok.Ashman 2011-01-18 07:29:51
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Thief's knife.
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By Cerberus.Ermachko 2011-01-18 07:30:24
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I'd never use twilight, there are better daggers out there.
And it pretty situational as to what to off-hand or even main hand nowa days. most of the time now it'd be eva kila
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By Bahamut.Raenryong 2011-01-18 07:38:58
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STR Kila is monstrous. Triplus is decent though came out below in recent calculations, assuming you can use the Attack in some small capacity (not hard).

Rapidus is poor even if using the 1% Haste. Was meh at 85, is pretty trashy now.
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By Phoenix.Kirana 2011-01-18 07:53:26
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Twilight/triplus
Kila/triplus
Kila/Twilight

All are decent combinations, but depends on situation. Angr harpe and Yata are mostly garbage because of the high delay (Perfectly augmented yata may be better than Kila however).

I don't understand why people bash the triplus at all, the high DPS and triple attack +3% alone make it an amazing dagger, despite the fact that the TA damage boost is minimal.

Assuming you have AF3+2 available to you, you are best off maximizing your triple attack rate. You can easily hit ~35% TA in abyssea with only atma of Apoc.
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By Bahamut.Bojack 2011-01-18 08:21:51
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Bahamut.Raenryong said:
STR Kila is monstrous. Triplus is decent though came out below in recent calculations, assuming you can use the Attack in some small capacity (not hard).

Rapidus is poor even if using the 1% Haste. Was meh at 85, is pretty trashy now.

In Abyssea wouldn't a DEX Kila be better? Just curious cause I see people say a lot that capping fSTR in abyssea is done easily with just atma/cruor buffs so it's better to stack the WS mod. Although the DEX mod on Evis is only 30%. I guess maybe the 22? attack is better over time than the 9 DEX is for just Evis?
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By Bahamut.Raenryong 2011-01-18 16:39:37
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Ya, pretty much. DEX Kila beats all (nonrelic? Even then maybe...) daggers if for whatever reason the accuracy can be fully utilised effectively - however, this is rare.
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By Cerberus.Wraistlin 2011-01-20 00:11:03
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Hater's gon hate on X's knife, still a 10% boost to crit hit dmg. I use Fusetto +2 and x's normally and *** around with other ***. Works fine.
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By Quetzalcoatl.Volkom 2011-01-20 00:13:28
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thief's knife! atleast until you proc TH ofcourse :D
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By Phoenix.Kirana 2011-01-20 00:27:12
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Quetzalcoatl.Volkom said:
thief's knife! atleast until you proc TH ofcourse :D
Only takes one swing to initialize TH, doesn't have to proc up.

Cerberus.Wraistlin said:
Hater's gon hate on X's knife, still a 10% boost to crit hit dmg. I use Fusetto +2 and x's normally and *** around with other ***. Works fine.
X's knife is extremely annoying to get, and pretty much garbage now. You could just be using a better dagger and doing just as much, or more likely higher damage than the +10% crit damage adds.
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By Bahamut.Dasva 2011-01-20 00:29:17
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Phoenix.Kirana said:
Quetzalcoatl.Volkom said:
thief's knife! atleast until you proc TH ofcourse :D
Only takes one swing to initialize TH, doesn't have to proc up.
This. Tested all day once and first proc was always the same regardless
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By Bismarck.Magnuss 2011-01-20 00:38:54
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Twilight? Pssshhht... please...

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By Cerberus.Wraistlin 2011-01-20 08:10:19
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Well I'm open to suggestion, but I do notice quite a bit of different in ws dmg with x's and other off hands knives. I'm not about to parse it but the bonus you get from other offhand knives aside from triplus don't seem all too great to me. is 9 dex going to equal the ws dmg from 10% crit dmg? honestly i don't see 5-6 dmg difference in an offhand dagger making too much difference with melee swings, if there's evidence to the contrary that'd be cool. Just haven't seen much of anything with x's in it since most people don't have it.
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By Bahamut.Zoltar 2011-01-20 08:26:30
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Yesterday spent 110k dominion points for a Yhatagan with Dmg +4/Crit Dmg+6%, tried getting one of these for main hand? Cheap alternative
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By Quetzalcoatl.Cassiel 2011-01-20 08:30:21
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Angr/Triplus. Just got dmg+8 crit dmg+6 yatagan so will use that now. imo twilight is crap for thf.
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By Bahamut.Zoltar 2011-01-20 08:32:33
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Nice!
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By Fenrir.Melphina 2011-01-20 08:50:31
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I guess maybe the 22 attack is better over time than the 9 DEX is for just Evis?

Correct. While the 9 dex doesn't JUST affect evisceration (it also affects sneak attack), the fact remains that 22 attack >>> 9 dex. The meat of the kila's is the accuracy/attack/eva w/e, and if accuracy is capped 22 attack is a much better increase than 9 dex.
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By Asura.Karbuncle 2011-01-20 21:39:42
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Phoenix.Kirana said:
Twilight/triplus
Kila/triplus
Kila/Twilight

All are decent combinations, but depends on situation. Angr harpe and Yata are mostly garbage because of the high delay (Perfectly augmented yata may be better than Kila however).

I don't understand why people bash the triplus at all, the high DPS and triple attack +3% alone make it an amazing dagger, despite the fact that the TA damage boost is minimal.

Assuming you have AF3+2 available to you, you are best off maximizing your triple attack rate. You can easily hit ~35% TA in abyssea with only atma of Apoc.

My favorite combo, Twilight/Trip is a wonderful combo. I'd go for that if you can.

Especially with 5/5 THF+2 :Q