Edrein wrote on Aug 6
th, 2019 at 7:50am:
Don't crucify me for asking this: But you can't make a decent one right now with swash-vistani?
It's just when compared to other ranged builds, Daggers do not offer enough. Inquisitive, or GXbow Fusilade builds, and Shuri throwers all have way more dps. Probably double the dps and not even stretching it here. Whether a dagger thrower is in new Shiradi, Fury or LD, the other 3 listed builds all leave the dagger throwers in the dust.
Fusilade and NHB builds can put out crazy dps in any ED, throwers are also dwarfing dagger builds in any ED.
What dagger builds need is some kind of throw and reload speed increases in either lower cores of alchemist. Or in tier 4 or 3 of alchemist. So as to combo with VKF and have enough dps to be included in the discussion. Maybe some type of Shuri Expertise ability. Daggers have double the dice of a star, but stars throw up to 3 base stars each attack, with each having doubleshot chances.
So at least 1 ability that mimics shuri expertise or advanced ninja training, coupled with heavier base dice and comparable crit profiles would make dagger throwers viable, imo. Now we know this can be done as this is what inquisitive does for their "offhand" shot, they simply copy the first and check for doubleshot.