Keep in mind that can ONLY happen if you have a dagger or a sword in your right hand. However, if you plan to slit throats (animation) On another note, having a dagger in your left hand and a mace in your right hand power attacks would be determined by the dagger. The reason for this is that the animation for power attacks with 2 daggers is badly made so it takes about 1 second before you actually start attacking with 2 daggers because your character rotates the daggers around before attacking.
That being said, maximize the fastest attack speed when dual wielding you actually have to have a sword in left hand and a dagger in your right, not 2 daggers which would make more sense. Attack speed of power attacks when dual wielding is decided by left hand weapon. If you want more damage in face-to-face combat, of course, consider a sword, just keep in mind that the ideal equipment for sneaking is quite different than that for combat.īryan is correct.
My strategy for dealing with non-sneaking situations is falling back on magic. If you don't plan to be seen often, I personally have stuck with daggers. That includes silly things like the Nightingale Gloves. That includes Fortify One-Handed, Bladesman, etc. On the other hand, daggers do not benefit from several bonuses to swords. I can't tell whether that's up to 60x normal damage (15x from Assassin's Blade, 2x from Shrouded Gloves, 2x from power attack) or if there's some cap, but suffice it to say that if you planning to be very sneaky, not much will hold up to such an attack with two Daedric Daggers. In my experience, a standing dual-wielded sneak power attack with two daggers will connect and get the sneak bonus on the first two and maybe more (most enemies are dead by then). If you're focusing at all on enchanting, you may want to consider that. I don't know how much the crits from Bladesman add.Īlso, because daggers are faster, they will be able to deal out on-hit damage from enchantments more quickly. Smithed to legendary, it's 24 versus 21, so only 14% difference. A Daedric Sword deals 14 vs the Dagger's 11, so only 27% more. For example, an Iron Sword deals 7 base damage vs an Iron Dagger's 4, which is 75% stronger. If you're dual-wielding a dagger and sword, that shouldn't really matter as you can sneak attack with the dagger and follow up with both.Īs you get better weapons, the damage difference as a percentage falls. So there's a difference here, in that the perks favor different playing styles: daggers benefit from stealth and swords benefit from more all-purpose combat. Everything (enchantments, perks, etc.) considered, I don't think there is a huge difference, so it should come down more to style.īackstab: 6x sneak attack damage with a one-handed weaponīladesman: 10/15/20% chance of doing critical damage with a sword (3 ranks)Īssassin's Blade: 15x sneak attack damage with a daggerĪrmsman: +20/40/60/80/100% damage with a one-handed weapon However, when it comes to combat, some Dragon Age classes hold up better than others overall.Daggers are indeed faster, although I can't find a reference on how much faster.
The addition of multiple different types of weapons, armors, and out-of-combat abilities such as lockpicking or bashing items helps provide incentive to try out each class at least once. Each one is then divided further into specializations, and players have the ability to choose and level up unique combinations of skills throughout the game. There are typically three main character classes to choose from in Dragon Age - mage, warrior, or rogue.
Related: What Dragon Age 4 Needs To Bring Back From Origins Others are hoping that the success of BioWare's Mass Effect Legendary Edition will pave the way for a similar remaster of the Dragon Age franchise, allowing improvements to the game's combat systems.
With the long-awaited release of Dragon Age 4 potentially on the horizon - an assumption that's been fueled as of late by the approach of 2021's EA Play Live and the appearance of a Dragon Age 4 file on the PlayStation store - many fans of the series are returning to the original games to refresh their memory or create a new world state before Dragon Age 4's release is announced. Between Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age: Inquisition, the franchise has also gone through several different styles of combat and gameplay, which can at times make it difficult to keep track of which class is most effective throughout the different titles in the franchise. BioWare's fantasy RPG series Dragon Age has a wide range of classes to choose from, each of which has unique benefits and drawbacks.