So I have noticed that people with high dex tend to go dagger. Besides Igbah, who was outfitted with awesome eq, most people with low-mid dex don't seem to have that good of a chance of beating out the dagger dex-monger.

I suggest changing parry so that it compares how heavy your weapon is as opposed to the enemy. By no amount should an elf wielding a dagger be able to parry a fire giant swining heavy axes easily.

This way, although dex helps dodge, str + weapon weight would help parry.

Thoughts?

Depending on the circumstances of comparitive damage/hp/DR/etc., parrying less is potentially advantageous to a dagger warrior -- you need to dodge to concealed, and parry is checked before dodge. If you hypothetically reduce the dagger warrior's chance to parry to zero, he'll get hit more -- but he'll also deal more unblockable hits in return.

Then how about having concealed come from parry rather than dodge.

That would

A) Power dagger down considerably, which I'm not convinced it needs and
B) Make it work much less intuitively -- for example, giants would probably be the best dagger specs

>B) Make it work much less intuitively -- for example, giants
>would probably be the best dagger specs

Think that might be taking it a bit far, considering that I believe it is dexterity that let's you land a lot of the other skills. I could be wrong on this but highly doubt changing concealed to parry would cause an overrun of dagger specialists - they'd still get destroyed by most dexterity-based warriors.

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...just stating that if concealed was parry-based, giants necessarily wouldn't be the best dagger specs. Maybe the best warriors for concealed, but not the entire spec.

Hey, you're welcome to your opinion. It's not like I don't have a pretty good idea of how the other dagger skills work.

We'll probably never know for sure how it would play, because I don't see this change being made.

Daggers are already terrible weapons to parry with. Yes, even for the high dex elf dagger fighting the fire axe.