Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-2607:FEA8:A2E0:E12:DD8B:7B1D:75F3:E5D1-20190112024045/@comment-34241117-20190114002707

Alrighty. Heres the thing man, daggers aren't meant to be powerful. A sword outreaches them, axes do more damage and are scarier, so are clubs, spears, and every single other type of weapon.

Daggers had 2 main uses:


 * 1) 1) Civilian use. If you are a merchant or townsperson or even bandit, many didn't know how to use a sword properly. They are long, sometimes too heavy as they didn't have practice using them, and are very hard to carry. (imagine your everyday life with a sword strapped to your side) However, daggers were lighter, easier to carry, and very simple to use. If someone attacks you, whip out the dagger and slash around a bit. Cut them/possibly kill them at most, scare them away. Daggers were just the simplest, easiest weapons used, but never really for war except...


 * 1) 2) ANTI ARMOR: The dagger is perhaps the greatest weapon against an armored opponent. Arrows bounce off, warhammers are EXTREMELY heavy, and spears and swords almost never actually do anything.

HOWEVER. Daggers on the other hand, can be used very effectively. Under the chin, armpits, behind the knees, the slits in the armor for the face and hands. Daggers are thinner and quicker to use. They could be quickly and very effectively used to hurt or kill opponents by the chinks in their armor. But otherwise, throwing daggers was an art mainly for show-off purposes. Killing enemies 50 feet away from the top of a building is only a thing in movies. Critical hit? In minecraft, its jump-hitting. Trust me, if DAGGERS get a critical hit, warhammers and polearms should be getting 1-hit kills as a critical then.

So perhaps if you really need a dagger/shortsword to be better, perhaps increased damage to armor/armored opponents/HEAVILY armored opponents, but otherwise.... meh