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Assassin's dagger

Dague d'assassin
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A killer cutter that in the right hands can fell a foe in a single strike.

The essentials

  • Simplest: buy it, 7,000 G (Gleeba, Batsureg – Weapon & Armour Shop).
  • Sells for 3,500 G.
  • Attack +54: 13th of 21 knives; top: Dynamo dagger (+155).

“Simplest”, in this order: buy it (cheapest), pick it up, from a monster (best rate), make it, then the other sources.

Attack +54

Vocations that can equip it: Warrior, Mage, Thief

Effects: ×1.1 against bug; kills outright 11% of the time (even metal monsters)

Style: Casual 56 · Allure 51 · Naive 46 · Chic 40 · Aloof 27 · Vanity 25

Shops Read in the code

  • 7,000 G: Gleeba, Batsureg – Weapon & Armour Shop

Alchemy Read in the code

  • Deadly nightblade ×1 + Poison needle ×1 + Evencloth ×2
  • Recipe in the book “Ooh! Nice knife!” (Coffinwell – Mayor's House Lv 2)

Crafting tree

Quantities for 1 Assassin's dagger. Every ingredient that can be made is broken down to raw materials: the ones you can buy, pick up, find in furniture and blue chests or get from monsters, with no limit. Open or close a branch: the total follows, what is open gets made, the rest is to gather.

To gather: 3 raw materials, 1 use of the Krak Pot.

Raw materialSimplest way to get it
Deadly nightblade×1Buy it, 2,900 G (Bloomingdale).
Poison needle×1Buy it, 1,900 G (Dourbridge, Bloomingdale).
Evencloth×2Pick it up, Djust Desert (timer and amount depend on your group).

Tree idea: Antoine. Thank you!

Monsters and bosses Read in the code

DQVC (Wi-Fi shop, online) Community (yabd.org)

  • 3,500 G: Thirst for the Cursed (Oct 8)

Best attack in the category, by vocation

Under the hood

Internal item number: 19058; record no. 883 of prm/itemdt (file order); selling price in its record (u16 at +0x1A): 3500; stars: +0x09 bits 1-3.

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