Originally Posted by Frequent

Hey guys,

I'm hearing a lot of people reporting that, as Combat, the T1 dagger combo is doing less damage than with an equal level 2.6 main hand wep and the offhand dagger. And by a substantial margin, too.

Any thoughts as to why that is?

I'm starting to think that it has to do with Instant Poison damage. As well all know, with normalized Instant Poison damage, a slower hitting weapon is going to deal more damage than a faster one (to compensate for the fact that it's hitting less often). Since the the T1 dagger is a 1.8 speed, we can agree that each individual application of Instant Poison is going to be less damaging in comparison to a 2.6 wep, right? Because of this, would that cause the Instant Poison proc from a 5-stack of Deadly Poison to be less damaging with the 1.8 dagger than it would be on a 2.6 wep? I can see this being a really bad thing, since a good chunk of Instant Poison, as Combat, comes not from the Proc of Instant Poison directly from main hand swings, but rather from the proc from Deadly Poison.