A few things to note:

- Daggers like all weapons suffer some size penalty: Small: None | Medium: 25% Large: 50%

- Size penalties are calculated at the end of the attack formula, this means that any and all damage coming from a dagger when hitting medium or large is reduced respectively. (this part is for all you people who keep saying that Sandstorm or Desert Twilight removes it)

- Size penalties however can be removed by 2 things:

--Whitesmith Size Stone 100% (can be bought in Exchange/Auction House)

--Whitemsith Skill Weapon Perfection (Love them smiths)

Dagger Rogues can be played in a number of ways depending on your play style and budget. I'll be sharing some of my personal favorites.

Double Attack Rogue

This build focuses on the skill Double Attack (duh) where we maximize damage output by hitting fast and hitting hard.

Stat Distribution -Since we are using auto hits we will prioritize adding points on Agility keeping it at least 10 points above Strength to balance speed and damage. Only add Dexterity when you feel like your missing your target more often than you should.

At level 70 your stats may look like this:

• Str:55
• Agi:70
• Dex:25

Skill Progression

Dagger Proficiency 10- Adds 60 to attack when using daggers and additional 200 damage when doing normal attacks

Plagiarism - Level only up to desired skill to be copied

LvL 1 Call Spirit - Drainliar(Ant Hell in Sograt Desert) - Adds a total of 50 attack and 10% ignore Def max stack

LvL 3 Enchant Deadly Poison - Cookies (Toy factory 1) add 9% attack (How to get to Toy Factory? Got to Aldebaran ,it's the city north of prontera, talk to santa clause at top left corner of the map)

Tunnel Drive 5 - Decrease hide movement penalty by 25%, increase Flee by 10%

Snatch 5 - Active skill 5% chance to steal zeny (take this only to unlock it's passive)

Rob 10 - 20% chance to drop x2 loots from monsters when killed

Back stab (remaining points) - Deals 900% damage at lvl10 3sec cooldown 1.5sec skill delay

Double Attack Sub builds- This builds will utilize the rogue's active skills to further enhance damage output.

• Double Attack + Back Stab- this build takes advantage of Back Stab's long cool down which allows you to deal BURST damage every 3 secs.

Skills- AUTO slot - Normal Attack+Backstab+copied buff

Dagger Proficiency 10

Plagiarism (lvl of choice)

Back Stab- 10

Tunnel Drive -5

Snatch 5> Rob (remaining points)

• Double Attack + Raid - This build makes use of Raid's damage buff, this is a more technical build since it will need you to unlock more auto skill slot and use more skills. (Best Used at later levels)

Skills

Dagger Proficiency 10

Tunnel drive 5> Enhanced Hiding 5- Withing 11secs after hide state is removed, available skills can still be cast (buffed ambush, Raid skill)

Back stab- 5

Raid 5- Deals 300% damage in a small area, targets hit suffer 15% more damage 5sec cooldown can only be casted while in hide

Snatch 5> Rob (remaining points)

Ambush Rogue

This build deals a ton of damage but also eats up a ton of SP, this will require investment for SP maintenance ( eating lvl1 cook food x999) and will only work if ENHANCED HIDING is learned.

Stat Distribution- Since this build focus on skill spam, all points go towards Strength for maximum damage

Skills - Basically you put Hide+Ambush+copied buff on AUTO slots

Dagger Proficiency 10

Tunnel Drive 5> Enhanced Hiding 5

Snatch 5> Rob 10

Plagiarism (lvl of skill choice)

Monsters to Grind

Level 40-50 Under Sea Cave Mobs, Sunken Ship Mobs, GOBLINS!!!!!!!!(Goblins Slayer!!!!)

Level 45-55 ANTS ANTS ANTS

Level 50-60 Magnolia(love my sunny side up), Desert Wolf,

Level 55-65 Skeleton Soldier, Matyrs

Level 60-70 Horongs,Munaks, Eggyras (Time to get Spiritual)

TIP: Killing lower level mobs is fine even with penalty since you kill them faster.

GEAR PROGRESSION

Full Black Dagger- Tier it to T2 ASAP love it treasure it and it will love you back

Offhand:

Fox Bracer - for your attack speed needs great for those who will use the DA and DA sub builds

Floral Bracelet - slowly tier it up to 3 or even upgrade it to ROSA BRACELET for more ignore def since mobs will start getting defense post level 40 this is especially effective for the AMBUSH build.

Armor:

Rogue Clothes>>Thief Clothes- this armor will provide you with lots of STRENGTH allowing you to unlock Fullblack's tier 3 effect sooner.

Garment:

Coat of Dragon Scale- cheap starter gear that gives Str+2 and 200Hitpoints

Ancient Cape- ignore def 15% nuff said

Cape of Blue Elves- 15 flee also give strength when tiered up

Shoes:

Teddy Sack Shoes- Generally for DA users

Shoes (geffen crafted)- for your SP needs

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