What build would be fun with a 400+ pdps dagger?

I bought a 402 phys dps dagger (Sai) for very cheap and leveled an ES Assassin Blade Flurry with chaos emphasis to lvl 93. It was/is okay. But really not that enthralling. Clearing trash is not so much fun but it takes down bosses fairly well... that is, except for guardians. For some reason, I have a hard time killing guardians with this build. I don't know what it is. My howa build or my Brutus build takes them down WAY faster. But regardless, I'm guessing that a different build might utilize this beautiful dagger in all its glory.

So here's what I think went wrong.

1. Should have made a Raider blade flurry with 8 frenzy charges. Since the Sai doesn't have crit bonuses (instead it has block intrinsic), I should have concentrated on maximizing physical damage thru frenzy charges instead of the usual Shadow/Crit route.

or

2. I should find a way to convert the phys damage to elemental and scale the elemental. i.e. I am currently building a frost blades raider for this purpose. Using frost blades and taking Weapon Cold Damage/Winter Spirit on the passive tree gives me 100% conversion to cold.

or

3. I need to think out-of-the-box and come up with a wacky different build. Like dagger cyclone or something.

What do you think? Do you have a suggestion for me? I really would appreciate any input. Thank you all.
Last bumped on May 28, 2017, 5:10:24 PM
Chaos may have been underwhelming against some of the Guardians because some of them are Immune to Poison.

Fun varies from person to person. If I had a 402 pdps dagger I would probably build a Flicker Strike Raider.
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Flicker Strike. Interesting. I think I'll give this a go. Thanks.

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