What gem combos are good for dual dagger?

At the moment Im using dual strike + increased physical dmg + faster attacks + power on crit + multistrike in a 5L chest, however its getting boring. I'd use Lightning strike (I noticed its very popular), but I want something that actually *benefits* from Dual wielding (daggers). All these other skills can be used more effectively with a 2h or weapon/shield... So considering that most skills alternate weapons if Dual wielding, is there any other skill except Dual Strike that uses both weapons at the same time? Cyclone maybe? Much appreciated



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to me the true benefit of using daggers are the implicit crit mods.

I could see a fun build revolving around elemental hit + crit+ elemental proliferation being effective.

Cyclone ele prolif builds are also popular.

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conall88 wrote:

to me the true benefit of using daggers are the implicit crit mods.

Good point and true. Lots of those clusters around, some with very lethal bonuses. And that elemental build is very nice but lets say I just run a plain non-CI dual wielding dagger build. Is there nothing else to use but Dual Strike that'll have the benefit of offhand dagger?

You need to focus on critical, that is the main reason to use dual daggers. Two of them with 60-80% increased crit chance is nuts.
At the moment I use Dual Strike+Melee Splash+Power Charge on Critical+Increased Melee Damage on Full Life+Increased Critical Damage. Throw in hatred and just watch all the enemies shatter into pieces on every attack.

What gem combos are good for dual dagger?
Ethereal Knifes Faster Projectiles Faster Casting

Best for melee is:
dual strike + melee splash + physical dmg + crit Damage + power on crit + damage on full life/multistrike.

But if it is boring for you and you like some other attacks (cyclone/LS) then maybe you should consider 1 dagger + shjield as any other skill in the game do not use 2 daggers at once.

At level 20 (less for quality) Frenzy (with 7 charges) will out perform dual strike (although you'll need some serious mana leech).
The increased attack speed should look insane.
Not very dagger specific.
Viper Strike???

i use double strike+melee splash + ice damage + cold pentr. + etc.. it works ok. i have a ~50% critical strike chance so my dps goes up to roughly 3500 at lvl 52.

the melee splash gem is ruthless

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Rufus82 wrote:

At level 20 (less for quality) Frenzy (with 7 charges) will out perform dual strike..
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Yeah. As far as I can tell as a new player, most skills work better with a 2h or weapon/shield so I seriously don't know what I was thinking going Dual wield and Dual strike certainly gets boring whatever gems I put in it. I mean first it was cool with multistrike and all, something like zeal with 2 weapons :D but now Im seeing I could have gotten more dmg AND survivability with other skills and slightly different build. Could have just went dagger/shield with Lightning Strike or Flicker (as all these alternate weapons making them ineffective with dual wield)