DuskDagger, an underestimated weapon ?

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In an Ermor BE game I forged a Duskdagger - mainly because it was early game (turn 15 IIRC), my research was poor and I had only Cons2- to equip my PoD pretender.
And eventually I discovered a very good weapon : stats aren't impressive - dmg 2 att 2- but the weapon is 1 handed and *Armor Negating* ! So you can have 2 of them (4 attacks with Quickness), or one plus a Lucky Coin.
Wielded by a 18+ str SC you can deal enough damage to kill anything in a couple rounds as long as you have a decent attack. As armor is irrelevant you have no problem with thos Ironskinned Cyclops and even less with those pesky IDs
Looking in Zen's MIQR, it appears Duskdagger is the only AN weapon that does add strength, except for the quite unwieldy and expensive Gate Cleaver...

[Oversway]

I've equipped SCs with a blood thorn and a dusk dagger. It worked well in SP but never tried it in MP.

[Boron]

Using astral weapon gives you armor negating attacks with any weapon .
Pretenders can do it, Golems and Tartarians which are lucky and get astralmagic

[Agrajag]

Ive used it a few times, especially on Thugs/SCs that got the heroic strength ability, it is very useful, especially with quickness.
Try it on something really really strong with heroic strength and watch everything get one-hit-killed (such nice and cheap thug would be a niefel with loads of strength and IIRC have water magic for quickness as well as easy access to death magic being Jotunheimish).

[Huzurdaddi]

Boron said:
Golems and Tartarians which are lucky and get astralmagic

I don't know if I would call getting my expensive well equipped SC killed by a silly recruited 180 gold mage via mind duel lucky!