Getting into someone's back when they don't want it isn't even that easy. It's more difficult than spin fient which too is affected by ping by the way. I don't see how it is a problem if it only works for thrusting attacks.
A lot of the time I can be behind a player swinging while one there screen I am in front of them. The ping makes it very easy to get behind some one in this game at least on your screen.
They are fine as a side weapon for a mage, and good for making dagger diving meme videos. It's low range, ping reliant, thrust only weapon that requires you to sacrifice a ton of HP to have any advantages over spear. Of course inexperienced players freak out and get stabbed to death before they realize what's going on, but it's not a good indicator of a viable main weapon choice.
Yeah because you need to hug your enemy to deal damage, there isn't much place left for any handle hits. Still have arm hitbox if you go for slashing.
Again good mage sidearm. We're talking main weapon here.
Low durability too.
Yeah a few people are good with daggers, and i'm sure same people are even better with spears, hammers, swords, poleaxes etc - anything that the majority of players use for some stupid reason.
We could and i could name a few people who are very good with either of them.
Emperox good with axes, Yasai i think (?) does well with poleswords, didn't meet many hammer wielders but i'm sure some people are good with one too. Point is - you can wreck people naked with vendor 1h sword if you're good, and it happens all the time, doesn't mean it's ok balance wise. It's not a good argument.
Fine as in not entirely useless? Yeah i agree, i've beaten people with a dagger and i'm no pro. Fine on par with poleaxe or something? Well i have over 500 hours now and i don't remember seeing anyone maining a dagger, and that is telling. People USE "fine", if they don't then there's something wrong with that particular playstyle.
Nope. Daggers are cool. I'm sure a lot of people would like to play daggers but they don't, for the same reason that people don't use katanas. I'm always asked by new players "so where can i get a katana?" but the next day they're running around with a heavy greatsword. Because heavy greatsword isn't cool and not so visible within the pop culture but effective, katanas not so much. "player preference" aka statistics is an objective indicator, "i played since MO1" is a subjective one.
