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The Dagger of Darts

The Dagger of Darts

Legendary Ceremonial Knife

  • Legendary
  • Level 70

Properties

410.2 Damage Per Second

117–469 Damage

1.40 Attacks per Second

Primary Attributes

  • +626–750 Intelligence

Secondary Attributes

  • Your Poison Darts and your Fetishes' Poison Darts now pierce and deal an additional 400–500% damage. (Witch Doctor Only)

Random Affixes

  • +(981–1,199)–(1,175–1,490) Damage
  • +(981–1,199)–(1,175–1,490) Fire Damage
  • +(981–1,199)–(1,175–1,490) Cold Damage
  • +(981–1,199)–(1,175–1,490) Holy Damage
  • +(981–1,199)–(1,175–1,490) Lightning Damage
  • +(981–1,199)–(1,175–1,490) Poison Damage
  • +(981–1,199)–(1,175–1,490) Arcane Damage

Ancient & primal values

Ancient

  • +825–1,000 Intelligence
  • +(1,318–1,560)–(1,609–1,940) Damage

Primal

  • +1,000 Intelligence
  • +1,560–1,940 Damage

Fixed properties of the ancient form; primal items roll the top value of the ancient range. Game files, version 2.8.0.

All possible random properties (19 primary, 13 secondary)

Besides its fixed properties, this item rolls 2 primary and 1 secondary properties at random from these lists.

Primary

  • +6–10% Damage
  • Reduces cooldown of all skills by 6–10%.
  • Reduces all resource costs by 8–10%.
  • Increases Attack Speed by 5–7%
  • Increases Mana Regeneration by 12–14 per Second (Witch Doctor)
  • Chance to Deal 16–24% Area Damage on Hit.
  • +626–750 Intelligence ancient +825–1,000
  • +626–750 Vitality ancient +825–1,000
  • +(853–1,043)–(1,022–1,296) Damage ancient +(1,318–1,560)–(1,609–1,940)
  • +(853–1,043)–(1,022–1,296) Fire Damage ancient +(1,318–1,560)–(1,609–1,940)
  • +(853–1,043)–(1,022–1,296) Cold Damage ancient +(1,318–1,560)–(1,609–1,940)
  • +(853–1,043)–(1,022–1,296) Holy Damage ancient +(1,318–1,560)–(1,609–1,940)
  • +(853–1,043)–(1,022–1,296) Lightning Damage ancient +(1,318–1,560)–(1,609–1,940)
  • +(853–1,043)–(1,022–1,296) Poison Damage ancient +(1,318–1,560)–(1,609–1,940)
  • +(853–1,043)–(1,022–1,296) Arcane Damage ancient +(1,318–1,560)–(1,609–1,940)
  • +15,474–18,429 Life per Hit ancient +20,271–23,950
  • Increases damage against elites by 5–8%
  • 34–39% chance to inflict Bleed for 300–400% weapon damage over 5 seconds.
  • Sockets (1–1)

Secondary

  • Monster kills grant +140–200 experience. ancient +220–260
  • +120–150 Maximum Mana (Witch Doctor)
  • Level Requirement Reduced by 2–30 ancient 30–40
  • +6,428–8,914 Life after Each Kill ancient +9,805–11,590
  • 1–2.6% Chance to Fear on Hit
  • 1–2.6% Chance to Stun on Hit
  • 1–2.6% Chance to Blind on Hit
  • 1–2.6% Chance to Freeze on Hit
  • 1–2.6% Chance to Chill on Hit
  • 1–2.6% Chance to Slow on Hit
  • 1–2.6% Chance to Immobilize on Hit
  • 1–2.6% Chance to Knockback on Hit
  • Ignores Durability Loss

Pool of the item type from the game files, version 2.8.0. Skill damage bonuses only carry weight for their class. All properties of this slot

Nothing infuriates a fetish more than ineffectual darts.

Piercing Poison Darts

The Dagger of Darts upgrades the Poison Darts of the Witch Doctor and his fetishes: they now pierce their targets and deal considerably more damage in doing so. Instead of fizzling on the first enemy, each dart tears open an entire line, which strongly increases your area damage against rows of foes.

The ceremonial knife is the foundation for Poison Dart fetish builds, in which your little helpers also benefit from the piercing power. My tip: position yourself so enemies line up in front of you, for example in corridors or when luring them in, so a single dart hits as many targets as possible at once. Since the fetishes shoot along too, it pays to keep their number and lifespan high in order to multiply the piercing effect across your entire army.

What the 400 to 500% roll means

The bonus damage rolls in a 400–500% range and applies to your own Poison Darts as well as those of your fetishes. A high roll therefore improves both damage sources at once, and primal ancient copies carry the full 500%. If a drop sits at the bottom of the range, you can reforge it in Kanai's Cube - keeping in mind that the entire item gets rerolled.

Why the elemental damage matters so much

The knife brings 117-469 base damage at 1.40 attacks per second. Most of its weapon damage comes from the random elemental roll of +(981–1,199)–(1,175–1,490), so that is the first number to compare between two knives. Poison, Cold, Fire and Lightning are among the options. +626–750 Intelligence is fixed. Beyond that, Damage %, Attack Speed, a Socket and Area Damage are in demand.

Common companions

The Dagger of Darts is often combined with Carnevil, Mask of Jeram, Depth Diggers, Echoing Fury, Convention of Elements and Squirt's Necklace. The flavor text sums up the power with a wink: fetishes get genuinely angry about darts that fail to do their job.

by eRnstl