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Krodjin wrote:

There are a lot of people saying "you should be using Kukri's instead of daggers". Maybe on a STR based build. Maybe. I did the math and Daggers with River Rat trait out damages Kukri's until the static damage bonuses that are multiplied on critical hits get into the double digits.

Not surprisingly the +1 damage from River Rat is better than the +5% crit chance (+10% when keen) offered by the kukri. Plus the kukri is a martial weapon, which will cost a Rogue a feat or talent to earn proficiency. Plus daggers have a listed range increment.

So for the purposes of THIS build, Daggers are far, far better. If you're building a STR based full BAB class that gets static hit & damage bonuses the Kukri is better. The Full BAB reduces the amount of static damage modifiers that are needed for the kukri to catch and surpass the Dagger + River Rat combo.

But yeah, for Rogues, even STR based rogues, the Kukri won't outperform the Dagger + RR when the levels are capped at 12.

Also, for those interested, feats that trade attack bonus for damage bonus (power attack/Pirhana strike/deadly aim) actually reduced DPR in almost all instances when I ran these numbers with the 3/4 BAB class.

Typically with rogues I don't bother with keen weapons because sneak attack doesn't multiply, so the crit only adds weapon and STR damage, so adding like 5-10 damage to the hit doesn't really merit me wasting resources on trying to get that when I could spend those resources getting more chances to, and subsequently damage from sneak attack.

But that's me, there are some people who swear by high crit ratios on all builds, regardless of class.

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