Would this be a viable way to perform melee combat as an archer if needed? Or is dualwielding with daggers far too weak to pull this off?

EDIT: I do NOT want this to be an Assassin style of play. I am talking about when something gets in my face, I pull my dual daggers out and [censored] some [censored] up Legolas style

I have a friend with backstabbing leveled to where he's basically broken the game and can one shot just about anything. It's all in how you use it.

I'm having fun with dual daggers so far, but i'm only level 11

its viable look cool too but i went with dagger and sword

i killed a restless draugr on expert useing the dual-wielding daggers power attack (i think it was an orkish dagger with a steel dagger)

I'm having a lot of fun with dual daggers + archery at the moment. I could've gone with sword & shield, but I wanted to stay light and I figured daggers fit in with the leather armor a little better anyway.

I'm honestly not sure. One of my main characters is a level 38 Assassin, and daggers in stealth are ridiculously powerful. However, outside of stealth, it really depends on the enemy. Weak enemies will get shredded like paper, but tougher guys will be nigh-impervious to your attacks. At least that's my experience, on Master difficulty with no points put into one-handed combat.

daggers do not get the advantage of the 1h sword perks.

actually they do dingo

I play a nord hunter who relies on daggers alot. When I do the combo where I hold left click and right click at the same time, it feels more natural unlike how when you do it with swords, which doesn't make much sense. I think they are faster as well but I dunno, I love it so far.

Same here, still fun as hell one hitting centorains and dragons

in that case then some other mathy guy was wrong in one of the mathy threads and I am simply spreading heresay.

Whut?

I've done dual daggers before with my stealth character I've played with for about a week. In stealth, yeah I can kill EVERYTHING. But I've never been able to oneshot anything stronger than a regular draugh when not in stealth.

Back stab, as in sneaking. Sorry for the confusion

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It's viable even on master. Just make sure you CRANK your stamina instead of your health, trust me you are going to need those power attacks!

If you are not playing an asassin build, I'd go for swords. The advantage of the daggers is that they are silent weapons and get the 15x backstab multiplayer. A little faster, but less damage than swords. More importantly, the Bladesman perk does not apply to daggers, only swords -- and +30% crit chance is substantial. Dual daggers work in a pinch, but it sounds like you'd only get the downsides and none of the upsides with your build.

Are you sure about this? I heard that everything in the perk tree applied to daggers, the only thing that doesn't is a certain 1h weapon damage enchant I thought

It's possible, but difficult. Of course, the only person I've tried it on is my thief character, with VERY little focus on combat, not to mention toe-to-toe combat. There are many fights where you'll get smacked around like a red-headed stepchild, but if you focus heavily on combat, you can do some hefty damage.

Relatively sure. I saved before a boss fight and sunk three points into Bladesman. Fought it with daggers. Reloaded, tried again, without the perk. Repeated this a few times, and subjectively there was no difference. Then I did the same with swords and damage output with the perk was noticeably higher. There have been some threads with more details, which concluded the same. This isn't 100% and it's really just my observation, but if accurate, it's not surprising since the description of Bladesman does say it is for swords only (and maces/axes have their respective perks). I feel it also makes sense as daggers instead get the backstab perk in the sneak tree.

The 100% extra damage with 1H weapons does apply to daggers, though. That's also much easier to test.

It is viable. My assassin nord chick has killed a butt load of things like this. I do keep a axe and shield for the real tough moments though. I'm level 33 and I've gone to shield a dozen times or so. Once you drop in a few one hand perks, the duel wield and one hand damage really helps. Plus ebony daggers and higher put out alot of damage.

It is viable, but what you have to remember is to tailor your game style to the fighting...use certain shouts, boost up your stamina, pick certain one handed perks.

I think it would be hard yards, and I gave up on it around level 13-15.