Dragon dagger



The Dragon dagger is the strongest dagger available and can only be wielded by members who have at least 60 Attack and who have completed the Lost City quest. Dragon Daggers are affordable, fast, can be poisoned and have a knock-out special attack. These aspects, combined, make the Dragon Dagger extremely popular amongst players of all combat levels. Unlike most other daggers, they are held backwards, with the tip of the blade towards the back of the player.

The dagger's special attack, Puncture, inflicts 2 hits in quick succession with increased attack and strength whilst only using 25% of a player's special attack energy. High leveled players, if lucky, can hit over 80 with a single special attack, and due to the fact that the special only uses 25% of the special attack bar, even a high leveled opponent could be killed in a matter of seconds. This special is considered one of the best of the more affordable weapons in the game, and players will sometimes carry a dragon dagger in addition to their main weapon, just to cause 8 quick hits and a considerable chance of inflicting poison on their foe. The maximum hit known with the dagger is 53-53, but was glitched. The highest unglitched special so far is 51-51.

The prices for the Dragon Dagger vary upon its poison level. The un-poisoned Dagger can be purchased in the Zanaris market place for 30,000 coins; from the travelling merchant Rasolo standing by the Baxtorian falls for 60,000 coins west of Seers' Village; and for 45,000 coins at Blades by Urbi in Sophanem.

Alternatively, players with a high enough Hunter skill level can hunt Magpie Implings in the Impetuous Impulses minigame and potentially receive one as loot. The Dragon Dagger is also a drop from a few high-leveled Revenants, found in the Wilderness.

With the release of the Dragon Claws the price of the dragon dagger has dropped, and shows signs of continuing to drop. This is probably because the claws can hit harder (a +56 strength bonus compared to the +40 of the dragon dagger), are just as fast, and have an arguably better special attack. However, the sheer availability and comparatively low cost of the dragon dagger may attract players. Dragon Claws are also two-handed, much harder to get, and lack the ability to be poisoned. The claws can hit upto around 54-27-14-13 (108), but can only hit 216 with two specials, while the dragon dagger can hit 51-51 four times if lucky!

As of 13 January 2009, the dragon dagger and all its poisoned variants are now split on coinshare.

As with all dragon items,  with the exceptions for the dragon platebody and dragon square shield, this item cannot be made using the Smithing skill.

Dragon dagger(p++)


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Poisoned versions
Dragon daggers are commonly used with their special attack to hit double times for four attacks, this is especially done with the poisonous version in PvP or Clan Wars.

Trivia

 * Formerly, the dragon dagger(p++) was called a "Dragon dagger (s)" (DDS) (standing for "Dragon dagger superpoisoned"), but Jagex changed it to "Drag dagger (p++)" then "Dragon dagger(p++)", however many people still refer to it as DDS. Jagex changed this because players sometimes confused (s) with Saradomin rather than Superpoision.


 * At the Grand Exchange to buy a dragon dagger(p++) a player used to have to search "Drag Dagger" because the full name exceeded the character limit for the item database, and was therefore abbreviated. This has since been changed and the full name is now listed as Dragon dagger(p++). Though DDP++ can be used to name this item, DDS is more commonly seen and heard.
 * It is the only dagger along with Keris with the blade pointing backwards instead of forward.
 * It is the only dagger to hit twice with the special attack.