Quote Originally Posted by CapriciousOne View Post
Sorry I didnt respond sooner as I didnt see this post way down here. If one is referring to the individual damage you are dealing yes 17 dmg is alot of damage but come on most of the time you will only use the dagger for a few hits anyway before unequipping it for it to not really be that big of an issue.
If you unequip it after one strike then you will lose TP. If we even assume best case scenario for your argument: Every mob you gain 100%TP and WS once killing the mob - then you'll lose 2 rounds of TP for every WS. (TP return from WS without TK equipped, and then one round of TP with TK equipped, before unequipping again). That's a significant loss in DoT. That's best case scenario. What happens if you kill the mob with melee strikes after WS and end up with 50TP? Do you ditch the 50%TP in order to re-equip the knife? Start doing that and you sacrifice killspeed. Sacrifice killspeed and you end up killing less mobs in that time frame which will infact lead to less drops than if you'd just killed them quicker having a real DD dagger equipped fulltime.

The only time when it is effective to equip TK for the first hit and switch it out are NMs which ill take several rounds of WS to kill.

In response to the rest of your post - TH level remains at the max level. If you equip full TH gear for one hit, then unequip it (or die) then the TH remains at the highest level and TH procs will increase from the highest level.
Secondly, OA2-4 Dagger is a very bad offhand unless you're Aeolian Edge cleaving. It has horrible DPS which offsets the increased WS frequency. The problem with additional effect weapons is the randomness of their effect coupled with low proc rates on any mob that actually matters, and fodder mobs dieing so quickly that a normal Str/Att dagger would equal or better it overtime (as effect probably wont proc on every mob you kill).

In summary:
Your recent arguments seem to be centralised around the idea of "I'm happy with being mediocre". Good for you, it's your monthly fee. But this topic is obviously for people in a different boat - people who aren't happy doing the bare minimum and want to do the best they can. If you don't care to improve yourself, why are you here at all? Upgrading Thief's Knife would be that improvement that people who want to play their best would appreciate. It would also not negatively affect people like you who are happy being mediocre. With that in mind, why argue against it?