*When infused: 80 physical dmg/80 elemental dmg and B scaling with chosen element. Dex scaling changes to C.
Umbral Dagger is a weapon in Dark Souls 2. Umbral Dagger focuses on Dexterity for quick slashes and thrusts, emphasizing precision and stealth. It offers bonus damage for backstabs. Upgraded to +5 with Twinkling Titanite, it cannot be further infused.
A sharp dagger.
Crafted to facilitate assassinations with a focused backstab.
One true strike with this blade, and your work will be done.
How to get Umbral Dagger in Dark Souls 2
- Dropped by Fume Sorcerer along with its counterpart, Blue Dagger, in the Crown of the Old Iron King DLC.
DS2 Umbral Dagger Hints and Tips
- Upgraded with Twinkling Titanite to +5. Cannot be infused.
- Dex dedicated version of Shadow Dagger, moveset is identical to Mytha's Bent Blade.
- Unfortunately, being a dagger designed for backstabbing its basic swing damage is the lowest of all maxed-out daggers.
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DS2 Umbral Dagger Upgrades Table
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| Regular | 53 | - | - | - | - | 130/10 | - | S | - | - | - | - | - | - | 45 | 10 | 30 | 30 | 20 |
| Regular +5 | 70 | - | - | - | - | ^ | - | S | - | - | - | - | - | - | 45 | 10 | 30 | 30 | 20 |
DS2 Umbral Dagger Table Key
Please see the Upgrades page for details on Upgrade paths, ore and blacksmiths. You can see the Stats page for detailed explanations on what they do.
| Requirements/ Parameter Bonus |
Attack Values | Damage Reduction (%) Reducing the elemental damage taken in % |
Auxiliary Effects | Others |
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 Strength |
Physical |
Physical |
Bleeding |
 Durability |
 Dexterity |
Magic |
Magic |
 Poison |
Weight |
 Intelligence |
Fire |
Fire |
 Petrify |
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 Faith |
Lightning |
Lightning |
 Curse |
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 Counter Strength |
 Stability |
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 Cast Speed |
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| Dark Bonus |
 Range |
Parameter Bonus: Strength, Dexterity,Magic, Fire, Lightning and Dark bonuses - The scaling multiplier applied to the [Attack: stat]. Scaling quality is from highest to lowest as follows: S/A/B/C/D/E.
The higher the player's [Str, Dex, Mag, Fire, Light] stat, the higher the [Attack Bonus: Stat] is (found on the player status screen). The higher the scaling letter, the higher the percent multiplier applied to the [Attack: Stat].
This resulting bonus damage is added to the base physical damage of the weapon and is shown in the equipment screen in blue numbers as a "+ X".
Durability: The weapon's HP, when the durability hits 0, the effectiveness of its attacks become weakened to the point of almost uselessness. When an items durability is low, a message will come up saying "Weapon At Risk!" at this point the weapon does not perform at it's best.
Weight: How much the item weights when equipped.
Stability: How well the player keeps stance after being hit
Attack Type: Defines what kind of swing set the weapon has.
Regular(R), Thrust(T), Slash(Sl), Strike(St)
Anonymoustrue to its item description, this daggers backstab out damages its ripostes. making it a dedicated backstab fishers weapon. odd little detail I noticed.
- Anonymous
The only dagger with S scaling is a rare drop from a DLC enemy. I think it's safe to say that the dagger class is the red-headed stepchild of this game.
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Just did some light testing on the syan knights, since they’re easy to parry.
This dagger is likely the best option available for counter attacks of any kind on obscenely high dex builds (75 or so and above). At 80dex, 15str, ring of blades+2, a maxed flynn’s, and (I’m not sure if this effects anything) an old leo ring, the umbral+5 does roughly 300 more damage on backstabs than a +10 dagger. And only loses about 70 damage over the dagger on ripostes and guard breaks. Plus it still out-riposte-damages other high damage dex weapons like the espada ropera on all fronts, even though the espada has 10 more in the counter stat, and nearly twice the AR. Mind you these are on armored opponents, if someone wanted to convert those to percentages I’m sure you could transfer that over to other enemies.
It does on the other hand, with the aforementioned stats and rings, lose about 18 AR when compared to the regular dagger. Meaning, especially at lower dex, the regular dagger is likely a better choice for regular attacks.
tl;dr: if you have around 75 dex or more, use this. It does unrivaled backstab damage (unless you have obscene str and a grandlance) and loses minimal riposte damage over other options. If you want a good reposte/backstab sidearm on your high dex build, this is it.
Crit hits in this game are garbage because even though they have higher crit multipliers***** * 1.75] is still dominated by [Mega Dumb Gigantic Greatsword's attack *1.15]
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Quite*****ty, even the thief dagger is better when infused with fire/lightning. Feelsbadman
Well could be worst like same base damage and E scaling or no scaling at all you should be grateful to the B team!
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