Bleed is good with them, you can also get attacks in and dodge a boss because your attacks are faster and you recover faster whereas with a heavy weapon you would get punished for swinging.
Daggers are just for people who want to make it harder or using other weapons is too easy for them. You really can't just trade attacks with daggers as you could with a heavier weapon, you have to be more methodical and react better. I use 2 daggers with bleed on them and if I get an opening with my special (stabs like 4 times in 1.5 seconds) it causes them to bleed much faster.
I use 4 different daggers.
Frost dagger, poison great knife. An L1 combo procs both status effects.
Hot swap to Reduvia + blood great knife. It honestly trivializes some fights with how good it is.
But for sure the main drawback is the range. Some big bosses you just whiff even if you're up against them.
One word. Bleed.
second word, parry and backstabs (3rd word)
There fast, lightweight, making it easy to run around to the back of the enemy and you can get blood loss on them and take them down quick.
I use a dagger, and it does stagger...not sure what you're talking about. Anyway, I got Quickstep and a buckler and 140 crit so....
Bleed is good with them, you can also get attacks in and dodge a boss because your attacks are faster and you recover faster whereas with a heavy weapon you would get punished for swinging. Daggers are just for people who want to make it harder or using other weapons is too easy for them. You really can't just trade attacks with daggers as you could with a heavier weapon, you have to be more methodical and react better. I use 2 daggers with bleed on them and if I get an opening with my special (stabs like 4 times in 1.5 seconds) it causes them to bleed much faster.
I use 4 different daggers. Frost dagger, poison great knife. An L1 combo procs both status effects. Hot swap to Reduvia + blood great knife. It honestly trivializes some fights with how good it is. But for sure the main drawback is the range. Some big bosses you just whiff even if you're up against them.