Seeing as the damage issue is already being well discussed, here are my other findings on the blades so far.
A test of these new daggers compared to older generations of blades (alps, dimensional, mountain teeth, goblin skewers, magmatic etc.) shows that the animation / attack speed on the new Dragon blades is reduced by 1/3 to 1/2 compared to the speed of the others. The animation seems to have changed to remove much of the fast slicing and use more of the slower kicks.
Seeing as the blades only proc on auto-attack, this sticky-feeling slowed action is probably what is leading to the proc rates being lower than anticipated.
I have always preferred daggers to bows, almost entirely because they have such a nice fast responsive feel to them. I find this slowed down action to be distracting and awkward. One would think that an arcane weapon would be at least as fast as the crate daggers from earlier seasons. I wouldn't even regret some damage loss so much (aside from the logistical factors of these being arcane weapons, and what this means for the coming expansion gear stats) if we could get some proper dagger-ish speed out of these.
Proc on skill use would be beneficial also.
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