Ironically i love iron dagger. Small, no weird shape and more importantly easy to conceal, the perfect assassination weapon but i know Skyrim rule, weapon with the weirder look always having better stats.
That’s why I like the steel dagger, straight, sharp, pointy, perfect “I’m a farmer but I’m good enough with a knife to fuck up a bandit or two” aesthetics
Fun fact: If your pickpocket and sneak are high enough, you can get the Blade of Woe early from Astrid. Then the one at the end of the questline still spawns so you get 2.
@kritizismmusics9737 Yeah. Also I haven't been able to replicate it, but like 12 years ago I somehow managed to eat the Jarrin root without dying and talked to Astrid again and she gave me another one. This was on 360 so no mods were on it. Although now that I think about it I guess you could use it in a potion to test it out. Can't believe it took me this long to realize that alternative.
Fun fact: If your pick pocket is 100, you can pick pocket the blade of woe out of astrids inventory and then get a second one at the end of the quest line! Im sure im not the only one to have done this, but ive never seen anyone talk about it. Much love Rogue!
Yeah, but that's an exploit. You're using a bug in the game. Meanwhile, pickpocketing weapons from people is a feature. There being two of them is probably just an oversight.@@Manjustman_25806
I remember in my first playthrough I was going for a thief build, got Mehrune's dagger and one-shotted Alduin. 10/10 would sell my soul to a Daedric prince again.
@@MeJustMe101riften house patio, just fast travel to riften stable, go around the house of the stable, up the stairs look to left, both knife and fork in the table, if you still not patch up the fortify restoration, you can go crazy with the enchant with those two, i once use it in my gourmet build play
So one thing that annoys me about Skyrim's daggers (excluding Mehron's Rzaor for edge lord reasons) is that the hand guards all point up. While there are some sword breaker weapons that will angle up, typically you want a guard to deflect away from your hand - especially with a dagger.
As far as asthetics, I largely agree. However, the iron dagger does have one thing going for it: it is light. For weapon enchanting utility, carrying swiss army iron daggers is one of the most effective ways to have every offensive magic effect available. Some builds don't need this variety, but I enjoy it.
Putting Steel so high was a beautiful flourish of cloak-and-dagger tactics: luring us in with the milder takes then BAM! Steel! I agree with your takes, but as a overzealous mall goth I am feeling a little TOO called out on Daedric....
I think Keening in Skyrim is actually not a fake. The aforementioned broken enchantment (can’t be recharged) is likely a bug, but most don’t know that BEFORE you complete the quest with Arniel, Keening inflicts an ability called Mortal Wound on the Dragonborn, which drains all stats. I think that was Bethesda’s attempt to show that it harms the user, as the legitimate Keening would. Perhaps the Last Dragonborn, as an extremely unique character with both the ability to communicate with EVERY daedric lord, some divine gods, the obvious Dragonborn abilities, and also documented evidence of time travel, we can assume that Keening would not impact them the same as others
As for the best in game play, Valdr’s Blade is my favorite. The chance that Mehrune’s instant kill effect is so tiny to not be worthy, but the 25% critical hit chance of Valdr’s Blade is achievable numerous times and it does sharpen well.
The seax is a famously unhilted knife, it was used extensively in Scandinavian and Saxon cultures both in daily tasks and combat. The ancient nord dagger is a fantastical tip of the hat to this century spanning favorite.
The glass dagger is probably meant more for tearing open wounds. The small ridges along it looks sharp and jagged so it is probably most definitely meant to make it hard for someone to close their wound after being stabbed. As the tissue would get severely torn and damaged inside.
You should definitely do a list like this on the armor. That's always an interesting topic in the game since everyone's list with armor os very different a lot of the time.
Fang of Haynekhtnamet was one of my favorite additions of the anniversary edition and just had a good feel to it and it felt more like a knife than a dagger but that leant to roleplay but i understand how people may not like its proportions and look
The Ebony Dagger and Sword are at the bottom of my personal lists for looking like someone didn't so much smith them as they did crack a chunk of obsidian and call it a blade
Funny thing is that daggers cut on both sides and are mostly symmetrical. Lot's of ''daggers'' in skryim are actually knives. Which counts for the ebony, dragon priest, elven, orcish, deadric, blade of woe and nordic ''daggers''. They still look good though.
@@kamixakadio2441 I know, but he himself said when ranking it that he took the effect into account, same with all the other unique daggers. Also, keening looks unique, not good, point still stands.
Keening looks like some overpriced trinket from a rock n gem wannabe witch supply shop .. those places that sell "blank grimoires" and "special summoning candles" n all that jazz
This is me being a nerd but my biggest problem with most of these daggers is that they’re just knives. Daggers are thrusting weapons meant to penetrate thick armour, getting between metal plates and deliver a killing blow. Many daggers have a sharpened edge so you can still cut but many daggers were dull bc they weren’t used to cut with. Knives are more general purpose weapons/tools used for cutting, slashing and chopping. The shiv is a perfect dagger bc it’s just a metal spike.
I still feel guilty for my 6500+ Ebony dagger, luckily Miraak was able to take a lot of that guilt off when I had to flame him in order to finish the battle...😂
The orcish daggers fish hook design has a use as its a gut hook after killing an animal simpley flip the dagger and use the gut hook to hook into the belly skin and put down gutting your kill cleanly and neatly
I don't know if table knife is the correct term, I see it more like a cooking knife... but still agree that it's a damn knife. I like WAY more the steel dagger than the nordic one. Specially the "lucky" one in tandem with Mehrune's for an assassin build...😊
if you believe it daggers are meant to be bigger than a knife smaller than a short sword but bulky like a tiny sword so for that realistically dwarven dagger is PERFECT for that description of being a dagger
The iron dagger can also help with the enchanting skill tree; super easy to make, so you always have something to enchant cheaply for getting that leveled up…and gold selling them all. Yeah, it is trash, but think outside of the box and even trash can be useful. Ask any modern artist.
You forgot the ancient nord dagger, added by the fishing dlc. (As it’s only obtainable by getting lucky and fishing it up when the fish have dried up and all you’re getting is junk) it also has a nord hero variant as do all of the ancient nord weapons.
I have more than 1000 hours in Skyrim, I have been playing it since 2012 on the PS3 and now on PC and I just found out that there is a Forsworn dagger.....
I've literally been looking for this. I want to see the same thing but with the other weapons specifically the two-handed swords and two-handed Axe and the one-handed sword and the two handed hammers.
I like the amber dagger from the saints and seducers creation club mod for vanilla skyrim the ancient nord and Nord hero dagger are a mist for ancient vampire characters woth the ancient nord dagger its on the heavy side and looks dull but i just think its neat
Thank you sm for pronouncing N'wah like that. Cuz playing marrowind as a redguard for the frist time got me fucked up man... Did everyone here that? Played marrowind for the first time as a goddamn redguard!!!!!
I wish there's a perk on one handed for daggers but aince sneak took it over and only dual wield works, you need to depend on element enchants and make it max on legendary to work
@@RogueRanks oh …my…god……I got a response from the man himself…..while I have your attention,, u never rank hero weapons. They are made from ancient nord stuff at the skyforge
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Ironically i love iron dagger. Small, no weird shape and more importantly easy to conceal, the perfect assassination weapon but i know Skyrim rule, weapon with the weirder look always having better stats.
Me too, no stupid nonsense on the blade or anything, like most of the other daggers.
That’s why I like the steel dagger, straight, sharp, pointy, perfect “I’m a farmer but I’m good enough with a knife to fuck up a bandit or two” aesthetics
Fun fact: If your pickpocket and sneak are high enough, you can get the Blade of Woe early from Astrid. Then the one at the end of the questline still spawns so you get 2.
@@dustindurham6825 oh sweet
@kritizismmusics9737 Yeah. Also I haven't been able to replicate it, but like 12 years ago I somehow managed to eat the Jarrin root without dying and talked to Astrid again and she gave me another one. This was on 360 so no mods were on it. Although now that I think about it I guess you could use it in a potion to test it out. Can't believe it took me this long to realize that alternative.
BRO WHAT?!? I am 100% doing this my next playtgrough
@@allanhagen703 Yeah. It's pretty great.
It just works
Fun fact: If your pick pocket is 100, you can pick pocket the blade of woe out of astrids inventory and then get a second one at the end of the quest line!
Im sure im not the only one to have done this, but ive never seen anyone talk about it.
Much love Rogue!
fun fact: this is the 2nd comment i saw about this on this video
@@curpuple3778 I love doing this 😂
I mean you could do that or just do the white run dupe glitch
Yeah, but that's an exploit. You're using a bug in the game. Meanwhile, pickpocketing weapons from people is a feature. There being two of them is probably just an oversight.@@Manjustman_25806
Pretty sure the Forsworn dagger is a mod. Not a basegame Weapon.
yes, it is
I’ve played with so many different mods for so long I genuinely forgot it wasn’t a vanilla weapon until after editing 💀
@@RogueRanksLmao i feel that
@@RogueRanksclassic Skyrim
@@plaguenplay3516no… it’s not. Go find the wiki page for a forsworn dagger.
I remember in my first playthrough I was going for a thief build, got Mehrune's dagger and one-shotted Alduin. 10/10 would sell my soul to a Daedric prince again.
where's the fork???????
I knew I forgot something...
And the knife@@RogueRanks
And the knife? Where's that?
@@MeJustMe101riften house patio, just fast travel to riften stable, go around the house of the stable, up the stairs look to left, both knife and fork in the table, if you still not patch up the fortify restoration, you can go crazy with the enchant with those two, i once use it in my gourmet build play
@@SashaYamatoShhhiiiiittt thanks bro
Another problem with the ebony and deadric daggers is that they're not daggers but knives.
So is the elven dagger if we're being fair.
Not enough puns in the start. Also didn't end on a pun. Only 9.5/10 video.
@@winterwolfcr7 I lost my edge
@@RogueRanksat least you understood their point 😂
@@winterwolfcr7 xD
So one thing that annoys me about Skyrim's daggers (excluding Mehron's Rzaor for edge lord reasons) is that the hand guards all point up. While there are some sword breaker weapons that will angle up, typically you want a guard to deflect away from your hand - especially with a dagger.
As far as asthetics, I largely agree. However, the iron dagger does have one thing going for it: it is light. For weapon enchanting utility, carrying swiss army iron daggers is one of the most effective ways to have every offensive magic effect available. Some builds don't need this variety, but I enjoy it.
I know it's borderline impossible to do but man i'd love to see you make a teir list of every quest in skyrim.
Putting Steel so high was a beautiful flourish of cloak-and-dagger tactics: luring us in with the milder takes then BAM! Steel! I agree with your takes, but as a overzealous mall goth I am feeling a little TOO called out on Daedric....
Steel dagger is almost a short-sword, which is also why I love it
@@RogueRanks it’s “shoto we have at home” vibes
I think Keening in Skyrim is actually not a fake. The aforementioned broken enchantment (can’t be recharged) is likely a bug, but most don’t know that BEFORE you complete the quest with Arniel, Keening inflicts an ability called Mortal Wound on the Dragonborn, which drains all stats. I think that was Bethesda’s attempt to show that it harms the user, as the legitimate Keening would. Perhaps the Last Dragonborn, as an extremely unique character with both the ability to communicate with EVERY daedric lord, some divine gods, the obvious Dragonborn abilities, and also documented evidence of time travel, we can assume that Keening would not impact them the same as others
Hmmm I always thought it was a fake but you have me reconsidering...
Honor the sixth house and the tribe unmorned when you discuss the elder scrolls
Your self-deprecating humor is appreciated.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Love your ranking videos keep it up:) Skyrim will never die
@@samharris7000 it really won’t will it
I would for sure enjoy more weapon ranking videos
I'm on it
the ammount of puns in the first 20 seconds shanked me like mr copperdell in 2019 at 3:43pm on the streets of london
Proud to have a Blade of Woe tattoo on my arm to celebrate my favorite dagger and questline in the game. Glad you rated it so high 👏
@@legobasebro dope
As for the best in game play, Valdr’s Blade is my favorite. The chance that Mehrune’s instant kill effect is so tiny to not be worthy, but the 25% critical hit chance of Valdr’s Blade is achievable numerous times and it does sharpen well.
too bad the crit only increases base damage instead of reinforced damage
Lucky for us, Mehrune's effect is on crit, so dualweilding them is PERFECT for an assassin build. ❤
I always find a love for skyrim ranking videos. Great work, chief. I look forward to seeing more videos in the future
Thanks!
dude these videos are amazing, idk how you haven't blown up yet. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK I LOVE THIS!
You really pierced through the competition
💯
Love your content dovahkiin!
@@tomaspaul9032 🫡
Thank you for this. I’m currently deeply into the dark brotherhood right now this helps
OH BOY I can't wait to see what DAGGERs FALL at the top of this list!
@@BigChief_1337 Omg it was right there….
The seax is a famously unhilted knife, it was used extensively in Scandinavian and Saxon cultures both in daily tasks and combat. The ancient nord dagger is a fantastical tip of the hat to this century spanning favorite.
The glass dagger is probably meant more for tearing open wounds. The small ridges along it looks sharp and jagged so it is probably most definitely meant to make it hard for someone to close their wound after being stabbed. As the tissue would get severely torn and damaged inside.
I love stealth and the killcams are amazing. My favorite early game is a dwarven dragger and late game would be either the blade of woe or the razor
i recommend playing with the believable weapons mod, remodels every (except forsworn) melee weapon to look more like they’re actually usable
I'll check it out thanks!
You should definitely do a list like this on the armor. That's always an interesting topic in the game since everyone's list with armor os very different a lot of the time.
Fang of Haynekhtnamet was one of my favorite additions of the anniversary edition and just had a good feel to it and it felt more like a knife than a dagger but that leant to roleplay but i understand how people may not like its proportions and look
Totally agree on the ebony dagger. always thought it looked like nothing more than a letter opener
The Ebony Dagger and Sword are at the bottom of my personal lists for looking like someone didn't so much smith them as they did crack a chunk of obsidian and call it a blade
I think you missed the Fang of Haynekhtnamet which you can get by playing the fishing questline (it has a unique model)
Love your Skyrim vids man! Keep it up! Subbed
Thank you!
Funny thing is that daggers cut on both sides and are mostly symmetrical. Lot's of ''daggers'' in skryim are actually knives. Which counts for the ebony, dragon priest, elven, orcish, deadric, blade of woe and nordic ''daggers''. They still look good though.
The whole 15 seconds of puns got my sub
keening that low is crazy
It does suck. One single hit of charge. Without 100% destruction cost reduction it's useless since you cannot recharge it
@@galactick3816 He just said that he ranks these on Visuals/Design, not their functionality.
Keening that Low is crazy, given it's great design.
@@kamixakadio2441 I know, but he himself said when ranking it that he took the effect into account, same with all the other unique daggers.
Also, keening looks unique, not good, point still stands.
Keening looks like some overpriced trinket from a rock n gem wannabe witch supply shop .. those places that sell "blank grimoires" and "special summoning candles" n all that jazz
This is me being a nerd but my biggest problem with most of these daggers is that they’re just knives.
Daggers are thrusting weapons meant to penetrate thick armour, getting between metal plates and deliver a killing blow. Many daggers have a sharpened edge so you can still cut but many daggers were dull bc they weren’t used to cut with.
Knives are more general purpose weapons/tools used for cutting, slashing and chopping.
The shiv is a perfect dagger bc it’s just a metal spike.
Restoration loop-->blacksmithing upgrade-->any dagger one shot kill. I made a dragon bone dagger and upgraded it to almost 500 damage.
I still feel guilty for my 6500+ Ebony dagger, luckily Miraak was able to take a lot of that guilt off when I had to flame him in order to finish the battle...😂
A handful of puns right at the beginning? Sign me up.
I'm afraid I can't help myself
Awesome video!! Can you do mace's next? My all time favourite weapon
May I request a daedric quest ranking? Nobody seems to have done that yet.
My favorite part about the blade of woe is being able to get two of them and dual wielding it
The orcish daggers fish hook design has a use as its a gut hook after killing an animal simpley flip the dagger and use the gut hook to hook into the belly skin and put down gutting your kill cleanly and neatly
Imma be honest, I haven't even seen a forsworn dagger after 11 years of playing Skyrim
I didn’t realize it’s a mod I’ve had for years 💀
The Nordic knife actually looks like a fish knife used for cutting into and breaking down fish. Which fits very well considering who uses it
0:17 slice through the compotition wouldve worked
Nordic dagger is a weaponised table knife. period.
What kind of table knives you using over there
@@RogueRanks nordic daggers
I don't know if table knife is the correct term, I see it more like a cooking knife... but still agree that it's a damn knife. I like WAY more the steel dagger than the nordic one. Specially the "lucky" one in tandem with Mehrune's for an assassin build...😊
The combination of dagger and shield has the best kill cam animation after mauling someone as a warewolf!
Really amazing videos dude you should make more
Thank you!
i don't really like nords and nordic armors at all, but this nord dagger looks so fine man
Thanks for the video
Thanks for the comment!
Keenan was never meant to be a weapon. It’s a tool. It makes perfect sense that you know he doesn’t make sense as a weapon.
if you believe it daggers are meant to be bigger than a knife smaller than a short sword but bulky like a tiny sword so for that realistically dwarven dagger is PERFECT for that description of being a dagger
The iron dagger can also help with the enchanting skill tree; super easy to make, so you always have something to enchant cheaply for getting that leveled up…and gold selling them all. Yeah, it is trash, but think outside of the box and even trash can be useful. Ask any modern artist.
I usually use Deadric (or other Unique) artifacts until I can Smith stronger weapons but I will ALWAYS keep Mhunz's Razor on me
Damn these puns are killing me 😂
I'm glad you enjoyed them
You forgot the ancient nord dagger, added by the fishing dlc. (As it’s only obtainable by getting lucky and fishing it up when the fish have dried up and all you’re getting is junk) it also has a nord hero variant as do all of the ancient nord weapons.
Mehrunes razor, blade of woe, and the dark dagger all look great
I have more than 1000 hours in Skyrim, I have been playing it since 2012 on the PS3 and now on PC and I just found out that there is a Forsworn dagger.....
@@mune.t8691 it’s actually a mod I forgot was a mod so that’s my bad
I've literally been looking for this. I want to see the same thing but with the other weapons specifically the two-handed swords and two-handed Axe and the one-handed sword and the two handed hammers.
Will do
Valdr's Lucky Dagger is my personal favorite
Well done,keep going bro
Slightly disappointed that you didn't include the best dagger in the game: the all-powerful knife! :P
The nordic dagger tho. You got a pretty sharp eye for daggers
Nice video man, subbed
You have an insane amount of potential!
nice video bro!!!
Thanks!
The Nordic dagger kinda got a butter knife look to it but I love it
Making rings is better for increasing smithing, especially with the duplication glitch
That sound effect you use sounds like the escapist knock out or hit noise😂
Put some respek on the iron dagger. That smithing glitch back in the day is goat tier.
Iron dagger is Definitely the most iconic dagger in skyrim but is visually the best
I was gonna say forsworn dagger wasn't vanilla to my memory, but someone already mentioned it was a mod
Cap. Worst dagger would be that cutlery knife. I know it ain’t a dagger but it’s still a knife.
The reason keenings handle looks so uncomfortable to wield is because it was never meant to be used as a weapon
Bloodrayne reference= instant sub
I was just hoping you'd make another vid lol
@@kritizismmusics9737 💀
Wish you included madness, amber, dark, golden and the fang of something one that you get from fishing legends quest
I'd watch some Fallout rankings!
4:42 bro did it again thinking we weren’t gonna notice 😭😂
Can you do these ranking videos for Morrowind weapons?
The Shiv is basically an icepick.
You gonna do ones for swords, axes etc?
Yup, working on Maces vid now
I think "sliced the competition" would've sufficed 😂
Ebony is actually not a metal it is petrified wood.
In Skyrim it is a metal. It is stupid and silly, I know, but that's how it works in that world
Um AKTCHEWALLY in the Elder Scrolls it's a volcanic glass said to be the crystallized blood of Lorkhan
one handed sword ranking next?
the knife you use to heal the tree in skyrim forgot what it was callled
I like the amber dagger from the saints and seducers creation club mod for vanilla skyrim the ancient nord and Nord hero dagger are a mist for ancient vampire characters woth the ancient nord dagger its on the heavy side and looks dull but i just think its neat
I think Knife should be #1, Clearly the best looking and most practical dagger in the whole game
Seeing a skyrim top 10 in 2024 is honestly great, maybe tone down the sound effects a bit but good watch otherwise
funny thing is that razor is not safe , imagine u touch it and accidenty insta kill ya
Good thumbnail , and video
@@Bakesensei 🤩
More then 1000 hours on this game and i've literally never used a dagger. Same for Oblivion.
Thank you sm for pronouncing N'wah like that. Cuz playing marrowind as a redguard for the frist time got me fucked up man... Did everyone here that? Played marrowind for the first time as a goddamn redguard!!!!!
I wish there's a perk on one handed for daggers but aince sneak took it over and only dual wield works, you need to depend on element enchants and make it max on legendary to work
I’m using mehrunes razor and and elven dagger , smithed up to epic with fire enchantment
Great combo!
@@RogueRanks oh …my…god……I got a response from the man himself…..while I have your attention,, u never rank hero weapons. They are made from ancient nord stuff at the skyforge
@@msharp6887 I will include them going forwards just for you 😎
@@RogueRanks …😢….thats the nicest thing I ever heard
5:30, if we're saying truly "edgy", I think the dagger's fav band is Blood On The Dance Floor