Nerf Loxmere's daggers for more Shadow Strike build diversity

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Loxmere’s daggers are just so significantly better than all other Shadow Strike options that it’s genuinely difficult to make an SS build that isn’t strictly worse without at least one of them. That small 0.1 second edge makes them beat out Beronath’s horns. And it completely leaves Rimeblessed Spear in the dust. I even found it was a DPS increase on my lightning SS build with Stormserpent build over other options.

When even other damage types are looking at them with envy, the reduction on them is so extreme that it warps nearly all SS builds around them. As much as I love Shadow Strike, I feel like this is a massive drag on the build crafting experience. And if Zakull SS is going to get nerfed next patch, I would hope it would start here (and obviously 'zerker because the Reaver version is the best one).

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iirc chinese community had a couple non cold SS builds using Loxmere before FoA too, one of them was indeed lightning (even before stormserpent got awakened) :sweat_smile:

i’ve honestly no idea how to fix this other than other XY dmg type build items. Nerf Lox, or bake part of it into base skill, and Lox daggers probably just goes away outside cherrypicked Plaguebearer prefix use :thinking:

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It should be noted that spectral longswords got sidelined by the free 100% pierce conversion in zakull

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Push them even harder into the utility/speed niche. Make them -0.4s but give them -% total damage too. Like the opposite of Dunefiend.