Knives

The knives skill is a combat skill that governs your ability to use small bladed weapons, including daggers, dirks and katars. It becomes relevant only when you are fighting with one of these weapons in hand, at which point your ability to strike your opponent becomes the aggregate of both your knives skill and offense.

Knives in general have balanced armor penetrance, low per-strike damage, but high striking speed. This makes them very good candidates for dealing consistent damage over time. As you improve with knives, you will begin unlocking special weapon attacks that have increasing chance to activate when you attack with knives. Knives are highly technical weapons, and skilled users can disable their opponent's offense, including outright disarming them. Because knives strike so quickly, they are the favored method of delivering toxins, and therefore are favored amongst assassins, infiltrators, scouts and spies.

Knives train similarly to base offense, whenever swung at an opponent that has sufficient lethality to be a challenge.

Skill with knives is governed by agility (primary) and intelligence (secondary).