Talk:Covert Lethality/@comment-26833442-20150814230117/@comment-17703786-20150815094247

^ +100 base damage is still a massive boost in damage for any weapon no matter how you look at it. And because it's a flat damage increase, it can be used to greatly enhance the attack damage of daggers that have low attack damage in the first place: even something like the Sheev does quite a lot of damage with Covert Lethality on, and any elemental mods scale off that increased base damage, making it even more effective.

Also, the OP kind of understates the effectiveness of Covert Lethality in stealth kills. You can do a lot more damage with other weapons using finishers yes, but you need lots of damage mods to do so. Equip just Covert Lethality on a dagger with no other mods, and you can instantly kill level 99+ enemies as long as you can kill them via stealth.