Talk:Rakta Dark Dagger/@comment-207.81.164.44-20190201004924/@comment-162.255.57.251-20190421120259

oh wait i see what you were saying, you're talking about the shield restore to get overshields.

personally wouldn't recommend it, as daggers' niche is really finishers, which Hildryn doesn't have any particular strengths with. And those finishers don't provide shield gain.

So that means to do this you'd have to make a straight-up DPS build for your dagger, so that after proccing radiation you could earn 5% of the DPS you output in shields, and then hope that that gain is more than the DPS you're taking from the enemies surrounding you while you attack one at a time.

It seems like a lot of effort for a very little reward, and you'd probably just be better of killing those enemies some other way (hence preventing all further damage from them) than getting into a contest of who can deal more DPS so you can have overshields. Especially when Hildryn's 2 can already grant Overshields in a much more usable way.

I tend not to have Overshields when I play Hildryn, though, and I don't really want for them because I play with a rank 8 Adaptation, which is more than enough to make her all but immune to Poison and True Damage bypassing her shields, even with her relatively small (and unmodified) health pool. So I would recommend just using that mod and then using a weapon that allows you to kill lots of things fast.