which weapon set is better for marauder?

[jinsediaoying]

1.one hand weapon + dagger with weapon mastery
2.two daggers with dagger mastery

which one is better?

[Sradac]

1 handed weapon, Marauders rely upon Strength much more than cunning or dex

[comrade raoul]

(2), but obviously it's worse than a one-handed weapon and dagger with both masteries. So, also obviously, the real question is whether to invest in both masteries or just daggers. Since (non-conrac) marauders are very tight on generic points, I don't know what the answer is. (Probably there is no general answer, and the optimal strategy depends on your gear.)

fwiw I like to raise both masteries, on the grounds that:

(a) Since masteries scale logarithmically, and one-handed weapons have more base damage and better accuracy bonuses, a one-hander with 3 points in mastery and a dagger with 2 will be at least competitive damage-wise with a pair of daggers with 5 points, especially if you have more Strength than Dex (which, as Sradrac points out, most marauders probably should).*

(b) For most characters, most of the time, your best one-hander is likely to be significantly better than your second-best dagger.

(c) The one-hander/dagger combo looks cooler, in my considered opinion, than the dagger/dagger combo.

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* (edited: unless they use Poisons, maybe. But it seems to me most marauders shouldn't do this, unless they get artifacts with a lot of nature damage boosts, since most of your toughest mid-game opponents are immune to poison and Battle Tactics and Bloodthirst are both much more important.)

[Robsoie]

I just won a marauder with double dagger with that character.

I didn't tried the 1 hander - dagger, as putting points into the weapon hander mastery on top of the dagger mastery would have then prevented me to put the extra points elsewhere (i wanted to get the imbue item from an escort given stone alchemy tree, and max it, so i could take the crafty hand prodigy to improve a lot my character item bonuses).

And i think double dagger is still very good on Marauders as once you get high criticals and get all your damaging and extra-attacks skills running, helped by some good item, you can do huge damage even on the likes of Elandar with a single use of a maxed Flurry :


So maybe it could be more damaging to go 1 hander-dagger, but double dagger should be enough to carry you with high damage through the whole game.
Just be sure in the early game to replace your starting daggers with new ones (that you may find as loot if you're lucky, or if not, go to a shop and buy good daggers as soon as you can).

Keep the starting daggers on makes the early game really hard as the starting daggers are really bad in every possible ways.

[Faeryan]

I would make my decision on the available weapons, that's how close a call it is.
If I have nice daggers in my vault then definitely daggers, if not then the other combo.