Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-31763506-20180825043752/@comment-36170150-20180826162720

Arakhne wrote: Okay, so Luck is useless as long as you don't use status-inducing moves and wear a barrier pin?

Guess the shield is good for a DPS-oriented Nalili then (or for Simon if he has to duel Mestan again).

What do affect critical hits then? Only weapons that specifically say so? Even then I don't know if the shield would be that useful, the sylvan gauntlet is a good offensive option for the off-hand slot so using that with a pin would possibly still have better stats for a strictly offensive build (I don't have access to the new patch so I don't know the exact stats of the shield).

According to the Equipment page, aside from weapons that specifically alter the crit rate, the weapon type may also apply an additional modifier. All axes apply a -5% to the crit rate, all swords apply a +5% to the crit rate and all daggers apply a +10% to the crit rate. To me this is the reason why Varia can't use daggers despite it not making an awful lot of sense considering her lore, double daggers combined with her multi-hit skills would make her damage output be even more ridiculous.