Othell Rogues Full Comparison (2026)

Same dagger chassis, four different jobs. This is the only archetype where the subclasses feel this far apart.

Flat points. Sum them, divide by 1000, that is your Perfect chance on that skill.

Passive / buff Perfect Rate

Sum every line (class passives, limits, cursed weapon, SP skills, etc.)

Skill Perfect Rate

Printed on the blow (e.g. Easterly / Right Angle often sit at 550)

Chance

(passive + skill) ÷ 1000

Perfect Power

Separate scalar that multiplies how hard the Perfect hit hits

A few patches ago % Perfect chances became flat points. Patch notes claimed efficiency was unchanged if you take the SP Perfect skill — without that skill, chance is slightly worse than the old formula. Most players never noticed.

Perfect Rate is a chance input; Perfect Power is a damage input. Adding rate does not directly make each successful Perfect stronger, and adding power does not make Perfect occur more often.

Example A — why skill rate matters

A character with 154 passive Perfect Rate uses a 550-rate dash and a 200-rate rotation blow. The same sheet produces about 70.4% Perfect on the dash but only 35.4% on the rotation blow. Calling the character a '70% Perfect build' hides the skill-specific failure.

Example B — Preparation changes Ghost Hunter

If Preparation contributes +400 rate, the 154 passive example becomes 554 before the skill. A 200-rate blow rises from 35.4% to 75.4%; a 550-rate dash mathematically reaches 110.4% and is functionally capped at certainty if no hidden modifier intervenes.

Example C — expected Perfects per rotation

For four independent blows at 70.4%, expected Perfect count is 4 × 0.704 = 2.816. This is a long-run average, not a promise: one rotation can land zero or four.

Example D — rate versus power

Suppose a normal white hit is 100, a Perfect is 300, and the skill has 70% Perfect chance. Expected hit = 0.70×300 + 0.30×100 = 240. Raising chance to 80% gives 260. Raising Perfect damage from 300 to 330 at the old 70% gives 261. Compare expected output, not isolated screenshots.

If you reroll a knife or you are new and insist on Othell, start here. The spreadsheet gap vs the other three is not subtle.

'Cold Blood'

Upgrades Grim Reaper Possession into Cruel Grim Reaper Possession · kill refund −10s CD

Cruel Reaper

~110% normal-crit-style package + skill crit power — comparable to a crit book while it is up

Pack uptime

Base CD crushed by sheet cooldown (~20s) · two kills refund the rest → nearly permanent on trash

Bosses

No kill refund → you wait the full gap · still better forced-crit uptime than other knives

'Preparation'

Triggers off Reaper / Shadow Reverse (and similar) · +400 Perfect Rate · +250 Perfect Power for a short window — almost always up on normal packs

'Ghost Whisper'

2 enhanced stones · last priority · +50 Perfect Rate · +250 Perfect Power · 30s / 3m · also treats every angle as a backstab (backstab→global modifier currently disabled; expected back next autumn)

• Crit multipliers under Reaper are in another league — on the order of ~80% harder than Fortune Seeker and ~3× Wind Rider in the same comparison sheet when Reaper is counted.
• White Perfect hits are also monstrous. Ghost Hunter can abandon crit-rate stacks in high PvE and in PvP and still delete people with whites.

Highest class crit-rate bonus and the only knife that feels great dumping Virtual Equipment AoEs into session zones early.

Crit rate bonus

~59% class package vs ~32% on the other three (Jawbone Blow / thumb line + Lv.120 passive)

'Coin of Maphr' / Coin blink

~600 range · ~5s CD — one of the best dagger damage blinks

Coin Perfect

~70% — healthy

Heart Breaker rotation Perfect

~35% base · still ~45–53% with Elset + curse + SP — too low for a white build

Skillcast

Roughly 2× the other knives · Wild Plunder + small-radius AoE make Jamoa / Pantheon / Firen / Innadril sessions pop first

Play Fortune Seeker through crit rate. Pushing toward ~4500 crit rate for −90% cut content is realistic on a mid-solid sheet; white/Perfect is a trap because Heart Breaker-tier skills refuse to Perfect often enough.

• Bosses: higher crit rate + someone proccing your counter-crit makes Fortune Seeker a cleaner boss knife than Wind Rider. Ghost Hunter still wins if Reaper uptime is modeled fairly — but Spoil is the interesting boss alternative.

Lowest damage multipliers of the four. Highest Adena/hour once you one-shot and the dash loop never stops.

'Easterly Wind Strike' + 'Right Angle Reverse'

400-range dashes (after the Lv.120 enhanced-stone range passive) · 5s class CD · Perfect Rate 550 each

'Wind Riding'

Perfect on one dash resets the other — cooldown gear becomes optional for poke volume

Vs other blinks

Fortune Coin: 600 / 5s · Ghost Shadow Reverse: 600 / 8s with longer animation

'Wind Sting' (last priority)

Shaves ~2s off both dash CDs · use after a non-Perfect / non-kill poke to snap both back

Gear flex

Drop Silenite / Aquamarine / CD Homunculus → Amber + damage Homunculus (e.g. Diavalnok line)

Dash skills are still melee-tagged for hit rules — community testing reports ~90% land rate and fewer evasion drops than pure ranged poke in ToI and session zones. Accuracy around +100 is the usual comfort target.

• Same story in shot group zones / plains: when everyone one-shots, Wind Rider’s infinite 400-range pokes print more than raw multiplier charts suggest.

White multipliers look fine on paper. The kit around them does not.

• No real ranged damage blink — everything wants range 0.
• Perfect rates are among the worst in the family; you cannot force a white build.
• Maximum Blow / Critical Tactics CD shaves and Perfect candy do not replace a second dash. The melee blow-counter fantasy needs you to actually take a hit (evasion / Tanzanite blocks the proc) — mediocre knives that eat damage usually die before the counter matters.

Relative figures from a matched modifier sheet — use them for ordering, not as patch gospel.

The best dagger changes after one-shot thresholds. Before the threshold, multiplier and survival win. After it, range, animation, reset frequency, and target acquisition decide Adena per hour.

Spread mobs

Wind Rider’s alternating dashes gain value

Tight pack

Fortune Seeker AoE and Virtual Equipment System casts gain value

High-HP single target

Ghost Hunter multiplier gains value

Long empty travel

Range and dash animation matter more than sheet damage

Crowded/contested

Target reach and first-hit reliability can beat isolated dummy DPS

• Ghost Hunter can use a white/Perfect direction because Preparation raises low-rate rotation skills, not merely the showcase dash.
• Fortune Seeker stays crit-oriented because Coin is healthy but Heart Breaker-family Perfect remains unreliable.
• Wind Rider removes cooldown pieces only after Perfect resets are operational. Before that point, dropping cooldown creates dead air.

• Do not start Adventurer for efficiency.
• If you only have stones for one dagger prestige path, buy Ghost Hunter’s Cold Blood / Reaper package before Wind Rider’s range passive or Fortune Seeker toys.