[Perdition]

What Mr. SmileGod says is exactly how I feel about VA. You're supposed to choose how you want to play it. The entire class kit was never meant to be synergistic, and that's fine. The thing is, even if daggers could be casting tools for their spells, it wouldn't change much because dagger builds can't afford to take res anyway. I guess there are some exceptions, but functionally I couldn't see them being good with the stats you'd need.

Look at Ignite Engine. There's absolutely nothing within VA or base rogue that works with that. There's no dagger synergy there. If it was a simple dagger class, why would that exist in VA? Engineer is another rogue promo, but that class is far from a 'dagger' class, so the point stands. There are several things in VA tied to Dark ATK scaling in general, such as the aforementioned Ignite Engine's bonus damage and Fray's damage alongside the two void spells of course.

When you look at a class like curate, you can see another example of different playstyles baked into one class. There's Pacifist for if you want to focus on healing and support, but you also have Solar Lance which is a spear skill and clearly meant for a more offensive curate. In Priest, you have lightning synergy skills in the form of Holy Spark and Mercalan Mist--that coupled with the evade passive from Curate is set up for a more dodge focused priest as opposed to the more traditional tanky one.

My point is, I like VA's versatility. I like that you can do a lot of different things with it. However, I would like to see more support options for its clearly meant alternative strategies. The dagger aspect is fleshed out, but that's not all there is to VA.