Sharpened is Sharpened.

There are some passives that give different effects for the different weapons, like Bleed and such, but I don't know if they really have much of an impact on the overall combat. If they do, it's probably not enough fret over.

I don't think you can use a single Dagger in the game, or at least not with One Handed/Shield skills.

And, Swords maybe the ones that matter, and more for DW than anything else, for Sorcerers who are trying to max out their weapon damage to increase their spell damage. Although, why that works is a mystery to me (because it should not). If your sporting One Handed Shield, then any One handed weapon will work just fine.

Rickter wrote: »

doesnt the mace penetration passive stack with crusher enchant? if so, then for 1h/shield you'd want mace every time

They only get that from 2h/dw passives. 1h weapons have no inherent effects and s&b adds none.

If you run 1H+S in PvE you are a tank. And for tanks defending, that gives extra resistance stats or decisive, that gives extra ultimate regeneration, are actually better than sharpened, because thanks are not expected to do damage. If you run 1H+S in PvP sharpened is definitely the way to go, because you actually need to do damage. As for the type of weapon, it really makes no difference, since 1H+S does not have a passive based on the type of weapon, as 2H and 2W have.

I take defending over decisive any day, decisive adds about 1-6 extra ult a minute per ult generation ability. It's about 0.5% increase to total ult gen.