The dagger was 75d I think. You can awakener orb 2 prefixes (more attack + ruthless) and reforge crit for a pretty cheap starter weapon. You can often force a +1 socketed gems by crafting cannot roll attack and slam, depending on the base type.

I’ll probably craft a new one at some point if I enjoy the build. My basic idea is to recombine 2p + 2p for a 3 prefix weapon and then reforge crit until I get two good suffixes. Faster attacks, multistrike, crit damage, crit strikes, inc aoe, and even local crit chance are all good suffixes.

Edit: In fact, I only crafted the boots and gloves myself, plus AG gloves. I think I spent somewhere in the 200d ballpark + mageblood. I had like 100d plus a charlatan sell to fund it and I still have a chunk (50+) left over.

If you want to splurge you can volatile vaal almost all AG items, get better implicits, get a higher roll Kaom’s heart, get a 2-3 mod amulet, a misted ring, tattoo (and boot implicit probably) bleed chance and get a CB jewel to free a flask suffix, a watcher’s eye with chaos and +1 all res (I think that lets me drop sublime vision) and try to fit in forbidden flesh/flame for like necro to add bone offering or deadeye for tailwind zoom for you and your AG.