Hookclaws Stats, Upgrades, and How to Get

The Hookclaws is a Claw available in Elden Ring. Read on for the Hookclaws's stats, upgrade info, how to use Hookclaws, and its location.

Hookclaws Overview

Hookclaws Basic Profile

Hookclaws	Type / Art / Weight
	Type: Claws Attack Type: Slash/Pierce Skill: Quickstep Weight: 2.0
Description
Weapon worn on the fist comprised of sharp parallel blades favored by those who lurk in the dark. Lacerations cause blood loss with great effort. Claw weapons come in pairs, and two-handing this weapon will equip it to both hands.

Basic Stats

Passive Effects

Attribute Scaling

Required Stats

Hookclaws Location

Found in Stormveil Castle

If you take the back entrance route, you can find the Hookclaws on a corpse inside Stormveil Castle in Limgrave. The corpse is on the back corner of the first floor of the room filled with barrels.

Stormveil Castle Legacy Dungeon Walkthrough and Location

How to Get Hookclaws - Video Guide

How to Use Hookclaws

Scales with Dexterity and Strength

This weapon highly scales wtih Dexterity which means that leveling up that attribute will have the most bonus physical attack damage gain. It does however require a little bit of strength to use but does not scales as well as Dexterity.

Recommended Early Game Bleed Weapon

The Hookclaws is an ideal early game weapon due to its fast attack speed and blood loss buildup passive. Most enemies in the game suffer from blood loss buildup, and the fast attacks of the Hookclaws allow bleed to be applied quickly.

Hookclaws Upgrade Stats

Base and Max Upgrade Level Comparison

Max Upgrade Level in Each Affinity

Note: Passive Effect buildup numbers may change depending on your stats.

Elden Ring Related Guides

List of Weapons

Weapon Guides

List of Weapons by Damage Types

Standard	Strike
Slash	Pierce
Magic Weapons	Fire Weapons
Holy Weapons	Lightning Weapons

List of Weapons by Status Effects

Bleed	Frost
Scarlet Rot	Sleep
Poison	Madness

List of Weapon Types

Melee Weapons
Axes	Claws	Colossal Swords
Colossal Weapons	Curved Greatsword	Curved Swords
Daggers	Fists	Flails
Glintstone Staves	Greataxe	Greatswords
Great Hammers	Great Spears	Halberd
Hammers	Heavy Thrusting Swords	Katanas
Reaper	Sacred Seals	Spears
Straight Swords	Thrusting Sword	Torches
Twinblades	Whips	-
Ranged Weapons
Light Bows	Bows	Greatbows
Crossbows	Ballista	-
Shields
Small Shields	Medium Shields	Greatshields