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

Caestus Overview

Caestus Basic Profile

Caestus	Type / Art / Weight
	Type: Fists Attack Type: Strike Skill: Endure Weight: 1.5
Description
A weapon build for striking with the fists, made of tough leather inlaid with iron rivets. Fist weapons come in pairs, and two-handing this weapon will equip it to both hands.

Basic Stats

Attribute Scaling

Required Stats

Caestus Location

Merchant List

Merchant	Price
Gatekeeper Gostoc	800

Gatekeeper Gostoc Detailed Location

Inside a room next to the main gate of Stormveil Castle.

How to Use Caestus

Scales with Strength and Dexterity

The Caestus equally scales with both attributes but is still mainly a Strength-based weapon. Upgrading it past +13 will improve the stat scaling bonus with Strength. The Starscourge Heirloom can further increase the damage of your attacks by raising your Strength.

Additionally, you can change the affinity of your weapons by using different whetblades to improve the default scaling of this weapon to better scale with your other stats.

All Whetblades Locations

Good Early Game Fist Weapon

This weapon can be acquired in the early game and is an ideal weapon for players with builds focused around Strength armaments. It is versatile and capable of dealing good damage with its fast-hitting normal and strong strike attacks.

The attack speed of Caestus can easily apply status effects such as Hemorrhage, Frost, and Poison are recommended affinities for an additional damage source.

List of All Status Effects and How to Cure

Infusable with Ashes of War

This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and is equipped with Endure as its default weapon skill. It boosts the user Poise and damage negation for a brief period.

Taking hits will not stagger you easily while this skill is active allowing you to keep attacking through enemy attacks. It is a very useful skill against enemies or bosses that have quick successive attacks, for example Malenia's Waterfowl Dance.

Best Ashes of War

Caestus Upgrade Stats

Base and Max Upgrade Level Comparison

Max Upgrade Level in Each Affinity

Scaling is ordered as (from left to right) STR, DEX, INT, FAI, and ARC. Additionally, passive Effect numbers are affected by your stats.

Elden Ring Related Guides

All Weapons List

Weapon Guides

List of Weapons by Stat Scaling

List of Weapons by Damage Types

Standard	Strike	Slash	Pierce
Magic	Fire	Holy	Lightning

List of Weapons by Status Effects

Bleed	Frost	Scarlet Rot
Sleep	Poison	Madness

List of Weapon Types