Elden Ring

Iron Spear Stats, Upgrades, and How to Get

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

Iron Spear Overview

Iron Spear Basic Profile

Iron Spear ImageIron Spear Type / Art / Weight
Type: Spears
Attack Type: Pierce
Skill: Charge Forth
Weight: 4.5
Description
Commonly used iron spear with no notable traits. The blade is severely rusted.

Basic Stats

PHYS ATK 114 PHYS DEF 42.0
MAG ATK 0 MAG DEF 26.0
FIRE ATK 0 FIRE DEF 26.0
LGHT ATK 0 LGHT DEF 26.0
HOLY ATK 0 HOLY DEF 26.0
CRIT ATK 100 GUARD BOOST 31.0
INCANT SCALING - RANGE -
SORCERY SCALING - - -

Attribute Scaling

STR DEX INT FAI ARC
D D - - -

Required Stats

STR DEX INT FAI ARC
13 11 0 0 0

Iron Spear Location

Chance to Drop From Fallen Hawks Soldiers

This weapon has a chance to drop from Fallen Hawks Soldiers that wield it. They can be found in Nokron, Eternal City and a few can easily be farmed just outside the Site of Grace.

Nokron, Eternal City Location and What to Do

How to Use Iron Spear

Scales with Strength and Dexterity

The Iron Spear scales mainly with Strength but also has some scaling with Dexterity. You can use the Starscourge Heirloom talisman which raises your Strength by +5 or the Prosthesis Wearer's Heirloom which raises Dexterity by +5 to further capitalize on the Iron Spear's scaling. Note that switching the Iron Spear to the Quality affinity will give it a B scaling in both Strength and Dexterity at +25 although base damage will be lowered.

Whetblades can be used to apply affinities to weapons that upgrade via normal smithing stones. Different affinities may improve the weapon's default scaling or allow it to scale with your other attributes. You can change a weapon's affinity freely from sites of grace or at the Blacksmith in the Roundtable Hold.

Whetblades Locations

Versatile Quality or Status Effect Weapon

Not only is the Iron Spear is a solid Quality spear that is capable of dealing decent damage with its fast thrusting attacks, but it can also be effective at inflicting status ailments when paired with the right Ash of War and Affinity.

Some recommended Ashes of War that apply status effects are Blood Tax, Seppuku, Chilling Mist, and Poisonous Mist. Of course the downside to using Blood, Cold, or Poison affinities is losing some base damage, so try pairing this weapon with the Rotten Winged Sword Insignia talisman which ehances the damage of successive attacks to compensate.

List of All Status Effects and How to Cure

Infusable with Ashes of War

This weapon is infusable with Ashes of War and is equipped by default with Charge Forth. This Ash of War performs a charge forward ending in a powerful thrust attack. Holding the button will allow you to travel a much greater distance. The thrust attack will send enemies flying backward, downing them which leaves them open for a wake up attack. Additionally this can break an enemy's guard if they are low on Stamina when the attack connects.

If you don't like the Charge Forth ability, feel free to swap it out for another Ash of War that suits your playstyle.

Best Ashes of War

Iron Spear Upgrade Stats

Base and Max Upgrade Level Comparison

Level PHYS. DMG SEC. DMG STR DEX INT FAI ARC
+0 114 0 D D - - -
+25 279 0 C D - - -

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.

Affinity Phys. DMG Sec. DMG Scaling Passive Effect
+25 Standard 279 0 C/D/-/-/- -
+25 Heavy 256 0 B/-/-/-/- -
+25 Keen 256 0 E/B/-/-/- -
+25 Quality 223 0 B/B/-/-/- -
+25 Magic 212 212 E/E/C/-/- -
+25 Fire 185 185 C/E/-/-/- -
+25 Flame Art 212 212 E/E/-/C/- -
+25 Lightning 185 185 E/C/-/-/- -
+25 Sacred 212 212 E/E/-/C/- -
+25 Poison 234 0 C/D/-/-/D Poison (125)
+25 Blood 234 0 C/D/-/-/D Blood Loss (108)
+25 Cold 196 156 C/D/C/-/- Frost (105)
+25 Occult 245 0 D/E/-/-/B -

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List of Weapons by Damage Types

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List of Weapons by Status Effects

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