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	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

Attribute Scaling

Required Stats

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

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