Keeper's Claw

Keeper's Claw

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	26 Melee
Knockback	4 (Weak)
Elemental Bonus
Critical chance	4%
Use time	20 Very Fast
Tooltip	Hitting enemies with the slash inflicts Necrotic Gouge, causing them to burst into blood upon death Physical slashes deal double damage to undead and skeletons Hold left-click to charge a Blood Wave, taking away some of your life to fire life-stealing projectiles 'The hand of my beloved, cold and dead...'
Rarity
Sell	1
Research	1 required

Projectile created

Keeper's Claw

Dropped by
Entity	Quantity	Rate
The Keeper	1	33.33%
Treasure Bag (The Keeper)	1	33.33%

The Keeper's Claw is a craftable Pre-Hardmode melee weapon also dropped by The Keeper with a 1/3 chance. Hitting organic enemies without killing them will inflict them with Necrotic Gouge, causing them to burst into blood upon death. Holding left-click will charge a Blood Wave attack, where a burst of 4 projectiles will shoot out, taking away 15 life from the user. Each wave restores 5 life on hit and can hit up to 2 times, making the ability more useful for groups and worse for small single targets as not all waves might hit it - resulting in a net-loss of life.

Its best modifier is Godly.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Grim Shard	1
	Crimtane Bar	12
Result
	Keeper's Claw	1

Crafting Station
Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Grim Shard	1
	Demonite Bar	12
Result
	Keeper's Claw	1

Notes

• The tooltip 'The hand of my beloved, cold and dead...', along with the rest of The Keeper's weapons hint at how she died. This specifically comes from the voice of Edwin Tarrenfell, her lover.