Keeper's Claw

Keeper's Claw

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Statistics

Type	Weapon – Crafting material
Damage	26 Melee
Knockback	4 (Weak)
Elemental Bonus	(Slash)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	30 Average
Velocity	5
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...'
Inflicts Debuff	Necrotic Gouge 100% chance
Debuff duration	10 seconds (Slash)
Debuff tooltip	owie :(
Inflicts Debuff	Bleeding 100% chance
Debuff duration	4.33 seconds (Blood Wave)
Debuff tooltip	Cannot regenerate life
Rarity
Sell	1
Research	1 required

Projectiles created

Keeper's Claw

Blood Wave

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

The Keeper's Claw in use. Note how the blood waves damage only 2 Target Dummies.

The Keeper's Claw is a melee weapon that can either be crafted or dropped by The Keeper. When used, it performs a wide slash in front of the player that inflicts the Necrotic Gouge debuff. Enemies afflicted with this debuff will burst into 6 Blood Clusters upon being killed, damaging nearby enemies. The damage of the Blood Clusters is equal to the slain enemy's damage. Additionally, the slash deals double damage to Undead and Skeleton Type enemies.

Holding the attack button will charge the Keeper's Claw, causing it to consume 15 life from the user and fire 4 Blood Waves in addition to the normal slash when the button is released. Blood Waves deal 33.33% of the weapon's damage, inflict the Bleeding debuff, and heal the player for 5 health whenever they hit an enemy. Although they can pierce infinitely, they can only deal damage 2 times.

Its best modifier is Godly.

Crafting

Recipes

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Keeper's Claw	Grim Shard Crimtane Bar (12)	Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil
	Grim Shard Demonite Bar (12)
	Soul Scepter	Shimmer

total: 3 row(s)

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Fan o' Shivs	Keeper's Claw	Shimmer

total: 1 row(s)

Notes

• The Blood Waves will not heal the player if their current health is above (Max Health - 5).

Trivia

• 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.

History

• 0.8.0.4042: Can now be shimmered into Fan o' Shivs.
• 0.8.0.4036: Increased Blood Wave's damage from 25% to 33%.
• 0.8.0.4:
  • Nerfed damage from 36 to 26.
  • Decreased Blood Wave's life cost from 18 to 15.
• 0.8.0.399: Now can perform a Blood Wave attack by holding left-click.
• 0.8:
  • Now has a custom swing animation
  • Now deals double damage to Undead and Skeleton Type enemies.
  • Buffed use time from 39 to 30.
  • Decreased knockback from 7 to 4.
  • Necrotic Gouge now causes slain enemies to burst into 6 Blood Clusters instead of 2-4 homing Mini Dark Souls.
• 0.7.9: Resprited. Previous sprite was:
• 0.7.8.1: Now inflicts the Necrotic Gouge debuff.
• 0.4.8.9: Changed use sound.
• 0.4: Introduced.