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This weapon has an off-hand variant.
Dragon claw
Dragon claw
Release date 26 November 2008 (Update)
Members? Yes
Quest item? No
Tradeable? Yes
Lendable? Yes
Equipable? Yes
Stackable? No
High Alch 81,000 coins
Low Alch 54,000 coins
Destroy Drop
Store price Not sold
Exchange price 144,635 coins (info)
Buy limit 10
Examine A right-hand fighting claw.
Weight 5 kg
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A dragon claw is a claw made of dragon metal. It was released, then as dragon claws, on 26 November 2008, along with the While Guthix Sleeps Quest and tormented demons. It is a one-handed weapon that requires an Attack level of 60 in order to wield. It is statistically identical to a dragon scimitar, but with an added critical hit bonus. The dragon claw may be obtained as drops from tormented demons, traded from another player or bought from the Grand Exchange. Tormented demons can only be killed during and after While Guthix Sleeps, but completing the quest is not a requirement to wield the dragon claw (or its off-hand equivalent).

With a Dungeoneering level of 80, players can attach five chaotic spikes to the claw, creating a chaotic claw, which requires level 80 Attack and degrades in the same manner as normal chaotic weapons. This process is irreversible, and the upgraded claw is untradeable.

Before the Evolution of Combat, this weapon used to have a special attack.

Combat Stats
Type Slot
Attack Melee Weapon slot
Weapons Main Off
Damage 576 -
Accuracy 1132 -
Style Slash -
Attributes
Defence-icon Armour rating0
Constitution-icon Life bonus+0
Prayer-icon Prayer bonus0
Critical bonuses
Attack-icon0.8% Ranged-icon0% Magic-icon0%
Attack speed
FastestInterval: 2.4 secondsAttack speed fastest
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Dropping monstersEdit

Monster Combat level Quantity Rarity
Tormented demon 170 1 4Rare

HistoryEdit

When released, dragon claws immediately became enormously popular with both player-killers and monster-killers, rapidly pushing up their market price from its starting position of 150,000 coins to approximately 30 million coins. They were used almost exclusively for their potent special attack, which made four attacks at once, and only used 50% of the special attack bar. The dragon claws' special attack was one of the most damaging special attacks in the game, and was very commonly used by player-killers as a "knock-out" weapon. The claws were seldom used outside of their special attack, as their offensive stats were relatively unimpressive when compared to other, much cheaper weapons.

Although it declined over time, the market price of dragon claws remained relatively high for years. A few notable events caused minor price fluctations, such as updates to PvP worlds and Bounty Hunter, the release of Bounty +1 worlds, and the release of Korasi's sword, which competed directly with dragon claws as a knockout weapon.

When Jagex announced in mid-2012 that the upcoming Evolution of Combat would remove special attacks from all weapons, dragon claws suffered a strong price drop, eventually reaching 8.5 million coins by mid-July. The price drop was driven by speculation that the claws, whose value lay almost solely in their special attack, would become useless. As summer went on into autumn and no official release date for the Evolution of Combat was posted, the price of dragon claws slowly began to recover; however, on 5 November 2012, Jagex announced that the Evolution of Combat would be released on 20 November, and the claws' price crashed, almost as quickly as it climbed when first released.

In addition to the removal of their special attack, the Evolution of Combat split the dragon claws into mainhand and offhand versions. Players who owned dragon claws were given both mainhand and offhand claws for free; however, dragon claws that were lent out or listed on the Grand Exchange were not split, only converted into mainhand claws. Additionally, the Evolution of Combat rebalanced the bonuses of the claws to be equal with other level 60 melee weapons. This was another reason for the price drop, as a pair of dragon claws would be just as effective in combat as a pair of dragon scimitars or dragon daggers, both much cheaper weapons. To counteract this, Jagex added a 0.8% melee critical bonus to the claws, to differentiate them from other dragon weapons, but it was not enough to turn back the severe price drop.

On 7 January 2013, Jagex announced the upcoming release of chaotic claws, an upgrade to dragon claws available from the Dungeoneering skill. The chaotic claws boast increased stats as level 80 weapons, and cost fewer Dungeoneering tokens to obtain than other chaotic weaponry; according to Jagex, this is because players must upgrade an existing pair of dragon claws to chaotic claws, a process that is permanent and renders the claws untradeable. This announcement caused a minor increase in prices as players bought dragon claws to upgrade, but nevertheless, the prices continued to drop through early 2013.


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Claws
Mainhand

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Off-hand

Bronze • Iron • Steel • Black/White • Mithril • Adamant • Rune • Dragon • Chaotic

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Melee

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Ranged

Dragon arrow 5Arrows • Dragon arrowheads 5Arrowheads • Dragon dartDarts • Dragon dart tipDart tips • Dragon crossbowCrossbow • Off-hand dragon crossbowOff-hand crossbow • Dragon 2h crossbow2h crossbow

Off-hand

Off-hand dragon battleaxeBattleaxe • Off-hand dragon clawClaw • Off-hand dragon daggerDagger • Off-hand dragon maceMace • Off-hand dragon longswordLongsword • Off-hand dragon scimitarScimitar • Dragon defender inventoryDefender

Armour
Sets

Dragon plate armour set (lg)Plate armour set (lg) • Dragon plate armour set (sk)Plate armour set (sk) • Dragon chain armour set (lg)Chain armour set (lg) • Dragon chain armour set (sk)Chain armour set (sk)

Set pieces

Dragon bootsBoots(dragonbone) • Dragon gauntletsGauntlets • Dragon helmHelm • Dragon full helmFull helm (sp) (or) (dragonbone) • Dragon chainbodyChainbody • Dragon platebodyPlatebody (sp) (or) (dragonbone) • Dragon platelegsPlatelegs (sp) (or) (dragonbone) • Dragon plateskirtPlateskirt (sp) (or) (dragonbone) • Dragon sq shieldSquare shield (sp) (or) • Dragon kiteshieldKiteshield (sp) (or)

Corrupt dragon
Armour

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Weapons

Corrupt dragon battleaxeBattleaxe • Corrupt dragon daggerDagger • Corrupt dragon maceMace • Corrupt dragon longswordLongsword • Corrupt dragon scimitarScimitar • Corrupt dragon spearSpear

Lucky dragon equipment
Armour

Lucky dragon full helmFull helm • Lucky dragon chainbodyChainbody • Lucky dragon platebodyPlatebody

Weapons

Lucky dragon clawClaw(Off-hand) • Lucky dragon 2h swordTwo-handed sword

Other

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