Great Hammer - Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Database

A thick, solid lump of wood.
Wielding this striking weapon requires no skill.

A simple, primitive weapon that requires only brute strength to swing about.

The Large Club scales primarily with Strength and is a good Weapon for high strength players who can hold this weapon’s weight.

• On the lowest cliff south of the Forlorn Hound Evergaol, near a spiritspring

• This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables
• Large Club can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones

Strike

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Large curved club of hard wood, shaped like a crescent moon.

Wielded by Albinaurics lacking the dexterity demanded by a curved sword, and who prefer the added weight and destructive force.

The Curved Great Club scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity and is a good Weapon for high strength players who can hold this weapon’s weight.

• Looted from the larger of the “second generation” Albinauric enemies found across Liurnia of the Lakes. There are a number of them located around the Temple Quarter making it an easy spot to farm.

• This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables.
• Curved Great Club can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones.

Strike

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Huge bludgeon with sharp protrusions. An enlarged version of its smaller cousin.

Maintains all the advantages of smaller bludgeons, boasting few deficiencies while being very capable at breaking enemy guards and stances. A shrewd choice for simple slugging matches.

Great Mace is a Warhammer in Elden Ring. The Great Mace scales primarily with Strength and is a good Weapon for high strength players who can hold this weapon’s weight. The weight is worth the ability to crush enemy armor, sometimes along with the enemy itself.

• In the far north of Liurnia of the Lakes, near the Grand Lift of Dectus is a small camp where you can find the Great Mace. The Mace is in a chest in front of a blue tent, next to some stacked barrels and a cart.

• Weapon Skill: Endure
• This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables
• Great Mace can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones

Strike

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Large pickaxe designed to crack thick bedrock. Tool of sturdy miners.

Not originally designed as a weapon, but very adept at piercing armor.
“Little wretches, do you think your armor harder than stone?”

The Pickaxe scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity and is a good Weapon for high strength players who can hold this weapon’s weight.

• Dropped by Miners

• This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War
• Pickaxe can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones
• The Pickaxe cannot be used in powerstance with other warhammers, however it can be used in powerstance with greataxes

Pierce

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Weapon made from an ordinary stone brick. Wielded by a laborer who lead a rebellion, and later become a champion himself.

Even among other bludgeons of its size, this weapon is especially weighty. The strength of a giant is required to wield it.

• Loated at Stormveil Castle.
• In the Wine Cellar - Use the Rusty Key to access the ladder behind a locked wooden door to reach the top floor of the Wine Cellar.
• This weapon is found on a corpse at the dead end to the right from the archway past the ladder.
• You must jump across the final platform through a hole in the wall. A Castle Guard is outside, and another guards the corpse holding the weapon.

• Weapon Skill: Barbaric Roar
• This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables
• Brick Hammer can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones

Strike

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Large iron great hammer designed for gladiatorial combat. Used by duelists who were exiled from the colosseum.

Weighty enough to crush armor and its wearer alike.

The Battle Hammer scales primarily with Dexterity and Strength and is a good Weapon for high strength players who can hold this weapon’s weight. The weight is worth the ability to crush enemy armor, sometimes along with the enemy itself.

• Dropped by the Grave Warden Duelist located in Murkwater Catacombs.

• This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables
• Battle Hammer can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones

Strike

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Large iron great hammer designed for gladiatorial combat, now festering with scarlet rot.

Weighty enough to crush armor and its wearer alike.

The Rotten Battle Hammer scales primarily with Dexterity and Strength and is a good Weapon for high strength players who can hold this weapon’s weight.

• Drops from a Rotten Duelist enemy in the Graves northwest of Consecrated Snowfield Site of Grace in Mountaintops of Giants.

• This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables
• Rotten Battle Hammer can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones

Strike

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Large bludgeon decorated with flowers and many-colored fabrics. Ceremonial tool used by dancers during the festivities of Dominula, Windmill Village.

The striking end is a skull too large in size to be human.
Grants trace amounts of runes on landing attacks.

The Celebrant’s Skull scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity and is a good Weapon for high strength players who can hold this weapon’s weight.

• This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables
• Celebrant’s Skull can be upgraded by using Smithing Stone

• This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables
• Celebrant’s Skull can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones
• Grants 20 runes on any successful hit.

Strike

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Huge bludgeon with three stars at the striking end. Though primarily a striking weapon, the stars’ spikes cause blood loss.

A blood-stained star is an ill omen, a fact not lost upon those against whom this weapon is brought to bear. Landing attacks slightly restores HP.

The Great Stars scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity and is a good Weapon for high strength players who can hold this weapon’s weight. The weight is worth the ability to crush enemy armor, sometimes along with the enemy itself.

• On a guarded wagon in Altus Plateau, traveling on the road SouthWest of the Road of Iniquity Side Path site of grace.

• This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables
• Great Stars can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones
• Restores health on hit even if required stats aren’t met, and even if blocked. Seems to give 0.01% total HP rounded to the nearest hundred breakpoint.

Strike

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Huge thick horn carved with tree ring-like markings adapted into a bludgeoning weapon. Wielded by ancestral follower warriors.

The ancient horn is imbued with the power of ancestral spirits. A small amount of HP is restored upon defeating an enemy.

The Greathorn Hammer scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity and is a good Weapon for high strength players who can hold this weapon’s weight. The weight is worth the ability to crush enemy armor, sometimes along with the enemy itself.

• Dropped by Ancestral Follower located in Siofra River.

• This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables
• Greathorn Hammer can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones

Strike

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Long golden horn of the Oracle Envoys. Profoundly weighty, its blows are sure to be felt.

Originally an instrument, but one that cannot be sounded by a mere human. Or perhaps it is too early to sound the call.

The Envoy’s Long Horn scales primarily with Strength, Faith and Dexterity.

• This weapon can be looted off of the large Oracle Envoy located early on in the East Capital Rampart in Leyndell, Royal Capital.

• Skill: Bubble Shower
• Skill Description: Blow on the horn to release a spume of magic bubbles. The bubbles float gently before raining down on the target.
• This weapon can/cannot be infused with Ashes of War and can/cannot be buffed with Magic and Consumables
• Envoy’s Long Horn can be upgraded by using Somber Smithing Stones

Strike

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Candlestand used in worship of Birac, the most hallowed Monk Prelate of the Giants’ Flame. Concerned over the lazy arrogance with which the monks treated the Flame, Birac severed his own head as a lesson to the others, intending it be used as a candlestand. His faith yet smolders from within the cranial vessel.

The Cranial Vessel Candlestand scales primarily with Strength, Dexterity and Faith.

• Giant-Conquering Hero’s Grave, above the Fire Trap Seal room. Found on a corpse at the end of a large hall locked behind an Imp Statue. This hall is directly above the room with the flamethrower pillar.

• This weapon cannot be infused with Ashes of War
• Cranial Vessel Candlestand can be upgraded by using Somber Smithing Stones

Strike

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Great hammer with a striking end modelled to resemble five beastly claws.

The black nails protruding from golden fur are said to represent Serosh, Lord of Beasts, who went on to become King Godfrey’s Regent.

The Beastclaw Greathammer scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity and is a good Weapon for high strength players who can hold this weapon’s weight.

• Gurranq will reward the player with this after turning in their 7th Deathroot.

• “Slam the hammer into the ground, rending the land asunder with the armament’s five bestial claws.”
  = The effect is similar to the Beast Claw incantation that is also received from Gurranq
  = This weapon cannot be infused with Ashes of War and can/cannot be buffed with Magic and Consumables
• Beastclaw Greathammer can be upgraded by using Somber Smithing Stones.

Strike

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Scepter in the shape of a serpent devouring the world. This weapon will one day become the very symbol of the Lord of Blasphemy.
One of the legendary armaments.

A vision of the future briefly seen by Rykard in his final moments before being devoured by the great serpent.

The Devourer’s Scepter scales primarily with Strength, Dexterity and Faith. It is a good Weapon for high strength players who can hold this weapon’s weight. The weight is worth the ability to crush enemy armor, sometimes along with the enemy itself.

The Devourer’s Scepter legendary weapon can be looted from Knight Bernahl, who is initially located at the Warmaster’s Shack in northern Limgrave. You can fight and kill Bernahl at this location to loot the weapon if you want it early. Alternatively, you can complete Bernahl’s questline to obtain it at the end of that instead.

This weapon forms part of the Legendary Armaments achievement.

Strike

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Greathammer engraved with a smithscript. A throwing weapon created through the smithing arts. Execute a strong attack or dashing strong attack to spin and fling the greathammer.

Strike

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Weapon of the Black Knights, servants of Messmer the Impaler. Greathammer of black steel with decorative embellishments in gold. Blessed with an Erdtree incantation. Further holy imbuement will amplify the effect and greatly increase the armament’s power. Guard Counters cause a burst of power.

Strike

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