Dragon claw



Dragon Claws were released with the While Guthix Sleeps quest. Players need level 60 Attack to wield them. The claws feature a special attack called "Slice and Dice", which takes up 50% of the special power, but hits an enemy four times within one turn. When two specials are used back-to-back, a player can hit 8 times in two attacks, which is similar to the dragon dagger's special. This is especially notable because Rune Claws have a similar special attack, making claws the only type of weapon where both the dragon and rune versions have a special attack. Note that the dragon claws, when first released, started in the Grand Exchange at 150k but the demand has pushed them up to extremely high prices.

Dragon claws can be obtained after the quest While Guthix Sleeps by killing Tormented Demons. However, players do not need to complete the quest to wear them nor to use their Special Attack.

Special Attack
The special attack of dragon claws does not consist of four disjoint hits; the four hits, when summed together, cannot hit for more than twice of the player's maximum hit. The second, third, and fourth hits are much weaker than the first.

The formula for the special attack seems to be that the first hit is split as close to half as possible, i.e 35 split into 17 and 18, and one of those two will be the second hit. The third and fourth hits are equivalent to the other hit, i.e if the player hits 35, 18, they would hit two 9s for the last two hits, or if they hit 17 instead of 18, the player would hit 9 and 8. However, if their first attack hits a 0, and the second attack hits a 0, the third attack will almost always be a 0 as well, but the fourth attack will now be very strong, sometimes hitting 40+.

In simple English: If any of your first 3 attacks hit, the damage would add up to be slightly more than twice of the damage you hit if you are not using the special.

If your first 3 attacks miss and your last one hits, it would do 25% more damage.

A close formula for the hit of Dragon Claws where X is a player's base hit is: x + 0.5x rounded down + 0.255x rounded up + 0.255x rounded down.

There are other cases of hits and this will list most if not all of them.

1 miss: 0x + 1x + 0.5055x rounded down + 0.5055x rounded up. (Same if the first hit hits and second one misses) 2 misses: 0x + 0x + 1.055x rounded up + 1.055x rounded down. 3 misses: 0x + 0x + 0x + 1.255x

There has not been a different sequence of attacks seen yet.

Dragon Claw's special attack is also very accurate because players have 4 chances to hit and if one of those chances lands a blow on the target, then it will guarantee the player's next hits to do damage.

Market


Since their release into the game with a starting price of 150,000 coins, the price of the dragon claws has dramatically risen by the highest percentage in the history of the Grand Exchange by player-demand only (not including Jagex's own price modifications of objects). After just 30 days following their release, Dragon Claws had risen by 2,142%, gaining a total of more than 6 million Coins. As of January 31st, the Grand Exchange indicated a mid price for claws of 38,026,395 million Coins, meaning they have risen 25,351% from their initial price.

This is extremely rare due to the fact that most new high level or rare items are very high in price when introduced and then dramatically decrease after a short while. The only other items to attain an increase higher than this were granite 5kg after the update that allowed it to be broken down for use in Summoning and Gnome Scarves and Pirate hats at beginning of the Grand Exchange.

Dragon claws have become an incredible spectacle amongst higher level players. High level and wealthy players have found that this weapon is extremely useful in killing other players in PVP worlds, further driving demand. The frenzied demand for this weapon has resulted in documented cases of players, desperate for a set of claws, paying 5-10+ times more than the GE price for a single set.

However, the turning point came on January 31st 2009. As people were selling Claws for less than their market price. Still, the Claws have known the highest increase ever in a single object, having risen by demand only for 64 days straight since release, being bumped 37,876,395 Coins over their starting price.

Players have also been known to be selling or even lending their Dragon claws for or with opulent tables, due to the fact that these flatpacks can be traded to Advisor Ghrim for more then two times their worth with the Fremennik Sea Boots 3.

As of January 31st, the Grand Exchange had peaked their price at 38,026,395 million Coins. People in World 2 and on the Forums were selling for lower prices, causing a crash. People were selling for as low as 1 million coins and junk!

The Dragon Claws have dropped about a total of 8 million coins already.

Trivia

 * The Dragon Claws are the first weapon to have a special attack along with their rune counterpart.
 * The Dragon Claws are currently the most expensive Dragon item in RuneScape, even passing the Dragon full helm.
 * The Dragon Claws are the first and only weapon to have no sound effect with the special attack.
 * Some say that the dragons claws dropped in price because of a decrease in accuracy.