Dragon claw

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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 wielding them.

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Market
Since their release with a starting price of 150,000 coins, the price of dragon claws has risen dramatically. Initially, the claws were in high demand and players began to offer up to 80 million coins for them, causing prices to rise. In mid May, their price fell from 20M to about 16M. Due to players realising this and buying them in large amounts, the prices started to go back up again.

After just 30 days following their release, dragon claws had risen by 2,142%, gaining a total of more than 6 million coins. On the 31st of January, 2009, the Grand Exchange indicated a mid price of 38 million for claws, meaning they had risen 25,351% from their initial price. From there, the price of dragon claws slowly decreased.

On the 15th of July 2009, Jagex introduced an update to PvP worlds and Bounty Hunter Worlds in which players were automatically skulled on entering the world and the Protect Item prayer was disabled. Dragon claws, a popular item used by one-item players started to see a rapid drop in price along with other one-item weapons such as the Armadyl godsword and Saradomin sword. The dragon claws suffered a 1.2 million gold loss the day after the update.

On the 17th of July 2009, Jagex released Bounty +1 worlds, which allowed players to keep one item on death. The demand soon shot up with players buying for well above maximum price.

Since the introduction of Korasi's sword the value of Dragon claws has dropped, due to the sword being a much cheaper PvP weapon, being cheap to re-buy, the special attack is magic-based and goes through melee armour's absorb melee and defence bonuses, and being able to deal a similar amount of damage, but with higher accuracy.

On the 21st of October 2011, Jagex announced an update that would take place 1 week later, a day they claimed would be "Bot-Nuking Day". They announced that they were going to release an update that would render 98% of bots within RuneScape ineffective. The street price of a set of dragon claws reached upwards of 20M, and items all across the spectrum increased dramatically in price. However, the price would then start to slowly decline.

After an announcement was made regarding the Evolution of Combat and the removal of special attacks, seemingly making the dragon claw worthless, its price, along with the Armadyl godsword's, sharply dropped.

Due to the Evolution of Combat, the price of the dragon claw has been declining to a nearly four-year low, as in the new system, the combination of the dragon claw and offhand dragon claw has the same stats as the Dragon 2h sword, and the same stats as the combination of a dragon dagger/mace and offhand dragon dagger/mace (the only difference is the attack style: daggers use stab, maces use crush and claws use slash). Dragon scimitar and offhand Dragon scimitar offer the same exact bonuses (aside from the critical hit chance) and can be bought from Daga on Ape Atoll or Dealga in Varrock. This effectively makes the dragon claws a mostly cosmetic alternative.

After promising players that they would get an offhand claw with the release of the EOC, Jagex did not follow through for a number of cases. Chief among these were claws that were on the GE or on loan.

Due to a new update planned for the 14th of January 2013, the Dragon Claw has regained the popularity it had before EoC: A Chaotic Claw Add-on has been announced. This means that a Chaotic Claw (and Chaotic Off-hand Claw) will appear, but only possible to be worn when you combine them with/add them to the Dragon Claw.

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