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| Location | Siofra River, Ainsel River |
| Drops |  117 - 553 RunesClayman's Harpoon Silver Firefly |
Clayman is an Enemy in Elden Ring.
Claymen are slow-moving humanoids found in large groups that can swarm around unprepared players. These enemies wield different types of weapons - some wield spears with glowing tips, some wield glowing daggers, and others don't wield a weapon and instead uses magic against players. They are mainly found inside ruins and in caves in underground regions.
The spirit of two (2) Claymen can be summoned for aid in battle by using the Clayman Ashes.
The warped remains of priests who searched for revelation in service of the ancient dynasty, they employ two sorceries that produce smaller and larger bubbles.
Elden Ring Clayman Locations
Where to Find Claymen:
Elden Ring Clayman Drops
- 117 - 553 Runes
- Clayman's Harpoon (dropped only by those that wield it) (2.00% base)
- Silver Firefly (4.00% base)
Clayman Notes & Tips
- They seem to be weak to Strike, and Holy damage.
- Not much of a difference between standard and strike damage.
- They resist fire and lightning damage.
- They are almost always found in large groups, so AOE spells are recommended.
- Easy to backstab due to their slow speed.
- Their are three variants: the Claymen that use a Clayman's Harpoon, the Claymen that use a knife and throw bolas (both unobtainable), and the unarmed Claymen who cast Bubble sorceries to attack the player.
- They can roll continuously towards the player.
- Uses Oracle Bubbles and Great Oracular Bubble.
Clayman Image Gallery
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Glintstone Arc is super good for farming these guys for both Runes and the Harpoon
As far as I can tell (based on using all the elemental crafted bolts with a crossbow since those bolts all do 75 of their element), they're actually equally weak to fire, lightning, and holy, but resist magic (against an aware ng+ Clayman in Siofra river well, using an unupgraded soldier's crossbow, haligbone, firebone, and lightningbone bolts all did 18 on a body hit and 28 on headshot, while magicbone bolts only did 15 and 23 on headshot). I assume the damage is so low because it's an unupgraded crossbow against ng+ enemies with strong defenses. I couldn't figure out a good way to test all the damage types at a reasonable damage value because the only thing I knew that would do the same of every element is ammunition, and that gets hit hard by split damage when it doesn't share an element with the weapon.
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Why does nothing seem to interrupt their casting or attacks?
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You can easily farm these guys in Siofra river well by using night maiden's mist (if you have access to it.). That spell will end entire waves of these guys in seconds. Another method is to bait them out with a throwing dagger/bow and using a striking weapon to stance break them with heavy attacks - is extra effective with fire grease or a fire infused weapon.
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I really like the mind game of their design. They’re objectively really easy to avoid but because they have so much health and they’re so slow they make you greedy and impatient and that’s their true strength
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Tested all elemental damage and status effects on these guys, these are the results as of patch 1.10:
Immune to poison, rot, bleed, frost
Vulnerable to sleep
Weakness is fire
Neutral defense towards all other elemental types
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They should also add that magic sword/shortblade they use to their drops
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1 - Craft as much holy water pots as you can
2 - Draw the attention of all of them and make them clump together
3 - Throw the pots at their feet and in the center of the crowd
thank me later
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The staff and sorcery that you find in the swamp blow them up pretty good.
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Wow, the main hero of the Neverhood surely got different since that jump to the void if you know what I mean...
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my name is john poise, my mission is to command grab r1 spammers
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I really like their death animation. Also I'd love to have that throwing flail they use in Uhl Palace
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I would no hit elden ring if it let these guys drop a curved or standard greatsword with the blade texture and glow of the harpoon, god damn i can't get enough of it
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These dudes weirdly have a grab attack, but its so slow and obviously telegraphed that its hard to even get caught by it, kinda neat ig.
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Respect due to all claymen that have been flattened into a pancake from Lion’s Claw
Only the ones with the knife & bolas can roll. The casters don't approach, and the ones with harpoons only meander.
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Was farming to get the spear and one of them dropped a silver firefly
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Colossal weapons will stagger these guys with all attacks, so for those wielding them it is quite doable to wipe out large groups of these. Just make sure to keep track of the ones with the knifes as their attack delay is not as long as their spear wielding counterparts.
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Does anyone know if they drop the dagger that the rolling one use been trying to get it but can't get the drop
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Damage Absorptions:
40 Absorption for Magic
35 Slash, Thrust
20 Fire, Lightning, Holy
10 Standard
0 Strike
Resistances:
Immune to Poison, Rot
252 for Bleed
84 Sleep
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Clay Man Stats for Journey 1
Hp - 593
Stamina points - 64
Poise - 65
Status build up values required for effects to occur
Poison - 2102
Rot - 2102
Bleed - 530
Frost - 530
Sleep - 176
Mad - 2102
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The ones in the first area of Siofra are pretty good for early rune farming. If you go through on horseback you can hit multiple at once without risk - even if torrent gets stuck on a group of them you can double jump over them before they have time to hit you. All the ones in the side tunnel can be killed quickly with a few casts of glintstone arc (I had int 18 when I was doing this). It's not the fastest process, but it's easy to clear the whole area without being hit, takes about 5 mins, and nets ~5k runes
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Dudes use holy damage on these guys, the holy stomp is decent but the best thing if you have it is the greatsword you trade for Elden Beast’s soul, has a skill called Wave of Gold. It one-shots the whole mob, reaches basically until it hits a wall as far as I can tell. If you miss any with the Wave, make use of your jumping heavy attack as it is the only way to stagger them reliably. Cheers
Can be melted pretty easily with night maidens mist sorcery. They move slow in a group and with high defenses. Perfect target.
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they also drop silver butterflies and the harpoon seems to be the rarest weapon in the game
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Absolutely despise these enemies. Pick one, make them tanky or make them horde enemies.
It's not even about difficulty it's just about how ruddy long it takes to actually take out a group of them. The health isn't so bad it's just the infinite poise.
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I used the ash of war bloody slash and that worked pretty well for me, they died pretty easily
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A greathammer will have no effect on these guys meanwhile my 200 poise character will be getting staggered by a single 1h dagger hit
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The rock throwing gravity magic seems to do a lot more damage to them than anything else I've tried
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I discovered fairly early on that they seem extremely vulnerable to holy, as well as very resistant to magic, immune to scarlet rot (haven’t tried poison but I assume they immune to that to) resistant to regular physical damage and if not vulnerable than at least no resistance to fire. But yeah holy seems the way to go
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these guys are seriously annoying with their magnet "harpoons" that drag you for some reason because you were in the hitbox when they pull back. does their lore say anything about that "power" or is it just to be ****ing annoying?
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God damn they are annoying, the fact they dont stagger punished me a couple of times in large groups. They are a hassle and not worth much either, better to just ignore and run past them.
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They seems to be "less" resistant to standar, strike and fire dmg.
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I tested magic, holy and fire dmg.
Fire dmg did more but their resistances are still high.
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with them being so slow all u do is go behind them and backstab, u can even chain them if u need
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since they are so slow u can easily just walk around them and backstab, makes them super easy to kill
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These guys are clearly inspired by the Troglodytes from Outward.
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Anyone know if the sword claypeople can drop it as a weapon? I got the spear but swords are cool too y'know?
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Did someone tried magic on them? I'm a Dex & Pyro Build and they tank it way too much.
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These things can hit hard, but they are slow as hell. The important thing is to take your time. They telegraph their attacks many seconds in advance.
The thing about them is that if you're using a light weapon, these things don't stagger. At all. Overwhelming aggression will only get you hit. Take your time.
I've also found that the Catch Flame incantation does pretty decent damage to them.
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What are these guys weak to?? They are a nightmare to try and kill in their large groups because of how many hits they take to kill.
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