Bloodborne Weapons Locations Guide – Stats, Trick Weapons, Firearms

Bloodborne weapons locations to help you find all Trick Weapons and Firearms. Weapon Stats to help you choose the best weapon in the game.

Bloodborne comes with its own set of unique weapons that sway away from the more medieval-styled ones of Dark Souls. Instead of your conventional fancy swords and lances, you’ll get odd weapons that can transform, and also firearms for some long-ranged stuff.

For more help on Bloodborne, read our Beginner’s Guide, Character Class Guide and Cleric Beast Boss Guide.

Bloodborne Weapons Locations

There are various similarities in the mechanics to the Souls games though: each weapon can be upgraded various times, and the concept of scaling also returns, this time with Strength, Skill, Blood Tinge, and Arcane.

The damage scaling of the weapon directly depends on how you have invested your points into these various attributes.

Trick Weapons

Trick Weapons are basically your right-hand default weapons in Bloodborne. They come in various shapes and sizes, but what’s unique about these weapons is that each one of them has two transformations.

For example, a Kirkhammer can act as a shortsword with a lot of speed but then be transformed into a powerful hammer with a lot of reach and impact (but slow speed).

Trick Weapons do not come in one form. Each Trick Weapon in fact comes in three forms: Normal, Uncanny, and Lost. The Uncanny and Lost weapons have completely different locations from Normal ones and generally have more powerful Gem Imprints on them.

Each weapon can be upgraded several times in the Workshop in Hunter’s Dream, and you’ll need Blood Gem for that. Below is the list of the Trick Weapons in Bloodborne, their starting stats, and the locations of their Normal variants.

Beast Claw

Stats:

  • Attack Power: 75
  • Strength: D
  • Skill: E
  • Arcane: D
  • Durability: 180

Location: The Beast Claw can be found in a chest in the Chalice Dungeon.

Blade of Mercy

Stats:

  • Attack Power: 60
  • Arcane Attack: 30
  • Strength: —
  • Skill: C
  • Arcane: D
  • Durability: 200

Location: Complete the ‘Eileen the Crow’ quest line to get the Crow Hunter Badge. After that, you will be able to purchase this weapon from a Messenger.

Burial Blade

Stats:

  • Attack Power: 80
  • Arcane Attack: 30
  • Strength: E
  • Skill: C
  • Arcane: D
  • Durability: 200

Location: Defeat the Gerhman boss to obtain this weapon.

Chikage

Stats:

  • Attack Power: 92
  • Blood Attack: 92
  • Strength: E
  • Skill: D
  • Blood Tinge: C
  • Arcane: D
  • Durability: 200

Location: Join the Cainhurst Vilebloods covenant, and then buy this weapon at the Cainhurst Castle from the Messengers for 50,000.

Hunter Axe

Stats:

  • Attack Power: 98
  • Strength: D
  • Skill: E
  • Arcane: D
  • Durability: 400

Location: This is one of the default weapons in the game.

Kirkhammer

Stats:

  • Attack Power: 105
  • Strength: C
  • Skill: E
  • Arcane: D
  • Durability: 250

Location: The Kirkhammer will be available for purchase from Messengers once you defeat the Cleric Beast.

Logarius Wheel

Stats:

  • Attack Power: 100
  • Arcane Attack: 25
  • Strength: C
  • Skill: —
  • Arcane: D
  • Durability: 300

Location: This peculiar weapon is a wheel, and can be acquired from Alfred. He will give you this weapon when you give him the letter found in Cainhurst Castle.

Ludwig’s Holy Blade

Stats:

  • Attack Power: 100
  • Strength: D
  • Skill: D
  • Arcane: D
  • Durability: 250

Location: This can be purchased from the Messengers for 20,000 Blood Echoes if you have the Radiant Sword Hunter Badge. In order to obtain the badge, head to the right exit from the Cathedral Ward lamp to find a chest up top.

Reiterpallasch

Stats:

  • Attack Power: 75
  • Blood Attack: 75
  • Strength: E
  • Skill: C
  • Blood Tinge: E
  • Arcane: D
  • Durability: 120

Location: The Reiterpallasch is a special trick weapon in Bloodborne that transforms into a right-handed gun. It can be found in a chest in Cainhurst Castle. However, you’ll need the item Cainhurst Summons from the 1st Floor Sickroom to enter this area.

Rifle Spear

Stats:

  • Attack Power: 85
  • Blood Attack: 85
  • Strength: E
  • Skill: D
  • Blood Tinge: D
  • Arcane: D
  • Durability: 180

Location: The Rifle Spear is found in a hidden building in Old Yharnam. Defeat the first NPC in the area, then move forward drop down where the railing is missing in the corner.

Keep carefully going down the ledges till you reach the bottom where you will find a doorway into a very dark building. There are tons of enemies here, take them out and head upstairs to find a corpse at the end with the weapon.

Saw Cleaver

Stats:

  • Attack Power: 90
  • Strength: D
  • Skill: E
  • Arcane: D
  • Durability: 200

Location: This is one of the default weapons in the game.

Saw Spear

Stats:

  • Attack Power: 85
  • Strength: D
  • Skill: D
  • Arcane: D
  • Durability: 200

Location: There are several ways to get this weapon.

You can purchase it from a Messenger after defeating Priest Gascoigne, or you can even get it as a treasure in Central Yharnam Sewer, on the ledge above the dead end with boats. Cut down the corpses hanging from the rafters high above.

Stake Driver

Stats:

  • Attack Power: 85
  • Strength: D
  • Skill: D
  • Arcane: D
  • Durability: 200

Location: This weapon can be purchased from the Messengers after defeating Gyula in Old Yharnman.

Threaded Cane

Stats:

  • Attack Power: 78
  • Strength: E
  • Skill: C
  • Arcane: D
  • Durability: 200

Location: This weapon is available for purchase from Messengers at any time.

Tonitrus

Stats:

  • Attack Power: 80
  • Bolt Attack: 40
  • Strength: D
  • Skill: E
  • Arcane: D
  • Durability: 100

Location: You can acquire this weapon by exchanging the Spark Hunter Badge with a Messenger. The badge can be found after defeating the Darkbeast Paarl.

You’ll need to head down the stairs after the Hypogean Gaol lamp, enter the doorway and then head to the end of the room. A hole will lead outside, from where you can jump down the ledge to reach the boss fight.

Firearms

Firearms in Bloodborne are offhand weapons that are mostly in the form of guns. These weapons are not specifically meant to deal damage, but to add other kinds of effects on enemies, such as staggering them or aggroing enemies from a distance.

Unlike Trick Weapons, Firearms have only 1 Blood Gem Imprint as opposed to 3. Generally, you want to be using the Firearms with the most useful effects that suit your play-style.

Cannon

Stats:

  • Blood Attack: ??
  • Blood Tinge: E
  • Durability: 200

Location: The Cannon is found in the Forbidden Woods inside a big wooden building just before the foggy area with the large snakes.

Evelyn

Stats:

  • Blood Attack: 60
  • Blood Tinge: B
  • Durability: 100

Location: The Evelyn is found inside a chest in Cainhurst Castle.

Flamesprayer

Stats:
Flame Attack: 45
Arcane: D
Durability: 100

Location: This weapon can be acquired from Gilbert. You’ll find him in Central Yharnam after ascending the ladder that you lower by pulling the lever.

You can find him just behind the first lamp there. Talk to him through the window to acquire this weapon.

Hunter Blunderbuss

Stats:

  • Blood Attack: 20
  • Blood Tinge: D
  • Durability: 100

Location: One of the two starting weapon in Hunter’s Dream. You can also purchase this weapon from Fountain Merchant after finding the Saw Hunter Badge.

Hunter Pistol

Stats:

  • Blood Attack: 70
  • Blood Tinge: D
  • Durability: 100

Location: One of the two starting weapon in Hunter’s Dream. You can also purchase this weapon from Fountain Merchant after finding the Saw Hunter Badge.

Hunter’s Torch

Stats:

  • Fire Attack: 45
  • Arcane: B
  • Durability: 150

Location: It can be found at the start of Old Yharnam. Follow the lizard, and you’ll land on the roof of the building where it is located in.

Ludwig’s Rifle

Stats:

  • Blood Attack: 70
  • Blood Tinge: E
  • Durability: 150

Location: ??

Repeating Pistol

Stats:

  • Blood Attack: 90
  • Blood Tinge: D
  • Durability: 80

Location: Weapon is available for purchase after defeating the Cleric Beast.

Rosmarinus

Stats:

  • Arcane Attack: 30
  • Arcane: B
  • Durability: 100

Location: ??

Torch

Stats:

  • Blood Attack: 25
  • Durability: 100

Location: Found all over the city.

Wooden Shield

Stats:

  • Durability: 120

Location: The only shield in the game (fairly useless as well). It can be found in the Cathedral Ward, top of the long stairs near the gate.

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