How to get the Gloom Spear in Tears of the Kingdom (TotK)

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom lets you fuse various materials to make weapons out of everything from enemy horns to precious stones to beehives. But some of its very best weapons are still those rare items you find in chests or on enemy corpses. Some of them are downright amazing. Here is our guide telling you how to get the Gloom Spear in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

Tears of the Kingdom – how to get the Gloom Spear

We previously told you how to get the Gloom Club and how to get the Gloom Sword. Now it’s time to look at how to finish your little trilogy with the Gloom Spear.

To get the Gloom Spear, defeat Phantom Ganon when he appears with it equipped. As always, you need to defeat Gloom Hands in short order when they attack. Then you need to survive the follow-up battle with Phantom Ganon and his lethal spear.

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To defeat the Gloom Hands, hit them from a distance with Arrows fused with an item such as Bomb Flowers. There are numerous hands. They reach far and fast. If you keep to high ground, they’re not a huge threat, though.

Phantom Ganon is trickier. With the Gloom Spear, he moves faster than he does while equipped with a weapon such as the club. However, you still want to dodge his attacks at just the right moment. Then you can counter with a flurry of strikes. If you have arrows left and items to fuse to them, those also work. However, I don’t recommend using Bomb Flowers. He likes to rush you. If you hit him mid-rush, he may get close enough that any explosive blast hurts you in the process.

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Phantom Ganon and his Gloom Spear only appear in some of the locations where you encounter Gloom Hands:

• Check near the northeast portion of the Akkala Citadel Ruins. We wrote about this encounter in our guide on how to access the shrine in Akkala Citadel Ruins.
• Look north of Broca Island. Head north through the trail that leads through the southern edge of Death Mountain from Foothill Stable. Continue along the trail leading east past the entrance to Lake Intenoch Cave. You’ll encounter the Gloom Hands (see the map location above).

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• Look on Mekar Island. It is west from the Great Hyrule Forest and southwest from Thyphlo Ruins Skyview Tower. Travel not quite due south from Kikakin Shrine.
• Check at the Hyrule Castle Docks. The docks are part of Hyrule Castle, located north of Lookout Landing. Proceed along the eastern side of that high area. You’ll reach the point on the map shown above. Drop west over the edge of the cliff and hold to the wall. You access a cave you can follow to the docks. In this area, light a large torch to find the Hylian Shield. Then descend the nearby steps to encounter the Gloom Hands.

You will meet Gloom Hands and Phantom Ganon in other areas. In those cases, he more likely brings along his club or sword.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is available for purchase from the Nintendo Store.