Fist weapon

A forsaken wielding fist weapons in art.

Fist weapons are those which are gripped in a fist, such as brass knuckles.

Due to the small number of fist weapons in the game they can make a poor choice of weaponry before level 60. However, if you know where to look and are willing to put some extra time into running dungeons you should be able to find enough upgrades that this won't be a problem.

The class proficiencies page lists which classes can use this type of weapon.

Notable fist weapons

• The Bladefist/Alternate, the bladefist of Kargath Bladefist
•  [Lobstmourne] the claw of Clawlord Kril'mandar
•  [Arlokk's Grasp] weapon of Arlokk high priest of Bethekk
•  [Thekal's Grasp] weapon of Thekal high priest of Shirvallah
•  [Claw of Lo'Gosh], ancient tauren relic
• Claws of Ursoc, Forged by Freya and then gifted by her to Ursoc
• Fists of the Heavens, a weapon containing unspeakable amounts of raw elemental fury from Al'Akir
•  [The Fist of Ra-den], a weapon used to bestow life on the titan-forged mogu race that belonged to Highkeeper Ra
•  [Nasz'uro, the Unbound Legacy]

Patch changes

• Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Blood elf characters now grip fist weapons correctly.
  
• Hotfix (2016-07-22): Invisible fist weapons are now eligible to be transmogrified.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): All fist weapons are now one-handed, with few exceptions ( [Left-Handed Claw],  [Left-Handed Blades],  [Replica High Warlord's Left Claw],  [Replica Grand Marshal's Left Hand Blade]).
  
• Patch 1.6.0 (2005-07-12):
  • Fist Weapons will now have the normal chance to parry that all weapons use.
  • Fixed a bug where broken off-hand fist weapons would prevent main-hand dagger abilities from being usable.