Highlights
- Baldur's Gate 3 received rave reviews for its story, graphics, customization, and choices. The variety of gear, especially gloves, adds depth to the game.
- The Abyss Beckoners gloves are rare and useful for players who summon companion beings, despite the potential drawbacks.
- The Hr'a'cknir Bracers, Gloves of Succour, Hellrider's Pride, and other gloves offer unique abilities and advantages that can greatly impact gameplay.
Baldur’s Gate 3 launched to thundering applause, receiving rave reviews both from journalists and gamers alike, and the trend has continued into the present day. It was all thanks to the amount of work and love Larian Studios put into the latest installment in the Baldur's Gate franchise.
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The story, the graphics, the customization, and the choices a BG3 player has are spectacular. One of the other things that make Baldur’s Gate 3 stand out is the variety of gear, which leads to gloves being incredibly useful and diverse. Players have to consider that most of the gloves in the game have the potential to come in handy for certain character builds.
Updated April 12th, 2024, by Kristy Ambrose: A few months, several patches, and an impressive stack of awards later, the Baldur's Gate 3 fanbase continues to grow and thrive as they discover even more about this corner of the Sword Coast. Even though Larian Studios has confirmed that there will be no sequels or DLCs, patches and updates are ongoing. For players, that includes even more and better gear, which includes a wide variety of gloves, bracers, and gauntlets with all kinds of buffs, spells, and other handy abilities for every build in BG3. With that in mind, this list has been updated with more of the game's best gloves.
12 Abyss Beckoners
Found In The Zhentarim Hideout
- Stats: Very Rare, grants the user Demonspirit Aura which protects summoned creatures from psychic damage
This is one the rarest pieces of equipment, let alone gloves, in Baldur's Gate 3, even though it tends to work against players anywhere from half the time to all the time. As such, it is not going to be worth it for most builds, but for anyone who summons animals, ghouls, or other companion beings it might be worth it.
While the idea of having invulnerable summoned creatures is extremely interesting, the player has to understand that tends to backfire. Summoned creatures go mad every turn by failing their wisdom saving throws, so ensure that a high Wisdom score, like a Cleric or Druid, is using these.
11 Hr'a'cknir Bracers
Drops From The Gith Warrior Ch'r'ai Tska'an
- Stats: Very rare, +1 to Strength, grants the ability to cast Telekinesis
Just when players thought Act 2 was all wrapped up, and passing through that gate and into the big city was going to be easy there's an ambush waiting by the western exit from Reithwin Town. It's not a boss fight but it's still a tough one, especially if everyone in the party fails a Perception check and nobody sees it coming.
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There are some tough Gith fighters to face here, and one named Ch'r'ai Tska'an will drop these Very Rare braces if you defeat her. Unlike so many other gears in this class, the power the gloves grant to cast the Telekinesis cantrip and get a +1 Strength bonus extends to every race that puts them on, and not just Gith.
10 Gloves Of Belligerent Skies
Found In An Elegant Chest In The Inquisitor's Chamber Of Crèche Y'llek
- Stats: Uncommon quality, grants the ability of Thunderous Conversion
These gloves are simple cloth, so any class can use them, which is good news for those building magic users who specialize in Thunder, Lightning, or Radiant damage. That can include Monks, Wizards, Sorcerers, and Clerics.
Thunderous Conversion is the special feature that makes these gloves among the best in the game. After the wearer uses any spell or ability that deals Thunder, Lightning, or Radiant damage, they inflict Reverberation on the target. This condition gives them a -1 penalty to their Strength, Constitution, and Dexterity saving throws, and if it happens five turns in a row, the target takes 1d4 Thunder damage.
9 Gloves Of Heroism
In The Reithwin Tollhouse Basement
- Stats: Uncommon quality, medium armor, resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, +1 Strength, the Warding Hands ability
This pair of Uncommon gloves grants the wearer a combination of resistance against bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damages when they're dealt with by physical attacks. It doesn't help with spells or magical weapons, however, so these aren't as useful at higher levels.
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Warding Hands gives the wearer the Heroism condition when they use their Channel Oath spells. The Gloves of Heroism are highly situational and only ideal for a Paladin, but noble knights that want them can pick them up in the Tollhouse basement.
8 Hellrider's Pride
Quest Reward For "Save The Refugees" Or Take Them From Zevlor's Corpse
- Stats: Medium armor, Strength +1, the ability to cast Helm's Protection
These offer the same benefits of resistance against physical weapons as other Medium armor pieces, but that does limit them to certain classes. In this case, it's themed for Paladins but Fighters or certain Cleric subclasses can use them, too.
Helm's Protection is a passive ability that only activates when the wearer heals a target, making these better for healing builds. Aside from restoring hit points, it also gives the target resistance against bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
7 Herbalist’s Gloves
Sold By Derryth Bonecloak
- Stats: Uncommon quality, the Cleansing Touch ability
The Herbalist’s Gloves might not seem useful at first, but anyone who has played any D&D-related game will know that getting poisoned is unpleasant. The Poison condition often lasts several turns and can slow a character down or put them to sleep, and a simple heal won't cleanse it.
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Players don't think about bringing antidote vials or won't bring enough. These gloves solve this very annoying problem. Granted, the wearer must heal the poisoned creature to cure them, but that seems like a small tradeoff. These gloves can be found in the Underdark, where they are sold by Derryth Bonecloak.
6 Gloves Of The Growling Underdog
In The Horde Behind Ragzlin's Throne
- Stats: Uncommon quality, gives Advantage to melee attack rolls when the wearer is facing two or more enemies
These gloves are ideal for melee fighters, especially tanks, regardless of class. They are of an Uncommon quality, are found in the chest behind Razglin’s throne room, and can easily have a huge impact on how the wearer approaches battles.
The Gloves Of The Growling Underdog give an Advantage on melee attack rolls when surrounded by two or more enemies. That's useful to a character with a DPS or defender build that is trying to deflect attention from their casters and healers.
5 Gloves Of Power
Drops From Za'krug The Goblin
- Stats: +1 Sleight of Hand, the ability to inflict a 1d4 penalty to attack and save rolls if the wearer has the Absolute's Brand
By themselves, these gloves might not be that useful as they only grant +1 to Sleight Of Hand. Not too long ago, during Baldur’s Gate’s 3 early access, these gloves even applied a penalty to the wearer if they did not have the Absolute’s Brand.
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That was changed for the full release, however, and developers decided that having the mark would just give the wearer the ability to inflict a 1d4 penalty to attack and save rolls on their enemies. They can be found if you kill Za’krug, a goblin who's part of the attack at the entrance to the Druid Grove.
4 Raven Gloves
A Reward For "Punish The Wicked"
- Stats: Rare quality, the ability to summon Quothe the Raven
Some players miss this little corner of the Shadow-cursed Lands entirely and miss this side-quest and the related NPC completely. He Who Was might be some kind of necromancer since talking to the dead seems to be his thing, and he and his albino raven have a task to complete.
You're going to Reithwin Town eventually, and have to confront Thisobald Thorm while you're there, so it's easy to poke around under the floorboards of the Waning Moon brewery and get the ledger that He Who Was has requested. Return it to him, and allow him to dispense justice without killing him in the process. The reward is these gloves, which give the wearer the ability to summon a raven familiar that can fly, and attack and blind enemies.
3 Bracers Of Defense
In The Necromancer's Cellar
- Stats: Rare quality, the Become the Bulwark ability which grants +2 to AC
Probably one of the best pieces of equipment for a monk or a barbarian class in Baldur’s Gate 3. Yes, players could also throw on some useful jewelry, but these bracers are perfect when it comes to making the Monk and Barbarian more resistant to damage.
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The +2 to AC is nothing to scoff at, considering the two aforementioned classes tend not to wear armor or carry shields with them. This is the exact limitation that the gloves have. They are located at the Blighted Village in the Necromancer’s Cellar.
2 Cerebral Citadel Gloves
Found During The Quest "Visit The Emperor's Old Hideout"
- Stats: Rare quality, +1 Strength, the Illithid Euphoria ability
These are simple clothing as opposed to light or medium armor, so any class can wear them, which is one of the many advantages they have. It's a drawback that they're not available until Act 3 though. Players can find them while exploring the cellar of the Elfsong Tavern as part of the "Visit the Emperor's Old Hideout" quest.
The best thing about these gloves, other than the Strength buff, is Illithid Euphoria. Illithid Euphoria allows the wearer to Charm or Frighten a target, and these conditions give the target a 1d4 penalty on their attack rolls and saving throws.
1 Gloves Of Dexterity
The Quartermaster Of The Gith Creche
- Stats: Very Rare quality, +1 to Attack rolls, sets the wearer's Dexterity to 18
The Gloves of Dexterity are extremely useful for multiple scenarios, as they give 18 Dexterity to anyone who wears them regardless of race or class. In case the player decides to use Dexterity as their dump stat and then use the gloves, all the other stats can be that much stronger, so if they run a Barbarian Berserker they easily get a “free” armor class.
There are quite a lot of options that someone can play with here, from Rogues to archer builds. These gloves can be found on the Quartermaster in the creche while doing Lae’zel’s quest, or they can be bought later in the campaign.
Baldur's Gate 3
- Platform(s)
- PC , macOS , PS5 , Xbox Series X
- Released
- August 3, 2023
- Developer(s)
- Larian Studios
- Genre(s)
- RPG
