Baldur's Gate 3: Best Gloves (& How To Get Them) (2024)

Baldur’s Gate 3 launched to thundering applause, receiving rave reviews both from journalists and gamers alike. It was all thanks to the amount of work and love Larian Studios put into their newest game and the latest installment in the Baldur's Gate franchise.

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 on December 25, 2023, by Kristy Ambrose: A few months, several patches and 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. Patches and updates are ongoing and there's talk of sequels and DLCs on fansites everywhere. For players, that includes yet even more and better gear, which includes a wide variety of gloves, bracers, and gauntlets with all kinds of buffs, spells, and other handy extra abilities to make players OP in Baldur's Gate 3.

10 Abyss Beckoners

Found In The Zhentarim Hideout

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. Said creatures go mad every turn by failing their wisdom saving throws, so ensure the Cleric, Druid, or other class with a high Wisdom score is using these.

9 Hr'a'cknir Bracers

Drops From The Gith Warrior Ch'r'ai Tska'an

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.

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.

8 Gloves Of Succour

In The Reithwin Tollhouse Basem*nt

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.

The second one is the fact that the target has to be healed by the Lay on Hands spell, which is limited to the Paladin class. Finally, last but not least, the target also has to have 50% or fewer hit points. The Gloves of Succour can be found rather than purchased and players can pick them up in the Tollhouse basem*nt.

7 Hellrider’s Pride

Quest Reward For "Save The Refugees"

While these do indeed offer the same benefits of resistance against bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damages dealt by weapons, the Hellrider's Pride gloves don't have limitations based on class. However, the gloves are medium armor which does limit them to certain subclasses.

The player can use Gloves of Succour on themselves with the Lay on Hands spell. They would need to finish the quest “Save the Refugees” to get it as a reward, and this means some extra time in the Illithid Colony section of Moonrise Towers.

6 Herbalist’s Gloves

Sold by Derryth Bonecloak

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 condition often lasts several turns and can slow a character down or put them to sleep.

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, but that seems like a small tradeoff. These gloves can be found in the Underdark, where they are sold by Derryth Bonecloak.

5 Gloves Of The Growling Underdog

In The Horde Behind Ragzlin's Throne

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. One does not need a great imagination to see how useful that might be to someone who has gotten themselves into a little bit of a pickle. Then again, someone with the “Cleave” ability, might just want to find themselves in said pickle.

4 Gloves Of Power

Drops From Za'krug The Goblin

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 mark.

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.

3 Raven Gloves

A Reward For "Punish The Wicked"

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.

2 Bracers Of Defense

In The Necromancer's Cellar

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.

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.

1 Gloves Of Dexterity

The Quartermaster Of The Gith Creche

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 of a sudden, all the other stats can be that much stronger, or 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. They 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

Developer(s)

Larian Studios

Genre(s)

RPG

Platform(s)

PC , Stadia , macOS , PS5 , Xbox Series X

Released

August 3, 2023

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