A large part of deciding your party in the original Baldur's Gate trilogy was deciding who to put the Gauntlets of Dexterity on. That legacy continues.
Gloves of Dex are great on barbarians or tavern brawler monks, allows you to get good AC while prioritizing strength and allows you to have range be a viable option even in the late game (titanstring bow anyone?) Also synergizes really well with armor of agility or yuan ti scale mail since you add your full dexterity modifier to those armors.
Having fun with Yuan Ti armour and the gloves of dex on Laezel with max strength. Made her absolute lead fighter right now especially with gith crossbow that can be infused with arcane energy
This is one of the best BG3 videos I've seen. I'm not much of a build player, but the way you broke down these gloves was great. In a game that can get complicated pertaining to exactly how items work, your video was very eye opening. Subscribed.
They definitely are giga strong! For ranged, the only other gloves that I can think of that rival them would be Gloves of archery since those are a +2 to hit and dmg rolls, so +7 if you have 20 dex, but as you've pointed out, then you can't dump dex as a stat, and/or a different feat.
Markoheshkir is sick. If it had just Kereshka's favor, it would already be the best magic item, but it also has Arcane Battery, and the casting bonus... oh boy. But I agree that the Dex gloves are truly sick!! Cheers !
@@CreativeExcusesGaming yep! My 4th playthrough was red draconic ancestry sorcerer 11/ 1 wizard. You can cast Hunger of Hadar or Chain Lightning 3 times a day, because Kereshka refreshes on short rest... 4 times even with the extra short rest bardic ability. Sick, sick, sick!!
@@marcduhamel-guitar1985 The only problem with markoheshkir is you can cast those spells even more if you just have a good thief in your party (or your camp). Why cast chain lightning 4 times per day when you can cast it almost every turn with a scroll?
@@CreativeExcusesGaming scrolls disappear after usage and if you don't cheese the economy with the backpack trick, why waste your time pick pocketing scrolls when you have an item with which you can cast it 3 times a day guaranteed? If I have to choose between a scroll of chain lightning and globe of invulnerability, I'll take the globe every time, because no item can generate the globe.
@@marcduhamel-guitar1985 you dont have to cheese the economy when pickpocketing is as op as it is. Greater invis on a level 11 rogue lets you steal like 3-6 chain lightning scrolls a day, plus as many globes of invuln as you want. Its probably one of the strongest strategies in the game. If you buy everything, then its a different story. But if you rob everyone blind, scrolls are amazing
I beg to differ on that alert feat being overkill argument because I've lost a few solo honor runs out of my several completed ones purely because I didn't go first. Now I try to cram in alert feat in just about any build with the exception of ones that use sentinel shield + a bow with initiative. I always build my characters with at minimum 16 dex "minus if using these gloves" + 14 constitution + 16 in my casting modifier and then run an asi, gwm, or sharpshooter with the alert feat being picked up by around act 2 when it starts to matter. By act 3 most enemies having 20-28 dex means that you wont hardly ever go first in a solo with just 16-18 dex.
Id probably say solo runs are the exception, not the rule. With a well built party, alert is overkill. When solo, you need every advantage you can get and going first is pretty essential to your action economy so its value is much higher. I didnt have solo play in mind for this video as Ive never done a solo run
See I think the Creche is Act 2 because it changes regions and forces the tiefling story forward regardless of how many long rests youve made, even zero. You can go all the way to the door to the shadowlands in the underdark without forcing the tiefling story forward, but if you go to the mountain pass, i think youre in act 2.
I do agree the gloves being an amazing piece of gear for pretty much every character but calling the dex bonus a +4 to everything is a bit of an exageration, most characters can just afford 14 or 16 dexterity because they won't need much else on other stats so the bonus is not as dramatic as you make it out to be. I will give you thqt these open up builds like a str monk tavern brawler and the +1 to attack is really great but I find that by mid act 3 there are better pieces of gear for most casters and martials
Right, its only a +4 if you respec and dump dex or choose to dump dex to start and then power through act 1 without good initiative. If youre willing to respec and dump though, theyre incredible.
I think you might have missed his main point, being that they are really only getting full value on multi attribute dependent builds likes monks and paladins, whereas other builds can comfortably get 16 dex as a secondary stat and use more important synergistic pieces like the gloves of the belligerent sky. Don't get me wrong I still think they're one of the best gloves in act 1-2. @@CreativeExcusesGaming
Does puzzle me all the hate Laezel gets. Must just because people deem her ugly. She one of the most interesting characters especially with her arc. I been having a lot of fun with her as my main fighter with these gloves and I ended up making Karlach heavy armoured fighter instead of barbarian and she beastly. Managed to get most of my party up to 20+ AC. Dex is really oversaturated stat tbh
Reallyyyy, people call her ugly😢 She's so cute, i like her cheeks, she looks like my gf (except of the nose part, so weird that people can perceive her ugly: (
Woooah dex isnt overrated. 20+ ac is definitely easy to get with heavy armor and a shield, but dex gives initiative, armor, one of the best saving throws for damage reduction, and damage if you want it.
@Henbot OH im big dumb 😂 I think dex needs a nerf tbh, specifically I want initiative to be calculated like: 1d4 + dex mod/2 rounded down + int mod/2rounded up because dex is waaaaay oversaturated like you said, and int needs a huge buff to be even reasonable. We shouldnt be crushing the game while every character gets to be dumb as a box of rocks unless theyre a wizard.
I always give my main character these gloves if Dex is not their main stat. it means I can focus additional stat points elsewhere and I can get great armour class improved use of finesse weapons.
Try them on a dual wielding dex barbarian! 5 hunter ranger into 7 barbarian and max out your constitution with an asi and the constitution armor! Its an incredibly fun setup
@@CreativeExcusesGaming Did something similar to that last run, dual wield whit dex gloves and 3 levels in rogue for thief sub class and rest barb just just to dual attack every round. Guess one could do the same whit sword bard or fighter instead of barb, might just have to try next time.
Nice vid, but it would be nice to not wait a whole min to see the item in question. (I get you need to pad the vid out to 8 mins for that sweet ad revenue)
Honestly I didnt try padding the video at all, ive never forced myself to hit a specific time on a video for revenue or anything (i dont make enough for that to be a consideration, average of 30-60 USD per month). Also the item name is pretty early in the description. I do see I forgot to put in chapters before leaving for vacation though so thats my b.
Nah. These gloves are good, don't get me wrong, but they rarely make the cut on most of my builds, losing out to gloves that are more specific and more beneficial to each build. I always take at least 14, usually 16 dex on most of my characters anyway, and I don't usually need the build points enough that I need to dump dex. In retrospect, I might've used these as opposed to the gloves of belligerent skies on my lightning mage, because that character really did need the build points, and reverberation wasn't needed when everything falls over dead anyway.
I definitely like them more on martial characters than on casters, but they can be very good if you want to multiclass like a charisma and wisdom class pairing and get decent casting stats for both. But they are a beautiful thing on dexbarians and rangers. I love them on both
@CreativeExcusesGaming The problem on martials is that they compete with helldusk gloves, legacy of the masters, and/or the giant str gloves. Early on, for a ranged character, you're better off taking glovers of archery and building for dex. They are really good on Lae'zel early on, though.
@garyco766 Ahh but helldusk and the strength gauntlets are laaaaate act 3, and they dont free up as many (if any) feats like the dex gloves do. The dex gloves are also great on early ranged builds because you can immediately take sharpshooter and still have the equivalent of 20 dex for accuracy
@@CreativeExcusesGaming Sure, but you have lesser Helldusk and Gloves of the Automaton from the moment you reach Last Light, and Legacy from the moment you reach the lower city. I would argue that on a GWM build, Legacy is the clear winner since they need all the + to hit you can get, but until then Dex guantlets are in the running, but not clearly better than Lesser Hulldusk or Automaton. On a ranged build (or any dex based build) you're going to want 22 dex, and as long as you're building for dex you may as well use gloves of archery or lesser helldusk (though Legacy might be best for this build too in act 3).
What's the item? I ain't tryna sit through 6 more minutes & total 8 minutes just to hear what the item is, anybody else woulda said the item in the first minute🤦🏿♂️😴
A large part of deciding your party in the original Baldur's Gate trilogy was deciding who to put the Gauntlets of Dexterity on. That legacy continues.
Gloves of Dex are great on barbarians or tavern brawler monks, allows you to get good AC while prioritizing strength and allows you to have range be a viable option even in the late game (titanstring bow anyone?)
Also synergizes really well with armor of agility or yuan ti scale mail since you add your full dexterity modifier to those armors.
Having fun with Yuan Ti armour and the gloves of dex on Laezel with max strength. Made her absolute lead fighter right now especially with gith crossbow that can be infused with arcane energy
This is one of the best BG3 videos I've seen. I'm not much of a build player, but the way you broke down these gloves was great. In a game that can get complicated pertaining to exactly how items work, your video was very eye opening. Subscribed.
+4 Armor & Initiative is great utility
They definitely are giga strong! For ranged, the only other gloves that I can think of that rival them would be Gloves of archery since those are a +2 to hit and dmg rolls, so +7 if you have 20 dex, but as you've pointed out, then you can't dump dex as a stat, and/or a different feat.
Archery gloves are only +2 to damage, not attack rolls! But those are definitely great gloves if the dex gloves are already taken!
These are a must have in a solo honour mode to have gloves of dex And int helm And stre stick 3 stat s can put at 8 then boosted all in act 1
Markoheshkir is sick. If it had just Kereshka's favor, it would already be the best magic item, but it also has Arcane Battery, and the casting bonus... oh boy. But I agree that the Dex gloves are truly sick!! Cheers !
Markoheshkir is wicked powerful, especially on sorcerers with their broken af sorcery points!
@@CreativeExcusesGaming yep! My 4th playthrough was red draconic ancestry sorcerer 11/ 1 wizard. You can cast Hunger of Hadar or Chain Lightning 3 times a day, because Kereshka refreshes on short rest... 4 times even with the extra short rest bardic ability. Sick, sick, sick!!
@@marcduhamel-guitar1985 The only problem with markoheshkir is you can cast those spells even more if you just have a good thief in your party (or your camp). Why cast chain lightning 4 times per day when you can cast it almost every turn with a scroll?
@@CreativeExcusesGaming scrolls disappear after usage and if you don't cheese the economy with the backpack trick, why waste your time pick pocketing scrolls when you have an item with which you can cast it 3 times a day guaranteed? If I have to choose between a scroll of chain lightning and globe of invulnerability, I'll take the globe every time, because no item can generate the globe.
@@marcduhamel-guitar1985 you dont have to cheese the economy when pickpocketing is as op as it is. Greater invis on a level 11 rogue lets you steal like 3-6 chain lightning scrolls a day, plus as many globes of invuln as you want. Its probably one of the strongest strategies in the game.
If you buy everything, then its a different story. But if you rob everyone blind, scrolls are amazing
I beg to differ on that alert feat being overkill argument because I've lost a few solo honor runs out of my several completed ones purely because I didn't go first. Now I try to cram in alert feat in just about any build with the exception of ones that use sentinel shield + a bow with initiative. I always build my characters with at minimum 16 dex "minus if using these gloves" + 14 constitution + 16 in my casting modifier and then run an asi, gwm, or sharpshooter with the alert feat being picked up by around act 2 when it starts to matter. By act 3 most enemies having 20-28 dex means that you wont hardly ever go first in a solo with just 16-18 dex.
Id probably say solo runs are the exception, not the rule. With a well built party, alert is overkill. When solo, you need every advantage you can get and going first is pretty essential to your action economy so its value is much higher.
I didnt have solo play in mind for this video as Ive never done a solo run
I simply refer to anything before Baldurs Gate as Part 1 and Baldurs Gate itself as Part 2. Parts don’t work the same as Acts so it’s easy to go with.
See I think the Creche is Act 2 because it changes regions and forces the tiefling story forward regardless of how many long rests youve made, even zero. You can go all the way to the door to the shadowlands in the underdark without forcing the tiefling story forward, but if you go to the mountain pass, i think youre in act 2.
Mix the gloves with the armor of agility and it has a higher ac than any other gear in the game as far as I know
21 ac from that combo right? Same as the Helldusk Armor
I got them on my paladin, and I love them
I do agree the gloves being an amazing piece of gear for pretty much every character but calling the dex bonus a +4 to everything is a bit of an exageration, most characters can just afford 14 or 16 dexterity because they won't need much else on other stats so the bonus is not as dramatic as you make it out to be.
I will give you thqt these open up builds like a str monk tavern brawler and the +1 to attack is really great but I find that by mid act 3 there are better pieces of gear for most casters and martials
Right, its only a +4 if you respec and dump dex or choose to dump dex to start and then power through act 1 without good initiative. If youre willing to respec and dump though, theyre incredible.
I think you might have missed his main point, being that they are really only getting full value on multi attribute dependent builds likes monks and paladins, whereas other builds can comfortably get 16 dex as a secondary stat and use more important synergistic pieces like the gloves of the belligerent sky. Don't get me wrong I still think they're one of the best gloves in act 1-2. @@CreativeExcusesGaming
Does puzzle me all the hate Laezel gets. Must just because people deem her ugly. She one of the most interesting characters especially with her arc. I been having a lot of fun with her as my main fighter with these gloves and I ended up making Karlach heavy armoured fighter instead of barbarian and she beastly. Managed to get most of my party up to 20+ AC. Dex is really oversaturated stat tbh
Reallyyyy, people call her ugly😢
She's so cute, i like her cheeks, she looks like my gf (except of the nose part, so weird that people can perceive her ugly: (
Woooah dex isnt overrated. 20+ ac is definitely easy to get with heavy armor and a shield, but dex gives initiative, armor, one of the best saving throws for damage reduction, and damage if you want it.
@@CreativeExcusesGaming I didn’t say it was overrated I said it was oversaturated. As in Dex does too many things that it’s unbalanced
People hate Lae'zel because she's an obnoxious bitch through 2/3 of the game, not because she's ugly.
@Henbot OH im big dumb 😂 I think dex needs a nerf tbh, specifically I want initiative to be calculated like: 1d4 + dex mod/2 rounded down + int mod/2rounded up because dex is waaaaay oversaturated like you said, and int needs a huge buff to be even reasonable. We shouldnt be crushing the game while every character gets to be dumb as a box of rocks unless theyre a wizard.
Incredible choice for a tavern brawler monk that doesn’t want to spam elixirs as well, TB monks are extremely stat greedy builds
Very true. This lets full strength tavern brawlers avoid being glass cannons with low initiative. They also get even more accuracy lol
I always give my main character these gloves if Dex is not their main stat. it means I can focus additional stat points elsewhere and I can get great armour class improved use of finesse weapons.
Couldn't agree more. I usually play a caster Tav and have never worn anything else in four playthroughs.
Try them on a dual wielding dex barbarian! 5 hunter ranger into 7 barbarian and max out your constitution with an asi and the constitution armor! Its an incredibly fun setup
@@CreativeExcusesGaming Did something similar to that last run, dual wield whit dex gloves and 3 levels in rogue for thief sub class and rest barb just just to dual attack every round. Guess one could do the same whit sword bard or fighter instead of barb, might just have to try next time.
where do you get them
The main creche merchant! Check out the bg3.wiki/wiki
I just wish the gloves had a nicer skin…
Me about soooo many items in BG3 lol. Maybe once official modding support is out we can get some people in there to remodel a lot of stuff lol
Nice vid, but it would be nice to not wait a whole min to see the item in question. (I get you need to pad the vid out to 8 mins for that sweet ad revenue)
Honestly I didnt try padding the video at all, ive never forced myself to hit a specific time on a video for revenue or anything (i dont make enough for that to be a consideration, average of 30-60 USD per month).
Also the item name is pretty early in the description. I do see I forgot to put in chapters before leaving for vacation though so thats my b.
Nah. These gloves are good, don't get me wrong, but they rarely make the cut on most of my builds, losing out to gloves that are more specific and more beneficial to each build. I always take at least 14, usually 16 dex on most of my characters anyway, and I don't usually need the build points enough that I need to dump dex. In retrospect, I might've used these as opposed to the gloves of belligerent skies on my lightning mage, because that character really did need the build points, and reverberation wasn't needed when everything falls over dead anyway.
I definitely like them more on martial characters than on casters, but they can be very good if you want to multiclass like a charisma and wisdom class pairing and get decent casting stats for both.
But they are a beautiful thing on dexbarians and rangers. I love them on both
@CreativeExcusesGaming The problem on martials is that they compete with helldusk gloves, legacy of the masters, and/or the giant str gloves. Early on, for a ranged character, you're better off taking glovers of archery and building for dex. They are really good on Lae'zel early on, though.
@garyco766 Ahh but helldusk and the strength gauntlets are laaaaate act 3, and they dont free up as many (if any) feats like the dex gloves do. The dex gloves are also great on early ranged builds because you can immediately take sharpshooter and still have the equivalent of 20 dex for accuracy
@@CreativeExcusesGaming Sure, but you have lesser Helldusk and Gloves of the Automaton from the moment you reach Last Light, and Legacy from the moment you reach the lower city. I would argue that on a GWM build, Legacy is the clear winner since they need all the + to hit you can get, but until then Dex guantlets are in the running, but not clearly better than Lesser Hulldusk or Automaton. On a ranged build (or any dex based build) you're going to want 22 dex, and as long as you're building for dex you may as well use gloves of archery or lesser helldusk (though Legacy might be best for this build too in act 3).
keep talking and they'll nerf them
What's the item? I ain't tryna sit through 6 more minutes & total 8 minutes just to hear what the item is, anybody else woulda said the item in the first minute🤦🏿♂️😴
I say the item’s name at like 52 seconds in, and its in the description. But its the gloves of dexterity