War Gloves

General Information

War Gloves are Warrior weapons. They are a balanced playstyle weapon suitable for many situations.

War Gloves are unlocked by the War Gloves Fighter node on the Destiny Board

Abilities are unlocked as you level up the War Gloves Fighter skill (see the ability table below)

First, Second, and Passive slot abilities are common to all weapons, while Third Slot abilities are unique to each weapon and do not have a level requirement

The default hotkeys for First, Second, and Third Slot abilities are Q, W, and E, respectively

War Gloves Families

There are seven "war gloves families" represented by the seven specialization nodes on the Destiny Board. To unlock all of these families, the player must attain at least Tier 4 war gloves fighter. This will unlock the ability to then also level up specializations. The seven war gloves families are:

War Gloves Weapon Families

War Gloves Types

Icon	Name	Tier	Item Power
	Journeyman's Brawler Gloves	3	500
	Adept's Battle Bracers	4	700
	Adept's Spiked Gauntlets	4	700
	Adept's Brawler Gloves	4	700
	Adept's Ursine Maulers	4	725
	Adept's Hellfire Hands	4	750
	Adept's Ravenstrike Cestus	4	775
	Adept's Fists of Avalon	4	800
	Expert's Brawler Gloves	5	800
	Expert's Spiked Gauntlets	5	800
	Expert's Battle Bracers	5	800
	Expert's Ursine Maulers	5	825
	Expert's Hellfire Hands	5	850
	Expert's Ravenstrike Cestus	5	875
	Expert's Fists of Avalon	5	900
	Master's Battle Bracers	6	900
	Master's Brawler Gloves	6	900
	Master's Spiked Gauntlets	6	900
	Master's Ursine Maulers	6	925
	Master's Hellfire Hands	6	950
	Master's Ravenstrike Cestus	6	975
	Master's Fists of Avalon	6	1,000
	Grandmaster's Spiked Gauntlets	7	1,000
	Grandmaster's Brawler Gloves	7	1,000
	Grandmaster's Battle Bracers	7	1,000
	Grandmaster's Ursine Maulers	7	1,025
	Grandmaster's Hellfire Hands	7	1,050
	Grandmaster's Ravenstrike Cestus	7	1,075
	Grandmaster's Fists of Avalon	7	1,100
	Elder's Brawler Gloves	8	1,100
	Elder's Battle Bracers	8	1,100
	Elder's Spiked Gauntlets	8	1,100
	Elder's Ursine Maulers	8	1,125
	Elder's Hellfire Hands	8	1,150
	Elder's Ravenstrike Cestus	8	1,175
	Elder's Fists of Avalon	8	1,200

Spells and Abilities

Icon	Spell/Ability Name	Spell Slot	Energy Cost	Cast Time	Range	Cooldown	Mastery Unlock
	Dragon Leap	First	11	0s	1.5m-4.5m	4s	1
	Create Opening	First	3	0s	2m	0s or 3s recast	1
	Fleet Footwork	First	10	0s	5m	2s	15
	Shockwave	First	5	0s	13m	6s	70
	Fatal Fury	Passive	-	-	-	-	1
	Rage	Passive	-	-	-	-	6
	Rushdown	Passive	-	-	-	-	20
	Hard to Catch	Passive	-	-	-	-	50
	Triple Kick	Second	31	0s	11m	15s	1
	Backhand Strike	Second	10%	0s	2m	15s	3
	Counter	Second	9%	0s	0m	15s	40
	Devastating Combo	Second	54	0s	2m	15s	85
	Blazing Geyser	Third	46	0s	3m	18s	1
	Falcon Smash	Third	54	0s	15m	20s	1
	Gravitational Collapse	Third	73	0.6s	13m	20s	1
	Infernal Boulder	Third	65	0.92s	10m	20s	1
	Earth Crusher	Third	83	0s	0m	30s	1
	Purifying Combination	Third	25 - 36	0s - 0.6s	12m - 10m	15s - 30s	1
	Hundred Striking Fists	Third	65	0.5s	11m	20s	1

Related Patch Notes

Patch Link	Date	Patch Name	Patch Notes
Version 20.000.1	8 June 2022	Into the Fray Update	Fleet Footwork's second ability had been too situational to be reliably useful, and the reduced damage output for using it once was a big drawback. To make it more effective and fun to use, it is now a ground target dash that provides an auto-attack damage buff. This buff ensures that damage output doesn’t drop too much when using the second ability. Spiked Gauntlets had been too oppressive in large scale fights when stacked. To discourage this stacking, enemies can only be hit once per second by the effect. Ravenstrike Cestus had also been dominant in large scale fights, so its damage output has been reduced to offset the often high AoE Escalation due to its large radius. Fleet Footwork (all War Gloves): Kick: Step can now always be used as a follow-up, even without hitting an enemy first Damage: 50 → 64 Slightly increased Hitbox Step: Range: 5m → 7m No longer requires a target; it is instead a ground target Dash Increases Attack Damage by 100% for 5s Removed the Damage Reduction during the quick Step animation Gravitational Collapse (Spiked Gauntlets): Enemies hit become immune to being hit by another Gravitational Collapse for 1s Earth Crusher (Ravenstrike Cestus): 0 Charge Damage: 188 → 160 1 Charge Damage: 200 → 170 2 Charge Damage: 212 → 180 3 Charge Damage: 224 → 190
Version 19.040.1	26 January 2022	Lands Awakened Patch 4	Post-update adjustments improved the gameplay of the new War Gloves weapon line, but in terms of effectiveness they were still not quite where they needed to be. Various aspects have therefore been further improved. Q-abilities with more utility like Dragon Leap and Shock Wave have been adjusted to encourage using only the first part of the ability for constant damage on a low cooldown. The second part of the ability should then be used deliberately, to commit to utility at the cost of a higher cooldown. Additionally, various E-abilities were improved. Spiked Gauntlets were intended as a threat to enemy tanks, but their damage was insufficient to threaten plate tanks. Their damage against plate has been increased significantly to excel as tank busters. Infernal Boulder’s secondary effect was changed to a stackable DoT that reduces Healing Received, better for eliminating single targets without direct one-shots. Its debuff stacking also clarifies to new players that the boulder can hit the same target multiple times. Aggressive Rush is now called Fatal Fury, and was reworked with a damage buff that ramps up with each normal attack, giving successive auto-attack hits more impact. Resilience Penetration (all War Gloves): 40% → 60% Dragon Leap (all War Gloves): Cooldown when first hit misses: 7s → 4s Time window to activate Uppercut: 3s → 2s (makes it more attractive to keep using first hit to increase damage, and trigger longer cooldown when committing to Uppercut for additional CC) Energy Cost: 4 → 3 Shock Wave (all War Gloves): Cooldown for the first attack: 6s → 4s (using dash still triggers 6s cooldown) Energy Cost: 5 → 4 Counter (all War Gloves): Hit after Counter now knocks enemies airborne for 0.76s instead of 3m back Falcon Smash (Battle Bracers): Close Range Damage Radius: 3m → 4m Max Range Damage Radius: 5.5m → 6m Gravitational Collapse (Spiked Gauntlets): Damage vs Plate: 300 → 450 Hundred Striking Fists (Ursine Maulers): Delayed Damage can no longer be reflected Infernal Boulder (Hellfire Hands): No longer applies Slow effect Each hit instead applies DoT that ticks for 4s Deals magic damage every second and Reduces Healing Received by 20% (stacks up to 3 times) Earth Crusher (Ravenstrike Cestus): Knocking enemies airborne now makes them immune to being knocked airborne again by Earth Crusher for 1.5s Aggressive Rush (Passive) is now Fatal Fury: 3 Hit Attack Chain: Every normal Attack increases your Damage by 2% for 3s (stacks up to 9 times) 2 Hit Attack Chain: Every normal Attack increases your Damage by 1.5% for 3s (stacks up to 12 times) On max stacks, the buff can't be refreshed and will run out
Version 19.010.1	13 December 2021	Lands Awakened Patch 1	Since War Gloves are an entirely new line that offers a lot of utility, outplay potential and combo setup, we wanted to make sure they don’t dominate the meta at launch and made sure that the kit has enough drawbacks. However it seems we were a bit overcautious, and while they seemed in a good place in test cases, they somewhat underperformed in various areas in the Albion live world. The following improvements have thus been implemented in Patch 1 to get War Gloves in a better place. Base Stats (all War Gloves): Now increase Max health by 50 (base value); for reference, this is the same amount of Max Health given by Swords and Axes War Glove Auto-Attacks - 3 Hit Attack Chains: Time factor of the third hit: 3 → 2 (this makes the third attack faster, but overall DPS stays the same) Canceling the third auto-attack is now possible earlier, to enable more responsive repositioning and ability usage between attacks Create Opening (all War Gloves): Cooldown when using the second hit: 4s → 3s Dragon Leap (all War Gloves): Cooldown: 8s → 7s Time window to activate Uppercut: 4s → 3s Removed the delay until the second activation can be used, allowing instant recast after the first hit Cross Step (all War Gloves): Buff Duration: 6s → 8s Shock Wave (all War Gloves): Range: 10m → 11m Triple Kick (all War Gloves): Damage vs Players per hit: 30 → 37 Backhand Strike (all War Gloves): The ability no longer requires an enemy target - instead, it can now be cast in a direction The Strike hits all enemies in a 6m range in the cast direction, knocking them back and applying the full knockback effect (and corresponding damage) to all targets hit Blazing Geyser (Brawler Gloves): Cooldown: 20s → 15s Falcon Smash (Battle Bracers): Inner Circle Damage: 242 → 264 Range: 12m → 15m Gravitational Collapse (Spiked Gauntlets): Damage vs Cloth Armor: 100 → 140 Damage vs Leather Armor: 200 → 240 Cooldown: 25s → 20s Purifying Combination (Fists of Avalon): First Attack Damage: 35 → 78 Third Attack Damage: 215 → 235 Aggressive Burst (Passive): Normal Attacks needed to Activate: 16 → 11 (for 2-hit auto-attack chain War Gloves) 3-hit auto-attack chain War Gloves are unchanged, because the 3-hit attack chain is now faster (see above) Rushdown (Passive on all War Gloves): Movement Speed Increase Duration: 1s → 2s
Version 19.000.1	24 November 2021	Lands Awakened Update	War Gloves are an entirely new weapon line featuring three new base weapons, four artifact weapons, and fifteen new abilities, plus unique passives. They are melee-focused and offer damage, mobility, and control abilities along with limited ranged abilities. They are crafted in the Warrior's Forge and feature their own Combat and Crafting masteries on the Destiny Board. Includes full Destiny Board trees: specializations, masteries, and Elite Levels (see below) Receive a city crafting bonus in Caerleon Artifact War Gloves are crafted via new Artifacts that drop in the open world or are made at the Artifact Foundry Black Hands replaced with a new dagger, the Demonfang (see "Combat Balance Changes" below for details)

Pictures of T4 War Gloves