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Overview

The Combat God's Plate Gloves are a pair of Gloves in Crimson Desert that channel lightning energy through unarmed strikes. Described as ancient equipment woven with unique fibers and metals, they convert friction generated upon impact into destructive electrical currents. Charges accumulate rapidly during relentless barrages of strikes, ultimately unleashing power akin to a massive lightning bolt.

These gauntlets are obtained by completing the Bonepit questline in Tommaso, one of the main cities in the Crimson Desert region. They are widely considered one of the most unique glove items in the game because of their built-in lightning affinity and the two Abyss Gears they come pre-equipped with. For players who enjoy unarmed combat and melee damage, these gloves deliver a play style that many have compared to the God of War series, complete with visible electric sparks, shock effects, and devastating chain attacks.

Stats

With 19 ATK and 7 DEF, the Combat God's Plate Gloves strike a balance between offense and survivability. The built-in Critical Rate passive is especially important because crit rate on gloves only affects attacks performed with those gloves. Having it built into the item itself means you start with a head start toward the crit rate cap for fist attacks.

Critical Rate Scaling

Critical rate on gloves only applies to attacks made with those gloves, so building crit rate on the Combat God's Plate Gloves directly benefits your fist attacks. At base, the gloves have Critical Rate Lv. 1. At refinement level 10, this increases to Critical Rate 2. The maximum crit rate cap for fist attacks is 15, and reaching it requires stacking crit rate from multiple sources.

A practical setup to hit the level 15 crit rate cap:

By socketing a Crit Rate 3 Abyss Gear into one of the glove slots and combining it with the refinement bonus plus crit rate from your necklace and ring, you can reach exactly 15. This results in a noticeably higher proportion of critical hits during fist combos, which pairs well with the Relentless damage scaling.

How to Obtain

The Combat God's Plate Gloves are the reward for completing the Bonepit questline. The Bonepit is a gladiator-style arena located in Tommaso, which sits in the Tommasoan Territory within the Crimson Desert region. The quest becomes available once you have progressed far enough through the main storyline and arrived in Tommaso.

The questline consists of a series of bare-fist fights. You cannot use weapons during these encounters; all combat is unarmed. There are three opponents you must defeat in sequence:

After defeating Muskan, you receive the Combat God's Plate Gloves as the quest reward. Once Muskan is beaten, you can refight him at any time without having to redo the earlier bouts against Drakane and Jaleel.

The third round is significantly harder than the first two and functions as a genuine boss encounter. Muskan's combos deal heavy damage and can punish overly aggressive play. The safest approach is to activate Focus at level 3, which grants an auto-parry effect while you spam the parry button. After successfully parrying, follow up with a heavy attack into Force Palm into Force Palm Pulse. This sequence keeps Muskan stagger-locked and deals significant damage. When his stagger bar fills completely, switch to light attack combos for maximum damage output. If he recovers and starts another combo, simply re-enter Focus and repeat the parry loop.

Abyss Gears

The Combat God's Plate Gloves have 2 abyss gear slots and come with both slots already filled. The pre-equipped gears are Kinetic Burst (also known as Showstopper) and Relentless. Most gloves either have one abyss gear or none at all, making these an exceptional find. Note that if you want to socket a Crit Rate 3 gear for the crit cap build, you will need to swap out one of these two gears.

Kinetic Burst (Showstopper)

Kinetic Burst (referred to as Showstopper in some contexts) is the first of the two pre-equipped abyss gears. For unarmed attacks, it triggers on the 3rd hit of the light attack chain, which is normally the finisher of the combo. The burst releases an AoE 360-degree pulse around your character that damages all nearby enemies. This addresses one of the main weaknesses of unarmed combat, which typically lacks area-of-effect capability.

If you have invested points in the Martial Arts skill tree, you can extend your light attack combo with a finisher by pressing a separate button after the 3rd hit. This extension also triggers Kinetic Burst, meaning a full extended combo (3 light attacks plus the extension) gives you 2 Kinetic Burst procs in a single chain. This double activation is what makes the gear so effective. You can even perform this combo from range without your attacks connecting with the enemy, since the Kinetic Burst activates based on the combo count, not on hit confirmation.

Kinetic Burst shines most during stagger windows. When an enemy is fully staggered, you can land rapid light attack combos with extensions, and each chain pumps out two bursts for incredibly fast damage buildup. Against groups, the repeated AoE pulses clear out surrounding enemies while you focus on the staggered target.

Relentless

Relentless increases your damage output with each consecutive attack you land. The longer you sustain an unbroken chain of hits, the harder each strike lands. This synergizes naturally with the unarmed play style, since fist combat revolves around rapid, repeated strikes rather than single heavy blows.

Because the bonus resets when you stop attacking or get interrupted, positioning and timing matter. Staying close to your target and avoiding staggers will let the Relentless damage multiplier ramp up to significant levels, especially during extended boss encounters where you can maintain pressure.

Lightning Affinity

The Combat God's Plate Gloves have a default Lightning affinity that operates on a charge-based system. The gloves hold 3 lightning charges, and each charge causes your punch to deal additional lightning damage on impact. After a charge is consumed, one charge regenerates every 5 seconds. This means you enter every fight with a burst of three lightning-empowered strikes, and as the fight continues, you get a steady trickle of bonus lightning damage every few seconds. The recharge rate is generous enough that you rarely feel like you are running without lightning for long.

Visually, your attacks produce electric sparks and visible shock effects on impact. The lightning affinity is always active while the gloves are equipped; you do not need to manually trigger it through the Imbue Element system. The shock damage builds up an elemental charge on the target. Once the threshold is reached, the target becomes shocked, staggering them and leaving them vulnerable to follow-up strikes. This makes the Combat God's Plate Gloves one of the few pieces of equipment that provides a permanent elemental damage bonus without any setup.

Combat Tips

• Chain R1 for Showstopper: Do not interrupt your R1 combo early. Let the full chain play out to trigger the Showstopper AoE pulse at the end. This is your primary tool for crowd control.

• Stay aggressive for Relentless: The Relentless damage bonus rewards nonstop aggression. Dodge through enemy attacks rather than backing away so you can keep your hit chain going.

• Lightning stagger: The shock buildup from lightning affinity will stagger targets periodically. Use these stagger windows to reposition or start a fresh combo for maximum Relentless stacking.

• Boss fights: Against single-target bosses, the combination of Relentless ramping damage and lightning stagger makes these gloves excellent. Focus on learning the boss's attack windows and punish every opening with sustained R1 chains.

• Pair with mobility skills: Unarmed combat puts you at close range with no shield. Invest in dodge skills and movement abilities to stay alive while keeping your attack chains active.

Finding Kinetic Burst Separately

If you want a copy of Kinetic Burst as a standalone abyss gear (for use in other gloves or to keep while experimenting with the Combat God's Plate Gloves' second slot), it can be found in the Wanderer of Faith Leather Gloves. This item is located inside a chest within a waterfall cave southeast of Demeniss and north of Dlesia. Reaching the cave requires exploring off the beaten path, but the reward is worthwhile for anyone investing heavily in an unarmed build. You can extract the Kinetic Burst gear from the Wanderer of Faith Leather Gloves and socket it into other equipment as needed.

Frost Hail Synergy

While the Combat God's Plate Gloves already excel on their own, they can be taken further by pairing them with the Frost Hail abyss gear on a separate armor piece. Frost Hail causes icicles to rain down from above whenever you perform frost-imbued attacks, dealing additional AoE damage in the impact zone.

To obtain Frost Hail, you need to progress through two quest chains in Paloon. First, complete the full Paloon militia questline (which includes the Queen of the Skies encounter). After that, you unlock the Soul Shepherd quest for the Sogghorn Tribe. The second quest in this chain pits you against the White Horn boss. Defeating White Horn rewards the Frost Hail abyss gear.

When using Frost Hail alongside the Combat God's Plate Gloves, you can switch between lightning-imbued strikes and frost-imbued strikes depending on the situation. Lightning staggers targets quickly, while frost builds toward a full freeze. The icicle drops from Frost Hail add another layer of AoE on top of the Showstopper pulse, giving you strong crowd-clearing potential from multiple sources.

See Also

• Bonepit (the questline where these gloves are obtained)

• Muskan (the final boss of the Bonepit)

• Kinetic Burst / Showstopper (AoE abyss gear included with the gloves)

• Relentless (consecutive damage abyss gear included with the gloves)

• Frost Hail (complementary abyss gear from White Horn)

• Abyss Gear (overview of the socket system)

• Gloves (all gloves in Crimson Desert)

• Tommaso (the city where the Bonepit is located)

• Force Palm (key unarmed ability for boss stagger-locking)

• Martial Arts (skill tree that enables combo extensions)

• Unarmed Combat (fist fighting build guide)