Goliath gloves

Goliath gloves are a set of degradable tier 80 melee tank gloves with several passive effects that can be obtained in the Dominion Tower. They require 80 Attack and 80 Defence to wield; however, they also require a number of additional skills, as 6 specific quests (see below), 14 other quests involving Dominion Tower monsters, are required to unlock them.

While wearing these gloves, each auto-attack or basic ability has a 5% chance of:

• Dealing 25% more damage.
• Binding the target.
• Lowering the target's Attack, Strength, Ranged, and Defence by 7 levels (does not stack).

They also reduce incoming melee damage by 1–5%, with a 5% chance of reducing by 25%–50% instead.

When unarmed (no main-/off-hand weapon or shield), they act as a tier-75 fastest speed two-handed weapon, providing 1694 accuracy and 1080 damage. However, they do not provide access to abilities due to being unarmed. Because of this, it is recommended that the gloves be used without a weapon only in Legacy Mode.

Goliath gloves degrade to dust after 15,000 charges of combat; however, they only lose charges with each damaging hit taken (including typeless damage); hits you deal (abilities or otherwise) and blocked hits (shield hitsplats) do not drain charges. This makes them last longer than would normally be expected of an item with 15,000 charges.

Colours

Goliath gloves come in four colours, which are functionally identical. The gloves also all have an orange particle effect.

Goliath gloves (black)	Goliath gloves (red)	Goliath gloves (white)	Goliath gloves (yellow)

Obtaining

Total level: 1458
75	-	66
75	61	65
65	65	62
64	70	70
70	68	52
75	60	55
50	65	65
64	65	41
----	----	----
----	81	270
----	30	----

To unlock the option to receive goliath gloves as a reward item from the Strange face, players must meet a number of requirements:

• Defeat a total of 500 bosses in either Climber or Endurance matches. The victories do not have to be consecutive.
• Defeat the following bosses in the Tower at least once:

Boss	Quest
Nomad	Nomad's Requiem
Ayuni, Leeuni, and Eruni	Do No Evil
Two Dagannoth Sentinels	Blood Runs Deep
The Untouchable	Dream Mentor
Balance Elemental	While Guthix Sleeps
Ice Demon	Temple at Senntisten

The skill levels required to complete the above quests are detailed in the box to the right. These effectively function as additional requirements to obtain and use goliath gloves.

While a pair of goliath gloves cannot be repaired, it is possible to obtain multiple pairs from the strange face by earning another 25 boss kills in either Climber or Endurance matches; this earns an invisible "reward credit" that can be exchanged for a pair of goliath gloves, spellcaster gloves, swift gloves, or 500 dreadnips. The strange face stores up to 15 such "credits", after which they must be redeemed in order to earn more.

Update history

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• patch 27 January 2020 (Update):
  • Dominion Gloves no longer visually stall your movement when they activate.

patch 22 July 2019 (Update):

• • Dominion gloves now degrade by the correct amount when looted from the gravestone.

• ninja 11 September 2017 (Update):
  • Degraded Goliath gloves can now be combined together to restore charge.

• patch 7 November 2016 (Update):
  • Goliath gloves and spellcaster gloves no longer interrupt in PvP.

• patch 4 April 2016 (Update):
  • Killing harder bosses now awards more reward points for Dominion Gloves.
  • Dominion gloves now last 10 hours, up from 4.
  • The Dominion gloves stat-reducing effect no longer stacks.

• patch 8 February 2016 (Update):
  • Killing harder bosses now awards more reward points for Dominion gloves.
  • Dominion gloves now have 15,000 charges, up from 6,000. The degradation will now count down from 100%, instead of counting up from 0%.
  • The Dominion gloves stat-reducing effect no longer stacks.

• patch 1 December 2014 (Update):
  • Goliath gloves now have a base accuracy value of 1694, and are correctly counted as a two-handed weapon for the strength value.

• update 3 November 2014 (Update):
  • Dominion gloves have been restored to their former glory. They regained their passive special/stat drain effect in addition to the existing passive extended to all combat damage being reduced with a chance of larger reduction.
  • Goliath gloves once again function as a crush weapon when worn unarmed.

• patch 24 April 2012 (Update):.
  • The Dominion Tower glove degrade percentages are no longer backwards when checked anywhere between 1% to 99%.

• patch 11 April 2012 (Update):
  • Goliath gloves now tell players the degradation state in a percentage.

• patch 22 November 2011 (Update):
  • The Goliath gloves’ special attack no longer blinds the wielder.

Trivia

Goliath gloves drain and bind a player

• Prior to 3 November 2011, goliath gloves were unobtainable due to a bug that prevented Nomad from appearing in Climber or Endurance modes. The same patch that fixed this bug also allowed players to complete the "No More Nomad... No More!" special battle and have it count as the Nomad requirement for unlocking the gloves.
• Prior to the Evolution of Combat, these gloves functioned as a crush weapon with stats and speed similar to an abyssal whip. To use them as such, one had to un-equip any weapon they were holding and equip these in the gloves slot.
• During part of the Evolution of Combat beta, they were a two-handed crushing weapon with stats similar to a chaotic maul. At this point, the gloves actually went in the weapon slot, and other gloves could be worn underneath, but were not visible.
• After the release of the Evolution of Combat, the gloves were given a passive effect, which reflected some of the ranged damage the wearer took.
• To counter the gloves' restoration on 3 November 2014, each reward credit now requires 25 boss kills instead of 5 (and dreadnips were given in sets of 500 instead of 100).
• On 9 April 2018, the level 110 requirement to participate in the dominion tower was removed therefore allowing them to be obtained at a much lower combat level.