When it comes to dealing damage to your enemies, sometimes the equipment, stats, and other factors may affect how much damage you can deal to them.
If you want to maximize the amount of physical damage you can deal to enemies (Slashing, Piercing, and Bludgeoning), you may enjoy getting your hands on the Bonespike Gloves.
These Very Rare gloves can be useful for melee, ranged, and even characters that tend to switch between attacks as they allow you to ignore the resisting physical damage.
Bonespike Gloves Effects
Exoskeletal Reinforcement (Passive)
The Exoskeletal Reinforcement causes the attacks of whoever is wearing the Bonespike Gloves to ignore Resistance to Slashing, Piercing, and Bludgeoning damage.
This allows you to bypass the defense of your enemies and allow your melee and ranged attacks to deal even more damage to them.
How To Get Bonespike Gloves?
The Bonespike Gloves can be obtained by looting the body of Strangler Luke after you have killed him, which takes place in the Undercity Ruins.
Strangler Luke is one of the ambushers who will attack your part as you make your way through the Undercity Ruins and will attempt to push your party into the chasm if he gets the chance.
While fighting Strangler Luke may not be the toughest fight, you will need to watch out for the other enemies in the area as well as for Ghislev.
Keep in mind that when Ghislev is killed, all the other enemies and bodies will disappear, which makes it important to loot Strangler Luke before you kill Ghislev.
Strangler Luke Location
Strangler Luke will be at the end of the stairs that you take heading down right after your encounter with the 3 reapers on a ledge.
During the time that you are facing them, you will need to watch out for Farslayer of Bhaal Ghislev, you are performing a ritual that will kill anyone with 100 hit points or lower.
A good way to bypass this problem would be to have your characters defeat the first batch of enemies and leave combat, allowing your character to roam without taking turns.
Verdict
Being able to deal more damage to your enemies can be a huge bonus and a quick way to end fights early or gain an advantage in difficult fights.
Looting Strangler Luke before killing Ghislev is advisable as his body will disappear if Ghislev is killed, which will cause you to miss your chance to get the gloves.
Equipping the Bonespike Gloves on your main character or important damage dealer is advisable as this will help score high amounts of damage in fights.