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{{flavour|A pair of gloves made of white silk. They greatly enhance their wearer's skill with blades.}}
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{{flavour|A pair of gloves made of white silk. They have a natural affinity with the riposte, allowing their wielder to retaliate against some missed attacks with any weapon, or to retaliate against all attacks when using a long blade.}}
 
[[File:Fencer's_gloves.png]] '''''the +2 pair of fencer's gloves'''''
 
[[File:Fencer's_gloves.png]] '''''the +2 pair of fencer's gloves'''''
  
 
+2 [[gloves]]
 
+2 [[gloves]]
  
+3 [[EV]]<br>
 
 
+6 [[dexterity]]<br>
 
+6 [[dexterity]]<br>
[[Long Blades|LBl]]+4 [[Short Blades|SBl]]+4
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Allows [[riposte]] <br>
  
 
==Desirability==
 
==Desirability==
The distinguishing feature of the '''fencer's gloves''' is the short/long blade skill boost. But even if you can't take advantage of that, the bonuses to both dexterity and EV make you significantly harder to hit.
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Thirty-three percent chance of a free hit with any [[melee weapon]] when a monster misses is quite novel, especially with highly enchanted or vampiric weapons. On the other hand, monster miss chance largely depends on [[SH]] and [[EV]], so high-EV characters will find themselves landing free hits often while heavily armoured and/or shield-proficient characters will find that the riposte triggering very infrequently.
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
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Prior to [[0.19]], Fencer's gloves gave +4 boosts to [[Long Blades]] and [[Short Blades]] skills and increased [[EV]] by 3.
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Prior to [[0.17]], these gloves gave +2 [[slaying]] instead of the skill bonuses.
 
Prior to [[0.17]], these gloves gave +2 [[slaying]] instead of the skill bonuses.
  

Revision as of 01:45, 22 November 2016

Version 0.19: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.
A pair of gloves made of white silk. They have a natural affinity with the riposte, allowing their wielder to retaliate against some missed attacks with any weapon, or to retaliate against all attacks when using a long blade.

Fencer's gloves.png the +2 pair of fencer's gloves

+2 gloves

+6 dexterity
Allows riposte

Desirability

Thirty-three percent chance of a free hit with any melee weapon when a monster misses is quite novel, especially with highly enchanted or vampiric weapons. On the other hand, monster miss chance largely depends on SH and EV, so high-EV characters will find themselves landing free hits often while heavily armoured and/or shield-proficient characters will find that the riposte triggering very infrequently.

History

Prior to 0.19, Fencer's gloves gave +4 boosts to Long Blades and Short Blades skills and increased EV by 3.

Prior to 0.17, these gloves gave +2 slaying instead of the skill bonuses.

Prior to 0.15, these gloves gave only +3 to dexterity, and added +8 to accuracy rather than +2 slaying.