Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Help Tips & Tricks Stats increases from items, how does it work?

Hi there, first i will show some items that could lead to spoilers, so i will hide images just in case, items are before ACT 2.

I have a question regarding stats + a particular item, (Gloves of dexterity), as i really don't know works.



Image is from internet so it is translated.

What a i did after such item is to set my dex to the min value 8, an wear the item.


Then i got another armor,

The point of the topic, both gloves and the armor don't stack, i don't understand why, the gloves says "raise", the armour says "raise your score", so they should add? or they only raise your base's attribue? Being 8 up to 18 and, 8+2 ?

Another example should be, if you have a Head that add +2 Str and Gloves that adds +1 str, your total is not +3 but +2, because it only counts the head as is the one that adds more?

I mean, maybe is not a bug, and this is WAI, i just need to understand the reason behind it, so i can play better!

Thanks!

No these things generally don't stack.

The difference between the gloves and the armour is this:

The gloves raise the DEX to 20 - so as you discovered if your DEX is only 8 it will bump to 20.
The armour only raises DEX by 2 - so your 8 DEX would have only gone up to 10. The '20' part is the max - so if your DEX was naturally 20 (without any equipment) the armour would not raise it any further.

thanks mate!