Steel Plate Gauntlets
Skyrim Armor
The Steel Plate Gauntlets are heavy steel plate armor in Skyrim, worn on the hands, with a base armor rating of 14. They are part of the Steelplate Set. Their rating scales with the Heavy Armor skill and with tempering at a workbench. In Survival Mode they provide 13 warmth.
They can take 15 enchantments at an arcane enchanter, and are found pre-enchanted in 15 variants. They are boosted by 6 perks.
Steel Plate Gauntlets Builds
Jump into the character build planner with this piece already equipped, tempered and skilled as you set it here, then build perks and the rest of your loadout around it.
Create a build with Steel Plate GauntletsStats
Enchantments
Enchanted Variants
Boosted by
Heavy Armor weighs nothing and doesn't slow you down when worn.
Unarmed attacks with Heavy Armor gauntlets do extra damage equal to their armor rating.
Increases armor rating for Heavy Armor by 20%.
Additional 25% Armor bonus if wearing a matched set of Heavy Armor.
50% less stagger when wearing only Heavy Armor.
Can create Scaled and Plate armor at forges, and improve them twice as much.
Steelplate Set
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Your Wards are 25% less effective, but absorb 50% of the Magicka from incoming spells.