Mastercrafted Ursine Gauntlets

Mastercrafted Ursine Gauntlets are the top-level hand armor of the Bear School gear, the strongest of the base game’s four levels (basic, enhanced, superior and mastercrafted). They are heavy armor built for a tanky build that takes hits and fights back, and their headline bonus is +10% Adrenaline Point gain.

They are the component needed to craft the grandmaster version in the Blood and Wine expansion, the Grandmaster Ursine Gauntlets. Compared with the Superior Ursine Gauntlets the armor rating goes from 65 to 73. The rest of the mastercrafted set: armor, trousers, boots.

Stats & effects

+10% Adrenaline Point gain
+5% Resistance to piercing damage
+5% Resistance to slashing damage
+3% Resistance to damage from monsters
+5% Resistance to elemental damage

Dismantle result

1-6 × Leather scraps
1-2 × Dark iron ore
1 × Steel ingot
1 × Meteorite ore

Crafting materials

1 × Superior Ursine gauntlets
6 × Leather scraps
1 × Dark steel ingot
1 × Meteorite ore
4 × Monster tooth

How to obtain

Craft

Crafted by a master armorer once you have the mastercrafted Ursine gauntlets diagram. The recipe consumes the Superior Ursine Gauntlets, so craft them first. Requires character level 34.

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Diagram location

All four Mastercrafted Ursine armor diagrams lie at the Destroyed Bastion south of Bald Mountain in Velen, in a gap by the southern wall of the tower. A cyclops guards the ruins, though you can sneak around it.

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