Did anybody else do this?

[nub]

Since I found the gauntlet of strength, I was thinking of restarting a class and putting less points into strength and putting it on to CON or DEX.

[Exarch_Alpha]

Which difficulty are you on?

[nub]

Normal

[nub]

You know what, I think doing that won't increase the carrying capacity.

[yahboi1988]

Min/Max wise you should still do it if you intend to use them. They will increase your STR beyond the 20 cap that you can reach naturally making your Barbarian, Monk, or Fighter much stronger and more accurate.

[Hawke]

Yes. There are also 18 Dex gloves available mid-game (at the Creche).

[Zeel Ara]

Just respec at Withers.

[AnonymousWizard]

5e is honestly heavily biased towards DEX builds for warriors even without magic items, it's half the reason inventory juggling is a pain in BG3. Guantlets of Ogre Strength and the like just make it even more ridiculous, you could put them on a Paladin or Barbarian and have wasted all the stat points you invested into STR, or put them on a class that doesn't use strength and get at minimum increased Athletics (resist shoves!) and carrying capacity. DEX based warriors are laughing, they'll have the same attack rolls as STR based ones but have higher initiative and DEX saves (one of the three major ones, whereas STR is a relatively rare save).

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by AnonymousWizard:

5e is honestly heavily biased towards DEX builds for warriors even without magic items, it's half the reason inventory juggling is a pain in BG3. Guantlets of Ogre Strength and the like just make it even more ridiculous, you could put them on a Paladin or Barbarian and have wasted all the stat points you invested into STR, or put them on a class that doesn't use strength and get at minimum increased Athletics (resist shoves!) and carrying capacity. DEX based warriors are laughing, they'll have the same attack rolls as STR based ones but have higher initiative and DEX saves (one of the three major ones, whereas STR is a relatively rare save).

One one hand this is Divinity Original Sin so you need more strength to throw people and barrels around, but on the other hand you can just farm potions of x giant strength at various points in the game, so strength is still ultimately pointless unless you're speedrunning

[AokiYakumo]

Originally posted by nub:

Since I found the gauntlet of strength, I was thinking of restarting a class and putting less points into strength and putting it on to CON or DEX.

It only costs 100gp to do so, so it's typically seen as good to adjust your points to go to other stats if it means you can have an EK with 23 STR and 20 INT, or a BRB with 20 DEX and 23 STR/CON, etc.

Whether you want to do that or not is ultimately your choice. You'll still get a benefit from the gloves even if your character had a 20 STR at the time of gaining the gloves.

That said, you'll want to compare this to the other glove options to see if they are an equal or greater benefit, and to be honest, gloves are HOT commodity items for builds between Luminous Gloves, Soulcatching Gloves, Sparkle Hands, Helldusk Gloves, Winter's Clutches, Gloves of Thievery, Bonespike Gloves, etc.

There's a non-zero chance that the Giant Strength gloves might not be as much of a stat increase as you might think, if it means giving up attack advantage, or the Frost mechanics on a cold build, or bonus damage, or SoH advantage for lockpicking/pickpocketing, etc.

Ultimately, the answer to this question is ultimately a personal one that only you can really answer. I can only give considerations and recommendations.