Knighthood: How to Unlock and Farm Advanced Gauntlets

To unlock advanced gauntlets in Knighthood quickly, target specific daily gameplay milestones instead of relying solely on campaign progression. Progress for each gauntlet tracks cumulative actions viewable in the Knight profile menu, such as winning Arena matches, completing Shrine favors, or landing tens of thousands of basic punches.

Gauntlet Unlock Requirements and Synergies

Each unlockable gauntlet provides unique Rage-generation mechanics and damage multipliers tailored to specific weapon and hero archetypes.

Starting these grinds during early regions like Astellan prevents severe progression bottlenecks in later campaign realms like White Peak and the Realm of Fire.

How to Farm the Maverick Gauntlet

The Maverick Gauntlet is the most labor-intensive unlock due to its 50,000-punch threshold. Because regular combat ends encounters before you can land many strikes, you must create dedicated punch-farming setups:

1. Equip a weak weapon: Equip an un-upgraded, low-rarity weapon to minimize basic attack damage. This keeps target enemies alive across multiple combat rounds.
2. Select low-tier stages: Enter early Realm encounters, low-level Monster Caves, or cheap Roaming Monster fights.
3. Target self-healing enemies: Look for foes that cast regenerative spells, raise armor shields, or summon reinforcements, such as Goblin shamans and Cultist healers. Leave the healing enemy alive while punching them continuously each turn.
4. Turn off auto-combat: Manual control prevents the artificial intelligence from executing weapon strikes or hero powers that defeat the enemy prematurely.

Executing full four-hit punch combos every turn against healing targets generates hundreds of punches per encounter while minimizing stamina expenditure.

Accelerating the Holy, Champion's, and Dark Gauntlets

Unlike the Maverick Gauntlet, the remaining gauntlets progress through daily resource management.

Holy Gauntlet (Shrine of Heroes)

• Cycle short timers actively: Select two-hour and four-hour favors during active gaming sessions to maximize completions per day.
• Assign long timers overnight: Queue eight-hour and twelve-hour favors right before logging off.
• Maintain a broad hero roster: Favors require specific alignments and hero classes. Keep even unused, low-level heroes in your roster so dispatch slots never sit idle.

Champion's Gauntlet (PvP Arena)

• Spend Arena tickets on cooldown: Never let your ticket capacity sit capped.
• Target low-power opponents: Refresh matchmaking to find weaker defenders. Fast, guaranteed wins advance the victory counter much more reliably than risking ticket losses on difficult matchups.

Dark Gauntlet (Roaming Monsters)

• Farm early-game monsters: Target 10-stamina Roaming Monsters in Astellan and Highgard instead of expensive 30-stamina encounters in late realms. Every monster kill counts as one completion regardless of energy cost, cutting the required stamina investment significantly.

Upgrading Your Unlocked Gauntlets

Upgrading advanced gauntlets requires Cobalt, Manganese, and Gauntlet Cores. Because these materials are scarce, do not spread them across multiple gauntlets:

• Focus on a single gauntlet: Pick the gauntlet that directly boosts your primary hero build. For example, Mage-focused teams using heroes like Grimm or Vordrai gain maximum value from the Holy Gauntlet.
• Save cores for late-game builds: If you intend to run critical-hit engines in the Rift, conserve Gauntlet Cores specifically for the Maverick Gauntlet.
• Retire the starter gear: Stop spending upgrade materials on the default Knight's Gauntlet once you transition into the mid-game, as specialized gauntlets offer superior speed and damage scaling.