Goliath gloves

Goliath gloves are a set of degradable gloves that require 80 attack to wear and were released with the Dominion Tower on November 1 2011. These gloves will never stack in your bank, not even when they have the same colour and degradation. These gloves are amongst the most powerful gloves in the game for melee, surpassing the Culinaromancer's gloves 10 obtained from Recipe for Disaster by two attack points in every attack style except ranged and magic, for a total of 14, as well as one more strength point for a total of 13. On top of this, they also beat the Dragon Gauntlets obtained from Fist of Guthix in defensive boost on all stats except Summoning and Ranged Defence and the Battle-mage gloves except Magic defence.

Goliath Gloves are obtained from the Dominion Tower activity, which requires a minimum of 110 combat level and several quests to access. Within the Dominion Tower players will be required to accomplish several achievements in order to obtain the gloves. They are as follows After the above prerequisites have been met, players will be able to claim a pair of gloves from the Strange face. Players may only own three pairs of gloves at a time, and the gloves last 4 hours of combat before they crumble to dust. They did last 6 hours but have been reduced after the new update. Players must speak to the Strange face in order to retrieve another pair. The Strange Face will keep extra pairs for players for every 5 bosses they kill in the Dominion Tower, up to 15 pairs or sets of dreadnips.
 * Defeat a total of 500 Boss Monsters (they do not have to be consecutive)
 * In addition, the following monsters must have been killed at least once in the tower:

When receiving the gloves players are given the option of four different colours: Red, Yellow, Black, and White. These gloves are especially unique in that they provide several combat bonuses when players are NOT wielding a weapon; however, the gloves do permit the use of an offhand item, such as a Dragon Defender or Dragonfire Shield and still retain the bonuses. While 'unarmed' the gloves provide a substantial boost to a player's damage; without any other equipped weapons or armour, the strength boost of goliath gloves alone is equivalent to that of an Abyssal whip (+82, and can be stacked on top of the current strength bonus of equipment). The gloves use a crush-based attack style, making it a very good alternative for other strong crush weapons, like Godswords or Chaotic mauls - this makes it especially effective for killing creatures such as Waterfiends and Skeletal wyverns. Along with the strength boost the gloves have a special effect. Randomly the gloves will hit for a typeless hit (cannot pray against it) and hold the opponent for about 10 seconds and lower the enemy's attack, defence, strength, ranged, and magic stats by 7. If in a multicombat area, every opponent in about a 5 square radius will also be frozen for 10 seconds. In addition, the gloves have a unique attacking animation.

Trivia

 * There was a glitch where the gloves were unobtainable due to Nomad not appearing in Endurance or Climber mode. This has since been fixed as of November 3, 2011.
 * This hotfix also allowed the special Nomad fight "No More Nomad... No More!" to count as defeating Nomad, previously not counting. Players who completed the special fight before the fix had to re-do it for it to count. Note that killing the first Nomad and dying on the second will NOT count.
 * There used to be a glitch when fighting unarmed with the gloves in a multi-combat, PvP area that causes yourself (and opponents) to be stunned when the special attack activates. It is meant to only stun opponents. This has been fixed.
 * The gloves' stun attack damage doesn't stack with the bonus damage from the ferocious ring inside Kuradal's dungeon. This is not a glitch because the ring is only intended to work with melee, ranged, or magic damage, and the stun attack is typeless. Likewise, Soul Split has no effect on the random stun attack either because, like the ring, Soul Split is only intended to work with melee, ranged, or magic damage.
 * Although the player normally attacks with a weapon in the right hand, when using accurate or defensive style with no weapon the player punches with their left hand. The random stun attack is also hit with the left hand.
 * The examine "Eat my mighty fists!" is possibly a reference to Futurama, an animated series.
 * There is currently a glitch with the goliath gloves, when equipping a weapon that has a special attack with the goliath gloves on, there is a chance the special attack will activate already without turning the special on. This has not been fixed since the release of the gloves.
 * When worn, the players' hands appear to be closed fists, rather than just stumps. These, along with Spellcaster and Swift gloves, are the only gloves that do this.
 * If the gloves' stun attack occurs on the first hit against a monster, it will not register as your hit, allowing other players to steal your monster in single combat zones.
 * They are valued 25k on the items kept on death interface.