Thor's Gauntlets - Assassin's Creed Valhalla Guide - IGN (2024)

Thor's Armor Set is a rare and powerful bear-aligned set of armor that focuses on amplifying your crushing blows to increase the power of your stunning attacks, and bolstering your own defense.

The Thor's Armor Set is mostly a late-range armor set that is either guarded by powerful adversaries or hidden well. Three of the armor pieces - Thor's Gauntlets, Thor's Battle Plate, and Thor's Breeches - are held by the Daughters of Lerion, and a fourth - Thor's Helmet -only found by defeating them all.

How to Find the Thor's Gauntlets

Location: Berkelow Bog, East Anglia - On the southwest corner of East Anglia, head due west from the town of Grantebridge to find an arena festering with decay and strange ritual symbols, and you’ll find another corpse strung up here to investigate.

Combat Tips and Strategies: As with her sisters, Cordelia attacks with dual swords that can move fast and deal a ton of damage, whether light, heavy, or unblockable attack. Her power level is clocked in at 340, and can be extremely challenging no matter what your own level is. That said, it is possible to beat her at an earlier level (we’ve even done it at 120), but you likely won’t be able to withstand more than 1 or 2 direct attacks - so be warned.

You’ll want to have as many skills that benefit 1v1 fights as you can: Brush with Death is absolutely crucial, and Parry Damage and Adrenaline Fiend can help boost your damage. Last Chance Healing can help you survive in dire straits, and Grit can also be essential for getting back lost health, as there are only a few mushroom patches in this arena to use.

Cordelia will employ a mix of heavy and unblockable attacks that should hopefully be a bit familiar at this point, but can also quickly lash out with a light attack combo that can still hit hard, so never get too close when waiting to dodge or parry her next move. As with Regan, Cordelia can also parry if you attack too much, so watch her stance when you move in for an attack - preferably after you stagger her with a parry, or perform a perfect dodge to slow time thanks to Brush with Death. Stick with fast weapons like daggers and spears, but you may also want to consider a shield as well to help block her quick moves if parrying becomes difficult.

In particular, watch out for her leaping unblockable strikes, and be ready for the spinning or uppercut heavy hits that you can parry - some that come with a delayed second hit. Even a short quick light combo can sometimes follow up with a strong attack - or she may teleport behind you to wind up another big hit you’ll need to be ready to react to.

The most dangerous move in her arsenal by far is summoning her phantoms. Unlike Regan and Goneril, she will teleport some distance away and prepare to summon the shades. These will rapidly dash at you with almost no time to react, and even dodge rolling to the side may not save you all 3 phantoms. As they deal incredible damage, and can’t be blocked, they can easily kill you if you don’t react quick enough.

The trick here is to shut her down before she can begin to summon them. This means you’ll need to unleash an ability as soon as she teleports - preferably a move like Harpoon Impalement. This will stagger Cordelia before she can summon them, and you can yank her towards you to close the distance rapidly. Other moves like Dive of the Valkyries can also let you jump over the phantoms if you are close enough - but it needs to be an ability that will knock her off balance.

At around half her health, Cordelia will draw in power like her sisters before exploding the arena with electricity. As you might expect, the second half will be even tougher, but there is a way to deal with this new element.

Cordelia will now teleport to a corner of the arena and begin summoning a hail of thunderbolts to strike the ground at random spots, with a few chasing your latest location. As long as you keep moving and strafe around them, you can outpace them - and try to close the distance to hit her once to knock her out of her lightning phase. However, she’ll often drop into a parry stance right afterwards, so just hit her once and then back off.

While you can also shoot her from afar with arrows before she starts parrying them, you can also get in a free stun attack if you utilize the Focus of the Nornir to slow time. Use it right after you parry an attack and stagger Cordelia, dash behind her and shoot her in the back and it will clear her entire stun meter - though this only works once.

This fight may require a lot of patience, preparation, and practice. Be sure your weapons and armor are upgraded as much as you can, and increase your power to acquire more skills that may help you in this fight. If you seem to be unable to make any headway, try experimenting with different weapon or shield combinations, or abilities that may aid you better.

Upon defeating the last of the Daughters of Lerion, you'll be awarded with Thor's Gauntlets, and the final key - Cordelia's Dagger.

Thor's Armor Set Details

Looking to acquire the full Thor's armor set? Check out the full individual stats for each armor piece below, along with the set bonuses that you will receive for wearing either two or five pieces of the armor set.

• Armor Set Bonus (2/5): Increase Speed when stunning an enemy.
• Armor Set Bonus (5/5): Additional increase to Stun.

How to Find the Full Thor's Armor Set

Want to complete the full set? Click the links below to learn how to find every piece of Thor's Armor:

• Thor's Cloak
• Thor's Battle Plate
• Thor's Breeches
• Thor's Helmet