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Unarmed ghoul, worth giving up claws for riposte from Fencer's Gloves?

I dumped with # on CAO, but not sure how to link morgue. Character name is Osk.

Thanks!

It depends on UC skill. Basically any gloves are bad early game and ok late game.

Thanks! I'm around 19 (depending how many times I've used Apocalypse recently...), and it feels like I'm doing a bit better than without, so I'll plan on keeping them on.

Regular +2 gloves might be better, too.

To give more detail: Claws rank 1 adds 2 base damage to unarmed. Depending on your background let's say you start the game with 3 unarmed skill, you then have 3 (base) + 3 (skill) + 2 (claws), for a total of 8 damage with unarmed. It's then modified by fighting and strength, but we can leave that out for now. Later on in the game with 20 unarmed, you would have 3 + 20 + 2, or 25. This is why you can usually equip gloves later on, when the claws damage isn't a big a portion of your damage.

Getting 3 or 4 (with armor skill) ac from +2 gloves is decent enough to consider, and if you have a randart or ego gloves, is probably better than going without. Fencer's gloves were changed a lot recently so I'm not sure how often a ghoul would riposte (you probably have low EV), but they should still be fairly good gloves.