Greeting my name is Gryptor and i am new to this server.
i am writing this because i just felt like it.
Before coming to this server i played Pathfinder second edition (well i am still technically playing).
in Pathfinder there exist the class called the Monk. the expert to hand to hand combat.
i fell in love with the class and the idea of instead of crushing your enemies with weapons. You would punch them to death instead.
So when i came to LotC. I thought i would bring some of that mentality with me.
Sadly LotC world isn't that kind Fist combat. It's only pretty much used in tavern brawls and when you are attacked when you don't have a your weapon close by.
So if you would want to use your fists in a combat situation willingly. It most likely will lead to your death.
So my biggest wish would be able to bring Fist to War and be viable and this technically could be possible.
Because weapons like knuckle dusters exists.
Okay i am gonna take lot of inspiration from Final fantasy 14 monk weapon design to my points of Fist weapons.
Knuckle dusters, Gauntlets and Cestus weapons
knuckle dusters are simple to understand its something you put between your finger. It can have spikes and metal nails attached to it.
They can be made of bone, wood and metal. Materials that all exist in LotC. Knuckle dusters aren't sadly weapon you would bring to war.
They give your fists little bit of oomph on other combat situations.
Wooden knuckle duster
Gauntlets that are designed to to hurt people do exist. These are mostly made of metal and given little metal bumps or spikes in the knuckle area of the hand.
Where gauntlets shine is the fact to can grab objects while using them and the protection they give to users hands. I could see someone using weaponized gauntlets in combat.
Fists of Sepiroth
Cestus weapons can be a leather or cloth gloves. That have been a fitted with spikes glass shards or just with pointy rocks.
there is also the other version of cestus instead of a gloves. They are more of ring of bone wood and metal that can be made to to have arm guard and spikes like in the Baldur claws picture.
or it can be just a ring like in Bone Hora picture There exists even cestuses with blades, but those fall more in to the sword type in my opinion.
Cestus weapons are very versatile in their design so you can get creative with them.
Bone Hora
Baldur claws Fingerless Cestus glove
But if not punching your opponents doesn't work for you can always make your gloves, gauntlets and Cestus to resemble animal claws.
This allows the fist fighter cause more slashing damage. Instead of blunt head trauma and broken bones, but i think blunt damage works better against armor than tiny claws on gauntlets can.
So it limits claws viability a lot. The fighter would have aim at the points without armor to make it work.
Kaiser Knuckles
that brings me to the problem with fist weapons. you need to be trained at hand to hand combat to be even viable in fist versus a real weapon situation.
So it would be rare that someone actually would use fist weapons.
Sadly most of the points i am making about fist weapons and the skill necessary to use them will probably never make it to LotC.
because Minecraft never had any fist weapon in the first place and the team behind Lotc are probably satisfied with the games combat already. (and they will never read this post most likely.)
Well i guess i can always dream and there exist rp combat. So i will get my fix there.
So i bid all of you goodbye.
all the Final Fantasy 14 weapon pics can be found through this link: https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Monk_Weapon
and i found the rest in Google picture search.
