Are weapons the best part of a bruiser?

[ilik]

<DIV>WAs just wondering because seems like every post talks about using a mace or something. Wanted to know because I'm a brawler and am going to be picking soon whether to betray or not. How about fists, how do they do with those?</DIV>

[Laha]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> ilike7 wrote:<BR> <DIV>WAs just wondering because seems like every post talks about using a mace or something. Wanted to know because I'm a brawler and am going to be picking soon whether to betray or not. How about fists, how do they do with those?</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I use fistwraps myself, I like em.  I think its a matter of preferance to everyone.  However some mobs are immune to certain kinds of damage.

[Colossaltitan]

If your talking about fists, as in fighting completly barehanded. It is cool, and you do okay damage, but not as much as you'd be doing with 2 rare weapons or a good 2hander.  Also, Barehanded fighting cannot hit names, epics, etc. Will light up "Immune."

[ilik]

<DIV>Yes that'd be nice to have those weapons but I'm talking fistwraps or maybe gloves of some sort(sorry don't know much about weapons you can get with a bruiser <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> ) are those any good compared to two handed weapons or anything? If so please list some that I can get from quests or just hunting, both fist weapons and swords etc.</DIV>

[Turb]

One thing that is a shame though is there seems to be no Hertiage Quest weapons for bruisers/monks. Yes, there's armour pieces and activatables, but stuff like PGT, BBC, Ghoulbane, SBH etc all looks nice on the wall but I want something I can use <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[StoneySilen]

<P>There are a few spells that we have that do less damage if ANYTHING occupies our weapon slots (according to spell info, not verfied).  But I still find it better to take the lesser damage from those few rare spells then not have my two 15.2dps weapons equipped.  I really think they need to fix bruisers and make it so we can do barehanded as good damage as a good weapon for our level.  Maybe not as good as a Legendary/Fabled weapon but better then most other things.  Or change it so fistwraps don't count as weapons being equipped.  I mean who wants cruddy barehanded damage when you can equip a weapon and do much better?  Same problem in EQ1 which they never fixed.</P> <P>FYI my bruiser is 32.</P>

[Turb]

There are a couple of other threads suggesting weaponless dps with offensive stance is better, but they may have Master versions and not be fighting targets immune to bare fist damage.

[Quicksilver74]

<DIV>I have never hit a T6 named epic mob with Bare fists, however I can hit weaker wpic mobs bare fisted, such as the Epicx2 mobs in Clefts of Rujark.  I have parsed many times, and my barehanded dps is significantly less than when duel wielding.... though I have about 7 different fabled weapons, including 2 Tier 6 Fabled duel wielders.  </DIV>