Steel Knuckles  

 

These are a basic Fine Steel H2H weapon - note the ratio, similar to a Fine Steel Dagger.

However, for some reason this particular item cannot be smelted down to ore in a forge. This thing is vendor bait like all FS.

Seems to me that these are the new Thulian claws, except for H2H rather than slash. I'm sure some people remember all the claws that used to go from twink to twink to raise their 1hs skills as fast as possible while powering.

They were worth a bit way back when, then dropped off in value. Went up again when tumpies were around. These, with such a low delay and low damage seem (to me at least) fall into the same catagory, and will most likely be used to raise skills fast when they fall behind.

Grunter Tonedeth
Level 53 minstrel Officer
<Jesters of Fate>
The Rathe

Also, anyone bother to check the H2H skill cap for Beastlords? The one place I found it says cap at 100. Such big hoopla about BST and H2H, and after level 19, your skill will be maxxed and pretty much useless against anything blue at level 25+ with a combat skill of 100. Get yourself a good 1hb or piercer and save your money on these H2H weapons if you plan on getting past level 25 alive and well. They're nice if ya want to show em off, but not particularly worth the expense or effort just to become ineffective shortly after you obtain it.

Yo, Verant. Your consistency sucks.

Brass Knuckles are 1HB, 10/38 dam/del, Wt 0, and magic.

Steel Knuckles are H2H, 3/10 dam/del, Wt 0 and not magic.

Since when is a pair of steel knuckles supposed to be better than a pair of brass ones?

Suggested Correction:

Change the Brass Knuckles to H2H.

Change the Steel Knuckles to Magic, and raise damage to 10, and make them drop off the cyclops in South Karana and equivalent level mobs in Infected Paw.

Zinj

The Splitpaw Gnolls drop this. I got one off of one of the outside Gnolls at the spires.

At first glance, they don't appear to be very good. However, the delay is quite a bit lower than what h2h normally is (not counting h2h with monk epic). Hand to hand is also one of the more difficult melee skills to get up (partly due to it's delay), so these could be very "handy" for helping raise h2h.

Sunnie
52 druid, Prexus

Stephania
44 monk, Prexus

... boy, I sure hope these sell well, like fine steel or something, because I cannot honestly see *too* many people using these. Maybe an Ogre Beastlord who doesn't care about doing decent amounts of damage?