Electrified Yao Guai fist/Fist of Rawr

[WeissYohji]

She's Embrace and the Fist of Rawr have been my go-to unarmed weapons for the longest time, but lately I'd like electrified versions of them. Solution? Take these weapons as a base, add the capacitors from the protonic axes (one set of capacitors for each claw), and make the claws glow just like the protonic axe's blade. Put the capacitors on the backs of the hands and add the arm plates from Arcade's Tesla armor for both gauntlets, held together with the medical braces/screws from the original weapons. So we'll need assets from Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, and Lonesome Road for these bad boys.

 

Item weights: 4 "pounds" heaver than the original SE and FoR, to account for the electronic components (reduced accordingly with the appropriate weight perks).

 

Damage per attack and DPS: 35 damage/attack, 55 DPS for the Yao Guai glove; 60 damage/attack and 105 DPS for the protonic FoR. Keep the Deathclaw gauntlet's damage bonuses the same as FoR but add EMP damage against power armor and robots for both gauntlets.

 

Location: That home of all weapon and armor mods, Doc Mitchell's house. Make them available for purchase from anyone selling GRA items and the Sink CIU. Lobotomites and White Legs could even carry them from level 25 on.

 

Craftable: Yes, make them so. I think 1 YG fist or Deathclaw hand, 1 conductor, 1 fission battery and 1 scrap electronics should do it. Require 30 Science for a little balance.

 

Repair: With unarmed weapons.

 

Value: About 20% more than a power fist for the YG version and 30% more than FoR for the Deathclaw version. Not too expensive for the former (at least), yet either can get you through the game if you're playing an unarmed-specced character.

 

Durability: Give both items 30% more item HP than their vanilla counterparts because of the power armor forearm guards.

 

Perks: Give both the full suite of unarmed/melee perk benefits, Super Slam and all.

 

Holdout weapons: Make them improved holdouts.

 

If anyone can cobble this together in Blender/NifSkope/GECK, that'd be appreciated. The Yao Guai glove alone would be awesome for role-playing as a Sorrow (which my last playthrough was, via a race mod). I think both this and the Deathclaw gauntlet would be pure upgrades over SE and FoR thanks to the EMP damage and glowing claws.

 

ADDENDUM: Not only should these weapons glow like the protonic axes, but they should also be usable with poisons just like the Shishkebab/Gehenna. EMP damage AND poison on a robot, Brotherhood Paladin, or NCR heavy trooper? Yes, please!

 

ADDENDUM II: Just had an idea for making this part of a side quest in Honest Hearts where a New Canaanite NPC could spawn in the Sorrows camp and give you a schematic for the EMP Yao Guai fist after doing Rite of Passage. Pass a Science or Unarmed check of 40 to get it. Same with the EMP Deathclaw gauntlet; after getting the FoR during Lonesome Road, you should find a schematic in the footlocker near the Canyon Wreckage upon returning to the Mojave.

Edited January 22, 2019 by WeissYohji