So these are my thoughts, I wondered if anyone else felt this way. I'd like to be able to put damage enchantments on gauntlets, aswell as I think Kahjiits should be able to apply poison to their claws. What would y'all like to see them do to make unarmed something useful considering they more than likely won't add more skill trees.

By damage enchantments on gauntlets do you mean like fire/frost/shock damage because we can already add damage enchantments to unarmed on both gauntlets and rings with the Gloves of the Pugilist.

Poisoned Kahjiit claws definitively sounds like an awesome idea though.

Yeah basically use any enchantment you could normally use on a weapon for gauntlets, I think the highest one could get unarmed damage with the fortify unarmed damage is about 40 or so, that is fairly useless unless you're lower level, Deathlords and such won't even notice it.

You could always use the restoration potion glitch to make the unarmed damage higher. On one character I have those boneclaw rings from Dawnguard enchanted with +150 unarmed damage. Playing on Expert/Master this is almost the perfect amount of damage, maybe slightly too much but definitively not overpowered.

But yeah, I like your idea with the elemental enchantments. Flaming fists would be interesting.