I havn't played in a while...but I remember it was bugged, and only took the base value of the gauntlets, not counting smithing upgrades or heavy-armor perks.

Does it now take the full perked value?

I think it does now, but is still not as good as a weapon.

PSHAWW, I want to be an unarmed bad-ass viking like Robbaz.

the enchnatment for additonal hand to hand damage like you find on the puegelists gloves was supposedly borked. was that fixed as well cause id like to try out a magic monk character.

anyone try yet and is certain?

It's so much fun, that's what I'm doing right now and it's fantastic.

well just tried it with 100 armor gloves, most certainly isn't working yet