UAC Gloves - Damage or Crit Weighting

[kutter]

I would say it is entirely dependent on the build. My warmage has 7X somewhat crit padded handwraps and 6X light padded footwraps with vacuum flares. He really only uses hand attacks for tier up and spams kicks with celerity. He was running the arena in 3-3 1/2 minutes, with perfects about 85-90%. he occasionally got caught by a maneuver, but that is just bad luck and the fact the pures suck at maneuver defense. That being said, I have to agree that the vacuum flares work pretty darn well and if I have the chance I would add flares of some type to my handwraps as well, probably fire since he is in sunfist unless I could score a really rare type flare.

[Mobius1]

One thing to keep in mind about grapple, is if you just want to prone them, aiming for the abdomen is your best bet - It causes the target to sit with a measly rank 2 crit. The next best is legs (if abdomen is too high) which need a rank 3 to prone them.

But if you aren't trying to aim, it doesn't really matter.