ok not a bad idea but too wide of a range of statuses and you need 4* ideas and 5* ideas to link to the 3* ideas

Now that we have sci- ideas, not that other thing, we may begin refining. I assume by "gloves" you mean a pair, meaning you have a glove on each hand.

Punch Gloves (2*):
A two-jab basic attack, feasible. An aura for the charge attack seems sudden for a 2* weapon, not to mention unnecessary. Everything else seems fine.

Clobber Gloves (3*):
Instead of the second basic attack being an uppercut, what if it is a swing with a larger area of effect than the basic attack? This line seems to be more fitting for a blunt boxer who takes wide swings and gives solid jabs to knock the air out of the opponent. Give the second attack some stun if you decide to change it to a swing rather than an uppercut. I like the charge as a jumping punch, but you seem to have a minor obsession with auras. Save that for the 5* or it loses the valor of maxing out the weapon. I may not be a veteran boxer but I do not know what a forward uppercut is; do you run up to them and uppercut? I definitely like the idea of iron plated boxing gloves to deliver crushing hits to inflict stun, but uppercuts are for swift hands.

Smasher Gloves (4*):
To prevent office suicides, do not change the basic attack for a weapon line. It causes unnecessary complication. Keep in mind this weapon is metal plated, therefore heavy; uppercuts are difficult with heavy gloves. Punch was two jabs, Clobber could be a jab and swing, Smasher can be two swings; the swings being slower than jabs. We can make a swifter line branching from Punch for uppercuts without metal plating on it to slow the user. For the charge attack, it seems more fitting to be a jumping punch which stuns enemies near where you land; you jump and smash the floor.

Earthquake Gloves (5*):
Uppercutting with gloves this heavily adorned, even once, would be taxing for the user. Look at your picture, can you imagine uppercutting three times with that? I recommend changing it to two swings, both with a chance to inflict stun and knockdown the enemy; obviously this type of weapon would have a fairly small area of effect and slower swings than the standard three hit swords (Calibur, Brandish). I like the charge attack for this one.

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This one seems more of a one handed weapon.

Handrill (2*):
I like the normal attack for this, but the description and charge provoke questions: if this weapon is meant for mining minerals, why does it not have a three hit combo? Also, the charge attack seems strange for a hand drill. It would be more fitting for the drill to, as it seems to be able to do, "drill" for rapid damage where the charge is released, similar to Blitz Needle without the bullets.

Spiral Drill (3*):
Normally items with "Spiral" in the name are 2*, but drills "spiral" in use. Again, jumping with this seems incorrect. The rest seems fine.

Spiral Dual Drill (4*):
Again, keep the basic attack the same amount of hits and make the charge more fitting. Instead of having the first two be small lunges and a third farther, make the first attack a small lunge and the second attack larger.

Devastator Drill (5*):
This is where it gets a little more complicated. Again, the basic attack should stay the same for consistency. The charge attack is feasible, but the projectiles need a little more detail. Perhaps you can mimic the Divine Avenger charge but instead of three swords make it two drills of similar size.

Back to Punch, it can branch into a less armored series specializing in quick jabs and uppercuts for those who prefer speed over blunt attacks, similar to the difference between two-hit swords (Sealed and Troika series) and foil/rapier swords (Flourish and Snarble Barb series). Handrill and Punch are fine as separate lines.

I have been playing Wakfu too much recently, lunging and jumping melted together.
Yes, lunging, not jumping.

For the lighter series you can make wrist wraps, maybe give the 5* a chance to inflict fire to emphasize the pure offensive use.

Well now that we've got stuff to work with, this idea seems a little more feasible. I think my biggest beef at the moment is the fact that different pieces of armor have different hand types, so these things would have to either fit extremely well on a particular armor style or not fit any armor particularly well. The reason existing weapons work fairly well with armor is because they go on the inside of the palm, which is a relatively standardized area. I think the Chromalisk line of armor is actually a little weird in that it doesn't exactly have hands like other armors. You can see claws, but there aren't actually fingers that grasp your weapons (I think).

With the lightweight gloves I was thinking of the skills in the air branch for Iop in Wakfu, single target rapid hits. Giving it area of effect would make it overpowered. In Wakfu Iop has air, fire and earth branches; due to the different game mechanics the only way I can explain it in terms of Spiral Knights is air branch focuses on single targets while the other two have area of effect damage.

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Light Glove (2*):
I like everything except the knockback of the charge attack; it can instead knock them down.

Feather Light Glove (3*):
In the description it makes little sense for this weapon to have less material than the previous rank. It can be adorned with feathers for swifter movement. Again, the charge attack should knock enemies down rather than back. Change the explosion from the basic attack to only activate on the charge attack, it can mimic the Brandish line; keep it to one explosion.

Swift Glove (4*):
Same as the previous; replace charge knockback with knockdown, one explosion for the charge, no explosion for normal attacks. These are gloves, not rocket powered hammers.

Striker Glove (5*):
Same as the previous, but add fire to the charge attack and/or the regular attacks; these gloves jab so fast they can burn the target. Imagine this with +6 speed, flying around poke-burning everything. It would be gloriously silly.

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Before beginning this line I have one aspect to address: do not give this kind of weapon curse. There is a reason the only weapon with a chance to inflict curse is a slow sword with a horrible charge attack. It can stay shadow damage, but take off the curse; otherwise it is overpowered.

To keep with the theme of boxing gloves, I was hoping this would be a "suckerpunch" sort of line; I am going to borrow from Wakfu again. Sram has a skill named Guile which allows you to teleport on the other side of an enemy, as long as you are within range to initiate this attack, and lightly kick them. This attack has been heavily nerfed to be only usable for movement and has horrible damage penalties. To mimic this, keep the four hit combo for the line but change the third swing to a teleport or slide to mimic the rocket hammers. The charge attack can teleport a short distance, assuming something is in front of you, and deliver a suckerpunch to their back; since this weapon does shadow damage it will be fairly poor against Trojans to prevent severe abuse.

Dark Gloves (2*):
See the paragraph above.

Shadow Gloves (3*):
If this weapon can curse teammates it will only be used for trolling; see above paragraph.

Cursed Gloves (4*):
At this point the charge attack can gain a kick to slightly push the target to where you were just standing before teleporting behind them; see above paragraph.

Cursed Striker (5*):
At this point the charge deserves a special animation effect; the charge can still teleport behind and give a kick, though before doing so the knight has a holographic purple skull covering them which bumps enemies near where you teleport away.

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The shadow line names can be changed if you make it suckerpunch instead of curse. Other than that I look forward to contributing to this further.

EDIT: For the shadow glove line the 5* looks more suiting as the 3* or 4* while the 4* seems to better suit as the 5* image.

EDIT 2: I assume these gloves are imitating boxing gloves, therefore boxing techniques; swings, jabs (piercing and rapid), and suckerpunch (if you change it). All I can imagine for beyond that would be grappling techniques, but that would make the combat too similar to Karok in Vindictus.

I believe I asked for the lightweight line to branch out of the stun line when upgrading to 3*, removing the need for 2* in the lightweight line. Consider changing the names for the shadow line to keep it different from the other lines. For the Earthquake line it would seem more fitting for the spikes to be shorter to emphasize the blunt crushing force. The descriptions for most of these could use some work but we can do that after all the mechanics are set.

I think my biggest beef at the moment is the fact that different pieces of armor have different hand types, so these things would have to either fit extremely well on a particular armor style or not fit any armor particularly well.
@Schattentag: Unless of course they make oversized claws/gauntlets; possible but it'd just look plain silly. Like holding a Suda in one hand; though I'm not gonna debate that.

@OP: I was quite interested in the weapon having a 5-hit normal attack combo, save for a few things;
1. Your weapon suggestions are pretty much an amalgamation of a Cutter and Troika, save for new attack animations. While I do think that aesthetically gauntlet weapons will work pretty fine, I'm not too open to the idea that we have a weapon that essentially fulfills the same function as something already in-game.
Not that it won't work, but the devs are less likely to implement something that already exists.

2. I like the idea of the uppercut, it does make for a very nice single target nuke. Problem being that I don't really see how explosions fit into the whole picture; sure you can punch, but I'm not sure that explosions go well with something meant for hand-to-hand combat (literally).

3. Lose the AoE attack on the normal attack; as far as I'm concerned there aren't really any swords with AoEs on their normal hits (just that they have really large attack ranges, and usually they're slow swords), and it'd seem particularly out of place with gauntlets.

4. With reference to points 1 and 3, you could compensate for having slightly more damage than the Cutter, at the expense of a pathetic attack range (after all swords definitely have a larger range than fisticuffs). That being said, you should lose the AoE attacks, though I'm pretty fine with the rest of the mechanics.

Regardless, this does make for an interesting suggestion; it's just that my main gripe lies in AoE attacks.

I quote the OP:
"FEATHER LIGHT GLOVE: (3*)
DESCRIPTION: these gloves are even lighter than the light gloves giving it extra speed. it is made by owlite feathers
BASIC ATTACK: a 5 hit combo. first four are jabs and the fifth is an uppercut with an area attack.
CHARGE ATTACK: an uppercut which knocks opponents back and ends in a small explosion."

As for the uppercuts I imagine it as a single explosion in the small area between the user and target small enough to only hit a miniscule area; namely the single target.
Aesthetically it still looks a bit out of place regardless of the mechanics; I mean, punching explosions?
Although since we have swords that unleash a line of explosions, I can't really comment much on this - perhaps make the explosion 'model' appear at the point of impact rather than near the character.

If you've ever played Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies on Nintendo DS, you'll have an idea of what images are popping up in my head, including hammer hand drills as the drill idea.

Also, if you don't mind, I'll try to see if I can work this in with my current thread regarding dual-wielding.

my point of view about that line (glove/gauntlet, but still considered as sword type) of weapons, just to give some more details how can be

http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/76025

I think these weapons should be based more on the stun effect than other status ...
may induce shock or "bleeding" status on the opponent may be applicable, but curse or freeze... does not seem to make so much sense (for me)

for the rest, nothing to ask

It's called "redirecting traffic".
It stops people from continuing discussion on a dead thread and directs people to what the redirector thinks is a better/more active thread

Even though I enjoyed the game ripping from it to this extreem would make SK even more pathetic

Cool idea, and a LOT of effort put into it, too. I'd like to see it happen :)

kinda like swords?