The claw damage buff is actually kind of OP I think. Early game it's hard to find ANYTHING that deals 15 damage, much less that quickly.
Absolutely agree here. I don't think some of you understand just how good fifteen damage with no weapon can be. Combine that with the pugilist gloves you find in the Ratways that give you plus ten to your unarmed damage? You're doing twenty five damage unarmed. That's quite a chunk of damage. You can kill someone who has one hundred health in four swings. Less if you use power attacks. I have killed easily over ten dragons using only unarmed from levels five through fifteen or twenty. Sure, later on once you start finding some higher damage weapons and you combine that with a sneak attack bonus, it's not smart to continue using unarmed, but if you'd like to make a brawler character, Khajiit make it ridiculously easy to do so.
I'm level twenty five and I've only just recently started using daggers on my thief Khajiit, and there was only a handful of situations where I wished I had a weapon. Night-Eye's been a classic for Khajiits, so I'm glad it's still there, and honestly the claws racial makes perfect sense considering they're... y'know... cat people. You already get bonuses to stealth skills just for picking one, so one could assume if one were to pick one you were planning on being more on the sneaky side anyway (not saying everyone who picks a Khajiit is going to play like a thief, just that the skill bonuses encourage it).