Hello. Speaking about the aquatic elf pike, Maelstrom.
I play an aquatic elf and would love to use it, but as it stands this weapon is just unusably bad. Not for its actual stats, but because the drown effect seems to trip every kind of check for combat states.
The drown cancels (improved) expertise. The drown trips the 4 second whirlwind attack cooldown that happens when you cast a spell. Etc. It has been bugged since it came out and it doesn't look like there's a fix in sight?
So... why not just get rid of it? And make the weapon actually usable. Or just replace the drown with something minor like d4 cold damage?