Weapon Normalization

[FoxBat]

The only reason I can think of to use a big slow 2-handed weapon is when using abilities that have cooldowns. Since those are never your primary attacks, it doesn't seem worthwhile to prioritize those.

Don't forget resource costs. If a wizard is chucking arcane orbs for 200% damage, she can increase that damage number with a slower weapon without paying any more mana. She will get more mileage from a big, slow weapon, more DPS per arcane power, more time to regen arcane power for other things.

With the "generator" classes this usually evens out to nothing, but it can potentially be a very relevant choice for certain wizard / witch doctor builds. This is assuming that the resource costs actually matter by the endgame, with so few ways to modify them though (where art thou mana leech), it is very possible.