Need advice for poor man's Blade Fury Assassin

[Ruvanal]

2H Weapon
Pros: Slightly better damage (?); ???
Cons: No shield means less blocking and more reliance on fade for resists

Additional con: The various blade skills will reduce the damage from weapon sources if using a 2-handed weapon. The scaling is an additional 1/2 on top of the scaling from the skill itself (3/4 in the case of Blade Fury). This scaling will effect all the physical, fire, cold, lightning, poison (damage rate, not length) and magic damage that the character would be doing. So if you were using a 2-handed weapon with Blade Fury, the damge added from your weapon use would be in effect 3/8 of what it would be if you just used a normal attack.