This is an awesome fury MH for a warrior, it is slow and very high DPS, with nice stats to boost. In light of the hunter changes in 2.0 (the change to RAP from Agi), it is also a nice hunter 1H for PvE. Both classes can put this axe to good use.

About the hunter agility nerf, sure, your benefit from agility is diminished, but you get more crit per agi now too, so it isn't all bad. Agi is sill a great stat for a hunter, and agi enchants are still the best enchants for you, too.

got this last night and I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!! 1.6k white crit on a mage... lol
i am warrior btw.

Every single Shaman or Hunter who thinks taking this weapon over a warrior, should /gquit and stop playing WoW. Cause you simply didnt understand the game. Or you are an absolute @#%^. Nothing more.
And btw i´m a Rogue..

Personaly love the wep <33333

Sorry, greedy hunters, but this should never touch your hands. Wow, 6 AP upgrade over Silithid Claw. That's so worth screwing over the warriors. And for the record, I'm not a warrior, I'm a rogue, so I'm quite impartial in the matter.

seriously, witch guild gives this to a shaman must be complete piss, this is a fury warrior weapon nothing else

Got it last nigth with my fury warrior ! ^^

Here is the screen
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Edited, Jul 19th 2006 at 9:45am EDT by YutangExode

I just got this, being a shaman. Not even an enhancement shaman - yet this axe does simply amazing things for me. In battlegrounds, I look forward to some rogue cheap-shotting me whilst defending a flag. Just because I'm cruel and I know how hopeless the fight is them - destroying the morale of the enemy might be the most important thing to do in battlegrounds because then they'll more likely make mistakes.

I'm wearing this and Malistar's Defender, my AC is about 5700 resulting in a nice damage reduction. The good thing about this weapon is that my burst damage hasn't gone done much after switching from two-hand (Finkle's, then Herald of Woe) to this baby, I critted a druid in cat form for around 1200 with a single windfury-proc (2 crits, one hit).

It's a very nice weapon for hunters, DW-warriors ...and shamans. I tried different builds while playing my shaman (though I never specced mana-tide, it's simply too boring) and always went back to a Tri-Spec (19-11-21 with Patch 1.11). The reason is that whilst you do extremely nice damage while playing a 30/0/21-build or 18/33/0, I often find myself in the position where I lack things that fit my playstyle. Playing the shaman as a true hybrid always was the most satisfying for me. I'm tempted to collect some enhancement gear (only the pants from Fankriss and the gloves from the Twins missing) and try out how hard this weapon will hit people then, but I guess I'm going to miss either the 5-second cooldown on shocks or Nature's Swiftness, one of the best talents the shaman has at his disposal.

To sum it up, I'm a very happy troll - this weapon has made me stronger vs. rogues, warriors and hunters ...and I can still take out that massive two-hander whilst fighting casters. You don't really need damage mitigation there, just a nice windfury-proc.

Now a picture of me on the top of the bank of Orgrimmar, where n00bs are inspecting me:

http://jazz.scheissbollen.de/bankdach.jpg