Mace of Decay  

 

This would make any unepiced, unhelped bard like myself happy. The CHA bonus and the STA, INT bonuses along with the rest of the stats would be a good improvement.

Got this mace for my ranger, who does not yet have Earthcaller. With this and swiftwind, i'm dual wielding 13/21s. if i do fight something that has high poison resist (trak, etc..) i just switch to a skyfury scimitar (13/23 with stats..) Great weap for players waiting to get their epics.

This is a decent item if the Poison Damage of 5 makes a significant difference - ie that it actually modifies the effective damage of the weapon to 13 as long as the mob is not poison resistant. Then we are talking about a 13 / 21 with stats, which may actually interest someone. Bear in mind that Umbral is a lvl 50+ minimum and really more like 55+ zone for efficient XP grinding, so if someone is gonna use this NO DROP mace for "a few levels" they had better do it quick at the point that they are looting it... I would say it is a melee item first if there are any present who would want to use, and then a caster novelty item if they want it. Judging by the number of WAR over 50 that I have seen using the Goranga Spiked Club, there might be some high level melee'ers who would grab it.

I saw "netherbian swarmlord" and was thinking it was the swarm leader in netherbian lair. Good melee item, stein is better for int casters, not sure if wis casters would want. Will probably end up being offhand resist gear after only a few levels of use.