Been a long time since i held a ihs- i always fancied geting that whip off grachnist in WW just to confuse lowlies in tunnel- anything to stop the buggers begging a sow!
you're looking at the damage bonus which is a derivative of the person wielding when the screenshot was taken... this is something new with Luclin I believe (being a mage I'm only guessing)
Great! Just what a shaman needs another weapon we can use but are not allowed to train the appropriate skill for it. This and the polished granite tomahawk. In the whole game we have TWO 1hand slash weapons we can use. What a joke.
The Idea I believe is that the weps are usable by shaman for throwing purposes...There are many weps Shaman can throw that say a warrior can not..Although that still does not explain why they would allow Shaman to use it as there are weps they cannot wield yet can throw...probably just verant bieng lazy..