IIRC it hits pretty hard, has boneshatter and weaponbreaker and charge?
Is it because you can run into blunt damage immunities in PvE, or is it just simply the "glass cannon" aspect ie no damage reduction that makes it bad?
I actually might do this if you don't. There is a lightweight polearm you can find too, but with fist you'll have more options.
Enlarge preps are easy to find, get pikeman's valor edge. Your high dex will help with disembowel (I'm assuming here) and you'll be more defensive using axes as an arial than any other race...just keep your weight down.
Your weakness will be low str, lower dam roll ( -10damroll or so you could otherwise have dual wielding weapons with +dam), low max carry weight (you need to stay at half your max weight or you get your dodge nerfed)
Lots of mobs are resist physical like giants so you will be clawing away doing not a ton of damage with your h2h sometimes.
Lots of gear out there, rings, etc that can help with that, and if you are already playing a dexy race that helps too, you will just take 'misses' from mobs.
Maybe until 15 or 20?
You're a dagger spec with two one-round maledicting abilities.
Your results would have been way different if you had spent a few rounds fleeing/hurling/arterying/hamstringing the three of them so that you were fighting three weakened enemies instead of one weakened enemy while the other two beat you senseless full strength.
Maybe not bother with maledicting the shaman, but you could ha
You notice Varnon becoming distracted, and cleverly seize the opportunity to strike him!
Your slash MUTILATES Varnon!
Varnon is convulsing on the ground.