Elementium Gutslicer

... Looking at the mats, and then at the itemlevel, leaves me wondering what the devs were thinking.

They weren't, clearly.

I agree, i think this needs to be fixed to 5... lol

Just spent like 11k in mats to get 2 of these made on my Enhancement Shaman.

Feeling the pain, but they are nice.

The reason people would craft it is that they're enhancement shaman. Haste is not a highly prized stat for enhancement shaman since they don't get much benefit from either the gcd reduction, the slight increase to white hits(the white hit benefit shaman get from haste was slashed in 4.0), or the slightly quicker flame shock ticks, the only benefits they get. Hit, on the other hand, is quite nice up to the spell hit cap and they need a lot of it to get there. And mastery is, of course, awesome, as it is for pretty much everyone. If you're a rogue or a hunter and you actually get energy/focu

Excellent item for an Enhancement Shaman as it has our 3 most important stats (+Agi, +Hit & +Mastery). This means you can reforge other pieces of gear for your +Hit and +Expertise needs.

Some of the weapons were originally epic, then they nerfed them down to blue quality, but in alot of cases, didn't update the material cost. Though, with the new PTR cost, this might make the weapon worthwhile. Maybe, at least for enhancement shaman's offhand. I cannot speak for combat rogues who may want an axe like this for mainhand.

It doesn't look the same. It shares a model with Elementium Bonesplitter. The Ravening Slicer looks like a nancy boy's axe.

only one chaos orb when other weapons require 3... it's meant to be 25 hardened bars imo

On my server, the change to the materials will actually make it more expensive...

so do they sit on ur back when ur not weilding them?

Help, help! I'm being oppressed.

The 3 chaos orb cost means that whie other matherial cost were adjusted, this will still be far more expensive than the quality ilevel should require.

The PTR notes for 4.0.6 have the new materials list:
4 Hardened Elementium Bars,
5 Trugold and
3 Chaos Orbs.

Why on earth anyone would craft this weapon is beyond me.
Ravening Slicer has the exact same stats except that it trades hit for haste. It even looks the same.

The only "hard" part regarding Ravening Slicer is that you will have to keep farming marks after you got exalted and got your trinket.

For the sake of completness other alternatives are:
Lightning Whelk Axe drops from Lady Naz'jar in Throne of Tides HC
Fist of Pained Senses (fist weapon) drops from Corborus in The Stonecore HC.

/cry...

literally less than a week after i had them made...

FML